Why do you need a god(s), God?

[wandering peacefully]

This is not a debate nor a fight about whose God(s), beliefs are the correct ones or The Truths or if any beliefs ar the truer than any other. This is a simple question and a chance for you to share your reason(s) for needing or not, a higher power in your life in order to survive or live a fruitful, productive, and/or meaningful life. Or a journey in between or a journey with no gods if you like.

Please do not argue with those who feel/believe/think differently than yourself. I will not be responding unless I have a real question to ask of a responder. Please explain your thoughts if you choose.

 

[Rival]

I don't need one I just happen to believe One exists.

 

[lostwanderingsoul]

I cannot imagine a universe where humans are the highest life form. Look at the stupid things humans do. There has got to be some higher power. That is God.

 

[osgart]

I would need a supernatural being to make the afterlife a worthy experience.
For a natural existing afterlife, where would you go and what would you able do? A God would rectify all matters.

 

[Kenny]

1) Just looking around me (the world) I guess for me I knew there was one
2) After the fact, I need Him to turn my life around. i was headed in a downward spiral.

 

[Vinayaka]

I don't need one I just happen to believe One exists.

That is true for me as well. The first 15 to 18 years of this life there was no God belief. I was happy, living a productive meaningful life. The experiences that allowed for a switch of belief have probably made all that slightly more productive and meaningful, but really who is to say, as I can't go back to not believing, and live it over over, for comparison.

It seems odd to draw meaning only from a belief in God, or not God. Meaning to life seems more than that.

 

[The Hammer]

This is not a debate nor a fight about whose God(s), beliefs are the correct ones or The Truths or if any beliefs ar the truer than any other. This is a simple question and a chance for you to share your reason(s) for needing or not, a higher power in your life in order to survive or live a fruitful, productive, and/or meaningful life. Or a journey in between or a journey with no gods if you like.

Please do not argue with those who feel/believe/think differently than yourself. I will not be responding unless I have a real question to ask of a responder. Please explain your thoughts if you choose.

Yeah, like @Rival said, I don't NEED the Gods, but I do believe in them. The reasoning being I have experienced Deities, my experience cannot be used to convince anyone else that my views are right, but they are right/work for me.

 

[Nakosis]

Generally I see it being used as an explanation for how we got here and why we are here.

For myself, I accept that there exists no answer to those two questions and I have no need for there to be one.

 

[sun rise]

The Divine is most present in love. Love is at the root of all that truly matters to me.

 

[sayak83]

This is not a debate nor a fight about whose God(s), beliefs are the correct ones or The Truths or if any beliefs ar the truer than any other. This is a simple question and a chance for you to share your reason(s) for needing or not, a higher power in your life in order to survive or live a fruitful, productive, and/or meaningful life. Or a journey in between or a journey with no gods if you like.

Please do not argue with those who feel/believe/think differently than yourself. I will not be responding unless I have a real question to ask of a responder. Please explain your thoughts if you choose.

I don't need a mountain. Just that... it's there... so.

 

[Thief]

we are assembled

we will disassemble

and all of this ends in dust?
I don't think so

 

[ecco]

Why would I want to believe in a mythical entity? As a young child, I outgrew my belief in Santa. Soon thereafter, I outgrew beliefs in other creations of man's imaginings.

 

[rational experiences]

I feel personal human emotions. I see acute suffering and wonder why when we live and share the exact same environmental conditions. I look and read my science brothers information about God the stone planet and our atmosphere.....so I say who needs that God information, it hurt us.

So I wonder at why I feel spiritually inclined...to want to believe but also disbelieve by conditions of observation. So I challenge spirit and asked it a question to prove itself if it wanted me to believe. And it did. And it advised me that it does not exist in creation, made the mistake named creation and when we die we still own one spirit that is named eternal. Why I believe in spirit and not God.

 

[Hellbound Serpiente]

I need God for the same reason an imperfect computer program needs a skilled Programmer --- Minimize the impact of it's imperfections and achieve a high quality of running.

