I see no reason whatsoever to not believe in a personal God. All the evidence points towards a God who loves us and is involved in our everyday lives.
It is inconceivable to me to think of a Creator that would not care about us.
God has helped out my family so many times. God helped my father find a job when his company went under. God cured my uncle of cancer.
He was hospitalized and the doctors who treated him gave him NO chance to survive but he is a Christian and he had faith and he was cured.
What are your thoughts?
2007-11-14 06:15:05 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God is a lot like the movie Field of Dreams. Ray and his wife and daughter and Terrance Mann can all see the baseball players. But her brother and other strangers CAN’T see them.
From the brother’s perspective, they are sitting around an empty field, like nonbelievers think church looks like nonsense, and people sitting around praying to a non-existent “God.”
Hundreds of millions of people around the world, for thousands and thousands of years have all been in contact with the same God. We can all see the baseball players. Just because some people can’t see them, doesn’t mean the baseball men aren’t there.
If people will open their hearts, God will talk to them, and then they, too, can see God working in the world. Some people don't want to see God, so they pretend they don't, or lie to themselves.
But if people will be receptive, God will become known to them.
God will become known, not coincidence, or chance or luck, but the creator of the world will be in relationship with each person, if you stop thinking long enough to LISTEN for the voice of God.
Be still, and you will know God.
2007-11-14 06:38:58 · answer #1 · answered by jimmeisnerjr 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Mr. Alan has point.
I believe in an impersonal God; however, I believe that people generally have an innate need to believe in a personal God. I believe the God is the ground of existence and consciousness and is not a personality that intercedes in the lives of some creatures and not others. Everyone and everything here on planet earth lives and ultimately dies in one way or another--even cancer survivors. It is the nature of phenomenological existence.
2007-11-14 06:34:30 · answer #2 · answered by philosophyangel 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you that there is evidence pointing towards a God who loves us and is involved in our everyday lives. However, did you know that God has a personal name just as you and I have a personal name?
Psalm 83:18: “That people may know that you, whose name is Jehovah, You alone are the Most High over all the earth.”
Exodus 6:3: “And I used to appear to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as God Almighty, but as respects my name Jehovah I did not make myself known to them.”
Psalm 68:4: “Sing YOU to God, make melody to his name; Raise up [a song] to the One riding through the desert plains As Jah, which is his name; and jubilate before him.”
Isaiah 42:8: “I am Jehovah. That is my name; and to no one else shall I give my own glory, neither my praise to graven images.”
Isaiah 54:5: “For your Grand Maker is your husbandly owner, Jehovah of armies being his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Repurchaser. The God of the whole earth he will be called.”
Yes, God’s personal name is Jehovah and he wants us to use it and he is allowing us to get to know him better by means of His inspired Word the Bible. (2 Timothy 3:16) People say the word God like a broken record. God’s name is not God. God is just a title, just as President, King, Lord, Emperor, Prince, Princess, Prime Minister and so on. However, when you want to know someone better, you get their name so you can distinguish one from the other. Why do I say this? Many people do not realize that Satan the devil is also a god. Want proof?
2 Corinthians 4:4: “among whom the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine through.”
Money is a god. Anything that people devote much of their daily lives is considered a god. Something to think about. There are many gods, but only One True God, which is Jehovah. He is the Supreme One.
Source(s):
New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
2007-11-16 11:43:51 · answer #3 · answered by the_answer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-02 08:44:23 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take a trip to the St. Judes hospital for pediatric burn victims. Go visit a Children's hospital and take a walk through the cancer ward.
Imagine that as you are reading this, somewhere in the world, a female child is being raped and there is no one around to help her.
Imagine the quarter of a million people who were swept away in the blink of an eye when the Indian Ocean Tsunami hit.
That's my thoughts.
2007-11-14 06:21:39 · answer #5 · answered by Alan 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I do think deeply, so I believe nothing. A belief is accepted as true with no proof. There is no evidence that any gods exist, but there is strong evidence that none do exist. You could just as well believe in Zeus, Brahma, Marduk, Ma Lo Wong, Marduk, etc. as the English Christian deity. the Bible is strong proof that its deity does not exist, for it is filled with glaring contradictions and pathetic ignorance of reality and science. I could see that at age 7. I do not accept that any deity found a job for your father or cured your uncle of cancer. I have seen other people who had more problems finding jobs, and I have seen people who died painfully. Are your father and uncle special pets of your god? If so, I should sue him and them, since many people just as deserving had worse times.
2007-11-14 06:26:43 · answer #6 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
ALL the evidence points towards a God who loves us and is involved in our everyday lives?
~ What kind of sheltered world do you live in. How does your reasoning account for child abuse, murder, disasters?
So what if your Uncle hadn't have lived?
Liesel.
2007-11-14 16:09:33 · answer #7 · answered by Liesel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most certainly Yes,God would not go through all the trouble to make us without caring about what we do...thats where free will comes in he shows us how to do things then sits back and waits till we prove ourselves worthy or not worthy
2007-11-14 06:25:37 · answer #8 · answered by hillbillly15902 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"God cured my uncle of cancer."
I think this is what needs to be proven. If we start with this as a premise, we'll obviously conclude that a personal God exists. But can you prove God's involvement?
2007-11-14 06:18:47 · answer #9 · answered by Eleventy 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Absolutely. I also have witnessed healing(s) in my church over the last 15 yrs- God is so awesome- if we have faith and believe! *for those who dont believe- that's why we have doctors- to CONFIRM the healing! (has confounded quite a few, and caused others to give Him His due praise!)
2007-11-14 06:25:41 · answer #10 · answered by Seeno†es™ 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