Do you believe in God? Why or why not?

Question

Just wondering what the main peace of evidence for you personally is.

"I just have faith", "I was just raised that way", "religion is stupid" don't count as interesting answers in my book, so if that's what you were going to write, put the kabosh in that.

Answer 1

I believe in God every time I look around. I look into the heavens and know that God created them. I look into a babies face, and know that baby didn't evolve from pond scum. The beauty of a flower, or the majesty of a giant oak point to a creator. I don't need to read in the Bible that there is a God, nature tells me that.

Answer 2

Why should I live for anyone, whether they're a higher power or not, but myself? Should I give everything, to a god, that has no real evidence supporting his existance? Seriously, if there is a god, why is there no real evidence supporting it before late AD? Personally, religion was created as a way to keep people in large groups, in order. Set morals, so people won't be so quick to act.

Faith is different. Faith is something you can have to give your life some purpose. Now I don't think people should be all, "I do this and this, because I want to go to heaven" or "I live for god" but I do believe people need some faith, to function properly. But that's sort of off track isn't it? Mainly, I don't believe I should waste my life away, doing things for someone, or something other than me. I believe this is my life to live, the way I choose, with my own morals and boundaries, and I do not need to follow the bounderies and morals of a book that's so old it's probably been rewritten 500 times.

Answer 3

I believe in God, but am generally fed up with the Bible. It is beyond me how people can put all of their faith into a book that was written by man. I really feel that the Bible is preventing people from using their mind and developing their own beliefs. As for religion, it's sad how some religions use their power to deceive others and then collect their money. We don't need the Bible or religion to have faith in God, all we have to do is look outside at the beauty and wonder of the world that he created.

Answer 4

What's kabosh???
I believe in God, I don't care if there isn't evidence, to see is not always to believe, i'd rather believe that there is somewhere other than the grave and be eaten by worms after death.

Answer 5

No. There is no evidence that there is a god. It isn't rational or reasonable to believe in things without any evidence to back it up. You would be stuck with hundreds of thousands of gods and everything else that human imagination could come up with.

Not believing in god, is the same as not believing in Odin, Zeus, Ra, Hera, The Great Spirit, Osiris, The Flying Spaghetti Monster and all the others. I would be no less surprised of evidence of Odin was found than I would be if evidence of your god was.

Answer 6

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don

Answer 7

I was born again in a very dramatic way over 36 years ago, when I wasn't expecting it and didn't even know such a thing was possible. God first brought me very low, then wonderfully revealed Himself to me through the name of His Son the Lord Jesus Christ.
My nature was changed instantly. I stopped hating God and started loving Him, having received the love He had for me. I stopped lying and stealing and taking the name of Jesus in vain immediately. Other things, drinking, smoking, drugs, dropped out of my life gradually. I have a daily abiding awareness of God's presence in my life, and in times of worship with God's people, often come into a state of profound intimacy with Him.
God is not a doctrine with me - He's my Life.

Answer 8

Yes. I can't articulate why and don't feel the need to defend the belief, so forming a clear idea of God has never been a priority, but an ongoing process. It feels right to be this way.

Answer 9

I DO believe in God. Why?
1/ who else gives me air to breathe, water to drink, foods to eat (my mother cooks them, but how my mother knows how to cook them? isn't God gave her the mind to learn how?)
2/ how would i able to explain how the body systems work so well from the moment of conception to death?
3/ and many more reasons for me to believe there is God that had created all these things on the universe.
I hope this help.

Answer 10

I do believe in God because I've had too many unexplainable things happen in my life, too many coincidences, for this to just be random. The spirituality part I'm good with - actual religion is where I'm lacking.

Good luck in your search.