Think about it this way, I have a dictionary opened right now in a new tab because my English is extremely weak. I am basically trying to find ways to write English sentences properly using dictionary. Without English dictionary, I won't be able to write, understand, read and such English properly due to my innate weaknesses and deficiencies. Same with God. I need God because I have many short-comings, weaknesses, deficiencies, human frailties among other imperfection and fatal flaws. I am basically trying to find ways to minimize, overcome and/or make up for all these inherent human frailties, short-comings, weaknesses, deficiencies through God [as God is devoid of all such and other imperfections]. Without God and His Perfection and His Power, i won't be able to have, be and/or do things without making mistakes due to my innate weaknesses and deficiencies.

I hope I made this post easy to understand because my English shucks. If someone wants question me and/or elaborate more, I'd be happy to do so

 

[Mock Turtle]

I don't know if there is such but I don't need anything like a god for my life and that of others to make any sense. I could equally look around and see that all could have been created, by some God, and even for the benefit of humans, but I don't, since I could probably find as many reasons not to see design or interference in what exists than for such. And I can see why so many also don't seem to require any gods in order to live purposely. On the other hand, I can see why so many do believe all the various things they believe in the spiritual and/or religious realm. Seems to me that personality often dictates as to which we might believe, and how we reconcile our beliefs (or lack of them) will also perhaps come from the ways we approach such issues. Myself, I am more comfortable with no answers than wrong answers.

 

[Twilight Hue]

It's an appeal to something bigger than themselves. Based on my experience and what I see, a god actually makes you feel like you're more in control of events and circumstances rather than accepting that these things essentially control us.

 

[DagonVarunaMitraApolloZan]

What I call God I need in order that I exist and furthermore breathe. I don't need to worship God except in an attempt to try to extend my life, just like I don't need to breathe air or drink water or eat from the Earth, but I do so in order to extend my life and improve my condition and better maintain it.

Worship is such an attempt as well, and who we worship is thought to be the provider and source and controller of our Being and Experience and the Space we seem to take, which includes the Air we Breathe In and Out, the Water we Drink in and Urinate Out, the Food from the Earth we eat and defecate out. We depend on The Ultimate Reality, but in the mind of many they imagine perhaps "God" refers to some cartoon monkey man in the sky, and so while they breathe in the air of the real God they imagine something else is what the word must refer to and say "We don't need God" as they take another breath of air without much thought and in denial of their total dependence on the absurd conditions set by the Power they depend on in order to enjoy their denial.

If anyone holds their breath long enough (and don't do it as it can cause you harn), you will See God and Understand perhaps what God is. Then maybe you will be afraid and grovel like I do.

 

[danieldemol]

This is not a debate nor a fight about whose God(s), beliefs are the correct ones or The Truths or if any beliefs ar the truer than any other. This is a simple question and a chance for you to share your reason(s) for needing or not, a higher power in your life in order to survive or live a fruitful, productive, and/or meaningful life. Or a journey in between or a journey with no gods if you like.

Please do not argue with those who feel/believe/think differently than yourself. I will not be responding unless I have a real question to ask of a responder. Please explain your thoughts if you choose.

I don’t need a God to survive or have a meaningful life, however I feel like I’m genetically predisposed to believe in God, so I believe in spite of not having a need to for survival/meaningful purposes.

 

[syo]

Imagine a world without gods.

 

[wandering peacefully]

Thank you all for your answers. It looks as though it's about half who actually feel they need a higher power and half just believe it's real but don't really have a need for one. And of course some who don't believe there is such an entity. I don't either so I am always curious as to the reasons some do or why they feel the need to believe in one. There are mountains but I see them as magnificent pieces of rock formed by natural processes that move me to be in awe but not evidence of gods.

I'm still not totally convinced there isn't something about consciousness we don't understand which allows for seemingly magical experiences but that does not translate to a need or belief in God(s). Thanks again.