Do you believe God is real?

Question

I don’t really believe or disbelieve because I haven’t seen very convincing evidence in my life soo far that he does or doesn’t exist.

I haven’t seen any evidence in my life he does exist. I have also never seen any proof that very much convinced me he doesn’t exist

hahahmm · Accepted Answer

Yes. The people who claim he doesn't exist have always claimed that the Bible is false. Yet over time, archaeologists have verified more and more of what it says to be true instead of finding anything false. From my POV the evidence is all around us. Everything humans invent & believe makes us so clever, we can find it already existed in nature or something better existed. For example, take the Internet. A system for routing messages over a robust network between a huge number of servers and client computers. That already existed in nature as the fungal network connecting trees to each other. They use it to transmit messages AND nutrients. Each message is individually routed to the specific tree. Similar messaging systems exist in human cells too. The complexity in there is amazing. There's a parts factory in each cell that can manufacture specific parts on demand and ship them with something akin to our UPS/amazon trucks to the specific place in the cell that ordered the part. It's an obvious sign of intelligent design to me.

All that said, one day people will not be able to deny that God exists. It will be 100% impossible as the evidence will be absolutely undeniable. But at that point in time, you will still have the right to not follow him.

Peuples_Francs · Accepted Answer

Religion posits that a perfect God exists, yet humans, made in its image, engage in killing, racism, and hatred. If God is perfect and humans are its image, why is there evil? Why does it allow catastrophes that kill millions if it loves humans? The common reply that "God works in mysterious ways" is lazy and simply sucks.

Some people claim that free will is necessary, and that humans must have the freedom to choose evil to enable genuine love and moral growth, but an omnipotent God could create humans who freely choose only good. This also does not address natural disasters, which are unrelated to human choice. Another idea is that soul-making requires suffering for spiritual growth, but an all-powerful God could achieve this without pain. So this idea reduces God’s power to fit a narrative, contradicting the notion of an omnipotent deity.

Ultimately, if God is all-powerful and all-loving, it should prevent evil and suffering. Religion is incoherent, whether Islamist, Christian or other.

dustybiker2 · Accepted Answer

This does more often feel like hell. I believe life is random chance. A science based belief makes much more sense than being desperate to have someone to blame or praise.

LadyKitty · Accepted Answer

I don't believe in religions or gods. My view is more looking at the actual universe as the closing thing to a 'god'. If one god exists then they all do.

nightdrot · Answer

Yes, as G. K. Chesterton wrote, “It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.”

The paradox is that the atheist is as extreme in his way as is the religious fanatic. Because the atheist sees evil in the world, he jumps to the conclusion that there must therefore be no God.

This presents two problems. First, if there is nothing but the impersonal forces of nature and the laws of physics, then there is no free will. Every thought, every action is predetermined by the intermix of molecular and physical reactions. Nothing can be other than what it is.

The problem then becomes that your belief that God does not exist is then also a simple biochemical molecular reaction. You came to the only conclusion that your physiological structure predetermined you would.

However, if that is true, then your conclusion is no more valid than the opposite conclusion. It was simply the luck of the draw of your brain's electro-chemical reactions and you end up in an intellectual hall of mirrors.

In that connection, atheism tends to premised on a rejection of the idea of God in the absence of proof of His benevolence. This leaves the atheist effectively rejecting only one vision of God - namely the Judeo-Christian version. In truth, there are other conceptions of God. (For example, the ancient Greeks believed that the gods were arbitrary and capricious.)

The second point is that if everything in the universe must have a beginning, then logically something must stand outside the universe to start the universe itself. Chesterton's point stands and is a reflection of Aquinas' view of God as the first cause of all things.

The funny part is that the atheist argues that the universe is more complex than religion. Yet their own explanation is, itself, an oversimplification. Order does not spontaneously come from chaos without something outside itself to impose order. Similarly, if all things existing must start, then something must exist outside of it to start it.

Yet the atheist's problem remains. That the order of existence came from chaos absent something to give it order. It just happened - with the caveat that we don't know how - but it happened within existence because existence is all there is.

That is a presumption - and a problem - for atheism.

FreyaRed · Answer

Our universe contains rules which we partially understand. Is this god's will in terms religious ideologies try to sell us? No, surely not.
When AI becomes some day sentient, will be rules of operating system and processor architecture god's will for the AI? Do we become god just because we created those rules for AI? No, because AI will be aware of US.
Our problem we don't know why some things happen they happen and not another way around. Once we will figure out why, imagination of god will die instantly

TheorionMage · Answer

Agnostic empirical 'science' espouses objective "reality" BEGAN as a singularity  and has progressed from there.  The idea of a "God"-head, merely asserts that THAT 'singularity'...  possesses some type of possibly-engendered  conscious 'sentience ' and...  MAY be  imbued with an unknown  proprietary 'agenda' ... which humans fixate upon trying to discern from OUR limited perspective,  ... that they MIGHT 'merit' that Sentience's  active and favorable  circumstantial proximity.

