Does ne one believe in god?

Question

its says god is infinite, eternal, all powerful and pure energy he appears as a blinding light in the bible and from memory he blinds moses. do you think its possible that god is the big bang, an intelligent energy force. bit like radiation with a brain

Answer 1

I like that - radiation with a brain. Makes a lot more sense than a lot of the religious stuff we get on here.

Well done indigo person :-)

Answer 2

You need a good Bible lesson . We can't help much here. He is eternal, he is infinite, strong ,powerful, good, kind, the beginning and the end. Nothing was made that was made with him.You can call him a big BANG. But the truth is ....he is what he is .....And will always be...God. Like it or not...believe it or not . It does not change the Fact GOD IS. And the more thumbs down I get the more I know he is.As far as blinding Moses He didn't. His Glory was and is so great Moses human eyes couldn't stand it. The blindness only lasted a few days.Then his sight returned to normal.It was the purpose of God so the people would believe.
Seeing that Moses had come from the mountain a different man .
I would say Mission accomplished.People are still talking about it over 2 thousands years later. Hey?

Answer 3

I do not accept the answer of faith as a reason to believe in god. The fact is that the chances that God exists are extremely slim based on the evidence.

Firstly, the sum of all our knowledge of god was created in the last thousand years and written by man, thousands of years after the events it speaks of. Many, many writers have chopped and changed the bible. Also consider the multitude of different religions in the world and those that have been and gone. Does anyone still believe in the Greek gods, because people felt they were as real as Christianity not too long ago in cosmological terms.

Speaking of cosmological terms, we humans have only been on this earth for 70,000 years or so which is only a blip in the 3billion years of life on Earth. The bible suggest that the earth is 9,000 years old. It excludes dinosaurs and all the other many many lifeforms that have been and gone.

The theory of evolution by natural selection also does away with the need for a creator. This gives rise to the answer by theologians that god just set up the building blocks for the evolutionary process when he created the universe. Well who created god then. For it must have been something much more complicated and nothing can be more complicated than god. For he would then not be god.

Belief in God is ignorance of the wonders of science and how lucky we are to be alive in this fascinating world. Don't bow to supernatual gods and lose sight of this fact, please.

Answer 4

if there was no humans there would not be any god, not in the biblical sense. therefore logically we(humans) create god in fact we created many different gods since the dawn of humankind. probably the main reason for the belief in god stems from the fear of being alone. death is to final for us all and the belief in heaven(another dimension) is very appealing. when you look around at the planet the sky etc it amazing and surely some great force created all this and that probably how our ancesters started to believe in god or gods.
if enough people believe in an all powerful being that is merciful, wise and is pointing us towards in the ways of peace, i can't see nothing wrong with that. but then we have religious wars proving once again that we made god up, breaking the rules that we laid down for the existence of god. lets face it the pious god fearing people don't leave much of a mark however greed money exploitatation and power rule us all. how many of us decided insteaded of presents for us at christmas give the money to the needy. how many super rich people handed over ALL there wealth to the lest fortunate and follow in the same shoes of jesus.
would i give up all my wealth? not a hope. would you? so charity which is another way of god is a myth.
do we need a god? of course we do, who else do we blame when things go wrong (instead of ourselves) we are more likely to take the praise though. we even have a term for this 'human nature'.
it is up to you to know what is right and wrong. you don't have to be religious to follow the commandants well most of them anyway, common sense applies.
to say god create the big bang is jumping to conclusions, considering that for 1000s of years we believe god created earth in 7 days and never question. what you should be asking is... what was before the big bang and then when you find the answer ask yourself what before that? quantum theory is trying to deal with these questions amongts others. yes it a only a theory but what is god but a theory that has to be proven.
the union of god and science wouldn't be the first time some one thought of that.
going by you question you are struggling to find answers which shows an inquisitive mind, the part about 'radiation with a brain' is a good concept, but now try and prove it.
as for the bible, a story book written in the time when hardly no one could read. with parables and epics that were read around open fires, similar to the way we sit around the tv today. the real teachings from the book is peace and goodwill and should be taken serious. as for the rest (genisis and revalations etc) can be debated and for me i take it with a pinch of salt.

perhaps the real search for god is to ask more questions rather than put your trust in blind faith.

this is only my view of things.

ps.
i might not be a great believer but the odd time i do ask god for help especially when things are dire after all i'm only human.

Answer 5

Approximately 54% of the world's population identifies with one of the three monotheistic Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity or Islam). A 1995 survey showed similar numbers for the non-religious.

It's not hard to see that we humans seek answers to our many questions: I'll use two groups as an example - scientists seek the truth by exploring hypothesis and evidence, others find answers in one belief or another, regardless of any rational evidence.

Humans have believed in supernatural entities of some kind since recorded time - the Romans had their Gods, the Greeks had theirs, even the strange old Druids were early eco-warriors and believers in Pagan deities.

You can dig as far as you like into this topic, but going back to your question, another way to dig is to consider how people who do believe in one god or another actually view him/it/them. Some do have an image of an all powerful humanoid figure, others have a more abstract image where god is more of a consciousness or positive energy rather than a physical being.

