100?!?!
2006-10-09 10:05:39 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No.
2006-10-13 09:05:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The notion of God is evolved with the intellectual capacity of human brain. People believed in spirits and assumed that behind every natural phenomenon there is a deity that makes it happen. There was a god for thunders, a god for winds, a god for fertility and a god for creation, a god for death and a god for birth. Gods were abounding and they were all the products of human’s imagination.
In the old days there were many gods. All these gods had prophets, intermediaries and messengers. This was then, as is now, a very lucrative and enticing business. It gave the prophets immense prestige and a lot of power.
If it was so easy to prove the existence of God, then I challenge, the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims to invoke their god and ask him to perform the same miracle in front of TV cameras, (without any tricks) to settle this controversy about his existence once and for all.
2006-10-09 17:24:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God exists ... just like Lady Liberty, the Geico gecko, the tooth fairy, and Santa Claus do. They're all characters that have exactly as much power as we humans give them, by believing in them and doing things in their name.
Billions of believers don't make something true. The earth was never flat. But belief itself is a powerful thing. Plenty of good and evil gets done in God's name.
Fellowship, community, supporting each other in good and bad times, making the world a bit better -- all these ARE real, with or without gods and demons.
Pick your favorite "false religion": its devout believers have an "excuse" for anything; nothing could convince them they're wrong. It's ultimately based on their faith, on their gut feeling, socially reinforced, that their god(s) and teachings are "the truth and the way".
That applies equally well to a believer's "true religion".
The "signs" in the Bible are as useless and vague as in many other prophecies. Why is it contradictory, unclear, factually untrue? (Pi is 3? Archimedes could have done better!) Why does it contain so many moral atrocities? (Slavery is the tip of the iceberg.) Why isn't it any more inspired than what primitive first-century-C.E. authors could have written?
Science, that makes testable and FALSIFIABLE predictions, has given us tremendous improvements in health, education, happiness, well-being, and lifespan. It's this free pursuit of knowledge that will hopefully allow us to create a heaven on earth.
It's up to us.
2006-10-09 18:01:15 · answer #3 · answered by Consider This... 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Some days I think so. Other days not so much. The more I study and work, the more I think there is quite possibly something out there that I wouldn't even call God because of its being too large to comprehend or put in human words...then again, I'm pretty darn humanist, so maybe we're the best the world's got. (Which is also rather scary.)
2006-10-09 17:09:37 · answer #4 · answered by angk 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, but only to those who receive God. It does not happen through the churches.
2006-10-09 17:11:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Everything that is, is what god would be if their is a god. So, as long as we (I) feel like we (I) exist, their is a god?
2006-10-09 17:11:35 · answer #6 · answered by -skrowzdm- 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My god does. My god includes you and your knowledge. And, I'm sure you feel that you exist.
2006-10-09 17:32:47 · answer #7 · answered by Corey 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes he does exist just look around you he is every were. in the wind, rain, animals, plants, and he is in you if it was not for him nothing would ever exist we wouldn't be here. he is the universe.
2006-10-09 17:10:22 · answer #8 · answered by jessica_stanley_00 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
what Kenny said
(good luck on 100)
2006-10-09 17:09:40 · answer #9 · answered by Rusty 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes he does let me tell you something god new since a long time ago that you were gonna be born he thinked about how you were gonna be born my dad told me this because were christians
2006-10-09 17:11:48 · answer #10 · answered by cutie_princess 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Please read my words carefully:
If you see footmark in the sand, you'll say that someone passed from here...
If you see a piece of dog sh*t on the ground, you'll say that a dog passed from here...
So what about the enormous universe, the sky, stars, planets, earth and all the beauty in it, doesn't it lead to that someone made it?!!!
Some people say that everything is created by itself after the big-bang... I won't ask you about what caused the big-bang, but I'll ask you a simple question:
If you take all the letters of the alphabet, multiples of them, and you threw them randomly on the floor. Do you expect (by a chance of one in infinity) to get a poem like shakespear's??!!
Can't you see how organized our universe is, the planets, the eco-system on earth, look even in your own body... Can you control your heart-beat? Can you control your breath while you're sleeping? Who stopped your eye-lashes from growing after reaching a certain length? Who told the baby turtles to move towards the sea and not to the earth after they come out of their eggs? Who taught the bird how to make nests?
My friend, think with your heart and brain. If you're still lost, think about the following:
Do you know how to play safe?
Your point:
If there's no God and you do all what you want in life, then nothing will happen to you after life. But if there was God and you were mistaken, then you'll blame yourself FOREVER...
Believer's point:
If there's God and I followed His commands in life, then I'll be in Heaven after life FOREVER. But if there was no God and we're mistaken, then nothing bad will happen to us after life...
Now you know how to play-safe, in case you're not convinced?
2006-10-10 07:13:49 · answer #11 · answered by toon 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