do you believe in god?

Question

give reasons, im really fascinated.

Answer 1

This answer may be seen as a bit of an attack, its' not intentional I promise!

And I am so sorry this is long winded, wasn't my intention!

Do I believe in Iehovah under any of the 4 main names - no

Do I believe in the concept that something as large as a God could be seen to love us in the ways we imagine? - no
Do I believe that the God is perfect? - maybe, but I don't believe it would be perfect or the ultimate good in the ways we see it
Do I have any evidence to prove that God does not exist? - apart from belief based arguements, no
Do I have any evidence to prove that God does exist? - apart from belief based arguements, no
Do I believe there is a God at all? - possibly, yes

Why?

I cannot bring myself to believe in the concept of God that most people would preach.

For a start, with such limited understandings as that we have, how can anyone claim to know what God is? By that extent, how can we claim it would be perfect or imperfect? How can we claim to call it "Good" or "Evil" on a being of supposedly such a scale we cannot imagine, nor understand the actions of a being supposedly older than time?

If God is everywhere and in everything, then you have to accept ultimately that God is also Satan, is also in Hitler, is in every cruel sadistic act as in every great and glorious deed possibly imagined.

If you believe that God is all-powerful and all-knowing, how can we have such a thing as free will in the spiritual sense when every action is seen as clearly as the keyboard before me? How can we claim that very same self-proclaimed "Lord of gods" who knows every action and every thought, etc, can judge us fairly in armageddon, that by his actions and the beliefs of many, our very eternity is nothing more than Hell or damnation because we've been created to sin and ultimately cannot break God's plan? Does that mean by extention the Devil also gets to judge us?

So therefore how can we claim he loves us and is the ultimate good? How can we understand such things? If there is a God, why is there no physical proof of any kind save conception of belief? How can we trust in the image conjured by a book written by hundreds of people edited over thousands of years and translated more than a few times written by the flawed hand of man?

But why does no-one have a good, logical reason of any sorts save for thiests that there was God before the Big bang? Why is virtually every recorded religion save perhaps most branches of buddhism ultimately based on the same principles and ideals - Greeks with Hades, Norse with Hel, the hebrew term Ge-Hennah (spelling is off I know) which was seen as the physical concept of Hell in itself? Why is there always a grand creator of some sorts? even science can claim the concept of energy and the like is possible (look at light, etc), can that not apply to something as "grand" as a god?

Say I was to bake a cake and left it about in the sun. Germs would start cultivating upon the cake, most likely germs that share something with the germs within us (transferral from one surface to another, etc). Those germs if given the right situations cultivate, change, adapt and multiply, in some cases much like an amoeba. Now for us, that cake is just there, covered in germs, but what's not to say that on some microscopic/minute/whatever level those organisms have a form of consciousness? What's not to say that in some way - like we are in comparison to a god - that they spread, exist, survive, adapt, perhaps even on some level we cannot comprehend question their existence? Would we be able to give them the answers? How could we communicate?

Afterall, things that even a few hundred years ago would seem like witchcraft, etc, things that would be beyond the very comprehension of those people at the time are mundane to us - cars, television, mobile phones, electricity, the concepts of the solar system and what it is. Who's not to say in so many hundred years later mankind will be far more advanced in some respect?

So ultimately I cannot bring myself to discredit any existence of a god in any sense, but I cannot bring myself to honestly believe in a god in turn for those same reasons. Even though I list a lot more arguements against the existence of God they are only belief based arguements, same as with for the existence, and ultimately seeing as the concept of belief is hideously flawed both mean as much as the other.

But then we're never gonna get the answers for a very long time, so what's there to worry about?

Toodles

Answer 2

I believe in 0 of the thousands of Gods created by man. From the earliest polytheistic deities, to the modern polytheistic and monotheistic Gods. It's quite fascinating actually, as most contemporary religions, including Judaism, had their stories and traditions influenced by primitive civilized religion. Judaism for example was highly influenced by Hinduism archetypes.

Religion first evolved as polytheistic to explain natural weather phenomena. There has never been any reason to give any deity or religion any more credibility than any other and any other archetype that could come out of the human mind.

