Oh come one you serious?
2007-10-19 11:17:24
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answer #1
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answered by Sarah 6
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If you look at the evidence, you will find that the concept of "god" has existed in every society. The likelyhood that every single group on earth would come up with "god" is very slim. That they would then also associate him with moral laws is even more unlikely. That you could take a society like the USSR and spend over 70 years teaching them against God. and then within a decade the number of theist would exceed 70% is unlikely if there is no natural draw within man to seek God.
The question of God, existence, purpose in life, the afterlife, and moral absolutes are founded worldwide. They do not appear to be results of a single culture, teaching or concept. In fact, it is those very question that appear to separate man from all the other form of life more than anything else.
For those questions to be as universal in amn as they are, there has to be a reason. The only logical one is that God placed that longing for him and the instinctive knowledge of his existence into man.
Blaise Pascal stated it well when he said, "In every man there is a God shaped vacuum, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in Him."
God is not a man-made idea. He exist.
2007-10-19 03:29:03
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answer #2
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answered by dewcoons 7
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I understand what you mean. The Bible was written by man. Each chapter was written by someone's account of what happened to them. There are several reasons why the authors of the Bible came up with the stories they did. One could have been drugs. They used to eat and smoke things back then that they didn't know what was going on. They didn't know it was bad for them, or what would happen to them when they did a certain thing. They smoked plants, or burned plants and other things to get high, or to feel good. So, they could have simply had halucinations, thinking what they saw was a higher being, and so in time, the story became a religion, and it just took off from there.
Another theory could be aliens. Ok, this is a little out there, but I was watching tv about UFO's and what was in the Bible. I can't remember who was a light coming from the sky, but he saw this, and thought it was God speaking to him, it could have been a UFO shining a light. They made pictures of what they saw, and some look like UFO's, others look like fly chariots. They drew the chariots because they had nothing else to compare the UFO to, so they used chariots.
Another theory, the people that wrote the chapters could have been mentally challenged, or they could have been really smart to make something like this up, just to get people to believe them, to get people to go to them for help. They wanted to be a leader, and the weak minded people were in awe if what these other people were talking, and started to believe. To describe it further, what these people were doing is kinda like a cult. David Koresh had people following him, and he was a nut job, but people were letting their kids go off with him, and he had sex with the little kids. Another example was Jonestown, in South America, those people followed Jim Jones to the death. He had people believing in him. He got them to move from California to Guyana, and they gave up every freedom they had, gave up their possessions, and even killed themselves because of him. The members of Heaven's Gate, they followed a guy and killed themselves.
What do all of these have in common, they believed in the one person, and that person to them was a God, kinda like what happened in the Bible.
The thing is, most of you will say the people I described were crazy, stupid, nuts, etc, but are they really any different from what happened in the Bible? Not really.
2007-10-19 03:35:58
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answer #3
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answered by George P 6
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Gods have played a significant role in human history, every culture has had Gods that are relevant to their society. Believers practice the ancient customs and rituals that remain through many, many generations.
The most popular religion today has no cultural significance for most people who practice it. This faith is viral and spreads through fear and coercion. This religion is a brutal dictator. Believe as I do or perish. It has done much harm to mankind and continues to cut a path of destruction throughout the world.
I do not believe in Gods acknowledging that they are purely fiction. They do however exist in the hearts and minds of believers.
Pantheist
2007-10-19 03:39:27
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answer #4
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answered by Equinoxical ™ 5
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For now, I believe, for awhile I was very skeptical. But when I think about, how did we all get here and the Earth and the universe. And don't tell me no damn Big Bang, what the hell started the big bang?
In other words, even if there was no god, until someone explains to me how the universe formed and what was there before that I will believe.
2007-10-19 03:28:35
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answer #5
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answered by djdp89 3
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Yes and No, God is a man-made name, and we gave the name God to every voice were heard, however, none of the voices belong to God the Father.
Man called the Holy Spirit God.
Man called the Son of God, God
Man called I am that I am, God
Man called the serpent God
Man called Satan God
Man called the Sun God
Man called himself God
Man called the prophets messenger's of God.
Man called the apostles Peter and Paul Greater than God.
Man called Moses the man who spoke to God.
They are all God because will called them all God. Which one do you follow the teachings of, or do you mix and match.
But no man has ever called the Father who art in heaven, God, except His Son, because no man has ever heard His Voice, nor seen His shape. So where does that leave Moses and the Prophets
2007-10-19 03:39:19
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answer #6
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answered by Anonymous
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ok, so i do trust that there is a God, regardless of brand call human beings provide him. he's not a guy nor a lady and he does no longer has a relatives, in words of spouse and toddlers, as this may be too a lot of similarity with human existence. And human existence is so chaotic, and that i do no longer imagine that God might want to be chaotic and messy. So, God exists because, (i) we in basic terms ought to pass searching you, i mean look on the perfection of nature, how orderly each and everything is, how organised the cosmos is. look on the finished thing about a infant, or of a rose, or perhaps of a favourite individual. look at how massive the universe is. might want to it extremely have in basic terms come out of nowhere?? no longer something might want to be made out of no longer something. It won't be able to easily have began to exist. There should be an more suitable One. (ii) that is in human nature to seek for someone or something higher than us. that is something innate. All human beings have it. that is the opt for to worship someone higher. as an social gathering, at the same time as the Russians became communist they replaced Jesus by technique of Joseph Stalin(wide-spread Secretary of the Communist social gathering of the Soviet Union), this is a truth of the opt for to worship and the opt for to sense that there is something more suitable effectual than each and everything else. And this opt for makes us sense his presence. (iii) apart from properly, when we settle for the existence of a God, as him being a sole author, then that is a lot less annoying to settle for one yet another, i mean, this completely makes all and multiple equivalent, contained in the sense that we are all made out of a similar God, as a effect there should be no conflict, no discrimination and no prejudices, we ought to continually be one. And this in basic terms skill PEACE. properly, it really is what i imagine...
2016-10-21 10:08:00
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answer #7
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answered by Anonymous
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Through the many thousands of years , the world has had thousands of "gods" . Every single one of them , including the present , came right out of the superstitious imaginations of some very ordinary people here on earth.
Gods , heaven , and recarnation , were dreamed up because of the fear of death . A way of cheating death was invented .
2007-10-19 04:19:51
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answer #8
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answered by Anonymous
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I incline toward "yes."
As to believing in God, I suspect that the God of the three major monotheistic religions does not exist. I think that there is some spiritual component to human life, but that component has not been, and perhaps cannot be, identified.
2007-10-19 03:19:11
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answer #9
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answered by Anonymous
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yes god was created because people always wanted more and one day someone said what happens when we die. and another made up a rough version of the crap people follow today. It's for the slow and easily tricked. Religion dupes the masses and keeps them in control. the majority are raving lunatics if you don't put a leash on them and scaring them with being punished for the bad they do.
2007-10-19 03:20:58
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answer #10
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answered by Anonymous
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God is imaginary, invented by man to pacify and control the weak minded people of the dark ages.
2007-10-19 03:24:11
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answer #11
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answered by Anonymous
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