question on your beliefs?

Question

what are your thoughts on god? Every idea is welcome, but do not be rude to other people, and their beliefs.
I am an atheist, but am interested in what other people believe and why. this is for a college project i am doing, so please give examples and be specific.
please and thank you.

Answer 1

It just seems odd to me... if God is supposed to be so loving and caring why does he threaten people with hell... it makes no sense... he should care what people do or believe as long as they are good people... After all... the main threat I recieve from many not all Christians is the threat of hell if I don't believe... do they honestly think their God so cruel?

Answer 2

God for me is a collective of all that we are and all that we can be, to nth degree. The path I have chosen uses the concept of God as a means to an end- you develop a personal relationship with God in order to then shift your focus onto your own evolution and enlightenment process. Having this understanding of a greater God outside ones self is assistive while you deal with your own conditioning's, judgments, etc. Eventually, the need for the God out there begins to fall away, as your heart opens and your own experience expands. Initially, the soul rejects the claim that the human is god, or even has god living inside them because of these judgments. The path of self realization is essentially to peel all of that away and revel this truth that has been there all along.

I believe there is a greatness beyond the self that I am here, that I can tap into, and my goal is to be able to live there all the time. Like the compassion of the Dali Lama.

Answer 3

I have been Wiccan for 12+ years. I have tried to follow a Celtic pantheon with Norse accents. Recently I have come to terms with the fact that I'm agnostic. I have never, so far, had a true connection with a specific deity. I have always referred to the god/dess as Glorious Goddess and Gracious God.

Being on here, on Mystic Wicks, and talking with friends I know I am not alone in this. I always felt I had to conform to a pantheon. I never could 'pick' one. I need to believe that there is 'something' out there behind the works,so to speak.

)o( Blessed Be!

Answer 4

This is a very old question, Ive learned many wars had Ben fought in the name of GOD, Many lives, good and bad have Ben shortened scares me to think that we were made in , GODS image. Would ,GOD approve of the way we use GOD for power? I like my Owen personal GOD, the one that asks me am I a bad person> or a good person?, will I help anyone Race, creed , or color that needs it, or turn my back and take and hurt people when it suits me? I will take the latter of the two .An if I can help someone who is making wrong choices then all the better for all. I have even given the shirt off my back to a person who realy needed it . to me that is GOD.

Answer 5

I too am an atheist.

I think people believe in God because they find it comforting to think a higher power is watching over them and protecting them. The only problem with this is the fact that such belief can create a deranged worldview. A few examples I have to offer are when people believe this higher power has given humanity a message (the Bible or the Qur'an, for instance). In this document (or group of documents), this higher power condemns things which in reality were simple misunderstandings of the authors given their time period. People verbally speak out against homosexuality, for example, because they believe their God has condemned homosexuality. The worldview on sexual orientation has become severely flawed.

Answer 6

I'm a cradle Catholic. Before college it seemed logical to me that there had to be something/anything greater than us. I looked at other religions and lots of them had stories of a great flood, and two brothers where one killed the other. So it just made sense that this must have happened something.

I got into intercesion in college. Where you ask a particular saint to help you with your prayer intention. I used St. Therese a lot. She is the saint who promised to shower roses down on the faithful. People often ask her for a rose when discerning God's Will. I asked her to sent me a red rose if it would be God's WIll for me to marry a man I was completely in love with. I felt it was right but wanted to make sure it was God's Plan for me. I was sent a red rose and some of my skeptical friends told me it was a coincidence and everyone gets a red rose.....so I asked for a plaid one. While nearing the end of my novena of pray with St. Therese a friend of mine who is a seamstress had some extra plaid fabric and made me a plaid rose as a joke not knowing that I'd been praying for one. If that doesn't prove there is something up there greater than us, nothing will.

Answer 7

I believe that God is the Trinity.
I believe God left us some clues about His nature in nature
I believe we were created in God's likeness (soul)
I believe there is one Way to God
I believe God can't have sin in His presense
I believe that likely only 1/8 of the world is actually saved
I believe that real Christianity isn't about obsequience
I believe God gifted us all with talents and abilities
I believe that God shouldn't be blamed for everything wrong
I believe God shouldn't be blamed at all
I believe that work and worship are not to be separate
I believe cowardess is a bad thing
I believe faith without works is dead
I believe you are not saved by works but by grace
I believe that God is Love
I believe we can/should have a personal relationship with God
I believe we have choice and aren't puppets of God
I think that this could go on for another two pages if I let it

Answer 8

I have found a spiritual home and personal fulfillment in the polytheistic beliefs and folkways of my ancient Northern European ancestors.

Because my goal is to be as accurate to their worldview as possible, my beliefs are best described as "Norse Folktru Reconstructionist Heathen," but for google purposes . . . they fall, at least loosely, under the general umbrella term "Asatru."

As to why . . . why, because they are the beliefs of my people, my culture, my direct ancestors. The cultural paradigms from which they spring helped shape the culture in which I live, and as such, make sense to me.

I believe that every people group has their own folkways and their own gods. These are mine.

Answer 9

My belief is complicated and conflicted. On one hand, I don't believe in the kind of god that I was raised to believe in. I don't believe in an omniscient supreme being who intervenes in the lives of people and who created the universe. I am an atheist in that respect. On the other hand, when I think about a higher power, I don't like to think that I'm the highest power in the universe, so I like to think there is another, higher power. I just don't think any of us have put our finger on what it is.

Answer 10

The idea of some separate God is false--Christ taught that God is within you--just as Buddha taught the source of existence is within you--to invent some separate entity & give that entity human traits & emotions is just stupid--we should have let that myth go thousands of years ago!!