<p>and why do you believe in him?</p>
<p>This is not a Science vs. Religion thread. This is not an argument over the existence of God. State in a line/paragraph about what you think.</p>
<p>he is the anthropomorphic being that represents the unknowable, magnificent, and omnibenevolence that we strive to understand in the cosmos.</p>
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<p>In all likelihood, that’s into what it will turn.</p>
<p>The sleeping universal consciousness that dreamed us all up. Shhhh…don’t wake it.</p>
<p>i believe in god because i can’t afford not to. he’s the father i deserved but never had. i suck at life, but he loves me anyway. i believe in him because i have faith, and when i seek, i gain physical response that i can’t blame on worldly things. “atheism is not a philosophy. it is not even a view of the world. it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious.” yes, pain and suffering are inevitable and bad things happen to good people just as often as good things happen to bad people. can you think of a more effective way to increase the distinctive value of what’s ‘good’ to people not only of faith but to those without? god is a loving god- but christians are persecuted for a reason. ask for strength and you will receive hardships to gain it. </p>
<p>goddamn you guys, god was damned on the cross for these pathetic responses? get on his level. he doesn’t believe in atheists, therefore they do not exist.</p>
<p>God was not on a cross. Jesus was.</p>
<p>Is Jesus God?
You’re free to believe that, but holding a physical, corporeal entity to be a manifestation of divinity is basically the definition of idolatry.</p>
<p>To me God is something that exists inside us and who’s entirety is all of us. God is the collective force of all life. Basically we are it and it is us, nothing concrete. It’s the natural order of things.</p>
<p>God is great, good, love, father and was here.</p>
<p>^^^jesus is the son of god, but he is god in the flesh.
it’s not that they’re the same, god is of three. god is god, jesus, and the holy spirit. the son of god is a person, but he is god (holy trinity)…part of faith. it depends on what “religion” you follow.</p>
<p>tipa: well articulated</p>
<p>footballer: thanks</p>
<p>A god in the flesh. Just like Caesar?</p>
<p>This is one of the fundamental issues I have with Christianity. </p>
<p>Moreover, if we simply say that all our sins are forgiven because Jesus died for them, what accountability do we have as human beings? I say that Jesus could not bear the burden of my sins. Only I can. I am bestowed conscience and intelligence by God’s power, therefore I am can be the only one accountable for my sins before God.</p>
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<p>What a terrible sentence.</p>
<p>I think God is the inevitable answer that it all comes down to, even though I’m agnostic/atheistic. Is that a logical statement? Because how else would the Big Bang have happened? Where did the small ball of everything come from?</p>
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it’s definetely confusing, i’ll give you that. lol there are still many things that i can’t comprehend. but as a follower, all you have to do is simply believe. we’re all sinners, no good deed can change that. salvation is a free gift. god knew 2000 years ago that blessing us with free will would equate to sin…but he did it anyway. why? i’m still learning, but the thought scares the hell out of me…literally.</p>
<p>^ have fun living in fear. Do you agree with Evolution?</p>
<p>God means everything to me. Not “God is everything and everything is God,” but “My entire life exists for God.”</p>
<p>humans have had free will since before Jesus. </p>
<p>if salvation is a free gift, why does Hell exist (allegedly)?<br>
Simply believing is such a cop-out and represents cowardice. I will not just simply believe. In God’s power I find intelligence and conscience, and I’m sure as hell going to use them. In my meditation’s I’ve found a solution as to the existence of God where I think I’m at the point where belief in a Higher power is just as reasonable as rejecting it. My views roughly approximate to tipa’s. When you’re at that point, you either think it makes sense or you don’t. But simply taking ‘salvation’ for granted and leaving the meaning of your existence to the word of some scribes thousands of years ago is intellectual cowardice.</p>
<p>and in case you didn’t get it from before, I’m not a follower. I’m not Christian.</p>
<p>Accusing people of cowardice is, itself, cowardice.</p>
<p>^not quite following you.</p>