What do you believe?

Question

What do you believe? What is true about existence and what is false or unknown? Are there higher purposes to life such as "belonging to the family of God" or not? How do you know? Do you believe humans have souls? Do you believe animals have souls? Do you believe in God, the devil, heaven, or hell? Do you believe in an afterlife? If you believe in the afterlife, do you believe we are conscious, as we are now, in the afterlife? Do you believe in angels, ghosts, aliens, or spirits? Do you believe in miracles? Do you believe in love? Do you think God is love? Do you believe and trust that God will take care of you no matter what situation comes your way in life? Have you ever experienced anything supernatural or seemingly beyond the possible that caused you to believe a certain way? If you could ask God one question or tell him one thing what would it be? Does God make sense to you? Is the natural character of humans good, bad, or both good and bad (or neither)?

Answer 1

Nobody can prove any gods, much less a specific god, exist; many people will tell you their god exists but no others, but will never be able to prove it, even if they think so. Some will threaten you with eternal pain or promise eternal joy to get you to believe in their god; these are all stories, created for people who were scared long before we understood the universe. Now we have no more reason for these superstitions.

How terrible the bible in particular is:
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/
http://www.evilbible.com/

What's the origin of the Jesus stories?
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa5.htm
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/origen048.html

How silly and horrible religion in general is:
http://godisimaginary.com/
http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/

The alternative:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/
http://www.infidels.org/
http://www.positiveatheism.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Universalism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_humanism

Answer 2

Gosh, you have an abundance of questions!
Where does one start?
I guess at the beginning!

The beginning is when you passed through the womb and into this place known as the world.
If you came into the world safely with all your faculties then you know that there are a lot of questions to be answered.
I personally am unable to answer any of these questions.
But if you are sincere in your questioning I can only give you directions as to where some of your questions may be answered.
I will say only this "Religion" is helpless in answering any or all of your questions. For the true answers you must do some Soul searching and this can be done only within your inner most heart. For an answer to many of these questions you might check out the site in the source section below.
The best to you in your search!

Answer 3

You have asked too many questions at one time to fully answer here, so I will just tell you that I believe in Jesus first, and because of this belief, it answers all of the rest of your questions.

Jesus is the only way of salvation because He is the only One who can pay our sin penalty (Romans 6:23). No other religion teaches the depth or seriousness of sin and its consequences. No other religion offers the infinite payment of sin that only Jesus Christ could provide. No other “religious founder” was God become man (John 1:1,14) – the only way an infinite debt could be paid. Jesus had to be God so that He could pay our debt. Jesus had to be man so He could die. Salvation is available only through faith in Jesus Christ! “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).

Answer 4

Here. This article is a good beginning.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DougGiles/2007/05/13/atheists_better_pray_to_god_they%e2%80%99re_right&Comments=true

Answer 5

I don't believe. Not a single word of it.

Answer 6

Everything you need to know can be found here,

http://www.jesus-is-lord.com