Answer 3

Yes, not for the reasons you think though. I believe because the science in the western culture (USA and Europe) is so flawed. plus they take credit for alot of things that were known many millennium before there cultures even existed, and because they believe every thing evolves around and was invented by white people. and also that before white are European people with little or no melanin in there skin came from the Tigris river Vally and Egypt and northern Africa.

even to the point of giving all biblical people of reference white skin. and then claiming lands that were already settled as there own.

so anything that scientists of the west prove i tend to discredit
plus GOD is real. who or what else could have created all that we have.

God is love and JESUS was BLACK

Answer 4

There must be a god. All of the evidence in nature screams that it was not created but evolved through natural selection. Only the genius of a God could have invented such a perfect smokescreen to fool everyone into believing there is no creator in order to test their faith.

Answer 5

I certainly do believe in God, Natalie.
Go, look in a mirror and see how beautiful and wonderfully you were made. Its impossible for you to be just a product of some accident, as many here want you to believe. In the image of Adam, the son of God, you were created, the Crowning Glory of God's creative works on earth.
Hallelujah!

Answer 6

I would have to say undecided. Even though some of the thing they say happened in the Bible seem impossible, such as the world flooding (I'm sorry but it would be physically impossible for a person to survive in those conditions), not to mention a person can't live for hundreds of years, life had to start some how. Weather it be by evolution or divine intervention we won't truly know till we die.

(on a side note) As for the whole hell issue, I want to know why poeple say there is a devil when he didn't even show up in the bible till 447ad? (of course thats a whole other issue entirely ^_^; )

Answer 7

Umm properly i think interior the lifeless of night God and Goddess, they dont truly care if I make blunders....as long as I dont reason harm to nature, which i'd by no ability do because of the fact i'm vegetarian and that i admire the Earth =)

Answer 8

I think there is a possiblity of a god existing but I am quite skeptical.

I feel this way because there just isn't enough evidence. My gut tells me there is nothing but my head tells me "is there nothing because I haven't come into contact with any god, or because it doesnt exist?"

It doesn't make any sence to me for there to be some big brother type guy in the sky watching over us, holding our hands and carrying us when times get tough but it also doesnt make sence to me for us to only live and die, than disapear.

Answer 9

It is not that I believe, but that I KNOW there is a God. Only God himself, could have taken a poor sap like myself, and cleaned me up where I shine from his glory! I know there are a lot of people who do not believe in God, but if you ever have the opportunity to experience him like I have, then there would be NOBODY who could convince you otherwise!

Answer 10

It's mans word that god exists, through texts written by man, read by man, argued about by man, histories altered by man and created by man.

If one who is educated and politically astute, wants to preserve idea's, histories, cultural connections, when chaos seems to approaching and the collapse of all you believe seems imminent, then one creates a religious order where an untouchable deity speaks unchangable truths.

Thus you will preserve the basis of your beliefs...Emperors and kings can't argue with the ultimate ruler...specially one they cannot argue with or touch...

But man being man is not above corruption and so as time goes on, the reality is forgotten as histories are wiped or altered all in the name of religion, if it doesn't fit the religions beliefs. The uneducated masses don't know better and histories educated don't wish to know.. Or they are known as heritics and be-littled and/or are killed..

Then there are the priests, who have become murderers, thugs, rapists of children in recent times, all in the name of god and their lusts...'God is man and man is god'

One can wipe and alter history until nothing but ashes remain and ones own verson of that history is in place, but one can't alter who humanity is at its heart..Psychology 101 answers more questions then history ever has..

God was created BY man but never created man. ... and Stephen King writes better stories..and that's all religion is now and has ever been....a fantasy story.

Also it makes someone a lot of money as many of the VERY expensive temples created by all the different religions testify...That serve no purpose at all then as a self promotional tool....Though McDonalds and Coca Cola do it better in recent times..

Oh and as charities, well, one can spend 1 cent in a dollar and call themselves a charity...and especially under the guise of religion its even tax free..so the tax payer not the religion pays for it, whether you follow that religion or not...

The smart man or woman wouldn't create a business but a religion to make a lot of money...and you the taxpayer pays for it..and pays and pays and PAYS!!! It has been that way for centuries..Thus in recent times the flourishing of so many religious orders..There are no check and balances on them...and politicians are to stupid or weak to make an issue of it..

So who is god? In recent times, a marketing tool basically...to make someone money at some point, somewhere..tax free....and not much else...