Do you believe in God?

Question

Tell me why or why not. I'm curious.

If you don't believe in God what do you believe in?

Answer 1

No I believe in Tao and that's not a god.

Answer 2

yes i think it is apparent read Romans 1
god has revealed himself to us through his creation. All scientists believe that the Universe has a finite age, if the Universe has a finite age then it can't have an infinite amount of regression of causes to bring it to this point pretty much what that means is something had to cause the big bang. Something can't form from nothing. Also for people who like evolution there are too many irreducibly complex systems in biology to account for that. Irreducibly complex means that there is a biological system that if one piece doesn't function then the whole system won't function and evolution only keeps things that help it be the fittest and survive the best and reproduce the most, thus if something can't be reduced by small minute changes then evolution can't account for it. You can take the human immunity system, how can 3 chambered hearts turn into 4 chambered hearts becasue if it is not perfect then the system dies so it has to be one complete mutation that causes that and evolutionist would not say that was the case.
Also the Gsopels are the most historically accurate books in History, look at the Gospel of Luke who was a very descriptive writer and spoke of much history. Tehre has been many times that people have refuted that book becasue a certain leader was not around during that time only to find later that with more discoveries it only points to the accuracy of the Gospel.
Also objective morality, anyone that says that God doesn't exsist and says something is wrong has contradicted themselves because with out God all morality is subjective and what is right for you may be wrong for something else and there is no such thing as a universal wrong. Morality would have been formed through evolution and we would not be bound to it because it was only a process that created it. However history has proven that all men believe that certain things are wrong and that comes from the Law of God written on our hearts which is in the scripture (sorry i am not sure the verse).
I pray that anyone who denies the existence of God will truly look within themselves and search for unbiased truth.

Answer 3

Yes without a doubt. I believe in God because I believe this universe is way to beautiful and amazing just to be made of nothing! I believe the Earth and everything and everyone in it had to be Created NOT evolved. I believe in miracles NOT just coincidences or good luck. Jesus fulfilled over 300 prophecies while he was here on Earth that would be next to impossible for any other man to do! Without God in my life I would be lost and afraid of dying. With God in my life I know that I am not going to die but I am going to live forever with him in Heaven!!!

May God be with you!!!!

Answer 4

Yes. Unlike the secularists, I do believe that there is a higher power that created all that exists; science is only man's small attempt to figure out how God accomplished it. I don't believe that the miracle of life happened by chance. I also strongly suspect that religions were created by people over the ages because the cosmic truth is that there is a primeval memory of God, and these were their attempts is re-establish contact with Him. I accept that Jesus is the Son of God and that He was sent to create the path to reunion.

Answer 5

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don

Answer 6

No, I don't believe in any gods. There basically is no evidence for any of them.

Consider this, Xians, Muslims and Jews are atheists to all gods but one. Many other believers will, or did, believe in multiple gods etc.

Answer 7

I do believe in God, because it makes all the sense. Especially his plans for the earth & humanity--putting everything back in a perfect state, in such a way that it can never be 'undone'!

"The God of the Bible"
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/lmn/article_04.htm

Answer 8

In facing questions like "Does god exist" it is important on the one hand to distinguish between "what has to exist" (sometimes called "necessity"), and what is "in need of an explanation" on the other hand. Somethings need an explanation while some things do not. For example, there is a formula for solving quadratic equations, which every high school student learns in algebra. On the other hand, first year students learn to prove that there are no integers, say "p" and "q", such that p divided by q equals the square root of 2. It follows from this that if god were to exist god could not find two such integers, either. This lack of a pair of integers is a necessary feature of algebra; that is to say, it is necessarily true once one discovers algebra. Does it make sense for someone say, "Well, do you have any evidence that there aren't integers, say "p" and "q", such that p divided by q equals the square root of 2?" Well, no, there is no "evidence." Indeed, it doesn't really make sense even to ask for evidence: the assertion that there are no such integers is true because it is necessary. This is a product of how one works through the questions arising from thinking algebraically.

