Do you believe in God ?

[newspaper_love]

no, its something made up to make us feel good about dying also a way of chastising the community ..." do what we say or you're going to hell" etc

 

[cityboy-stl]

There is just one thing that would instill more belief in God than anything else. That one thing is credible, unambiguous evidence that what we are asked to believe in is actually real and true.

 

[TX-Beau]

There is just one thing that would instill more belief in God than anything else. That one thing is credible, unambiguous evidence that what we are asked to believe in is actually real and true.

Religion has literally thousands of years of practice at avoiding that point. Good luck.

 

[Rickrock]

The Bible says that God said "let there be light" and then God continued his creation by making fishes in the sea, and then birds in the air, and then animals on land. Science says that it began with the Big Bang and then, through evolution and Mother Nature, there were fishes in the sea and birds in the air and animals on land in the same order as in the Bible. The Big Bang would create light. It looks to me like it is the same story from a different perspective and that science is saying that God used the tools of evolution and Mother Nature in his creation. I believe that God is an energy force for good. Artists have portrayed him as a benevolent patriarch with a beard. He is not an old man with a beard, but that is as good a way as any to portray a picture of him since how would they portray an energy force for good?

 

[TX-Beau]

The Bible says that God said "let there be light" and then God continued his creation by making fishes in the sea, and then birds in the air, and then animals on land. Science says that it began with the Big Bang and then, through evolution and Mother Nature, there were fishes in the sea and birds in the air and animals on land in the same order as in the Bible. The Big Bang would create light. It looks to me like it is the same story from a different perspective and that science is saying that God used the tools of evolution and Mother Nature in his creation. I believe that God is an energy force for good. Artists have portrayed him as a benevolent patriarch with a beard. He is not an old man with a beard, but that is as good a way as any to portray a picture of him since how would they portray an energy force for good?

Yeah, no, there is no similarity unless you go looking for one. If you use Christian mythology you are stuck with Vhrostian rules. Better strike out on your own than try to justify that with modern scientific theory, which the scientist will tell you is not sure anyway, and routinely re-evaluate.

Going your own way has more integrity than trying to explain their stories with something fundamentally opposed.

 

[newspaper_love]

Humans want to believe in God , we want to believe there is something else rather than be animals on a rocky world ... apparently we need to hope after death, we need a reason. We don't want to know we are just meat bags that rot after we die, we don't know that we are so small on the Earth's timeline, we are pointless ... The bible as we know it was writen hundreds of years after the events .. they were storys passed down by word, they were control over people .

 

[opinterph]

We don't want to know we are just meat bags that rot after we die, we don't know that we are so small on the Earth's timeline

Each human being is small on the timeline of the species; however, humankind continues after individual "meat bags" cease to be part of what is a potentially perpetual living humanity.

 

[FrodoTX]

The meaning of life..................Don't be a dick

 

[FrodoTX]

wow, I didn't know I was a philosopher!

 

[Franco Verum]

It would be weird if I didn't, I have a ministry.

 

[FrodoTX]

no. I don't need an imaginary friend to get me through life. And when I die I'm dead. Amen.

 

[frankifab]

I believe in GOD
but I don't believe in man - made religions that were crafted to control and dictate humans lives

 

[Franco Verum]

Religion has literally thousands of years of practice at avoiding that point. Good luck.

In the long run, it is better to believe in a God than not (Pascal's Wager).

 

[cityboy-stl]

In the long run, it is better to believe in empirical evidence, verifiable facts, and objective, credible and known truth. There is no reason any God, who in reality actually exists, should expect and present anything else. Otherwise, you go down all sorts of superstitious rabbit holes, believing irrational nonsense that cause nothing but conflict, contradictions, confusion, hypocrisy, and death.

 

[Franco Verum]

We aren't the sum of what we can prove. What animates these meat bags we exist in? And who created them that makes us distinctly different from one another? Not believing in God takes a greater faith than believing in one. Faith gives hope, superstition breeds fear, big difference.
And man does pretty good on his own with causing conflict, contradiction, confusion, hypocrisy, hate, and death in countless forms without believing in a God. It's interesting that what good man ever does in the physical world, he credits himself, what evil he does, he blames a God he can't see.

 

[phishy222]

I'm 63 and i've done enough psychedlics to be quite sure there is a higher power.

 

[FrodoTX]

No. Live your life, this is it.

 

[Franco Verum]

I'm 63 and i've done enough psychedlics to be quite sure there is a higher power.

There's enough scientific "hints" for a God (Fibonacci Sequence, Euler Equation, Anthropic Theory). What brought order from what should be chaos? Science now says there is the possibility that we live in a simulation, what they call the "Simulation Theory." It basically says that we are players in a game design someone made and we are bound by what the creater put in it (Mario can't "heal" Luigi in the game for an example, unless the game maker put in the game he can). It's the science of an outside game maker, but they won't call it "God." The real question is WHO is this God?

 

[Araucaria]

You seem to have taken on the assumption, common in much of traditional Christianity, that God is a creator, completely outside and separate from "his" creation. But what if what we call "God" is really the "soul" of the universe, completely and intimately intertwined in all that is? In other words, inseparable, that there is no separation between the "creator" and the "created," that they are in fact one and the same, acting and moving in unison?

 

[cityboy-stl]

There's enough scientific "hints" for a God (Fibonacci Sequence, Euler Equation, Anthropic Theory). What brought order from what should be chaos? Science now says there is the possibility that we live in a simulation, what they call the "Simulation Theory." It basically says that we are players in a game design someone made and we are bound by what the creater put in it (Mario can't "heal" Luigi in the game for an example, unless the game maker put in the game he can). It's the science of an outside game maker, but they won't call it "God." The real question is WHO is this God?

Why should there even be this question, "WHO is this God?". If God is supposedly all powerful and can do anything and everything; all knowing who knows everything and how to do everything; is ever present and everywhere present, why is there absolutely zero empirical, direct, unambiguous evidence for this God? Backing into it with circumstantial or coincidental explanations is not evidence. I mean seriously, show the fuck up and actually be real for once. It can't be that hard if he can create a whole universe.

And no, I do not believe we are a simulation. People need to stop thinking we're "The Matrix".