Does God Exist?

Either God exists and He created all matter, space, and time (ie the Universe)

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There is no God, and so the Universe must have created itself. No other possibility.

Now think about it: If the Universe created itself, brought itself from a state of non-existence into a state of existence, then it must have existed before it existed.

If that doesn't make sense, then keep thinking about it until it does. How could matter have brought itself into existence when it didn't even exist?

Get it?

There is only one explanation. God exists outside of time, matter, and space, and He created everything in the Universe (besides Himself, of course.)

That's why God is also referred to as the Prima Causa, Prime Cause, Prime Mover, and the Non-created.

What? Yes, I've heard of the big bang. It was a Catholic priest who came up with the idea, in fact. Now let me ask you: What caused the big bang to occur?

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Define "God".

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Necrothreading, whee.

It's because I'm a He and people look for themselves in all things. And it's a damn sight easier than getting pedantic about doing the he or she routine. It's just as well that God described as the part of the mind we aren't consistently tapping into or harnessing is a part of us, ergo, my slice is a He.

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then God is MOST DEFINITELY evil.

How so?

I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!

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To sum it up, I believe that God exists, but also that I will never understand everything. And I want to try and be a good person, helping other people and thinking less of myself. That's what I want to aspire to. And if I succeed, I could certainly rest with that.

That really sums it up for me. I feel if there really is a God, he's more likely to look kindly on those who do good things because it's the right thing to do. Not doing good things because you don't want to feel the wrath of some vengeful deity.

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You assume a monothesistic god here, as usual.

It could be anything so long as they truly believe in what they say. I can understand why many people don't believe in God. They either cannot comprehend or strongly despise the idea that someone other than them is in control. Quite understandable.

But you are wrong because this is one of the greatest flaws in Christianity. If god gave humans free will, then god cannot control humans and vice versa. As you say, it is also quite understandable to say that someone else or something else is in control of your life. Seen The Truman Show? Debates a similar issue.

What people fail to realize is how many religions there are... and conceptions of divine entities. We don't need gods to act morally correct, we don't need to believe in Jesus to show altruism. I am of the belief that the universe is infinite and thus all your actions have infinite causes and effects.

Religion is something you make up in your mind. Easy as that. Such is the definition of god or divine entity. Faith is something humans made as well. No one came to humans and taught us faith or made us learn faith. That is something we have created on our own. Nothing of what you believe is unique as such because in general terms, your god is the same as the god buddhists belive in, indians believe in, old greeks. Faith is faith because some people need it or they feel there is no meaning in life. If faith is their motivation that is fine. What people need to learn to understand are all the infinite possibilites of the word "faith".

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I also don't believe in forcing opinions on people.

here you say you don't believe in forcing opinions

If there is anything I want for other people, it is that they will believe in SOMETHING. It could be anything so long as they truly believe in what they say.

where here you force your opinion. Why should anyone believe in anything, anyway?

I can understand why many people don't believe in God. They either cannot comprehend or strongly despise the idea that someone other than them is in control. Quite understandable.

or simply they think that there is no god at all in exactly the same way that you think there is

And I want to try and be a good person, helping other people and thinking less of myself. That's what I want to aspire to. And if I succeed, I could certainly rest with that.

you only forgot to say here that you want world peace to exactly sound like Miss America

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Yes.

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Let us begin, then, with the mad-house; from this evil and fantastic inn let us set forth on our intellectual journey. Now, if we are to glance at the philosophy of sanity, the first thing to do in the matter is to blot out one big and common mistake. There is a notion adrift everywhere that imagination, especially mystical imagination, is dangerous to man's mental balance. Poets are commonly spoken of as psychologically unreliable; and generally there is a vague association between wreathing laurels in your hair and sticking straws in it. Facts and history utterly contradict this view. Most of the very great poets have been not only sane, but extremely business-like; and if Shakespeare ever really held horses, it was because he was much the safest man to hold them. Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination. Artistic paternity is as wholesome as physical paternity.

Moreover, it is worthy of remark that when a poet really was morbid it was commonly because he had some weak spot of rationality on his brain. Poe, for instance, really was morbid; not because he was poetical, but because he was specially analytical. Even chess was too poetical for him; he disliked chess because it was full of knights and castles, like a poem. He avowedly preferred the black discs of draughts, because they were more like the mere black dots on a diagram. Perhaps the strongest case of all is this: that only one great English poet went mad, Cowper. And he was definitely driven mad by logic, by the ugly and alien logic of predestination. Poetry was not the disease, but the medicine; poetry partly kept him in health. He could sometimes forget the red and thirsty hell to which his hideous necessitarianism dragged him among the wide waters and the white flat lilies of the Ouse. He was damned by John Calvin; he was almost saved by John Gilpin.

Everywhere we see that men do not go mad by dreaming. Critics are much madder than poets. Homer is complete and calm enough; it is his critics who tear him into extravagant tatters. Shakespeare is quite himself; it is only some of his critics who have discovered that he was somebody else. And though St. John the Evangelist saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators. The general fact is simple. Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion, like the physical exhaustion of Mr. Holbein. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain. The poet only desires exaltation and expansion, a world to stretch himself in. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits. ~ GKC - 'Othordoxy'

Amigo, lay them raises down.

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This Bible was written by who...? If there is a God, he has turned his back on us in disgust for how we use His name for our own sakes and theories.





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so to get it right, God is how you call the parent of failed children?

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