Chazmatazz269 · Answer

I do believe that there is an undeniable order to the universe as we know it that is wholly defiant in the face of entropy. This suggests to me intelligent design and/or control. Do i understand the nature of it? No, but like most people i do try. Everyone tries to make sense of things in their own way. There is research meant to determine if spirituality is in our DNA. How interesting will the results of that be? Imagine all the “science minded” atheists short circuiting as they try to reconcile the science that suggests their need for blind faith is the same as the religious zealots. Ell oh ell!

jshm2 · Answer

You're confused.

What you do or don't believe is immaterial. Unless you're telling me you've been around the world and it's cultures then you're just talking to convince yourself.

Evidence is only required in a court of law for judgement., In real life even the best of evidence doesn't matter to the blinkered fool. People will still believe what they want.

It's up to you to spend the time and effort to know. People spend thousands a year and move to different countries to get a PhD in a job that might not even be there when they graduate. But expect to know God and faith in a 10 minute Youtube video.

It's no wonder people find atheists amusing.

DJB72 · Answer

Consider the mathematical odds of life occurring. If gravity was a fraction of a percentage stronger or weaker then universe would cease to exist.

The aside from anything else, nobody has been able to demonstrate life from lifelessness.

Atheists believe "In the beginning, mud" I believe "In the beginning, God".

I wish my Faith was as strong as an atheist's. It takes far more faith to believe that there was nothing, and nothing happened, then that nothing suddenly and without any outside influence exploded into everything that rearranged itself until it made dinosaurs...

sawno · Answer

Not in the way Christians think because I don't believe god is an individual. But I do believe in a source of origin, and I think that energy very specifically is the origin of love and our energy.

But I also believe we collectively built this dimension as an experience to inhabit, some of us aren't here physically but they still guide us / help out.

slatyb · Answer

I don't see any evidence. Anyway there's nothing for me to do about it. No religious activity has been shown to provide any benefit. The practical value of belonging to a religious community is from the community. I have a community of secular friends for that.

adventurous-1 · Answer

I do, I don't believe in the big religions as I view them as more interested in attaining political power and
prestige, more worried about controlling their members lives then interested in the every day person's wellbeing. The higher up the hierarchy religious officials climb, the less they care and do for the everyday person. That's just my opinion.

abc3643 · Answer

Of course I do! Here's the evidence!

Berethor · Answer

Well God don't exist most likely, and if he exist then he is sure very good at hidding.

lightbulb27 · Answer

I believe the phrase in the Bible is correct, "I am"! in other words, exists.  there's various angles to discover God... easiest is inside yourself.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

Absolutely not. If it DOES exist, it's doing a REALLY shitty job!! Results like this I''d expect to see from an office temp with a bad attitude!!

SoJust · Answer

I believe that God exists and that God appeared in the world in the form of Jesus and I believe that he was crucified for my sins, Jesus rose from the dead and I feel that he speaks to us through the holy spirit, I pray to Jesus every day

LiamJHayden · Answer

In some respect nearly everyone believes in a god of some sort. That god might be science, self, intellect, sex, money, or a Deity/deities of some faith.

I believe in the orthodox Christian concept of God. Did not always, but do now.

andreasderjuengere · Answer

If God were  NOT  real - how can it be that even those who don't believe... are busy thinking about him?

DrPepper12 · Answer

No. It's a Neolithic mass delusion for weak people who need the threat of punishment to behave ethically.

MackBoy · Answer

Everything is being created by one real god, after the earth and the skies were created, light and the darkness was created. can you just close your eyes image staying in without darkness or light

nawtee_me · Answer

What you need to do is ask God to show you he is real. I know he is real because he has done things in my life that no one else could have.

OtterMan68 · Answer

What I believe

Lessthanaveragr · Answer

Short answer, no. I don't believe that I can warrant spending much more time discussing imaginary friends

Kingofkings1992 · Answer

god is not real. God is a byproduct of man’s desire to have an explanation for everything, but being unable to do so, and man’s inability to conquer his primitive fears.

genericname85 · Answer

i know that god is not evidently real so believing he's real would be irrational.

Unit1 · Answer

Nope. Just another fairy tale to me. Easter Bunny. Tooth fairy.

Anonymous · Answer

God is actually my next door neighbor. He's a real nosy son of a bitch.

alonewithsilence · Answer

I think this is because you are not familiar with the Quran. Because there is only one creator, and that is Allah.

Anonymous · Answer

God most likely exists, what else caused the big bang to happen? Things don't just appear from nothing.

Paris13 · Answer

Our Father Who Art in Heaven... xxoo

exitseven · Answer

Yes, I think that He is.

ProbablyClueless · Answer

I believe that God is real.

Jersey2 · Answer

Yes, God is in my life.

OfDeath · Answer

Real in what sense?

Sabretooth · Answer

I've felt his influence from time to time.

Alishamoi · Answer

yes i am... I know its watching us..

electromagnetic · Answer

Yes. I do.

laly520 · Answer

God is real

jahaims · Answer

No I'm not retarded

Yannae · Answer

I'm in your shoes.

lorenzomichael · Answer

Absolutely

BarryLiverstone · Answer

Yes He is

TeraGER · Answer

No I don't

Ilovehappiness444 · Answer

Yes 🙏🏽

jjj101010 · Answer

Nope

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