What is...?

Question

the foundation of all being? What makes it possible to believe, or not believe, in a god? On what ground is this discussion taking place?

Answer 1

well the ground is a sandy loam here

Answer 2

Very shaky ground, indeed. We generally know when we wish to ask a question and when we wish to pronounce a judgment, for there is a dissimilarity between the sensation of doubting and that of believing.

But this is not all which distinguishes doubt from belief. There is a practical difference. Our beliefs guide our desires and shape our actions. The Assassins, or followers of the Old Man of the Mountain, used to rush into death at his least command, because they believed that obedience to him would insure everlasting felicity. Had they doubted this, they would not have acted as they did. So it is with every belief, according to its degree. The feeling of believing is a more or less sure indication of there being established in our nature some habit which will determine our actions. Doubt never has such an effect.

Nor must we overlook a third point of difference. Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else. On the contrary, we cling tenaciously, not merely to believing, but to believing just what we do believe.

Answer 3

This discussion is taking place in the present soon to be the past. The foundation of all being is the Soul.

Answer 4

All life on earth is a genetic experiment by an Alien lifeform. We have been implanted with conscioness. As the univerise expands in complexity and novelty we will create new gods.

Answer 5

In my opinion, the basis for the discussion is an ovewhelming number of people who are in touch with some inner blueprint that tells them that a higher organizing power than themselves exists.

Answer 6

Intelligent consciousness comes to mind as a basis of human uniqueness. Although animals display at least some ability to communicate, it's questionable that they share abstract and complex ideas or philosophies of any kind.

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Answer 7

A.W. Tozer (a gifted pastor and Christian writer) said it best, I believe: "It takes God to know God." He is the one who initiates the "contact" - for only He knows the heart.

Answer 8

Our ability to think, create ideas, and process observations to form thoughts.

Answer 9

Being alive and living with others.

Answer 10

ones dad and consensus