God is love. God is power. God is all around you all the time. He abides in the believer.
2007-09-02 18:35:21
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answer #1
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answered by judysbookshop 4
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God is The Creator and The Sustainer of everyone and everything. He knows, sees and hears everything!
I am an American Muslim, my mother was a Christian. But she had some really good ideas. When I was a little girl she told me that God is like the wind, you can 't see Him, but you can see what He does. Throughout Creation there is tremendous evidence that there is One God. God is The Creator,:He is The Sustainer; He is The One who is Most Merciful; He is The One who is Most Gracious; He is The First and The Last. The Islamic Faith teaches us that God has 99 "names", These "names" are His attributes and charecteristics. God is on a "Throne" far away, yet He is as close to us as our own voice boxes. How can this be? If you were to burn a human body you would only get a few ounces of minerals. Yet, the human body can do so many things, It can move, think, feel, protect itself from harm, it can reproduce,etc,,,etc. If you were given the very same minerals that come from an incinerated human body can you make a human being just by adding water to those minerals? Of course, you can't. There are many things that are way beyond our ability to understand and we need to have the humility to understand this if we want to succeed. In Islam, success is not something that is in this life...in Islam success is escaping the punishment of The Hell Fire.
2007-09-02 18:04:59
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answer #2
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answered by Rebecca 3
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I don't believe any human language has the capacity to fully convey any spiritual experience, or being, but I will try. My concept of God is that of an omnipresent, omnipotent, mother/father being, who knows us fully, and loves us more completely than we can comprehend. As God is omnipresent, His/Her spirit is in us, and everywhere else as well. As He/She is omnipotent God has more power and abilities than what we can comprehend. I've looked at a simple leaf and wondered at His/Her majesty, and just imagine the one universe we are aware of, and all that we not aware of, nor ever will be in this body. It's more than incredible, again we have no words to express the spiritual. There is so much to our Mother/Father God that it is impossible for our finite minds to understand, let alone explain, "Who is....Where is God?"
Blessed Be
2007-09-02 22:37:48
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answer #3
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answered by Linda B 6
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God is the creator of Heaven and Earth. Heaven is his dwelling place, and Earth is his foot stool.
If you can breathe the air, smell the ocean and the trees, then you should be able to detect his presence. Because he is the giver of life, to all living creatures, plants etc.
2007-09-02 17:51:59
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answer #4
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answered by Anonymous
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God exists only within the fevered minds of the faithful.
2007-09-02 17:45:12
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answer #5
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answered by ? 6
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God is your Creator, He lives in the 3rd Heaven (above the known universe), and his Holy Spirit is everywhere!
2007-09-03 04:33:49
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answer #6
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answered by Aeon Enigma 4
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God is where we want him to be
2007-09-02 17:52:49
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answer #7
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answered by nikki 5
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God is in that book.
2007-09-02 17:48:46
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answer #8
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answered by Anonymous
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Do Buddhists believe in a creator god?
No, we do not. There are several logical reasons for this. The Buddha, like modern scientists, sociologists and psychologists, believed that religious ideas and especially the god idea have their origins in fear. The Buddha says:
"Gripped by Fear men go to sacred mountains, sacred groves, sacred trees and shrines." *Dhammpada 188
Primitive man found himself in a dangerous and hostile world, the fear of wild animals, of not being able to find enough food, of injury or disease, and of natural phenomena like thunder, lightning and volcanoes was constantly with him. Finding no security, he created the idea of god in order to give him comfort in good times, courage in times of danger and consolation when things went wrong. To this day, you will notice that people become more religious at times of crises, you will hear them say that the belief in a god gives them the strength they need to deal with life. You will hear them explain that they believe in god because they prayed in time of need and their prayer was answered. All this seems to support the Buddha’s teaching that the god-idea is a response to fear and frustration. The Buddha taught us to try to understand our fears, to lessen our desires and to calmly and courageously accept the things we cannot change. He replaced fear, not with irrational belief but with rational understanding.
The second reason the Buddha did not believe in a creator god is because there does not seem to be any evidence to support this idea. There are numerous religions, all claiming that they alone have god’s words preserved in their holy book, that they alone understand god’s nature, that their god exists and that the gods of other religions do not. Some claim that god is masculine, some that she is feminine and others that it is neuter. They are all satisfied that there is ample evidence to prove the existence of their god but they laugh in disbelief at the evidence other religions use to prove the existence of another god. It is not surprising that with so many different religions spending so many centuries trying to prove the existence of their gods that still no real, concrete, substantial or irrefutable evidence has been found. Buddhists suspend judgement until such evidence is forthcoming.
The third reason the Buddha did not believe in a creator god is that the belief is not necessary. Some claim that the belief in a god is necessary in order to explain the origin of the universe. But this is not so. Science has very convincingly explained how the universe came into being without having to introduce the god-idea. Some claim that belief in god is necessary to have a happy, meaningful life. Again we can see that this is not so. There are millions of Atheists, free-thinkers and Buddhists, who live useful, happy and meaningful lives without belief in a creator god. Some claim that belief in god’s power is necessary because humans, being weak, do not have the strength to help themselves. Once again, the evidence indicates the opposite. One often hears of people who have overcome great disabilities and handicaps, enormous odds and difficulties through their own inner resources, through their own efforts and without belief in a god. Some claim that god is necessary in order to give man salvation. But this argument only holds good if you accept the theological concept of salvation and Buddhists do not accept such a concept. Based on his own experience, the Buddha saw that each human being had the capacity to purify the mind, develop infinite love and compassion and perfect understanding! He shifted attention from the heavens to the heart and encouraged us to find solutions to our problems through self-understanding.
But if there is no creator god how did the universe get here?
All religions have myths and stories which attempt to answer this question. In ancient times, when man simply did not know, such myths were adequate, but in the 20th century, in the age of physics, astronomy and geology, such myths have been superseded by scientific fact. Science has explained the origin of the universe without recourse to the god-idea.
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2007-09-04 08:41:07
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answer #9
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answered by Thomas 6
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God is a fantasy that exists only in your head.
2007-09-02 17:48:17
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answered by Anonymous
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