Do you believe in god?

Question

If not why?

I'm talking of the one an only GOD.

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Answer 1

Nope. No evidence and no logic behind the claim that there is.

Answer 2

I once believed in a God, but then I realized something. God is everything we can't explain. Thousands of years ago, people looked up at the sky and saw this bright object that provided them with light, warmth, and food. The power of the sun was so great, people assumed it had to a be supernatural being. Now in 2007, we know that our sun is 93 million miles away, and that there billions of other stars just like it in this galaxy. Now when people look up at the sky, they no longer see the Gods, they just see the sun, the moon, and the stars.

Before modern medicine, if someone survived the flu, it was considered a miracle, an act of God. But now when we are sick, we no longer thank God, we thank that bottle of Nyquil in the medicine cabinet.

Believing and claiming that God exists or doesn't are two completely different things. Like someone else said earlier, "if people don't believe in God, that doesn't mean that God doesn't exist." As humans discover new things, God will become smaller and weaker. But there will always be things we can't explain with scientific fact. As long as the human race lives, so will the idea of God.

Answer 3

Yes i believe in God.

Answer 4

Yes, but God seems to have a hard time believing in me.
Sorry, that comment was off the cuff.
Seems to me that while most Gods are well intentioned, the result , is somewhat less than peace on earth.Perhaps if we worshipped our fellow human beings we would be farther ahead.

Answer 5

I believe in some form of existence after death, but not a god. Certainly none of the gods of the three largest religions and not Jehovah God of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.

Answer 6

Yes, I believe in God.

Answer 7

No. It's just too unlikely.

The more I learn about how and why things happen, and the human mind's capacity for deceiving itself, the less likely it becomes. It is now so unlikely from my pov that I have taken to calling myself an atheist rather than an agnostic, which is what I did for most of my adult life.

Answer 8

I believe in God. But sometimes I feel like, is he really out there? But it's not like I've been looking through any other religion, like Buddishim.

Answer 9

Yes. I absolutley believe in God 100%. He's the one who saved my soul and changed my life for the better. He's the one who keeps my heart beating and the air going into my lungs. He's the one who bled and died for me on Calvary. He's done so much for me and the people whose testimonies I've heard. I owe everything to Him.

Answer 10

I believe in the Almighty God of the Bible.

Answer 11

I agree that there is no proof in either direction, but only up to a point. That's why science is important. A long time ago, people believed that the sun revolved around the earth, and the earth was at the center of Universe. Later, science investigated these phenomena, and verified that the earth was not at the center of Universe and the sun did not revolve around the earth.

Sure, anyone can believe whatever he or she wants to believe, because that's the beauty of freedom. I can believe the boogyman exist if I want to, but does he really?

In science, ideas are put to the most rigorous competition. I can't express my idea just because I believe so or just because I was told to do so. In science, an idea must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny. The idea must be carefully peer-reviewed, tested, repeated, and verified in the most consistent manner for its validity. Religion is not about this. Religion is all about belief without any supporting evidence. Religion has no fundamental principles, ground-work, or scientifc basis. There are many supernatural claims made by people, but they are only claims. If I told you that I saw a ghost yesterday, would you believe me even though I can't provide you with any supporting evidence? Probably not. I do understand that we are only human, thus we are liable to make mistakes and liable to be fooled. Remember, even the smartest people in the world can be deceived and self-deceived. If you were to show me a good magic trick, I can be fooled by it, so in my mind, I experienced something supernatural. This is why we must constantly be encouraged think critically, otherwise, we can easily fall in to the traps of scam-artists and non-sense promoters.

I know that science isn't perfect, but the beauty of science is that it can correct itself. Science is only an important tool, because it can really help us understand the world better, and because of this reason, it can help us improve our lives.

Based on available evidence today, our universe seems to operate consistently with the laws of nature. As Dr. Einstein formulated with E=MC^2, energy and matter are equal, and they can not be created or destroyed, therefore, matter and energy have always existed (no one made them). Govern by the laws of nature, matter and energy are constantly being changed in to one another, for instance, when you burn 10 lbs of paper, the paper your burnt will not be destroyed -- it will only be converted in to energy plus matter in a different form such as ash, smoke, heat, light and so forth, while maintaining at the exact 10 lbs of mass combined.

It is impossible to escape the notion of supernatural when you start to accept God or Deity, because the notion inevitably raises vital questions and seeks your critical-thinking for the most rational validation.

First, if God exists then nothing in the universe could be impossible, because God's infinite powers can unrestrain any possible thing you can imagine. For example: If you were God, could you create a being that's more powerful then yourself? The question is not would you, but could you? This question is very valid, because God should be able to create a being more powerful than himself, and when he does, he no longer becomes the most powerful being. If he can not create a being that's more powerful then himself, then his power is not infinitely powerful. This is called "Omni-Potence Paradox" and this reason alone is good enough to conclude that God like supernatural being couldn't possibly exist. Argument to defend God would be just as valid as defending say Superman's exist, because if one's argument is that God's existence couldn't be proved or disproved, but then so is Superman's existence.

Magic, pseudo-science of astrology, psychic, fortune telling, and superstitions are identical to any religion, only in different flavors. They are indeed magical and very appealing to our minds, because they promise eternal life and wealth, but they can rather be dangerous. They can become very dangerous because they can promote irrational reasoning and can obscure your critical-thinking hindering the productivity. What do you think about the violent Islamic Militants (who also happen to be very religious).

I personally do not think that God has to exist, because our world can be just as beautiful and wonderful without it. If you are wondering how life was made. I can tell you that organic molecules are abundant through the cosmos, and under the right condition, they have the tendency to spontaneously self-assemble and turn in to more complex molecules which eventually lead to life forms (our earliest ancestors per DNA analysis). This experiement was conducted and verified in the science lab at Cornell University in the 1970's.