Do you beleive in God? Why or why not?

Answer 1

Yes, I do believe in God, in fact, I have an interview today for a new job. I could see his hand in all this, just looking at the events that happened to get me to know a person I worked with on a retreat. She just out of the blue during the retreat said my company is looking for people. She had no idea I prayed the Friday before the retreat for God to open up a door somewhere else at a different company. He opened it for me..whether I get the job or not is a different story, but if that door closes that just means there is another opportunity elsewhere I overlooked. Anyway, yes I believe in God and his wonderful works.

Those of you who talk about starving children, what are you doing about it? I have two children I sponsor one in Ecuador and one in El Salvador. God puts these opportunities in my lap to help. I personally have family in Panama who can't always afford food, but I send them money to help them and they thank God for me and the people who send them money. That's just my opinion.

Answer 2

Yes. The reasons are too vast to describe in full here, though. I will sum it up thus:

1. I was raised to believe in God. That is not WHY I believe, but that is where my path began. It helped. It is like growing up eating a healthy diet. You can learn to eat a healthy diet when you are an adult, but it helps tremendously if you learn when you are a child. Doesn't make a healthy diet a bad thing.

2. Because I believed in God from a young age, I grew in spirit and sought God out my entire life. If you look, then you will find. In other words, my personal experiences have proven to me that there is a God.

God either exists or he does not. The truth is that if God exists, you will find him if you really look for him. But it takes effort and an open heart. In the end, the real reason that people believe in God is because they allow God to be revealed. Finding God is a very personal thing, and that is why so many people fail to find him. Many people simply don't want to dig that deep into themselves.

Answer 3

I don't believe in God for the same reasons I don't believe there are alien little green men drag racing space ships up and down local main streets. It is a ridiculous notion with absolutely no evidence of any sort to back it up.

Sure use the believers argument that there is no evidence that this stuff is not going on. Just because I can not prove little green alien space ship drifters don't exist must mean they are real, right.

Answer 4

Yes, because when i seek him, i find him. When i talk to him, he listens. When i sin, and ask for forgiveness, truly meaning it, he gives me a sense of peace within myself. Whatever I have need of, he provides. He has never let me down. Sure, there's times when terrible things have happened to me. But God always got me through them. Without my faith, and God's mercy, I wouldn't be here today. God says that his sheep know his voice. I can tell when God is speaking to me through things that happen. God always tells Satan, "thus far and no farther". Even when it seems like God is absent, he is still working behind the scenes. I know this to be true in my own life. When I thought God had forgotten me, he revealed to me what he had been planning all along. And he gives me a loving heart. Those who put there trust in him will never be brought to shame. That doesnt mean people will not ridicule you. What that's saying is that faith is never in vain. Before I was saved, I remember being a disobedient child. I was only 7, but I remember the change in my whole nature. I no longer had the desire to sin, to test the limits. I still battle the flesh daily, but God always makes an escape.

Answer 5

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
http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/jesus.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 6

Surely we know there is a God, when we look around us and see all His beauty. At night time, We can look to the heavens and see the beauty of the moon , stars, planets etc. Have you ever seen the beauty of the northern lights? In the daytime, we see the clouds and all the different shapes, We see the sun and when it rains and then stops we can see a beautiful rainbow. And in the rivers, lakes and seas. we can see many different beautiful fish etc. Look at all the different animals on this earth. Then we have the four seasons in different states, with their array of color. then we have the humans, look at all the beautiful different races. how anyone can say there is no God, is beyond me! Look at all He has given us and the greatest gift, that God has given us is His only Son Jesus, who died for our sins!

Answer 7

No, I do not believe in God.

