The Existence of God: Please participate!

[Thanh]

Hi everyone.
I am currently in year 9 and i'm involved in a project about the existence of God. The project is to ask a carefully considered theist to explain the reasons for their beliefs. It would be great if you would explain each point as well

Thanks, Thanh.

 

[Doc]

I do not particularly rest my entire faith on one particular religion. I hold most of my beliefs from Franciscan Catholicism and Buddhism. I believe in God for several reasons. One is when I did not believe in him once, I felt always anxious and lonely. I did not feel much purpose in my life. I began acting differently and a little more dangerously. It was not until I helped feed the poor on a Thanksgiving morning that I felt God's presence in me. Believing in Jesus Christ and/or God gives me fullfillment. The closer I come to God, the clearer my life's path is and where I am heading.

 

[The Voice of Reason]

That is a great answer, Doc. I'm going to watch this thread fairly closely, and I have to say that your reliance on revealed faith is a breath of fresh air.

TVOR

 

[cardero]

Hi Thanh and welcome to Religious Forums. I believe in GOD because I met him/her.

 

[Zionic86]

*****MOD EDIT*****
Watch the language and the attitude, please. Also, you're way off topic... this is a discussion about why someone believes in god, not a debate about it. If you don't believe, don't participate.

 

[Doc]

Zionic, I heald a fairly high respect for you earlier after reading some of your posts. I now assume that I have been greatly deceieved. There was no need to call anyone that. The question was why certain people believe in God. And whether I knew about every molecule around me, it would not change my faith in God. I believed at first that this thread would be an inspirational one and a nice place to reflect on our own as well as on other's beliefs. I guess not anymore.

 

[fromthe heart]

Zionic, I heald a fairly high respect for you earlier after reading some of your posts. I now assume that I have been greatly deceieved. There was no need to call anyone that. The question was why certain people believe in God. And whether I knew about every molecule around me, it would not change my faith in God. I believed at first that this thread would be an inspirational one and a nice place to reflect on our own as well as on other's beliefs. I guess not anymore.

I have to agree with you Doc but I still feel it's nice to hear what the rest of the forum thinks...perhaps they will all share and we can all reflect on why we believe as we do. I believe in God because for some time I spent away from Him I felt such an emptiness inside it was just awful...God yanked me back in line and the lonely feelings and emptiness went away. I think a lot of undue stress comes from the lack of God in ones life. You see things in a new light with God...it truely is incredible!

 

[The Voice of Reason]

Zionic86 -

I can only imagine what you were trying to say in your diatribe, but I can assure you that if you maintain that tone, you will not be with us here at ReligiousForums for very long.
If you disagree with a statement or post that has been put forth, please feel free to challenge the person on his or her statement - but please try to keep the tone of your challenge civil. Being rude serves no end, and it doesn't have a very long life here.

Also, I don't believe this is a debate forum, rather, this thread is in a discussion forum. Ergo, the subject is not open for debate, only discussion.


Doc -
I wouldn't take his attack to heart. Perhaps he has a point to make, and hopefully, he will choose his words more wisely in the future.


Thanks,
TVOR

 

[Doc]

None was taken.

 

[Watcher]

Well, erm......okay then.... Welcome to the forum Thanh! And quite a warm welcome that was! I see your post was on the 5th of December, are you still interested now?

 

[Pah]

My displeasure with Zionic86's two posts earned him a reported post and negative frubals (not all those are mine - but a healthy dose is). I wish I was returned from moderator retirement so I could more.

Bob

 

[skyglass]

Hi everyone.
I am currently in year 9 and i'm involved in a project about the existence of God. The project is to ask a carefully considered theist to explain the reasons for their beliefs. It would be great if you would explain each point as well


When I was a child I reasoned that their was a God. It was a very simplistic view but it served me well until I came to know God in a meaningful way.

This was my reasoning. I reasoned that I had nothing to lose by believing in God. If God existed I had a chance of going to heaven when I died because I believed in Him. If he did not exist, then it wouldn't matter. If I did not believe in Him, and when I died I found out that He exist, then my chances of going to heaven would be slim.

 

[robtex]

zionic if you are going to state theories list sources.

 

[robtex]

That is obvious...unless you are a micro biologist dont waste our time with unsubstaniated cell theories.

 

[Zionic86]

sorry about the negative post i was not in the appropriate state of mind to talk about the subject and i do regret it.

 

[Doc]

Frubals for the kind hearted! Thank you.

 

[Thanh]

Hello every1. I appreciate ur many replies and thank you all. With this thread being so long without replies i tried a different approach. I would have loved analysing all your views for my project but time was a limit.

Sorry i having been on for long

Many thanks, Thanh.

 

[Thanh]

Please don't stop posting. It is very interesting reading these views!

 

[Master Vigil]

Although I am not really technically a "theist", here is my argument for "god."

Infinite regress is not possible. There has to be a beginning. We can follow science back as far as it can take us, to the first amino acid that formed somewhere in the universe, to the big bang or whatever, and to what caused the big bang, and further back to what caused that and what caused that etc... I believe there is something at the very beginning. I don't believe it is the judeo christian idea of god. But there is definitely something. And there is a connectedness throughout the universe that needs to be noticed. A oneness one might say. This I see as tao. The way of life and death. The way of nature. That to me is Tao.

 

[robtex]

MV you just made St. Thomas Aquinas's first mover arguement. Have you ever read it before?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Thomas_Aquinas