I am just curious, how many people really here have some kind of belief in God. It seems to be something that I am reading more and more, some belief in God …. So I am just curious, if you believe, why?
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It’s not God that gives people that wonderful feeling that you don’t see. It’s faith. Faith has the power to overcome all of your life’s problems.
It’s kind of offensive to question someones belief, not trying to start an argument, I’m just saying why question what’s keeping people happy? I just don’t want to see people put down something that I’ve seen so much good come out of. It’s your choice to believe or not, you do what you have to these days to stay optimistic.
@TC I don’t think they’re questioning anyone’s belief, I think unknown genuinely wants to know why people believe in god. Generally I think people who believe in god have a deep need to believe that life has meaning beyond what humans can comprehend. Personally I don’t need to believe in god to know that life has meaning. different strokes
Oh, in that case I’m technically Christian but I don’t really believe in much of a higher power. But I do accept the idea
People believe in god cause we are mortal. And dont understand nature how the universe work’s. And some one had to make it. Right? Maybe there is a highter force.
But dont bet on a after life. Maybe we just end.
@TC no i really do want to know, im not trying to offend anyone, for real, it just seems that the concept of God is coming up over and over and over and i dont really ‘get it’ you know, i don’t get what it is that is believed, why, or well much of anything, so i really am just trying to figure it out.
OK, kewl, so more people believe in the idea of God then the idea of an active higher power?
“God” is a concept that people define in different ways. In the modern Christian tradition, God is often considered a personal father-figure with which you can have a close relationship (mostly His strictness varies). Some people, on the other hand, think that some being called God simply created the universe and now leaves it alone. To others, God is an abstract concept referring to the origin of things that we can never fully explain with human reason, not even really a person or thinking thing (some admitted atheists will use “God” in this way).
So when you say “so more people believe in the idea of God then the idea of an active higher power,” do you mean more people believe in God as an intelligent, but not personally-involved in your own life, creator of sorts?
Im not a strong believer, but i Believe it. We just dont understand why where here and the conciousness we have been given. We feel when we done wrong from right, but what makes us know that your even wrong or right. Your wondering why and what makes us beilieve, i mean i feel we all looking for stuff to help us get through bad tImes and enjoy good times, we life to believe we got a plan and theres a reason for what happens to us,there comfort in having someone who knows more about this life then human minds could imagine . And just faith and beilf could make you closer to this person that can control your life
I hope this helps you
You could really go on forever why you beilieve in the things you do, it mostly feels real to you so its real to you
This is the question man has been asking himself since human time began. Is there a God.
I don’t know what to believe, I’m 51 years old in 3 days and that question for myself has been constant. Even in the darkness that I see in the world ……… I Want To Believe, that there is something after this experience of being alive.
I do know that the “act” of praying changes me and tthe way I percieve the world around me. When I pray for a random person in traffic, I get the results/benifit, for me it is the acknowlegment that I am powerless and that I am reaching out to God to help a person with what ever.
Prayer for self doesn’t seem to produce the same results though, even though I have had what appeared to be an answered prayer.
What I’ve found on this site IMO, is that most do not believe or do not what to believe in a God. Possibly becuase of the things many learn in Christianity that Suicide is a sin and it will bar any which do it from Heaven, and an eternity in Haydes/Hell.
I want to think that if a God exists, that there is a heaven also, and that God is pure love, thus, no matter the choice I make, God will embrace me as my life transits from the world of the living to the eternity of Spirit.
God if you do exist please heal me in the after life.
I am afraid I have no faith in an afterlife. Never have. Probably never will.
It is hard being athiest where I live. The religious right is everywhere. Not that I have a problem with religous people as a whole – just I get looked down on alot.
Karl Marx, (stinking Communist) said
Religion is the Opiate of the Mass’s
God may just be a creation of man in an effort to explain life.
When humans have a spiritual experience while praying or attending a religion, they associate the “Feeling” of that experience as proof of a God.
Has anyone heard of prayer, re-growing an amputated limb ?
Why were so many lives in history killed by evil barbaric invaders ? Why didn’t a God intervene ?
Why hasn’t God answered my thousands of prayer that I pray not to wake up ?
I guess believing there something more is personal comfort? Or so it seems.
It interests me. The concept. Thank you to all who answered.
Ah, even I have said, god if your real I dont wanna wake up lol. This, obv, did not work.
Sometimes I wonder if it was real, if heaven, hell, paradise, god, devil, etc real. I think if there is a hell ill end up there lol
See the thing is im scared if i commit suicide and theres a hell i will go there, so ill put faith in beilieving in god if theres any chance to go to heaven, because ill im trying to so is leave this pain when i die will my conciousness still be there, does this pain continue or will i just forget everything. I never told anyone i guess if i didnt say it out loud or tell someone it wouldnt exsit but if so a god hes knows all my thoughts so would it matter? I guess well never know till we pass this is very unsettling