My reason for not believing in God is that there is no explicit evidence for a God. I’ve never been to Australia, but I still have evidence that it exists. I've read the religious books of Islam and Christianity (the Qur'an and the Bible), and I found them to be neither divinely inspired or particularly useful. Opening either of those ancient novels to a random page is an excellent test for this assertion. Chances are, most of what you will find is nonsensical, not inspiring. I'm not suggesting that there is nothing inspiring in those books; however, people have found inspiration from the works of Shakespeare for years, and nobody ever went on a jihad or crusade based off of Romeo & Juliet. Incidentally, it is interesting to note that if there is a God, he made Shakespeare a far better writer than himself.

There are hundreds of thousands of words in the Bible and the Qur’an. In those books God finds the time to talk about the buying, selling, and jurisprudence of slaves, and yet he never finds a moment to mention anything about sanitizing water, treating women equally, or not torturing people. Can you imagine how much suffering would have been alleviated if God had addressed these issues?

The standard model of God posits that he is all knowing, all powerful, loving, and benevolent, but these characteristics are not present in any deity explained by our religious books. If God can reveal himself to Abraham, then why can't he do so for me? One spend a lifetime making rationalizations for his reasons, but the only one that fits with the evidence provided by this world is that God is imaginary.

The God of Abraham who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago—and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since—is no person to rely on when it comes to ethics. It is worth remembering that God unleashed the plague, AIDS, and polio on the world. He also ignored the prayers of millions of Jews suffering under the hands of the Nazis. If any mortal were to do such a thing, he would be ground into dust.

The pious have generally argued that one cannot judge all powerful creator of the universe by our human standards; however, that argument quickly loses footing when we notice that God is consistently governed by human emotions—greed, jealousy, wrath, suspicion, and the desire to dominate. It seems that the worst among us were created more in God's image than we could ever have hoped.

One of my favorite tests for showing the absurdity of God is the amputee test. You can perform this test yourself. Simply find a deserving, faithful amputee who has lost a limb. Now start a prayer chain. Get millions of people if you can to all pray the same prayer. Pray for God to miraculously grow the limb back. Now sit back and watch. No matter how hard you pray or how much you believe, nothing will happen. Again, we can make millions of rationalizations for why God will do nothing, but the only one that fits with the evidence it the same as before—God is imaginary.

You see, to pray for an amputee to grow back a lost limb is unambiguous. This is different than praying for God to heal a cancer patient, because that situation is ambiguous. Maybe God heals the cancer patient; maybe the chemo-therapy does it. To suggest that it isn't in "God's plan" to heal an amputee or any other person who is sick/wounded is contradictory to the idea of a prayer answering God. Indeed, if God has some sort of plan, then our prayers don't matter at all.

Chances are you already know that God doesn't perform miracles or answer medical prayers. This is why you and millions of Americans have health insurance. Jesus tells us not to worry repeatedly in the Bible, but health insurance is a manifestation of worry. If you truly believe that it is not in God's will for you to be sick, they why bother paying thousands of dollars each year for health insurance?

Answer 8

Yes. born to a christian family , i was naturally brought to church since young.
backslided and did not know why i was forced to go to church during primary school years.
used to hate it whenever people mentioned about Christ or preached the Gospel to me, in attempt to get me back to Christ.

until graduating from primary school and going on to secondary school, facing all the exam stress etc whatever, felt so lost and helpless, till my junior in secondary school invited me to go to church,
since i had nothing to lose i just went, and over a few days i realised the difference in me, it was Jesus.

He's the one that filled my heart , even when i was happy physically, there was an emptiness in my heart which i could not explain, but after willingly inviting Jesus into my heart and accepting Him as my Lord and Saviour, that emptiness was filled.

He is the difference in me, and through this years, i've witnessed all His works and miracles in my life and in the lives of hte people around me.
therefore i cannot deny i dont believe in God.

Answer 9

Yes I do
Every art has an artist ,,
Every thing that has intelligence, benefit and beauty has a craftsman
How come this wonderful universe with billions of arts, can be without a creator ?

Answer 10

Not as a deity or being.

Certainly not the god of the 'christian' bible.

More like a force that is present in everything in the universe.