Do You Believe In God?

[BurningDesire]

I feel like I only believe in god when bad stuff happens to me. I have been raised a christian though. I am still undecided

 

[FanmadeEndings]

Could someone tell me why this thread was bumped?

I guess... I'm to blame for that. But... actually, I think the replies are pretty interesting. :x

 

[VinsCool]

Never knew this thing be active.

I still don't believe in "gods"
I do believe in karma.
The do good, receive future happiness.

Same

 

[XDel]

I suggest everyone who has answered to read this book regardless of how they answered. If anything, you'll have fun with it!

https://www.amazon.com/Physics-Science-Death-Logic-Reincarnation/dp/1622873246

 

[invaderyoyo]

Nope. I was raised in an Evangelic household and apostated when I got a little older. I never saw a real reason to believe. Not one. I was just repeatedly told I should love and fear God, and if I don't, I go straight to hell.

I don't believe in anything supernatural.

 

[spotanjo3]

Nope. I was raised in an Evangelic household and apostated when I got a little older. I never saw a real reason to believe. Not one. I was just repeatedly told I should love and fear God, and if I don't, I go straight to hell.

I don't believe in anything supernatural.

Hell ? Not really. Hello doesn't exist. Again, Hell misinterpreted in scripture. Hell is the dead in any of various religious traditions.. I said again, any of various religious traditions, such as the Hebrew Sheol or the Greek Hades.

The bible barely mentions it, seriously! 2 Thessalonians 1:9 says that the punishment for those deemed wicked is not fiery torture, but destruction, “shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might.”

 

[Supster131]

Edit: Knowing how this world works, I know a lot of sensitive people are out there. I'd rather not start a flame war with people that think God exists. If you had the chance of reading this post before the edit, I'm not retracting what I stated.

 

[invaderyoyo]

Hell ? Not really. Hello doesn't exist. Again, Hell misinterpreted in scripture. Hell is the dead in any of various religious traditions.. I said again, any of various religious traditions, such as the Hebrew Sheol or the Greek Hades.

The bible barely mentions it, seriously! 2 Thessalonians 1:9 says that the punishment for those deemed wicked is not fiery torture, but destruction, “shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might.”

Mathew 25:46 also talks about hell or at least "eternal punishment". Anyway, I agree with you that Hell doesn't exist.

 

[spotanjo3]

Mathew 25:46 also talks about hell or at least "eternal punishment". Anyway, I agree with you that Hell doesn't exist.

Yes, that's correct.

 

[GalladeGuy]

Edit: Knowing how this world works, I know a lot of sensitive people are out there. I'd rather not start a flame war with people that think God exists. If you had the chance of reading this post before the edit, I'm not retracting what I stated.

Now I want to know what you said. ;o;

 

[Katsumi San]

Hmm to believe? I think there is something more greater out there than human. All that space and nothing? If we are truly alone then perhaps is because all human is trash. No escaping lol. Not best way too see this topic, but reality...

 

[Supster131]

Now I want to know what you said. ;o;

I'll say it just for you :3 (I don't care what others say, it'll just prove they're in denial).

The bible is a fictional story book. It's as real as my manga collection.
In Yato we trust!

 

[GalladeGuy]

I'll say it just for you :3 (I don't care what others say, it'll just prove they're in denial).

The bible is a fictional story book. It's as real as my manga collection.
In Yato we trust!

How dare you! You'll go to hell for not believing in the Almighty Arceus!

 

[AnonDragon]

The biblical deity (sexy Zeus-like humanoid), as I know is supposed to be an alien related to the story of Enki and Enlil (go read, too long to tell).
The God I believe in is the cosmic being that is consciousness and pure energy, basically the whole cosmos is their body (integrates both male and female, light and dark, etc, etc.) and is the one that is said to be pure love, life, blah, blah. From this being were born the first entities of X races that created more life and stuff.
I consider myself not religious but spiritual, even though I am a very scientific, logical and rational person, and all that, but even like that I do have some understanding of the "God phenomenon", I even have my theories from a mathematical and systemic point of view (then talk about philosphical mathematics, logic, systems theory, information theory, quantum physics, biology, even computer science! ... and many other powerful matters and topics that give a strong basis).
I know there is such a huge history untold, lost, fragmented and distorted... but I know someday we will know the whole thing.

