do u believe god is real tell me why or why not you think he is real?

Question

I don’t believe in god because the bible sounds like mythology.
How could moses, a senior citizen, round up two of every animal on earth before a big *** storm flooded the earth??
It makes no sense.

Answer 1

We know and can prove that man creates gods: we've created them thousands of times, all over the planet. However, the opposite is not knowable or provable. There's no reason to inject the supernatural into reality: but if you insist, then the proposition that God created man is pure conjecture – NOBODY knows the supernatural. Period.

The fact that man has created countless gods, from time immemorial, is very compromising to believers. They assert that the gods and religions that came before and after their own are false – but theirs is real and true. Maintaining the falsehood of those thousands of other gods and religions – while claiming the truth of their own – is patently and transparently ridiculous.

I've tried to tackle huge topics in a single answer and usually don’t succeeded well. Sometimes I raise more questions than I answer because space is limited here.

Lately, I've been waxing religious. There are a myriad of arguments for or against God. However, there's no direct evidence either way. To me, it's necessary to define what you mean by "God" to begin with. For most of us, that means a God defined by a religion.

And that's where the problems start . . . at least for the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam). For the remainder of this answer, any mention of "religion" means "Abrahamic religion" for short.

Religions are born into enmity because they try to lay claim to God. This insistence on exclusivity sets up religions for contention unless or until they convert the entire world – thereby eliminating the "competition". This is why, I believe, these religions all await the end-time when God will finally do the eliminating for them.

It's a forgone conclusion that no single religion (much less, denomination!) will win the world on its own. After all, they've had between 1,400 and 3,500 years (Islam and Judaism, respectively) to do so and haven't made any real progress. Christianity, with over 2 billion adherents, leads the pack but Islam, at 1.3 billion, is coming on strong (again). Despite being many centuries older than Christianity or Islam, Judaism has only 14 million adherents. If ANY religion truly is THE right one, I don't believe the competition would have survived this long.

Given all this . . . how are we supposed to decide which religion, if any, is right? The first one? The biggest one? The most sophisticated one? The most realistic one? The competition reduces our choice to a roll of the dice. And why would we go to hell for choosing the wrong one? It's ridiculous. Can God really be so sadistic? And if so, why would you worship him?

No . . .

NO religion can be valid if God exists AND is good. Any entity who could create the universe, would not be so petty as to set up his "intelligent" beings for condemnation. Why would the Creator give us free choice, only to confuse the choice of Creator? I say that if God exists, ALL religions are heretical. If God is good, we wouldn't be killing each other in His name. In the paraphrased words of Stephen Roberts:

"I contend that we are both anti-religion. I just believe in one fewer religion than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible religions, you will understand why I dismiss yours."

Oh yes . . . and forget about "Original Sin". It's the biggest lie in the Bible and the foundation of other lies. I am no more accountable for Eve than I am for Hillary Clinton or for you.

I believe God could, or might, exist; but I'm certain that NO religion is valid.

P.S.
It was Noah, not Moses, that built the ark.
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:-)
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Answer 2

Yes, I do believe in God. People say that the big bang created the earth and the right ingredients and everything just happended to be there to create an earth and everything just happened to react the right way to create complex human beings that can reason and see and hear, and that crap we can do.
If you really want to know, pick up a bible. Genesis, the first book, tells about the creation, and after that there are some pretty cool stories in it. Yes there are boring ones too. Also, you could go to church. If you find a good one, the stories can be very interesting and good and if the pastor is good he can make you laugh throughout it.
I am a freshman in high school too, and knowing that I have God to carry me through my struggles is a great comfort cause high school is pretty dang scary sometimes.
And too, think about it... do you want to go to heaven when you die and be happy, or go to hell with the rest of the non believers?
And too, if you look back on ur life, things that didn't go ur way, fit together like a puzzle and you can see how you got where you are today and how you have what you do.
And I have been going to church since i was 5, and the guy with the over 40 reasons why he doesn't believe has a lot of reasons that are wrong.
A walk with God is a lot more comforting than a walk through this world by yourself. And if a 14 year-old can say that, that should mean something. I love to go to church and learn more about my God, my father, and my creator.

Answer 3

The Bible doesn't explain much about what it means by God. It's full of stories that don't matter much, but it offers something old and venerated to people looking for meaning in our rather shabby culture and society that's hell bend on materialism. Even the Bible is a rather shabby book to believe.

A Buddist might ask you why you are asking this question. Which is like asking "who are you." I think turning your questions around from looking outside of you to looking inwardly is what religions are getting people to do. Religion is a game of "salvation." When you question that game, you're moving up to the highest game called "The Master Game" of getting englightened. That game is the only real game which is what life is all about and why you are here, To know yourself is what you really are asking for, and you are actually God in the disguise of being you. It requires practicing yogas and mediation for a long time, that is if you don't have a Perfect Master who can take you to life's goal in a flash of a second.

