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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I believe in God and that I am put on this world for a purpose..so far as I understand it, to use the talents that I have been given to be the best me that I can be. Do I pray? oh yes, do I go to church? no. BTW for all you other Occupational Therapists out there, the OT prayer
Please God, help.....NOW!!!!!
As for 'if there is a God why does he let bad things happen to good people'? I really have no idea, I just know that the time wasn't right for Georgia. Incidentally, before Georgia died, I really didn't have any strong beliefs either way.
I always have time for street preachers, I don't know why, I find the discourse incredibly magnetic to watch.
I have been thinking about this this evening and have discovered some incontrovertible evidence for the existence of God. Please feel free to flesh it out with your own suggestions. Mine:
-Hot cross buns with melted butter on
-Maria Sharapova
mfewell - I guess the followers of Mohammed would say the same thing - come to think of it, all major religions would be equally valid. . .hmmm
Well yes, here is surely the rub - if Islam and Judaism/Christianity believe in one almighty god, then surely it has to be the same one doesn't it ? Question is though, does he any longer believe in us. Who'd blame him if he didn't. When it comes to fu----g up the world, all religions have to take a share of the blame. For me though, there is still the nagging problem of John 3:16 and all of John Ch 4.
I never used to believe, and then would go through phases of thinking I did, and then I suddenly really started to believe in God.
I believe because it gives me great comfort and this invisible support. When all else fails I will always have God and know no matter what I do he'll still love me.
People may say that we don't choose to believe, but that God draws us towards him.
At the end of the day it's whatever gives you comfort and support, whether it's God or a piece of wood.
Surely god himself, who foresaw all this happening before he created the world, would have to take all the blame?
Yes, I believe in God. I don't believe he is a bearded man in the sky! Nor do I believe that he 'punishes' people who don't 'obey the rules' by sending them off to hell.... (there's more on that - I do believe in the existence of hell - but lol, I'm not aiming to post a book on here!). I think that God is like a form of energy (that caused the world to be created) and we can't imagine/picture it in human terms. I also believe that Jesus was God in human form (which makes me a Christian), basically because, why not? If you believe in the existence of *a* 'God', you have to accept that it has no limitation otherwise it wouldn't be God, right?
Because I believe in the existence of God (call it 'energy' or 'a higher power' or 'Allah' or whatever you like) I feel the need to actually do something about it. Hence, I go to Mass and attempt (not very successfully I'm afraid!) to live my life according to my moral/ethical beliefs (guided by my own informed conscience) and the tenets of my religion.
Some people tend to use religion as a 'crutch' to get them through bad times. Hmm, I guess it can be a help, but my experience leads me to think that a person's faith should strengthen them and enable them to stand on their own two feet, not soothe them with hazy ideas of some kind of milk-and-watery happy afterlife.
Lots of people say they believe in a God, but not in 'organised religion'. But that's too long for me to discourse about here!
It also occurred to me that if the atheists are right, I'm not gonna be giving a damn about it all when I'm dead, anyway, so I've got nothing to lose! ^_^
On another note, having been with people when they have died, I find it impossible to believe - in a rational and scientific way, btw - that there is no 'afterlife' (whatever it may be). There is a rule of physics (I forget name and number, sorry!) "Energy cannot be created or destroyed". When someone dies, something leaves them. It's not part of their body, but it is what animates that person - in other words, what gives them life (can you define that thing? I can't - we call it their 'spirit'). It's impossible to deny that this thing was there, and then it has gone... but it has not ceased to exist, because it was a form of energy which has not been destroyed but has been converted into something else. Now, I have no idea what that 'something else' is, or how it would be experienced by the consciousness of the person (if they experienced it at all), but it gives me the strong feeling that the person continues to exist in some way beyond our comprehension. (n.b. I do NOT believe in 'ghosts'!).
Of course, this is not a proof of God's existence - just me going off at a religion-related tangent! (Sorry!)