As best I can figure out there's one of two possibilities. The first one is the one I believe, YES God exists. The second one is no, God doesn't exist. Is the existance of God relegated on whether you believe in Him or not?
Could God exist even though you don't believe in Him? Could the Bible be true even though you don't believe in it? Or is the Bible true because you do believe in it? Or is the existance of God or truth of the Bible based upon our beliefs?
2007-07-31 01:31:50 · 33 answers · asked by theo48 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
yes, you will know within yourself that there is a supreme being somewhere
2007-07-31 01:44:19 · answer #1 · answered by onoscity 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Only if He exists.
If he doesn't exist believing in him doesn't bring him into being.
The planet doesn't change shape when someone stops being a flat-earther.
The gun is loaded or not whatever the person pulling the trigger believes. "I didn't think it was loaded" is a classic and often tragic statement of confident belief refuted.
So the question is what should I you, we, believe, in order to have views that approximate more closely to reality?
(No-one gets it exactly right.)
Believe in God if God is there.
Don't, if God is a human social construct.
(Unless you find that useful, on those terms. Some do.)
Now, the viewpoints on that vary!
But let's be very clear. Believers and unbelievers can't both be right, each trusting in "true for me," however socially handy that would be.
2007-07-31 01:49:28 · answer #2 · answered by Pedestal 42 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God does exist. For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth. He is before all things, and by Him things consist ( Colossians 1 :15, 17). One's choice of not believing in God does not nullify His existence. The God of the Bible was, is, and forever shall be the one true God. He is Alpha and Omega ( the beginning and the end / the first and last ). The Bible is God's Word. It is His love letter to you and me. It is the only book ever written or will ever be written that reveals the mind of God, the condition of man, the way to Salvation, the eternal doom of non-believers, and it reveals the joy of the Lord that is shown in those who love Him. The Bible is not a book that says one thing and means another. So, you would be wise to write God's Word on the tablets of your heart because one will perish without it.
2007-07-31 02:05:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your second paragraph answers are: Yes, Yes, No and No.
God is, whether you believe or not. And what you believe has no effect on the scriptures.
Draw a big circle. Assume for the sake of discussion that the large circle contains everything known to man, science, biology, chemistry, history, all knowledge. Now inside the large circle draw a smaller one that contains all you know to be factual. (I bet my circle was smaller than yours) Is it not possible, than within the realm of all you do not know, that God does exist and that the Bible is the word of God?
If the atheist is right, when we die we die, and that is the end of it all. If I am right, when we die we spend eternity in Heaven or Hell. What choice makes more sense.? May God bless you in your search for truth.
2007-07-31 01:43:44 · answer #4 · answered by loufedalis 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
God exists. People didn't know about electricity until maybe 200 years ago, but it existed. The ones that don't believe in God just haven't searched for Him.
2007-07-31 01:43:24 · answer #5 · answered by RB 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If only existence were determined by belief. I'd believe in a whole lot of other things if that were the case. In the objective sense, something either exists or it does not, no matter what anyone believes.
2007-07-31 01:35:45 · answer #6 · answered by chlaxman17 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I am not a God botherer my self, but, the god seems independent of belief. Like the Schrodinger's cat situation. God dose/doesn't exist until the matter is proven
Did bacteria exist before Pasteur? I believe they did, but only proof made it true.
2007-07-31 02:05:48 · answer #7 · answered by julyntaylor1 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think this, Gos is only in our human mind, we created him as an Idea, but not only a simple idea but a very influent one, if you believe god exists you will act according to that belief, and if you don't believe in him you will never follow the religious "rules" but you can be a good people any way.
So, I believe that god exists for everyone since the peoples behavior that believe in him affects indirectly the other person's life even if you don't believe in god.
2007-07-31 01:36:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
yes you don't have to follow religion either he exsists you can see it in all his work there is so much evidence like the big bang (not the one that created the world the one that created the universe) Our techinical design we can't even design roborts as advanced and efficient as us. We were created by something else and that is our god but the god now that watches over us with it's people might not be the same god as god too could very well die, and needs to be replaced every time.
2007-07-31 01:39:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Read: Mortimer Adler "How to Think About God."
If God is God, then his existence is not dependent upon whether we believe in him or not. Nor would our lack of belief make him any less that what he is. Equating truth, especially religious truth, with our subjective perception is one of the prejudices of modernity-- challenge that presupposition.
2007-07-31 01:38:33 · answer #10 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Reality does not change according to your beliefs. Only your perception of it changes, which can easily amount to self-delusion. "A is A," as Rand put it.
If there is a deity, it exists whether people believe in it or not, just as you exist whether people believe in you or not. If there is no deity, all the belief in the world will not create one beyond the minds of those who have deluded themselves.
2007-07-31 01:37:06 · answer #11 · answered by Zombie 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