Answer 4

Yes, I do believe there is a God. If you feel the story wasn't just alegorical (they are finding evidence of a massive local flood in the area where Noah was supposed to have been) Noah was able to round up every animal in the KNOWN world, not every animal on earth. With God's help, he wouldn't have had any trouble at all, senior citizen or not. As for the people who say it's a mythology like any other, show me a mythology that has had as long a dedicated following as God has had (Jews and Christians).

The #1 reason I have for believing in a God is mere existence. Even if the universe was created via a big bang (something I believe) the stuff in it had to come from somewhere.

Answer 5

The Christian God was very careful to prove himself when he had the Bible written. He wanted to make sure you would recognize him as God when he set his plan of salvation into effect. What he did is predict the future. No person on earth, no medium or psychic, can claim the accurate prediction rate of God. God gave times, people's names, and place names so we can check out history and verify his work. He even gave us the name of a historical figure centuries before the fact!
Now if you wanted everyone to know that you, as God, was going to appear as a human being, you would explain what you were like so you would be recognized. You would put in the city of your birth, where you grew up, what kinds of deeds you would do, your temperament, your purpose, even how you would die.
God did all that in the Old Testament. It was all in written form four hundred years before Jesus' birth. The New Testament gospels follow Jesus and point out some of the places where He fulfilled the prophecies.
If you haven't been exposed to biblical prophecy, before, let me give you several examples.

Daniel recounts in chapter eleven of his book of having received knowledge of future events. Written in the 6th century B.C., Daniel gives us an accurate description of events winding down to 199-198 B.C. He foresaw Alexander the Great's kingdom split up into four factions. The prophecy predicts details of the conflict between the Ptolemy and Seleucid dynasties. Skeptics cannot believe the account was written before 164 B.C. Unlike Nostradamus' cryptic writings, Daniel chapter eleven describes plain schemes and conquests that are easily followed by the student of history.
Can you name the next president of the United States just two years ahead of time? Can you guess what name a friend will come up with for her new baby barely nine months into the future? No? Well, how about naming a king who will not appear for another 150 years, and name his nation? The prophet Isaiah did just that. In 44:28-45:1 God tells us that Cyrus, king of Persia, will decree regarding Jerusalem, "You shall be built," and regarding the temple, "Your foundation shall be laid." In 2 Chronicles 36:22-Ezra 1:1-3 we find that Cyrus did indeed come to power and called the Jews to return to Israel and rebuild Jerusalem.
Can you predict when the Messiah (God's chosen one) will appear in the world? Daniel 9:24-25 tells us that the Messiah would die 483 Hebrew years after "the going forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem." Neh. 2:1-8 tells us that King Artaxerxes issued that decree (March 5, 444 B.C.). 483 prophetic years (360 days to a year in the calendar of the ancient world) and seven days later, Jesus the Messiah was crucified.

How could a prophet accurately predict the dismantling of a world empire hundreds of years beforehand? How could a prophet give us the name, nation, and decree over a hundred years prior to the king's birth? How could a man foretell to the year the life and death of Jesus unless he really heard the voice of God? (I can't even predict which shirt I'll wear tomorrow.) These are only a small sample of prophecy in the Bible. One quarter of the Bible is prophecy. Several archaeological discoveries have verified these and many other accounts. God has proven his existence wonderfully.

Answer 6

Where would we be with-out God? I am sure you believe in evolution, but if you look at evolution and the creation story from the bible, it all could have happened. Do we know what actually happend? No. Do I believe it? Yes. Its a matter of opinion. I respect yours and hopefully you respect mine, but God has played a tremendous role in my life. He has done things that would seem to be a coincidence. Now about the Moses story, times have changed. For one, he was a strong worker, and back in the day when there wasn't carbon monoxide as much as it is today, they would've had a larger lifespan. I hope I helped. Peace. Drew

Answer 7

Yes, I believe. Cant say why--I just know. Moses was a young man who was kicked out of Egypt for killing an Egyptian in anger. Noah was the man on the ark with the pairs of animals (I dont believe that ridiculous story).

Answer 8

I don't believe in the bible for the same reasons, but that doesn't mean there is no possibility that a diety could exist. Heaven and hell are not making sense to me, reincarnation sounds way more logical (a fair and good God wouldn't send a human to eternal pain after 70-100 years of sinning)

Answer 9

Well I basically believe in God because I experienced him myself. I don't care what anyone says. I've witnessed someone who barely even knew me tell me that people feel safe and comfortable around me. And NO, the man was not a psychologist. and it was true. I polled all my friends on it and they ageed. I was quite astonished. I previously already believed but It just strengthened it. God is amazing. plus all you people who don't even know the background on God should really read about him in the bible.

Answer 10

Britt...That was Noah, sweetheart. But I agree with you, The bible is full of fantasy stories...much like mythology.

FYI: Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt.