I am here for you wherever you are in your journey of life... struggling with depression or anxiety... learning new skills... changing old behaviors... transitioning... exploring your personal / cultural / sexual identity... having relational problems... dealing with a serious physical illness... grieving losses... seeking the meaning / purpose of life... wondering if
God exists at all.
The mode of God's being, if
God exists at all, is necessity.
I would say that any educated person who says they never doubt that
God exists at least every once in a while, is either the «ignorant Christian» all the atheists on this board are looking for, or they are just simply lying.
In fact, considering the lack of proof of your god (or of any god), the most pragmatic approach would be to conclude that
no god exists at all.
There is no license for drawing the further conclusion that
God exists at a succession of temporal standpoints relative to each of which there is an open future.
, especially when there is no factual reason to believe
any god exists at all.
People dying for something does not make that something real and does not prove
your god exists at all.
I'm an atheist and have thus far not come across a single modic.um of evidence to show that any god or
gods exist at the present.
If they want to threaten, first they have to prove that humans actually have «immortal souls», then they have to prove that heaven, hell and
their god exist at all.
Here is my version of my atheism: I have yet to see any evidence that convinces
me any gods exist at all and quite a bit that convinces me the anthropomorphic all - loving, all - knowing, omnipresent god of the Abrahamic religions does not.
I would know
god existed at this point and worship it but yea....
I have also witnessed others struggle helplessly and wildly as if they never believed
God existed at all.
It provoked a crisis of faith in Greig who was publicly leading a global prayer ministry, while privately questioning whether
God existed at all.
Not exact matches
At the minimum the
God of Spinoza
exists in and behind the curtain and he has proof which even Einstein found to have merit.
God's causing all that is does not mean that
God changes «nothing» into something; rather, were
God's not causing a thing to be, that thing would not
exist at all; it would be absolutely nothing.
If you want to know if
God really
exists, just look up
at the stars and you'll see his handiwork.
You can say that you don't believe in Jesus Christ, you can say you don't believe he's
God, it doesn't change the fact that he
exist and is lord over all; just take a deep breath and look
at all that surrounds you.
Furthermore, you should ask why such horrid diseases
exist at all, and why
god doesn't simply do away with them.
This is directed
at all the anti-christian posters, The topic
at question is not open for debate of if there is a
God, or if Jesus
existed, He undoubtedly did and DOES.
Did your brothers tell you that five versions of Quran
existed at the time of Muhammad's death and that four versions were destroyed, Also did your brothers also tell you that first qibla was Kaba then Dome of the Rock and then again Kaaba - surely
God changed his mind quite frequently.
I know he does, and I know he
exists... like my hand
exists... I know it that well, no doubt
at all that
God exists.
Whether or not some
god (s) could
exist makes no difference to
at all.
He means that if free will first
existed on its own and subsequently encountered
God's grace, then free will might collide with grace, but in fact our being free
at all is itself a gift of
God's grace, and so there is no possible antagonism between the two.
Obviously death had to
exist at that point in order for
God to use it as a deterrent.
A: Stop using evolutionary ideas as a basis to attempt to «prove» that
God doesn't
exist (atheists I'm looking
at you)
Many people do not believe that
God is a good
God or that He even
exists at all.
Just because a lot of people are brainwashed
at a young age to believe there are
gods, but are told when they run out of teeth to trade that the Tooth Fairy doesn't
exist, doesn't mean
gods are more likely to
exist.
For example,
God can not
exist and not
exist at the same time.
We should be happy about how far we have come as a species via the hard work and dedication of man kind... we should be stopping and looking
at the big picture and think about how far we have come in 2000 years... we have made tremendous progress in so many ways and it is really sad that instead of doing the right thing and giving mankind credit where credit is due, you fall back on 2000 year old beliefs and you thank a
god who has never been proven to
exist.
yo the thing is not about believing or not, is the fact that if we don't believe then we are worthless living garbage who occupy a space in the universe only to create crap and pollution, in that kind of case we would better be recycled into some industrial material for a better use than eating and living like cattle, but if there is a
god we acquire a divine status and a purpose to continue to
exist beyond afterlife or
at least the idea of it, which would give life a sense right?
