2006-10-26 15:36:55 · 25 answers · asked by booellis 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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?
2006-10-29 17:21:42 · answer #1 · answered by toon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do believe in God, because I believe in Ultimate Reality. Phillip Dick said, "Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it". The most advanced physicists now believe that subatomic particles are small vibrating strings of energy. In other words nothing that is physical is "real" in the sense of touching, smelling, tasting, seeing, or hearing, and yet I am conscious of myself. Descartes said, "Cogito ergo sum" - "I think, therefore I am". But the "I" is just a particularly arranged mass of energy. So is the Ballerina, the great Soprano, the Astronaut, and the Subatomic Particle Physicist who can conceive of something beyond time and space, and even reduce it to mathematical formulas.
But on a different note, John wrote "God is Love". Love is certainly the most powerful thing that I know. Love great enough could certainly create anything, and when I align myself with a loving God, I am a happier, stronger, better person.
I not only love God - I like him.
2006-10-26 16:07:29 · answer #2 · answered by Chief 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was in high school I looked around at everything that was going on and thought there couldn't possibly be a God. I did not grow up in the church and did not have much influence one way or the other as to whether there was a God or not. This was 20+ years ago. Then it happened, the Lord started drawing me toward Him. It was as if I had been oblivious before and out of the woodwork people started saying things to me related to Jesus Christ. Over a period of 6-7 months my outlook really changed and I received Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. As I grew I saw the Lord's work more and more in my life. I suppose you could say that my personal view of whether there is a God or not is neither here nor there. Where is the proof? The proof is in Bible prophecy. There are 8000 verses of prophecy in the Bible, 90% of those prophecies have been fulfilled, 10% are yet to be fulfilled. Scholars have listed over 100 prophecies in the Old Testament relating to the birth, earthly mission, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. Everyone of them fulfilled. The odds of one man fulfilling only 48 of those prophecies is 1 to 10 with 157 zeros following it. There is historical proof that Jesus lived from the writings of Josephus, Tacitus, Pliny the Younger, Lucian and the Babylonian Talmud. Yes God exists and He sent His only Begotten Son to die for our sins.
2006-10-26 15:42:22 · answer #3 · answered by Just Cuz 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I believe in God and I believe that Jesus is the son of God and that he died for our sins.
I have always believed in God since I was a child. I did not grow up with Religion in my home but was surrounded by other people who continuously planted seeds in me about God and Jesus Christ.
I now have a relationship with God. I first accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. After I did this, my eyes opened to so much more about God and his amazing love for all of us.
I believe in God because I see all that he does in my life on an everyday basis. God has healed me of Lupis and my seven year old daughter of Leukemia (a rare form of Leukemia). This is my proof but we don't need proof, we need faith. And Faith comes by hearing the word of God. God Bless You.
2006-10-26 16:01:48 · answer #4 · answered by smiles 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God could exist, God could not exist. Therefore I am agnostic, I do not know. I think there are more important things to be worrying about, like trying to end the suffering in the world...
“We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mastery over yourself. . . . It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting”
- Aung San Suu Kyi -
2006-10-26 15:44:58 · answer #5 · answered by Shinkirou Hasukage 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I used to believe, when i was little. i prayed and prayed for god to make my life better, to heal the people in my life that i loved dearly. none of it ever happened. My life just got worser, and family and friends kept dieing. i once went to 8 funerals in less than two months. if there is a god, then why didn't he do something? I am now athiest. I believe in gods and goddesses. I have all kinds of beliefs, for more info, email me.
2006-10-26 15:45:14 · answer #6 · answered by Perfectly Insane 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i dont believe in God because if everything is for a reason and it is all God's master plan then why are children punished? why do children get raped or killed or lose their parents? are they sinners? as innocent children they arent sinner. original sin? but adam and eve were not children.
why is the world so messed up? if God loved people so much then why would he punish us so?
and where is the proof? if God wished me to believe would he not send me a message, an angel or an omen? something? but he hasnt and he wont so believe? i never will and i dont.
2006-10-26 15:44:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
look around the world and ask yourself how it got there.
if it came from a big bang then most of the time when we have wars and the bombs drop we would have life and earth pieces appear out of no wear. God does exist an i Love Jesus! when i go to church to praise Jesus i can feel His presence. if that's not true then the whole world is point less.
2006-10-26 16:01:21 · answer #8 · answered by fuzzystuff511 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I do believe in God. Well its a variety of things, From the bible telling about God and his characteristics. If someone says the bible is false and has holes have them read it instead of judge it. Everything the bible predicts and says comes to pass from Isreal becoming a nation again to locations of events that occured that can be proven by historical sources other than they bible. NE ways, what makes God reall to me is when Im broken as an individual and drop to my knees and has God to help me, and ten minutes later my cousin whom I havent seen in over a year comes to my house and says God told me to go talk to you. I dont reallly need anymore more proof than that in my life. Remember its faith, not what is seen. hes their and most of us know it we, just dont want to admitt it because we are afraid of the unknown.
Thats what I have and I hope it helped you.
God Bless.
2006-10-26 15:46:14 · answer #9 · answered by Daniel P 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because I know that this life isn't just by chance, and I know that things will turn out well, perfect even. I mean, how depressing would the end of Return of the Jedi be if Darth Vader watched Luke die? That's how I believe life is: good prevails, and evil loses.
2006-10-26 15:41:54 · answer #10 · answered by Joez2103 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