We know, though, that there are lots of situations where asking for evidence, in other words asking for an explanation, makes good sense. Physics, chemistry, biology, botany and astronomy offer many good cases in point. It makes sense to ask, for example, "Why does the DNA in my mitochondria come only from my mother and not my father?" There is something very different about this question than the questions about algebra; biology questions, for example, seem to be the kind where providing evidence seems warranted. Physicists, too, are bent on providing explanations of this latter sort, and they are careful when they meet questions of the former sort not to confuse the two. So, for example, good physicists will happily assert that everything we see around us is subject to needing an explanation: people, trees, water, the solar system, galaxies, volcanic sand, bacteria, states of mind; all of these stand in reference to this latter sort of questioning: "Why are things this way and not some other way?" This happens in the Astronomy section of Y!A all the time. "Why is the sky blue", "What color are neutron stars," "Does the universe have an edge," "Why is the moon round," show up with astonishing regularity! So, why is the sky blue and not red? Why are all large solid bodies roughly spherical in shape? Why is the sun yellowish? Why is the solar system stable over long periods of time?

Moving on, care needs to be taken when lumping individual items together into systems and then asking questions about the whole system because not every attribute of a part of a system is an attribute of the whole system. Attributes of a planet, say, may or may not become an attribute of a solar system. It is not always clear how explaining the parts of a system explains the whole system. For example, no good physicist would assert that a wall made of small bricks was, therefore, a small wall; but it would still be a brick wall. A pile of $10.00 bills on a table isn't an "empty" pile when the money is spent. None of us would assert --except as a joke-- that the world is littered with empty piles of $10.00 dollar bills. So, it makes sense to ask "How did this pile of $10.00 dollar bills get here" without the answer being "Well, the pile was always here, it just has $10.00 dollar bills now, whereas before it was just an empty pile." The pile itself is susceptible to the same sort of questioning that the sky is, that the solar system is, that my DNA is. This, as will be seen in a moment, is the "god" question: what explains this pile of stars, galaxies, dust, dark matter and dark energy: the universe as a whole?

At each step in this process of asking questions we are asking for a set of reasons --sometimes those reason give evidence and sometime they do not-- which give us some explanation for what we see. When do we ever stop asking for an explanation or for evidence? When we cite reasons which are perforce necessary. For example, there is no equation from which one can derive the positions of the planets of our solar system. This is called, in the parlance of mathematicians, the "n-body" problem. If the solar system were composed of exactly two bodies which were themselves perfectly rigid spheres, and if they are reasonably small and at a great distance from each other, then there is such an equation which was derived by Newton. But when the number of bodies is greater than 2 then no such formula exists. There are *numeric* solutions generated by computers which can be quite good over long spans of time; but there is no general solution. No physicist searches for one; what's the point? Likewise, absolute zero is what it is. Occasionally on Y!A physics, one sees the question "can something get colder than absolute zero?" Asking that question makes clear that the person asking does not understand what "absolute zero" means, no why it follows from the way one thinks in the process of discovering physics. Both Absolute Zero and having no solution to the n-body problem are "necessary" features of physics. There is no going beyond them, it makes no sense to ask "What happens when you get colder than Absolute Zero?"

So, when one faces everything that physicists, biologists, psychologists, chemists, geologists and astronomers have discovered it does indeed make sense to ask, "Is there a reason for everything?" "What explains the universe as a whole?" One can, of course, choose not to face these questions, one can minimized these questions, one can dismiss these questions, but those are personal issues of integrity; yet as the discussion shows these questions still makes sense to ask; and to answer. So, what is the answer?

The answer to these questions is what Muslims, Jews, Christians, Taoists, Wiccans, and the like refer to when they use the term "god." As a consequence, there is no "evidence" for god, nor does god need further explanation. Quadratic equations have a general formula for their solution, the n-body problem is not solvable, light speed is absolute, god is the answer to a particular question and there is no "going beyond" these. There is no good way to answer the question, "Well, can you give me some evidence that there is no explicit formula for the n-body problem?" It follows from a whole way of thinking about algebra that it is so. The same is true for god. As I pointed out, god is the answer to, god follows from, a whole system of questioning.

HTH

Charles

Answer 9

Yes, without faith there is no point in this world. I just wish God believed in me and would lighten my load a bit!

Answer 10

I know God exists from my own direct, personal experience. I can feel God's presence even now.

~ Eric Putkonen