Either Jesus was a real man in history who we know absolutely nothing about, due the the Bible's completely innaccurate and conflicting accounts, or he didn't
exist at all and was a lesser
god that was created based on many of the tenets of the Cult of Osiris.
To those who look
at the world and say «see how old it is, therefore
God does not
exist because the bible states that it is only 6 - 10 thousand years old» you may never get this comment.
It's impossible for
God, if he
exists, to simply show up
at my doorstep in a form I can perceive?
Chad If
god made everything, and knows what is going to happen until the end of time, then
at the time he created everything, he knew what was going to happen, so he made it happen by creating everything in the first place... therefore free will is not
existing, or
god did not create everything... you can't have it both ways
At most,
god does
exist because we find active evidence proving there was some sort of divine hand in the origin of life, which then leads us on the hunt for more evidence of that same
gods existance throughout the fossil record and most likely will lead us to prove that the
god of abraham is STILL man - made, but there is some other supernatural power out there.
Well, when they can prove that their «
God» (whatever that is)
exists and that He has given them that authority, I will stop laughing and pointing
at them.
At BEST you could say... I believe it is unlikely that a
god exists.
God, if he
existed at all, would not allow such egotistical people such as you to spread his «word» it would be bad for business.
Atheist reject the idea of a
god and believe their view to be true or they would be agnostic unless they choose no stance
at all of a
god that of which would require unknowing of what the term «
god» means so it would fall under a belief and since they can't prove that a
god doesn't
exist then by definition it requires faith for their view, meaning it would effect their view of the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe if a
god was proven to be true.
In 2016, he said that
God had been «unjust with his son,» announced his prayer intention to build a society «that places the human person
at the center,» and declared that inequality is «the greatest evil that
exists.»
Provide a single ounce of proof that your
god, your heaven, your hell, or heck, any afterlife
at all
exists and maybe you'd have an argument.
Either they necessitate a deceptive «
God», e.g. creating starlight «in transit» which means that for some light the star that supposedly sent said light would never have actually
existed, or they would cause effect that should be evident but are not, e.g. temporarily fast starlight would effectively cook many things, such as life on earth, if the required light (and attendant gamma radiation) were compressed into a significantly shorter time frame (think of the radiation from the apparent 13 billion years of the universe arriving
at the same time, or even over a 1000 years).
We even have photos of Bigfoot — but not one scrap of evidence proves a man named Jesus born of Mary, impregnated by
God through some mysterious angel (boy, that Joseph must have been one hell of a credulous mark), who worked as a carpenter and rabble - rouser, who traveled the countryside with a bunch of other rabble - rousers and who got in trouble, was crucified, and then arose physically before being carted off to heaven in a celestial Red Ryder wagon EVER
EXISTED AT ALL.
your so right, it is so sad to see people criticising
God and
at the end of the day
God Exists and always will regardless of the evil that is said against Him.
I applaud what he is doing and hope that he brings others to
God throught the torture and bloody human sacrifice of his son (himself, actually) where he died (well, for a few hours anyway) for us all (
at least so the story goes) so that we may live with him in heaven (a great place for which no evidence or photographs
exist) until the end of time.
On March 23
at 11:56 pm Sandra Garrett asked how an atheist can KNOW that
God doesn't
exist.
Or, I can choose to look
at him with the creative heart of
God that sees something that is yet to
exist.
You can
at the same time be strongly atheistic about
gods that are impossible to
exist.
If you people really want to know if
God exists just look into our planet and look
at yourselves and if you do not say the same thing King David said centuries ago» In a fear inspiring way I am wonderfully made» then something is really wrong.
Btw — you can really have fun with this stuff... eternal,
existing at every point in time and every possible place... even for a «
god» this situation would be beyond absurd.