do you believe in God?

Question

are you christian, jewish, muslim, hindu ect.....

Answer 1

Nope.

Agnostic.

Here's why . . .

. . . The odds of God's existence are so improbable that he can be considered imaginary.

The way I see it, neither God nor the physical universe simply materialized out of nothing. Conceding the possibility of God means one of three things:

1. God has always existed and is the creator of the universe

2. The physical universe has always existed and God is imaginary

3. Both God and the physical universe have always existed

As difficult as it is to imagine an eternal ANYTHING, imagining two of them is MORE difficult. We know and can prove the physical universe exists . . . but we don't know nor can we prove that God exists. Options 1 and 3 are more complex than option 2 because we would need to explain God as well as the physical universe -- we would have two mysteries instead of one. Injecting God into the question unnecessarily complicates it: particularly when there's no evidence for him in the first place. None of this explains where ANYTHING came from; that question is not answerable (yet).

Now, consider that, fading back into prehistory, mankind, no matter where it established itself, has created countless gods. This is an indisputable fact, so we KNOW that man creates gods and that he does so prolifically and with ease. Next, consider the opposite, that a creator God created man. There is no direct evidence of ANY kind for this proposition. Modern man has more reasonable and logical explanations for our existence and they don't include God. We've proven evolution is a fact but haven't yet proven abiogenesis. However, there's mounting evidence pointing to abiogenesis as the electro-chemical origin of life on earth. Contrast this to the evidence for the existence of God, which, after thousands of years, still stands at zero.

This raises the problem of the supernatural. Until the 20th century, man was never able to explain the natural world with any confidence, so he invented the supernatural world to provide answers that were otherwise beyond his grasp. These answers evolved into self-reinforcing systems called "religions". Nobody disputes the power of the human imagination: it has filled the void for us as long as we've existed. Religions held us together and got us through dark and treacherous times. But we don't need them any more. The purpose they served has evaporated – at least for many of us.

Human knowledge and understanding has grown from nothing to its current state. We may be a long way from knowing everything but we've made enough progress to abandon superstitious beliefs in the supernatural. We're on the verge of unifying the laws of the physical universe. We've decoded the human genome; cloned various animals (including primates); put man on the moon, rovers on Mars and sent probes throughout the solar system and beyond. Knowledge is pushing imagination out of the void at an exponential rate.

If there is a God, who says he needs or wants to be worshiped? If he did, wouldn't there only be one religion . . . and wouldn't that religion be pure and incorruptible? The world has seen enough of religion to know something has to be amiss. You simply can't ignore their track records. Just turn on the news for crying out loud! Our world's religions are not the creation of any God worthy of worship.

Answer 2

I am a muslim Yes I believe in god(allah). The thing is that 3000 years ago when the prophets that was sent by god to this world showed people that praying to a statue can not do anything because it can't even talk and it is made out of dirt. When the prophets came and reveled islam they taught people to respect mother and wives, brothers, and sisters mainly the whole family and peers,adult and elders should be respected no matter what, he also taught that god is one, he have no mother, father,brother,sister wive and he is not born from no one and he was not created he existed with out life he don't eat or sleep. In the bible they call jesus a god he is not a god because god does not go to sleep or eat and does not go to the restroom so that is false but in islam jesus is a prophets. He also taught people to give charatie to the poor people and to repect the poor people and provide assistance for them. he also taught what was in the universe for examples at that time people thought that the earth was a flat surfaces the prophet with no high technology and tele scopes space rocket said that this world is like a round ball. Then he explaned the 9 planets that nobody ever seen or could had seen it show's that a high power does that that can see from above and around. The reason why you cant see god is because people need faith and to be strong god say's in the holy quarn that when the day of judgements come people will be shaking earth quakes, volocano's will erupts the sky will fall because of the horror of that day and the only people that will see god is the people that had faith in him and that did every thing that was asked of him in the holy quarn will see god in only milli seconds because god is so powerful the person that see god will drop there for day's once he woke up he won't remember nothing and in this world right know there is no chance people will see god like with no faith and no good deeds. if you read the holy quarn you will find out why i believe in god. There is no way these people can say that they don't believe in god and if a scientist say's that there is no god and that this universe existed with out god asked him where did the first cell of life came from we know that cell's create other cell's but where did the first one came from. he have no answer because he know that god created it.
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Answer 3

I have no preference since there is no primary source that proves or disproves the existence of God. And the only secondary source that tells of Jesus does so in a suspect context, thereby jeopardying its validity. What I mean is that the secondary source mentioned Jesus in one line, and it was against the main topic of the text, leading many to believe a Christian inserted the sentence later.

Answer 4

Yes as a true Christian I believe in God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.

Answer 5

Used to be a Christian for 21 years then I saw the truth and I apologize but I now question God

Answer 6

Umm properly i've got self assurance interior the ineffective of night God and Goddess, they dont relatively care if I make errors....as long as I dont reason harm to nature, which i might never do because of the fact i'm vegetarian and that i admire the Earth =)

Answer 7

Yes I believe in God, like I believe in Love. I, however, believe that dogma is ruining many good religions and what they have to offer humanity and their struggle to find God.

Answer 8

No, I am agnostic. Unless gods existence can be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, only then will I believe.
The bible is a book of stories and contradicts evolution.

Answer 9

YES! I do not think it is the religious sect, but the actual
teaching, and actions of the church in question that makes it
a place that God would accept.

Answer 10

not the Christian Version. i'm Pagan so, i believe in many Gods and Goddesses. and really, religion is a man made device to try and categorise something so vast we fear it. i claim Pagan- Wiccan, i choose this because it comforts me. the universe is sentient sort of. i choose to worship that life force that it contains, that it is.

Answer 11

Yes, by direct experience. However, I do not believe in everything that is said about God by others.