 

[brickmii82]

I'll say it just for you :3 (I don't care what others say, it'll just prove they're in denial).

The bible is a fictional story book. It's as real as my manga collection.
In Yato we trust!

Well, this isn't entirely true. Actually, many archaeological discoveries have proven merit to the stories told. I wouldn't call it fiction, just a historical re-telling with A LOT of exaggeration.

 

[Phearoz]

Organized religion is a plague; always has and always will be. Believing in God on the other hand is totally innocuous. I definitely think there's something out there that we couldn't begin to grasp but that's where my opinion ends, as should any other sane individual. Trying to define something as nebulous as "God" is a fool's errand and the basis for hate around the world.

 

[brickmii82]

Organized religion is a plague; always has and always will be. Believing in God on the other hand is totally innocuous. I definitely think there's something out there that we couldn't begin to grasp but that's where my opinion ends, as should any other sane individual. Trying to define something as nebulous as "God" is a fool's errand and the basis for hate around the world.

“Your question is the most difficult in the world. It is not a question I can answer simply with yes or no. I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. May I not reply with a parable? The human mind, no matter how highly trained, cannot grasp the universe. We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of the human mind, even the greatest and most cultured, toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged, obeying certain laws, but we understand the laws only dimly. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that sways the constellations. I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism. I admire even more his contributions to modern thought. Spinoza is the greatest of modern philosophers, because he is the first philosopher who deals with the soul and the body as one, not as two separate things.” -Einstein

 

[AnonDragon]

Well, this isn't entirely true. Actually, many archaeological discoveries have proven merit to the stories told. I wouldn't call it fiction, just a historical re-telling with A LOT of exaggeration.

Well, to complement the answer I'll also add:
Misrepresentation
Mistranslations
Fragmentation and destruction of material
Interpretation of allegories
Subjectivity
Forced distortion to make it a thing so churches/doctrines/etc. have control over beliefs.

It is a mess! But it doesn't mean it cannot have one or two things true.

 

[Phearoz]

As for afterlife, yes, I most certainly believe in both Heaven and Hell. However, I believe that there's a bit more to it than whether you believe in Christ or not, I personally believe it has more to do with what opportunities you were presented with in life and how you acted on them.

On what basis do you believe in an afterlife? Why do you think that? And hell? Do you not see how things are not black & white in real life, as in right & wrong are not clear and everything is very gray morally, other than killing and stealing, and even stealing could fall into a grey category if the reason outweighs the cost.

There is no logical reason to believe in "Heaven and Hell."
Personally I still believe in a "God," but one that's undefinable ect, but not so regarding "heaven & hell."

 

[AnonDragon]

On what basis do you believe in an afterlife? Why do you think that? And hell? Do you not see how things are not black & white in real life, as in right & wrong are not clear and everything is very gray morally, other than killing and stealing, and even stealing could fall into a grey category if the reason outweighs the cost.

There is no logical reason to believe in "Heaven and Hell."

About the afterlife, well, several things give me an idea of how it works and tell that it works. Even the "reincarnation phenomenon". Not only the thousands of stories experiences told around the world, but also close and personal ones.

Unless that "running thread" called "consciousness" makes you own experience of heaven/hell, not a thing of a "God's judgement", it is a thing of self punishment/judgement.

It is a more mystic/esoteric matter the heaven/hell thing (actually a little more subjective too because talk about those who talk about of other worlds/universes/environments/"dimensions"/etc., in which it is told the "evil ones"/demon viruses/betrayers of spirit/etc were condemned to be imprisoned and that, and heaven could be a gorgeous alien empire on X world, or even some setting in the "logical/mental spaces", A.K.A spirit worlds, with what they describe on it)