The answer to your second part (is it possible...) will vary depending who you ask, at what stage of life they are at and perhaps who else might possibly read their answer! Religion makes it quite difficult to challenge certain precepts, (certainly if you are younger and soaking up a religious education) and so the religious community will say with certainty that it's possible or actual or something else more in line with their particular teaching. The atheists who do not believe in the notion of any supreme being will most likely give a rational, more scientific answer and the agnostics (many varieties of these too!) will agree that it is possible but not likely or not a question worth answering since we can't prove or disprove it.

The other question that jumps out from your main question is, do people believe in god or do they believe what they have been taught? It's an interesting debate and, in a messed up quote from Monty Python's, Life of Brian, "What's god ever done for us?" that we should believe in him/it/them.

Answer 6

No point trying to associate those bible occurences with modern scientific theories. I don't think Moses was around to witness the big bang. If he was, where was he exactly? The universe was created in the big bang so unless the Middle East was a small portion of extra-universal matter with Moses and his pals knocking about on it, its a no-go. Radiation is a physical process in which energy is released from unstable matter via radioactive decay. It has got bugger all to do with a 'brain'. I do believe in God though but you can't rationalise religion, it has to have a certain amount of blind faith.

Answer 7

Nope. No God. No intelligent designer. No creator. Evolution is correct, and the world and the universe are billions of years old (rather than thousands). However, none of the above excludes us from having a soul nor does it exclude consciousness outside of our physical form (life after death).

Religion is false - concocted by society (people) to control the masses (people).

The roots of religion are genetic and logic. Through an attempt to explain events (lightning, earth quakes, storms, volcanoes etc) gods were created (Thor god of thunder etc). Fear of and lack of understanding about these events resulted in the logical (but incorrect) deduction of Gods. As religion developed (stories, parables, sagas etc) fear has been augmented by hope - of life eternal. Religion in our genes is a survival issue, however in todays more secular society this is now becoming redundant - relgion should therefore through science and evolution at some point cease, and its been estimated that that will occur within about 300 years.

As our science as improved and our knowledge grown, there have been fewer and fewer places for the unknown and for God to be invoked - the God of the gaps. Even the big bang has now been theorised through, and what lies beyond and what was before the universe; and there is very strong and profound mathematical theory underpinning this understanding - M theory.

Science does not promote aetheism nor does it deny anyone their beliefs nor deny them their faith. Science does give clearer understanding of the world we inhabit. Religion is dogma based on collective mythology. There may be some useful pointers to a productive and happy life, but the underlying message of belief without understanding and faith regardless of evidence to the contrary is ludicrous in an informed society and positively dangerous when mixed with motor vehicles, semtex and passenger planes.

Answer 8

That’s a nice theory, but according to the bible, God was around before anything else was made. He is “from everlasting to everlasting”, in other words, infinitely old, older than the universe.

Please don’t take this as personal criticism. But we must be careful about what we believe concerning God. He wants people to believe what He has revealed about himself, and not things that they have tried to figure out. If God was a part of the Big Bang, then He would be part of the universe--- which we just saw, He says He is not part of the universe, but came before it, before time began.

What you seem to be thinking of is God’s Word, His powerful expression of His will, by which He created space, time, matter, energy and information as we know them. In the book of Jeremiah, chapter 23 and verse 29, God poses the rhetorical question: “Is not My Word like a fire, and like a hammer that smashes the rocks into pieces?” Before any of us had thought to distinguish between radiant energy (fire) and kinetic energy (the hammer impact), God said that His Word was capable of producing both kinds of effects. And probably a lot more that we have not yet realized.

It’s best to read what God says about Himself in the Bible than to try to come up with any other theory. Have you ever seriously tried reading the Bible? I won’t bother to tell you where to start or what you need most. God knows, and He will guide you. You are about to start on the greatest adventure of all. Enjoy!

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Answer 9

Think of the whole universe as a living organism all the planets are cells and the stars are the nucleus or something like that. It is a known fact that the quarts atom exist and now we can see even small atoms, is it not also possible that not only we find life in the smallest range but also in the largest range. I think so but it’s has been only a few of us that see it that way, I think that in the far future we will come to that conclusion. Is it GOD, I say yes, I think that we live within God, a part of GOD or as you said THE BIG BANG...

Answer 10

God is an incredible experience. No one in existence can summarize Him because none has the remotest knowledge of what God looks like. The flashes of light, thunder, fire and many other godly elements mentioned in The Bible are just a few of his many manifestations. In our present situation of being just humans who know almost nothing, we should be content with accepting that God is a wonderful Father who never leaves us, who's always there when we hurt and consoles us, and is the ultimate representation of pure love, not the trashy kind of love we receive from fellow human beings here on earth. In fact, people who do not believe in God go through a pretty painful and meaningless life.

Answer 11

I don't think there is a god its just what we've been told to believe all our lives. Just like we tell children their is a father christmas the only difference is children are told the truth as they get older but no-one dares to be the first to actually say.........there isn't a god. Who knows i could be wrong but will anyone ever know the truth DOUBT IT. Thats just my opinion on the subject.
Anyway the bible is the cause of most problems and arguements within this world