Do you believe in God?

Question

If so, why? If not, why?

I just want all of you to know MY opinion on this.I dont belive in a God necessarily, that is an all knowing and all powerful being.I believe in a architect or creator of some sort.I understand that the idea of the universe being 'acidentally' made is so far out there that it has to be impossible.Then again, maby thats why it is so great and hard to explain because it is such a rare occasion.I think that we are all part of an ever continuing thing that we and all the other life forms out there come, eventually destroy ourselves then we all come back again. My opinion fits closely to some ideas in a book called 'Calculating God' it is a very interesting book and very thoughtfull.It helped me form my ideas on how everything was created but I think the idea of religion is just a way humans try to explain what they dont understand.Either that or a government cover up so that we will all have a reason not to walk around killing ourselves and everybody but that cant be true cause it is hapng

Answer 1

Yes, I do. I believe because I don't believe in evolution. Evolution nor anything else put two precious angel babies in my stomach for nine months. Evolution didn't answer my prayers. The words of muhammed do not comfort me when I am down. The 'tree' god does not give me a guideline on how to live. etc.etc.

Answer 2

You "believe" in something which has no credible and tangible proof.
As a rational person, I demand proof.
Some believers may say : "There is proof!"
No, there is no proof and you know it because if there was proof you would not believe, you would "KNOW".
So, as there is no credible proof "that can satisfy EVERYONE", I don't accept God's existence for sure, blindly and also I don't reject it because noone can prove his non-existance either.
Also, this God is not necessarily the God which theists believe, it can also be the God which deists believe (a God not related to organised religions)
The organised religions seem mythological to me but I can't be sure that they are fairy tales either, I just can doubt seriously
So as a result, since I can't prove or disprove ANYTHING, I am concerned with only what I see,hear,touch...
Also, mocking or forbidding other peoples beliefs and blasphemy aren't decent behaviours, holy concepts should be respected
This is the way of the secular..

Answer 3

What turned me off to God was when it was learned that Priests had been molesting children for decades. You mean that God calls pedophiles to the priesthood (he's all-knowing so He knows that they are pedophiles when He's calling them). And God watches everything that we do so He watches priests molest children and doesn't come down like He used to do in the Bible and say, "Father so and so, what do you think you're doing with that child?" Come on, let's wake up. Religion is a $3 billion dollar a year tax free business. And everyone is jumping on the band-wagon. Have you seen religious charlatans on late night TV offering free "Miracle Water" or free "Prayer Cloth". They send you a piece of cloth that's supposed to perform miracles, they petition you for money for years to come and they sell your name to a religious charity list. Religion is a very lucrative business. If there really is a God, he should get his religion act together. I'm not going into the fact that over 100 million people have been "Killed for God" and this statistic is hidden from the public.

Answer 4

Yes I do- I think many people believe in some kind of higher power- and have also met a lot of other religion belief systems.

SOmetimes others do not believe and I ask them to believe that I believe and pray to my god- that soon became their God too- I hope this helps

Answer 5

Of course not.

There is not enough evidence to prove to me that there is a god, some higher power or pagan spirits or whatever their thing is. I could go into this much much more but why bother? I don't want to type everything that I've typed in other answers.

Don't get me wrong, I do not bang anyone for their faith or try to prove them wrong even though I always get harrased by you religous nuts.

Answer 6

I don't believe in the god that mainsteam religion created.

I believe that a being created the universe but also questions in its creator. I don't believe that this being would pay attention to us because we're on a insignificant planet orbiting a medicore star. I believe the being spread the seed of life but doesn't watch over it. That is my personal beliefs don't judge me and I won't judge you.

Answer 7

Everything in the heavens and the earth has a pattern, an order. From atom, with electrons revolving around it, to the solar systems, where planets revolve around a central star, to whole galaxies and then cluster of galaxies. Do you think its a coincidence? Could this order be a coincidence?

If you think it is, then, consider this. If you have 10 balls numbered from 1 to 10 in a big and they are mixed up. You draw a ball out, one at a time, what is the probability that you draw them out in the exact sequence? If you don't know its 1 in 3628800. This is a very simple example with very less number of items.

What about the universe? Do you know how intricate patterns exist in the Universe?

Watch some videos at http://www.harunyayha.com if you want a scientific perspective as to what sort of order exists in the Universe, what kind of patterns are there.

We created not the heaven and the earth and all that is between them in play. If We had wished to find a pastime, We could have found it in Our presence - if We ever did. (21:16-17)

The Companions of the Fire will call to the Companions of the Garden: "Pour down to us water or anything that Allah doth provide for your sustenance." They will say: "Both these things hath Allah forbidden to those who rejected Him." Such as took their religion to be mere amusement and play, and were deceived by the life of the world. That day shall We forget them as they forgot the meeting of this day of theirs, and as they were wont to reject Our signs. (7:50-51)

Leave alone those who take their religion to be mere play and amusement, and are deceived by the life of this world. But proclaim (to them) this (truth): that every soul delivers itself to ruin by its own acts: it will find for itself no protector or intercessor except Allah: if it offered every ransom, (or reparation), none will be accepted: such is (the end of) those who deliver themselves to ruin by their own acts: they will have for drink (only) boiling water, and for punishment, one most grievous: for they persisted in rejecting Allah. (6:70)

Answer 8

yes. no one has ever seen the wind yet everyone has seen the effects of the wind and so everyone knows the wind exists. look at all the glories in the heavens and earth and there is all the proof I need to accept the existence of GOD, even though HE is invisible to my 5 senses like the wind.

Answer 9

"I believe in God the Father almighty maker of heaven and earth and in Jesus Christ His only begotten Son Our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified, dead and buried, He descended into Hell, on the third day He rose again from the dead, He ascended into heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father, From whence He shall come again to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, I believe in a Holy Christian Catholic Church, the communion of saints the forgiveness of sins the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting. Amen.

Answer 10

I believe in a God or higher power of some form. Everything had to have come from somewhere and that somewhere would have to be a higher being.