2007-09-05 06:04:29 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, without God we would not exist.
2007-09-05 06:28:04 · answer #1 · answered by Birdbrain 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It makes a difference to me. I spent 20 years in the church. Now I've grown to the realization that religion and god is only modern-day mythology that people refuse to accept as just that- mythology. I no longer spend hours sitting around in a church listening to fictional works about a god that will send me to hell if I don't live my life according to his rules. (Think of all that time I spent at church for story time. I could have been doing so much more with my life!) What a waste of time. I'm not living my life for something that doesn't exist. Instead, I'm focusing on the here and now of my own life. I am the only person that can make my life better- not a god that never answered when I prayed for those 20 years. I live in the real world instead of the fantasy world like I used to, and it feels great.
2007-09-05 13:14:31 · answer #2 · answered by GIJ 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A difference in what sense? Of course it will make a difference whether God exists or not for what will occur after our lives on Earth are over. Aside from that, I don't think it should matter for how we live our lives. If we live our lives according to how we should be living and live virtuous lives and make the most of our time on Earth, I wouldn't have any regrets if God didn't exist. I'd still have lived a fruitful life and tried to be a "good" person.
2007-09-05 13:10:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is the center of many religious arguments, so yeah, it would definitely make a difference. The belief in the existence of God is one of the things that separate people from each other in a sense.
2007-09-05 13:12:36 · answer #4 · answered by bbmm 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it does. Wherever our knowledge ends, god begins. That's why God's concept is being narrower day by day. God is just a way of people's answering questions that they think is unexplainable. But i've seen people believe in god anyway.
It doesn't make a difference to me. I'm gonna live my life the way i do, because God has nothing to do with it.
2007-09-05 13:14:47 · answer #5 · answered by krishnokoli 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It indeed does not make a difference if there is or isn't a god. But it certainly makes a huge difference if we human beings believe if there is or isn't a god. The belief in His existence has been the biggest driver of moral values so far.
2007-09-05 13:16:17 · answer #6 · answered by ravish2006 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ultimately, it doesn't.
If there were a god (there isn't), he already knew before you were born everything that will happen in your life. Even if you have free will and make free choices, your destiny is still fixed as far as god's concerned- he's always known what your destiny is, and there's nothing that you can that will change it.
There is no god, and we will all die, end of story.
In either case, we have no control over our ultimate destiny and should enjoy the one life that we know while we have it.
2007-09-05 13:32:49 · answer #7 · answered by gehme 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Believing in god encourages a person to sacrifice this life and lives of other humans for the afterlife (heaven). This opens up rationalizations for immoral behavior.
2007-09-05 13:10:47 · answer #8 · answered by Chuck Biscuits 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe it does. To believe in a God is a futile endeavor. Just as we had to realize that the world was round, that the night was not a blanket with pin holes, That "Bamba did not vomit up the sun, moon and man". We need to realize there is no God so that we can continue to evolve.
2007-09-05 13:12:00 · answer #9 · answered by The true face of religion 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't choose to follow God for the promise or reward of life spent in Heaven.
I choose to follow God because he loves me, and out of that love I show my gratitude to him by being good to others. My reward in heaven is inconsequential.
Doing good is the least I can do.
2007-09-05 13:12:29 · answer #10 · answered by samans442 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To the vast majority of people - it makes no difference. But to you it makes the difference between life and death - eternally.
2007-09-05 13:11:08 · answer #11 · answered by cheir 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