Do you believe in God ?

[Kyanimal]

All of this has further affirmed my perspective that we were not created in God's Image as much as "He"/"Her"/"They" were created in Our Image by, and for, Us!

 

[Jacquemar]

A bit of background to illuminate where I'm coming from ...

I'm the first male, in about 5 generations of my family, that did not go into "The Church". I'm descended from Quaker, and Methodist, ministers. I was raised with Religion being the core of my Life.

I was lucky that wasn't exclusionary. I was encouraged to study, and discover, the different perspectives of all Religions. The surprising thing about that? All religions, at their Core, are basically the same. Humans struggling to understand their existence in relation to the world around them.

We are not as much a creation of "God", or "The Gods", as they are Our creation.

Do I believe there is a "Higher Being" watching over us? Um ... no.

However, I do believe in a "Higher Power", which is All of "Us", the animals, plants, and minerals, of this planet, as a collective. Together, everything interacts with everything else, which can promote certain outcomes while discarding others.

That might be described as the "Mob" mentality, spinning events, and outcomes, on a grand scale, which impacts our individual experiences, and abilities to influence what occurs around/to us.

Does "God" exist? Yep! Thing is, WE are "Him"!

All the more reasons to ... And, I'm quite Serious about this ... No Matter What ...

Keep Smilin'!!
Chaz

You would have gotten along very well with many of the Stoics. I actually like some of the Stoics.

 

[KölnElch]

If we are flexible with the term "god", yes, I believe in god, as I feel it.

I'm pretty much with what Kyanimal said, god is in all of us, we are god. It's a universal energy that keeps everyone and everything connected (in my belief, also after the current physical life). I always compare it to a mushroom, where the souls are individual on the surface, but on a different dimension, it's all connected like highways with energetic traffic.

In my belief, there can't be love without god, because god provides the necessary energy to love. Love is a spiritual flow between souls. This is why I would have issues with dating an atheist, because to me it's hard to grasp how atheists can love, even though in their / your concept it must be considered irrational. In a logical consequence, an atheist surely must deny a spiritual connection between him and the one(s) he loves? With such a different understanding of love, I'd find it hard to imagine a relationship where one is atheist and the other believing.

Btw, I heavily reject assumptions that people who believe in god are necessarily religious. I don't believe in Jesus. I don't believe in what the bible says. I am against religious rules. My god doesn't judge in the way the christian god does. My god doesn't make rules.

So please, if you can, challenge your idea that "people who believe in god" must automatically be religious. There are worlds between atheism and religion (literally).

 

[Telstra]

If we are flexible with the term "god", yes, I believe in god, as I feel it.

I'm pretty much with what Kyanimal said, god is in all of us, we are god. It's a universal energy that keeps everyone and everything connected (in my belief, also after the current physical life). I always compare it to a mushroom, where the souls are individual on the surface, but on a different dimension, it's all connected like highways with energetic traffic.

In my belief, there can't be love without god, because god provides the necessary energy to love. Love is a spiritual flow between souls. This is why I would have issues with dating an atheist, because to me it's hard to grasp how atheists can love, even though in their / your concept it must be considered irrational. In a logical consequence, an atheist surely must deny a spiritual connection between him and the one(s) he loves? With such a different understanding of love, I'd find it hard to imagine a relationship where one is atheist and the other believing.

Btw, I heavily reject assumptions that people who believe in god are necessarily religious. I don't believe in Jesus. I don't believe in what the bible says. I am against religious rules. My god doesn't judge in the way the christian god does. My god doesn't make rules.

So please, if you can, challenge your idea that "people who believe in god" must automatically be religious. There are worlds between atheism and religion (literally).

"God" always meant it is from the 3 abrahamic religions.
But your god is really "spiritual self" thing which everyone has including atheist.

 

[IrishGuy32]

No, but I sometimes envy those who do.

 

[EMT2410]

This is an interesting question for me because my answer is yes and no. When it comes to the traditional sense of god, i dont really believe in him. But I look at god a different way. If you think about what god is, he is a creator and a destroyer. That is the essence of god. What are humans and animals? They are creators and destroyers. So in my opinion I believe everyone is god so yes i do believe in god because I believe in people and that i am seeing people.

 

[Jacquemar]

What I don't believe in are the anthropomorphic gods of the famous "world religions." There are some other vague and sometimes mystical deities that I think may possibly exist in some way, e.g. Plotinus' "The One,"; But I wouldn't bet my lunch money on it.

 

[windsors]

That would be a simple YES.

 

[Benvolio]

No, but I keep an open mind. Until we figure out where it all came from, who knows? The big bang sounds a lot like creation, does it not. And, if there are parallel universes and other dimensions, who knows what is over there.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

I'm not sure. I try to go to church on Sundays.

 

[Jacquemar]

No, but I keep an open mind. Until we figure out where it all came from, who knows? The big bang sounds a lot like creation, does it not. And, if there are parallel universes and other dimensions, who knows what is over there.

Ummm... not really... have you tried reading Hawking's last book?

 

[ludolfo]

I believe in the Goddess because I can see and feel her

 

[NotHardUp1]

And it's entirely impossible to walk on water if you're too dense.

 

[kallipolis]

And it's entirely impossible to walk on water if you're too dense.

Density is always, relative

 

[Telstra]

And it's entirely impossible to walk on water if you're too dense.

What do you mean? yea Heeey
What do you mean?

 

[tarallucci]

Do you believe in God ?

I'm not sure.

I see the bad things in this world and I say there is no God, then I look at the trees, the mountains and the chubby bottoms and say Oh God!

I hope he's there, sometimes I say some random prayers too

 

[ludolfo]

I'm not sure.

I see the bad things in this world and I say there is no God, then I look at the trees, the mountains and the chubby bottoms and say Oh God!

I hope he's there, sometimes I say some random prayers too

But are you not in thinking that pre-suming the patriarchal 'God' who hovers above nature? IE isn't you image of God limited?
it is more what you say in last part is where I am. The sense of awae in nature, and you go 'OMG!!' so it more of an ecstatic feeling and utterance

 

[tarallucci]

But are you not in thinking that pre-suming the patriarchal 'God' who hovers above nature? IE isn't you image of God limited?
it is more what you say in last part is where I am. The sense of awae in nature, and you go 'OMG!!' so it more of an ecstatic feeling and utterance

My uncertainty derives just from the fact that I've had opposite feelings to the feelings of awe. I have no idea about the shape of God... hopefully he's overweight

 

[ludolfo]

we cant be in awe all the time. That would not make sense because we couldn't contract it with another feeling. this is where the dualistic go---they make out that there can be a static reality of all-goodness, all-light, all-bliss
you need darkness to see the moon, and the stars

 

[tarallucci]

we cant be in awe all the time. That would not make sense because we couldn't contract it with another feeling. this is where the dualistic go---they make out that there can be a static reality of all-goodness, all-light, all-bliss
you need darkness to see the moon, and the stars

True that we need that sort of "friction" otherwise everything would be too easy and senseless, but on the other hand can we state that evil is necessary?