Is there a God?

[Silver]

Is there a God, :yes: or :no: ?

If :yes: how do you know there's a God?

if :no: how do you know there's no God?

I guess it all comes down to faith .

What gives you your faith? :help:

Silver

 

[sandandfoam]

God or not doesn't come down to faith it comes down to you.

I have faith because I do.

 

[Sunstone]

I guess it all comes down to faith .

Suppose someone asserts that they know there is a god because they have experienced god. Does that, too, come down to faith? And if so, does it come down to any more or any different faith than any claim to knowledge based on experience might come down to?

 

[Noaidi]

if :no: how do you know there's no God?

I don't know whether there is a god or not, but nothing has convinced me to accept the notion that there is one. If god does exist, it is in the form of an idea, rather than an actual entity.

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

As a Christian I have no doubt that Jesus existed.
Can I prove it.?... No

Jesus taught us about God. and how God wants us to live our lives.
Can I prove it.?... No

Is it Stupid to Believe in the unprovable?... May be, but I don't think so.

However, What Jesus taught Is the best path to follow that I know of...

If I and others follow what he taught the world will be a better place.

I believe Jesus... I believe in Jesus

Jesus believed That God is Love.

 

[fallingblood]

I'm a monist. I believe in god/s, but it is solely based on faith. I also deem my faith based belief to be irrational, but I don't have any problems with that as it hardly effects my life.

 

[joea]

Is there a God, :yes: or :no: ?

If :yes: how do you know there's a God?

if :no: how do you know there's no God?

I guess it all comes down to faith .

What gives you your faith? :help:

Silver

It is good when you ask such questions, perhaps to yourself; Only then you will have the opportunity to search. God cannot be described, because words fails to describe him. Faith is also useless in the search for God, faith is nothing but hope. People know God, not through belief, but through realization, experiencing it.

 

[YmirGF]

Is there a God, :yes: or :no: ?

Your beliefs on the matter govern your perception. In essence, our imagination will allow us to see whatever we strongly allow ourselves to believe.

If :yes: how do you know there's a God?

I've met my version of "god" and have since moved passed that limited vision. I no longer subscribe to any god concept, per se.

I guess it all comes down to faith .

Actually no, faith is for the blind. One you can see, you no longer require faith. Of course, one must continually ask themselves if they are being realistic or simply projection their expectations onto reality.

What gives you your faith? :help:

I have faith in my own abilities due to previous experience, though I recognize that could simply be my arrogance showing.

 

[Riverwolf]

Is there a God, :yes: or :no: ?

:yes: and :no:.

If :yes: how do you know there's a God?

Because I see inherent, unifying Divinity in all things.

if :no: how do you know there's no God?

Because there's no objective evidence for God.

I guess it all comes down to faith .

In a way.

What gives you your faith? :help:

[/quote]

The knowledge that it helps me grow.

 

[Smoke]

I guess it all comes down to faith .

Facepalm is right.

 

[ChristineES]

Is there a God, yes or no ?

If yes how do you know there's a God?

if no how do you know there's no God?

I guess it all comes down to faith .

What gives you your faith? :help:

Silver

If I say I know there's a God, then, in addition to being laughed at by certain individuals, I wouldn't being telling the absolute truth- since there is no proof. If I say I know there is no God, then I wouldn't be telling the truth, since there is no proof there isn't a God.
That means, there is no answer. :run:

 

[ManTimeForgot]

Answering the question in either Yes or No has no attributable relation to the truth value of anyone else's answer in either the affirmative or negative. Our individual conceptions of "God" differ widely from person to person, even between respective ideologies and religions.

I can state that I do indeed believe that there is something which amounts to "God" (though I reject the assertions that "God" is singular in existence, is an "entity," desires anything let alone worship, and I am still unclear what anyone means including myself about the nature and relationship between "God" and transcendence), but this does not preclude the existence of a singular cosmic overseer whose "job" it is to tend existence like a garden... And I believe what I do because it seems to me to make the most sense considering what I know about logic and the way the world works.

Faith is important, but I don't think that Faith in a cosmic overseer is what makes Faith important. Faith is important in and of itself. I think in a way we all have Faith in something or someone, and this is what helps us all get through each and every day in a world/universe/reality filled with unknowns and various foibles/antagonists. But I have serious problems with "invisible agents of causation micromanaging everyone's lives" (especially to the point of predestination).

MTF

 

[Twig pentagram]

Is there a God, :yes: or :no: ?

If :yes: how do you know there's a God?

if :no: how do you know there's no God?

I guess it all comes down to faith .

What gives you your faith? :help:

Silver

I think the uni/multi-verse is divine and we are the evolution of divinity.

 

[TheKnight]

I believe in God due to the following:

Part 1:
1. Things exist.
2. Because things exist, they either have an origin or they always existed.
3. I don't know of anything that has always existed.
Conclusion: Because I don't know of anything having always existed, and things exist, there must (at some point) be something that has always existed in order to give rise to the other things that exist. In other words, at some point there must be an eternal something (sentient or not) that gave rise to everything else (this is based off of the idea that nothing doesn't one day spontaneously becoming something. Because there is something, there must have always been something. Otherwise how could the jump have been made from nothing to something?).

Part 2:
1. I see that some things have origins.
2. Based on Part 1's conclusion, the thing that always existed must also be capable of causing the origins of other things (this is based off of the idea that one thing doesn't start simply because another thing exists unless the other existing thing had something to do with the starting).
3. I do not know of anything that has always existed and is also capable of causing the origins of other things.
4. So far as I know, science has also not been able to discover anything that has always existed and is also capable of causing other things to exist.
5. There are various religious theories presented to me, many of which do have descriptions of a something having always existed with the ability to cause the origins of other things.
6. I have looked into the various religious theories and concluded that Judaism is, perhaps, the most accurate description of reality that matches my observations of reality.

Hence, I believe in the teachings of Judaism and (hence) also believe in the God that Judaism says exists.

 

[Luminous]

Chapter 2 - Unknown God | Agnostic Universe

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Why is the question important?

 

[Storm]

Why is the question important?

Some people want to understand.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Some people want to understand.

Including me, but wants are not the same as capacity and the existence of god far from guarantees understanding or, perhaps more to the point, even the possibility of understanding.

 

[Storm]

Including me, but wants are not the same as capacity and the existence of god far from guarantees understanding or, perhaps more to the point, even the possibility of understanding.

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[Raithie]

I don't believe in God because I have absolutely no reason to believe that there is one. Just like I have no reason to believe Zeus or the other hundreds of man made gods and religions.

Absence of a belief isn't a belief.