<p>I was just wondering about it the other day.</p>
<p>why do some of you believe in a god?</p>
<p>o.o Because he saved me. ^^;;;; Long story and personal. I'm pretty thankful though. :] Also I'm a Buddhist and Confucinist(can't spell forgive me.) So I believe in more than 1 god. :]</p>
<p>I believe in God.</p>
<p>i believe in GOD and i am proud of it. if it were not for him we would not have life. if we did not have life we would not go to college. if we did not go to college we would not be on this site. if we were not on this site we would be doing something else......etc.
because of GOD there is a huge spider web that connects everything together.</p>
<p>I believe in God.</p>
<p>I believe in God.. but it's not so much that I can believe in God as that I want to. I'm slightly agnostic.</p>
<p>I was not born in a religious family.</p>
<p>Consequently, I've done some basic research on several different religions (viz. Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, etc.).</p>
<p>I'm pretty disillusioned with Christianity after reading some of the ultra-conservative newspaper / magazine publications. So narrow-minded and unwilling to perform actual research on "moral" issues, instead relying heavily on dogma and misinterpretations.</p>
<p>I really like the Sufi branch of Islam. I just think it's cool.</p>
<p>if I ever had to pick a religion, it would have to be some amalgamation of all the religions currently practiced with a heavy focus on both Buddhism and Sufism. Buddhism to me is just great. What other religion is so open, so tolerant, so pure?</p>
<p>Not really, I'm agnostic</p>
<p>I believe in God, but not in many of the ideas of the church. I guess I'm also part Budhist to...</p>
<p>"I believe in God.. but it's not so much that I can believe in God as that I want to. I'm slightly agnostic."</p>
<p>Yeah, me too. And I like the way the Christian church does things. I know it's cool to be Buddhist now, but I actually disagree with a lot of that doctrine.</p>
<p>Eh, to each his own, right?</p>
<p>I believe in God, but not in the traditional sense that the vast majority of people do.</p>
<p>I basically believe (like Christian theology tells us) that God, a kind of Over-Soul, is omnipresent and omnipowerful, meaning he is an all-encompassing force which can't be reckoned with because no adversary force exists, meaning he is the universe itself, meaning that since human beings are a part of the universe themselves they are but a manifestation of God, and since an entity cannot disprove its own existence, I feel truly sorry for all those who don't realize the grandiose implications of what they think they believe. (you most likely won't find a God-believing person out there who doesn't believe good is omnipresent and omnipowerful.) Consequently, I KNOW that things like "evil," "hell," "atheism," and "agnosticism" are absurd and contrary to the nature of existence, so it doesn't even bother me when others believe in them; they are wrong, and, sooner or later, the atoms which make them up will realize the Truth in the form of another biological being. That is all that really matters in the grand scheme of things. </p>
<p>My ideas are not new, I stole them from Mary Baker Eddy, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Benedict de Spinoza, and Ernest Holmes. </p>
<p>If anyone likes what I said, I suggest that you read Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Emerson's essays, Short Treatise on God, Man and His Well-Being, and Science of the Mind. Also, join Christian Science and Religious Science-by far the most enlightened Western churches of modern times (early Christianity fully supported the view I expressed.)</p>
<p>i probably live my life most like a Deist.</p>
<p>Agnostic here. Prove it to me, and I am all for belief in God, otherwise the burden of proof still exists.</p>
<p>We call Him eternal, not in the sense that there always was time, and in it He always was. No, since He is unchangeable there is no past or future for Him: all is one unchanging present. So when we say that He made the world--a past expression--to His divine mind it registers as present! "Before the mountains were born, before you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are, O God" (Psalm 90:2).</p>
<p>He is omnipotent or almighty because "nothing is impossible to God" (Luke 1:37). The book of Sirach 23:20 says: "Before they were made, all things were known to Him." So He is all-knowing, or omniscient. We say He is present everywhere. In Jeremiah 23:24 He said: "Do I not fill heaven and earth?" Yet He is not present in the sense of taking up space, as we do: we say a Spirit is present wherever it causes an effect. He caused all things to come into being, and keeps them in being.</p>
<p>We call Him the Creator, since He has made all things , not out of some previously existing material, but simply out of nothing. He has infinite power. By just willing it, He can do all things. So in Genesis 1 He merely spoke and said, "Let there be light." And light came into existence. Really, He did not speak in our sense of the word; He merely willed it, and it came into being.</p>
<p>It is strictly correct to say that God is love, since if we said that He has love, there would be a duality, two. But He is totally unity. He is identified with each of His attributes. So He is mercy, He is justice, and therefore in some way, mercy and justice are identified in Him. His justice is His mercy is Himself, and so on for all His attributes.</p>
<p>It's kind of ironic that the more civilised we get, the more distanced we get from the notion of God. It's like we're subconsciously promoting that just because we're coming out with exciting new technology and gosh! - jumping off to land on red planets, and being elite by bombing and nuking each other out, that somehow destiny is controlled.</p>
<p>Not that we can't shape our futures, but it's not, you dummies. You'll realise that destiny can't be controlled, because there are times in your life when you try your hardest to control everything in your battery-charged human power but you simply lose.</p>
<p>Think believing in God is somehow illogical, or on par with fire-breathing dragons and harmless little pink fairies? Sorry to burst your narrow-minded bubble, but you're no more sheep than the rest of the so-called retarded religious tribes which you so profess to hate.</p>
<p>Some scientists are complete dumb-heads who should have been massacred with an extremely sharp machete. I think I've said this before somewhere, but you can actually be so intelligent that you end up jumping over the fence of rationality and into a field of complete and utter crap.</p>
<p>God is the Essence of Creation - there's no point deciphering God when He is the Root Square. Remember that.</p>
<p>On that note, people automatically assume that God is this hippie in pristine white robes, and a beard which looks like grey candyfloss, gloating in the heavens above. I don't know about you guys, but surely God is a Divine Power rather than the biblical imagery figure of a human male, which has been conceived in the trivial, faltering minds of an elite creation that has only been accredited limited knowledge.</p>
<p>Try to riddle with God though, and He'll riddle you dry.</p>
<p>God is Time, Power and Might.</p>
<p>Atheist--flame all you want.</p>
<p>"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."
--Bertrand Russell</p>
<p>I believe in a God. I was raised in a strict church going home until highschool and attended a Christian private school for elem. and middle school. Although I believe in God I don't believe that I have to go to church to be a "believer". I strongly disagree with some Christian (church) stances on political issues and see most areas to be way too narrow minded. That being said, I don't discount the entire belief because of that. Also, it's not that I don't like the concept of a church community, it's just that every church I've ever attended has left me with alot of disappointment in their values and such.</p>
<p>Whatever... too hard of a topic to type out in a short post.</p>
<p>Well, yes and no. I believe in some kind of all-powerful force beyond technology and evolution that controls us all, but I don't want to call it God, yet. So...guess I'm agnostic.</p>
<p>i'm agnostic but I believe in mother nature.</p>
<p>no.</p>
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<p>Ditto what imiracle911 said ^</p>
<p>Raised Catholic, and actually got confirmed in February - after telling my dad, "You know I don't believe in this, right?" He said, "Yeah, but I want you to be confirmed now because I think you'll believe later. So you'll be ready." Geewilickers, thanks for the safety net, Dad.</p>
<p>I would like to believe in something. The thing is, I'm too skeptical, I suppose....Just ask too many questions.</p>