Is god real?

Answer 1

The concept of God

Two types of philosophical premises have always separated any philosophical system ever thought out:

1. Philosophies with PRIMACY OF CONSCOUSNESS

2. Philosophies with PRIMACY OF EXISTENCE

The first group of philosophies is the most ancient and the most popular. It started the day prehistoric humans asked themselves scientific questions which they could not answer: who makes the rain? what is lightening? what causes a volcano to erupt? what causes earthquakes? what are the stars? Since primitive people depended on nature like all other animals for their survival, their conceptual brains allowed them to imagine or hypothesize some answers to these questions. They gave natural events consciousness, i.e. intentional power to do things. Some tribal leaders invented the idea that sacrificing animals or people to the gods of nature might persuade the gods to give them rain, or sunny days, or wind, or stop any of these events. Sometimes the gods would seem to actually answer these requests because if they carried out rituals long enough, eventually it would rain! This gave the leader great power and its tribesmen began to worship him like a god himself. That's how the first religious cults began among all primitive and ancient societies. A cult is defined as a group of people who believe that their leader receives revelations from a supernatural consciousness.

Any philosophy which declares in its metaphysical premise that there is a consciousness which creates and controls reality is a variation of this primitive idea.

The idea that any type of consciousness -- divine, human or animal -- does not and cannot exist independent from a physical body is the philosophy which starts with the PRIMACY of EXISTENCE. In this philosophy, consciousness cannot be the cause of physical reality but its effect. This philosophy regards the universe and its laws as existing on its own and from it we derive all kinds of things, including life and consciousness such as that which we find in nature and in ourselves. Only after the 17th century philosophers began to formulate ideas that placed existence above consciousness, that is reality as we know it above reality as we imagine it to be. These philosophies reject the idea that a cosmic consciousness (God) could exists independent of the existence of the universe, could create matter, have a plan of how the universe should be and have the power to make the laws of the universe, such as the laws of physics, chemistry, biology, etc. This philosophy rejects the idea that God is a consciousness that rules the universe as He pleases because he is omnipotent. This means that matter, the laws of nature and the universe depend on him, but he does not depend on them. This means he can also violate the rules of nature, and when he decides to do so we call those violations...MIRACLES! If God wants, he can make a man walk on water, he can give him the power to multiply bread and fish, he can make a virgin give birth, he can even make a dead person come back to life. These violations of the laws of nature are only possible if we believe that consciousness comes before existence. Science has no evidence that there is any kind of consciousness capable of even think without a physical brain, let alone violate the laws of nature!

Answer 2

God springs forth from the primitive limbic system of your brain, the last remnants of your reptillion past. The area where our raw emotions reside, including the irrational belief systems.

The 'religious' experience is triggered by deep depression, starvation, near death, or other highly charged situations. The 'born-again' christian phenomena has a scientific basis....yes, your limbic system. Why has man evolved this mechanism you might ask? Simple...it was a survival mechanism of our cave man ancestors to cope with a hostile and unknown universe.

The cerebral cortex is a more recent development. Here is where our rational and logical thought processes take place. It is here that the atheists have found their basis in reality.

In reality, there is no sentient, omnipresent, omnipotent supernatural being or force....therefore all the inequities and misery of the world will always persist, no matter how hard some try to get that limbic brain of ours to work...sorry

Answer 3

Reality is often subjective and based completely on the perception of the observer.

Are you real? Is the computer from which you are reading this answer real?

My guess would be that god is as real as you, the computer you're in front of, as well as the person who typed this answer.

If you have a more scientific leaning in your understanding of the world around you, this perception choice should not necessarily exclude god.

However, it may require a shift in your definition of what "god" is...

Answer 4

Yes God is real.

Answer 5

god is only 1 thing people have created interior the direction of the years to describe the mysteries of the universe that persons carry onto as a logo of desire yet everybody is beginning to attain that they do no longer choose it anymore in todays society yet thats in simple terms evolution and the form of humanity it relatively is mandatory with the intention to stay to tell the tale the destiny we would desire to forged aside the previous and try for a greater robust the following day

Answer 6

God is a real made-up idea, at least.

Answer 7

well he puts my 3 year old baby brother to sleep so yes their IS a God. Amen.

Answer 8

I believe in god but not everyone does.

Answer 9

This is a beautiful world no matter what pollutes it. There has to be another power outside of it all controlling and maintaining it.
;D

Answer 10

No, god is a projection of mankind.