Do you believe in God?

Thought to start a tough discussion.

So what are your beliefs?

Do you believe in God?

I forgot to tell about me.

I am a Christian Orhodox, and I believe in God.

Not like a fanatic (meaning that God is one no matter the religion that you use to feel it)

And I hate that God is used on a very bad way in our days.

I dont have belives. It's sad i know.

You don't believe in a religion, or you don't believe in the existence of God?

i dont believe in religion.

I see. I don't believe in religion much too.

I mean I believe the most of it, but I also have in mind that people have used the religion for domination and money....

But as for God I believe that he/she/it exists, and in some way communicates with us

I believe in god too. But I am not a religious person.

No. I don't. I'm Buddhist.

~Crystal

I am a little confused. I thought Buddas is the God of Buddists. Isn't that right?

"I thought Buddas is the God of Buddists."

he is the top teacher. buddhism is a way of life.

anyway, i believe in God too. i dont think life came to be as an accident. a computer didnt came to be by itself, it was created. and its far more simpler than the brain itself. i believe a great engineer designed, like everything else in nature. and we couldnt even start to imagine how intelligent and powerful our Creator is.

I believe in God, but I have my doubts in all that is said to have happened.

Very wise words. By the way, it seems that you are a Buddist, right? Can you please tell a few words about your religion? I have never had a chance to learn somthing about it

actually im Christian, Nik. my country is predominantly Catholic. i think Mercury is the Buddhist...

Oh I see. It seems that I didn't understand right your last post.

Off topic : Thanks for the post you made in your blog about webdigity :)

my pleasure Nik!

Im a Christian too, I believe in a greater being, although Im sad the way religion is right now, it seems to feel like a competition...

Religion is a whole different thing than faith.

Religion is used by many for many reasons that have nothing to do with the divine.

I completely agree Nik... Did you know new religions are made everyday, and most of them are derivatives of catholicism...

Yeah that's true, and this is a sign of our times.

People are creating religions just to make money, and even the old religions have been used for money and power.

I believe that religions can give you a pattern of what god really is, but the truth is something that you have to search for your own(if you want ofcourse)

Regarding to Christianity in general I believe that there are many 'forces' that want to extinguish it and I really don't understand why is that, but it is true. For example there are so many scientists in our days that trying so hard to proof that Jesus haven't made any miracle, but they miss the point. Even if Jesus haven't done miracles or even if Jesus never existed, the point is his example, and nothing else. He came here to speak about loving each other, not to saw us his hyperpshysical powers....

Yup, its the example He set for all that are astray, being a useful and productive part of the community without harming others is one way to set an example... Most of the time we can all agree that money is the root of all evil...

Yeah, that's right.

I am also a Christian Orhodox and i am not very fanatic.

(I have many months to go to church.)

if cant find proof i dont

Proof is the whole existence. How everything created? There should be someone who created that.

Maybe you can't see Him directly but you see what He created. Isn't that a proof?

How do you know he created it?

I don't. I just believe in that.

God is not something that you can explain with logic, but if you want a logic explanation there is one.

The universe has been created by someone. We call him God :)

The universe is molecules and is created on a molecular level. How did he create it, did he just go poof and it was there?

God is not a person, it is a power, and actually it is the whole of the universe.

But I would like to ask you if God is not exist, how does the universe created?

Now that should be the question.

Was god human? If so, can you make life by yourself?

Life, Nature, Everything on Earth and on the Universe are so balanced, engineered so perfectly that it is impossible that it could have all been created by a random process

do you think finding love is random? because it is there is no other way to explain it, and i think my love with my soon to be wife is perfectly balenced.

I believe that there is nothing 'random' in the universe. People who know programming, know that there is no random thing, and even the random algorithms are not producing real randoms.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. And I think that this is also another proof of the existence of God.

Do you agree with that?

no human can even begin to imagine the power of God.

Its the biggest question in the world, im leaving it at that.

would you believe that long before the telescope was invented by Galileo, which proved that the Earth was round (because people first thought that it was flat), there is already a verse in the Bible which mentioned that the Earth was circular in shape by a prophet inspired by God?

the verse in ISAIAH 40:22 reads: "He sits enthroned above the CIRCLE of the Earth..." now how did the prophet knew about the Earth being round? where did he get the faintest idea?

Let me tell you more far.

Ermis o trismegistos, writed in 9.000 bc about the planets of the solar system, and also talked about the God which will send his son to earth......

Those things are really mysterious, but it is truth that as you seek those things you can easilly get crazy....

sometimes i wonder why people can easily believe in aliens and urban legends but don't want to believe in God.

do we honestly believe that our life is just this short, 70-80 years of stay on earth? surely there is more after that...

70-80?? lol at this rate im looking at 50-60 hahaha..

I think the majority of people in modern days believe in God because it is forced on them since they were little. If you notice the people that have never went to church kind of step back and look at the whole picture. It really is just a hope that there is something more.... in my option

"...at this rate im looking at 50-60..."

yeah. probably you are right. anyway, my gramps is already in his 80s but he's still around, just senile though.

haha senility (is that a word).. its the way to go!

I don't believe in God at all, to much evil and suffering in the world for him to exist.

so you just believe in the devil?

Hehe, nice answer.


That's why people believe in God. The suffering is just a lesson for the next life or the after life (at least this is the opinion of the people who believe, including me)

Im not sure what to believe.  All I know is this universe started somehow, but every time I think of that, I think, well what was there before that started, and before that etc.  Theres an idea that the universe expands for billions of years, then contracts and it keeps repeating that process.

We can all agree that there is a power that created all those. Some people call this power god, some other people call it nature etc...

I like that answer xnontas. It has a laconian meaning :)

No matter how you call it, it exists....

I believed in God... I know we have different opinion about it. I respect your opinion...

I believe quite strongly in God, the maker of the universe and Father of Jesus Christ, our Saviour.

Ok this is a very old thread that got caught up in the recent spamming in the interests of all I think it will now be locked to all God fearing and atheist alike and perhaps we might get back to some more "mortal" subjects of web development