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2006-11-08 08:23:31 · 21 answers · asked by Jim_Darwin 2 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

21 answers

Pass the popcorn before the show is over!

2006-11-09 11:33:33 · answer #1 · answered by peppermint_paddy 7 · 0 0

I've written 50,000 words trying to unpack this question, asked in three simple, short words. I'm not really surprised when short questions require long answers, just warning a reader of what to expect.
I have to start with defining the terms. What do we mean by "God"? And what, precisely, does it mean to say that something exists?
After all, most people could look around the physical world and not see an all-powerful, all-seeing, all-knowing, ever-existing king on a throne and could easily return the answer that no such thing as God exists in physical reality.
But many people could look at the very same physical world and conclude that even though the Being called God isn't visible in the world, evidence of His creative work is everywhere.
These first two types of researchers can look at the same evidence and still disagree about what it means.
So maybe "God" and "existence" can mean different things to different people, such that people can honestly make statements of "does exist" and "doesn't exist" with equal viability, because they define the terms differently.
People are able to define terms differently because we each claim the right to define our own terms. We each claim the right to our own mental realities. This is where God is found: in the mental and spiritual realities of some people, but not of others.
My delete key- usually essential to my ability to type- isn't working today, so I have to write this sentence to use the letters I've been pushing toward the end of my writing.
thanks.

2006-11-08 16:52:36 · answer #2 · answered by anyone 5 · 0 0

"Who made God?"

To one who examines the evidence, there can be no doubt that God exists. Every building has a builder. Everything made has a maker. The fact of the existence of the Creator is axiomatic (self-evident). That’s why the Bible says, "The fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God’" (Psalm 14:1). The professing atheist denies the common sense given to him by God, and defends his belief by thinking that the question "Who made God?" can’t be answered. This, he thinks, gives him license to deny the existence of God.

The question of who made God can be answered by simply looking at space and asking, "Does space have an end?" Obviously, it doesn’t. If there is a brick wall with "The End" written on it, the question arises, "What is behind the brick wall?" Strain the mind though it may, we have to believe (have faith) that space has no beginning and no end. The same applies with God. He has no beginning and no end. He is eternal.

The Bible also informs us that time is a dimension that God created, into which man was subjected. It even tells us that one day time will no longer exist. That will be called "eternity." God Himself dwells outside of the dimension He created (2 Timothy 1:9, Titus 1:2). He dwells in eternity and is not subject to time. God spoke history before it came into being. He can move through time as a man flips through a history book.

Because we live in the dimension of time, logic and reason demand that everything must have a beginning and an end. We can understand the concept of God’s eternal nature the same way we understand the concept of space having no beginning and end—by faith. We simply have to believe they are so, even though such thoughts put a strain on our distinctly insufficient cerebrums.

2006-11-08 16:32:45 · answer #3 · answered by Derek B 4 · 0 1

I always give thoughtful answers to your questions and never get any points for best answer. I'll try again, No god/gods do not exist. In as much as I was not around to see how everything came into being (and neither were you),I say, "I don't know ..... YET!" To assume that some god, my less than intellectual ancestors made up, instantaneously farted the universe into being, is absurd

2006-11-08 17:39:47 · answer #4 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 0 0

God exists.

2006-11-08 16:25:23 · answer #5 · answered by Drowningbluestars 4 · 2 1

From my point of view this world could not be if it would not have been for a supreme being, I was raised in the christian religion, but I don't believe in a God as everyone else does. I believe in a God that transformed whatever there was to the universe we have now, leaving the laws of nature to rule over everything. So for me there is a God but not a God as the Bible says. God is just a supreme being in a different dimension you could say, letting the laws of nature as we called them do their work.

2006-11-08 16:27:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Yes. Even Darwin thought that the complexity of the human eye gave him over furious thought about the existence of a creator! But what creator? The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Judaism and Christianity), is what best reflects reality!

2006-11-08 16:30:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

It depends how you define 'God.'

As in the personal, caring God? No.

The interconnectedness of everything, the oneness of people regardless of race, sex, sexuality, reasons for life and the will to care for other people and love them? Yes.

2006-11-08 17:12:29 · answer #8 · answered by lady_s_hazy 3 · 0 0

God is man-made so he can exist if you wish him to.

2006-11-08 16:25:43 · answer #9 · answered by Plasmapuppy 7 · 1 2

god is here
god is love
god is sky and moon above
god is me
god is you
god is all we see and do
god is not hard to find
god is just in your mind
if you do not agree
love's light will help you see

PS If you don't want to see, that is OK with me! ;-)

2006-11-08 18:03:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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