Thoughts on G-D?

Question

This isnt meant to be an offending question but is G-D real? I mean where was he during the Holocaust and Crusades? Was G-D created by man to have someone or something to believe in? What are your thoughts and questions on this? I apologize if this is offensive but i would like to know peoples views. Thanks!

As funnana pointed out, yes i am a Jew. However, im insanely intrested in science Darwins theory of Evolution ect. and many times question the exsistence of G-D. I know this sounds odd and one of the weirdest questions ever, but what if the Torah or Bible was all made up? What if it was all or parts of it made up? After all, the stories were all pass down by oral tradition things could have gotten mixed up, or stories made up and added? Views on this, sorry if it is offending.

Answer 1

why do you think god has to protect or care for us?

why cant we protect and care for ourselves?

Answer 2

I am not a Jew but I myself had similar questions. I think that question is a sign that we care what we believe and that we are normal thinking people.

Of course, I came from a family with a religious background, so the questions only came later when I was exposed to what others believe and what is happening in the world.

Everytime I try to imagine that there is no G-D (just following your way of writing here...), I end up thinking I'd be so alone in my head if there is no G-d to pray to. It's not that I cannot talk to people or friends. I even tried meditation without thinking about G-D. It is a comfort to know and to believe G-D exists. Haven;t you noticed how the developed and rich countries have less of their population believing or practising their spiritual beliefs? And yet, in struggling, poor nations, there's always a huge population of spiritual believers and followers. And it may not be the same G-D that all these people believe in, but there are characteristics of this spirituality and G-D that are somehow similar and allows these people to try to survive and hope.

My college professor once paraphrase a famous person something like "science is man's attempt to understand the chaotic events around him and make sense of it, why it rains, why it snows... etc.. and religion is man's attempt to try to reach and understand G-D"... I don't know the exact words but the concept it there. Since then I tried to view religion as something man-made and therefore maybe wrong. And G-D as whatever G-D will allow me to experience. So for me, things happen as there is always cause and effect. And humans are able to make decisions and can cause bad things to happen.

Answer 3

I think your question is very interesting and I am not offended in the least. I think the Lord loves to challenge us and our faith and that is why horrible things such as the Holocaust occured, even though that may not make sense. I think God is something to believe in but of course in society there are many different views on this subject. I enjoy learning of people's different views on the matter and thank you for such an interesting question and will be interested to see the other answers!

Answer 4

First, you have to appreciate the immensity of the universe. We are but a tiny, tiny speck in the vastness of the cosmos. The universe probably contains lots of life, including life forms that make us seem like animals or insects by comparison. We're also not that old. There were probably lots of species throughout the universe that existed before us. In other words, the universe does not revolve around human beings, nor around one single human.

Now, if there is a God, this God put into motion the countless complex processes that would result in the universe we have today. That universe is structured in accordance with certain rules, such as the laws of physics. If God were to intervene by, say, stopping the Crusades, etc, what would be the point of the laws of the universe?

I think you have to appreciate just how limited we are as life forms and how difficult it would be for God to interact with us. It wouldn't be difficult for him, but for us. We have trouble getting our cats to understand what we're trying to say. Imagine us trying to understand what GOD is trying to say, or that he's even there.

The Gospel of John says that in the beginning, there was "Logos." This is usually translated as "Word," but it can also mean "logic" or "reason." In other words, in the beginning, there was logic, the logic that all the universe functions by, and that cannot be broken. If God were to, say, catch you as you were falling from a building, he would be breaking the very laws of the universe that he has put forth.

If God is logic, if God is reason, if God is truth, as the Bible says, then religion and faith must constitute above all the search for truth. And by this God cannot be offended, for if God is truth, and if my faith constitutes a search for truth, then God can surely not object to a search for him.

Answer 5

God was invented as a control method. Some people follow along because they are gullible. Some because they are just trying to do the right thing and get caught up in the self rightousness of it all. Self rightousness is a powerful drug. They think that they are a part of a really special group that recieves and or will recieve special things because g-d loves them the best.

Answer 6

My thought on this is that we can't (not don't, but can't) know if god exists. God could be real or we could have made it up for any # of reasons. I will point out though that there's no need to "believe" in something that's already real, like I don't need to believe in my foot, or my computer because belief is to have confidence in the truth without absolute proof. I guess I'm just saying that belief/faith in god doesn't= god being real. Knowing this we can still choose to believe but most of us don't have a choice because usually our beliefs are presented to us at a early age as absolute reality rather than a belief in which to have faith.

Answer 7

I can't help but think that the evidence for man creating God is a bit heftier than the alternative.
Man wrote the books while 'inspired' by God.
Man teaches the masses to believe without evidence.
Man controls entire countries with an ideology.

Answer 8

G-d was very present during both the holocaust and the crusades. Sadly many have never outgrown a child's conception of him. He is not sitting on a cloud with a long white beard deciding who to help and who to ignore.

He created us in his image and has left this world to us hopefully to perfect but equally with the potential to destroy. It does not mean he abandoned us on the contrary I believe whenever someone suffers he is there to offer his support. But his love for us prevents him from stepping in.

Answer 9

I believe that there may well be some spiritual constituent to human life, and that we are not able to determine what that is or what form it may take.

I suspect that the unknown (and perhaps unknowable) makes us very anxious and that we are driven to resolve this anxiety. We do so by making the unknown known. We build a limited version of the limitless and endow it with attributes that make it familiar and approachable. What we end up with a sort of overpowering version of us, with our neuroses and fears intact.

Answer 10

He was there. How do you presume to know that He wasn't? The reason I know is because my mother and step dad and all their families and friends were there and I grew up hearing story after story of God's love and miracles that they all experienced during their horrendous years in both forced labor camps and in concentration camps. I am a daughter of WW2 Survivors because of God's love and miracles in my parent's lives.

Answer 11

I believe God does exist, but doesn't really love people as much as they would like to think. Sometimes he makes mistakes, sometimes he is cruel and sadistic. Most of the time he just sits back and watches.

We assume he loves us and cares for us because we are lonely and narcissistic.