Is God or no God the only options?

Question

With all the complexities of the universe, are these the only possibilities? Do you feel as though it is binary and that is all? Why do you feel this way and how can you be sure?

Thats what I'm sayin Taliesin Penn Beirdd

How is the universe Happykid?

Answer 1

Why do you ask?

You MUST know that you will get strong religious answers that are based upon nothing but faith, without any thought given. You'll also get non-secular answers - but many will be gut rejections to the force of religion.

No one can be sure. No one. Personally, I belive there are infinate options. I refuse to close my mind. I hope you do the same.

Answer 2

If the Christian God does not exist after all ...

... then how did the prophets plainly foretell of Christ's coming, complete with details of His birthplace, where He grew up, how He would die, even to pre-quote the words people will say around the crucifixion?

... how did the Bible accurately foretell the date Christ will appear on earth, even naming a historically verifiable character (Cyrus) who was not yet born?

... why did the first century Jews who were against the Christians not deny Christ's miracles? (They accused Him of being in league with the Devil.) Why did they not deny that His body was gone? Why did they have to make up a story about His missing resurrection body?

... why does the fossil record show only a handful of disputable transitional samples linking fish to amphibian or any other species?

... why aren't the museums showing skeletons depicted in the famous picture showing the stages of monkey to a man? Because only about two of those complete skeletons exist. All the others either never existed at all or were composed of just two bones!

... why is it that scientists can't find fossil records linking one plant to another "evolved" plant either?

... if the world is millions of years old, and the Grand Canyon was merely carved by the river at the bottom, why aren't there thousands of Grand Canyons all over the world?

... how did the female and male sexual organs, perfectly suitable for the other, appear in virtually every species and kinds of every animal and insect? How is it possible that they evolved in lockstep over so many millions of years? They were designed from the get-go by God!

Answer 3

Actually, I do think those are the only two options, at least in what I'm considering. If you mean to ask if it's only possible for there to be no god or the Christian God, then of course those aren't the only options. Even if you're going broader to no god or an omnipotent god, then those still aren't the only two options. However, by saying god or no god, I think that covers the field, unless you think that multiple gods would be another choice. In my mind, if there are many gods, there is still a god; in that context, a god does not imply that there's one and only one god.

Answer 4

People think dualistically, but the universe isn't that way.


Edit: I don't know all the answers, but I know it isn't black and white. With time being a concept we can barely begin to understand, and with the meaning of life only a guess, how can we ever be SURE we have it right? I hope, when we die, things make sense to us once and for all, but right now we are limited by our bodies ability to experience.

Answer 5

hmmm are "you" or "no you" the only options to explain the specific things you have created and done and how those things affect those around you?

i say, yes. you either are. or you are not. there is no other way to see it.

and, just like you are... God is. you can know it when you see how your body molecules and atoms and chemicals work so that you can read what i write. when you see the specific placement of the planets so that the earth doesn't go out of orbit.

God is, and He cares, too. but that's another question!

Answer 6

You could take this question as, 'Is thee a higher power, or not?'

I say yes, there is some higher power, who most people choose to call God/Allah/Buddah or whatever. In my case I believe there is a higher power and I call him God. To me it just makes more sense if there is a reason for the universe to be here, and for us to be here. It is harder to explain/understand some random seriers of events that caused us to be here.

Answer 7

You mean maybe a half of a God. That's not an option I'm sure.

Answer 8

I believe in indigenous folk religions, personally---a pantheon of gods and goddesses, mythic cycle, folk lore, and body of ethics, values, mores, thews, and customs for EVERY people group.

At a certain level, it doesn't matter whether one believes in the literal existence of the godhs of one's culture and ancestry, although I certainly do. What matters is that the underlying worldview of a culture's mythos, imho, is permanently hardwired into its descendants, and to THEM will "feel right" and be spiritually satisfying.

This will take me way out there into "woowoo hoodoo" territory and make an atheist or three laugh at me, but consider that around 30-40K or so years ago, there was a sudden, nearly worldwide "uplift" in human cultures . . . just about all of them. We went from flint spears to art, music, and religious expression almost overnight, in the scheme of things . . . and people groups all over the world did at at more or less the same time, but in markedly *different* ways with markedly *different* results for *different* groups . . . as history since then clearly shows.

We'll probably never know, but it seems to me as if multiple groups of beings we came to revere as godhs took an interest in us, and we remember them in our creation myths . . . and honor them in our earliest religions.

Answer 9

There is this other option:

Many gods, like the Greek or Roman pantheon. Several gods like in Wicca.

Answer 10

Depends on the definition of god.