Do you think God exists?

Question

I don't know honestly 99.96% of the days i don't even think about him. I am sure there is billions of people that don't and i no for sure as hell animals don't know what God is. Why i think God doesn't exist? Well it's simple. There is no evidence for a deity like him. There has never been any evidence of Spirits, the world we know is basically a survival planet, we don't eat we die. We kill animals to eat. Animals in the wild kill each other horribly, that makes you think how a God can allow such terrible things like that to happen. The world is in a lot of problems, such as parts of the world suffer from starvation and disease and children/babies are dying each day and year, and no. I don't think it has anything to do with Sin. Sin doesn't exist. It's just something we made to tell what is bad in our brains. This has been going for millions upon millions of years, going back to age of the Dinosaurs, and then to the age of Stone and Bronze. This has been here .. pretty much the whole time. It also probably happens in other planets with life. The thing is where i am suck is how is it possible that our brain's evolved, our consciousness or awareness. Why does it exist? Why does it choose you to live a certain point in the age of the Universe? Why did it choose me to live as a Human Being? Where was i before i was born? My atoms were probably scattered all around places, how in living hell do atoms all of sudden arrange themselves to make a body made meat and nerves, brain?->

Answer 1

How does God acting before time began get around the problem of God's creation? There are two possible interpretations of these verses. One is that God exists outside of time. Since we live in a universe of cause and effect, we naturally assume that this is the only way in which any kind of existence can function. However, the premise is false. Without the dimension of time, there is no cause and effect, and all things that could exist in such a realm would have no need of being caused, but would have always existed. Therefore, God has no need of being created, but, in fact, created the time dimension of our universe specifically for a reason - so that cause and effect would exist for us. However, since God created time, cause and effect would never apply to His existence.



The second interpretation is that God exists in more than one dimension of time. Things that exist in one dimension of time are restricted to time's arrow and are confined to cause and effect. However, two dimensions of time form a plane of time, which has no beginning and no end and is not restricted to any single direction. A being that exists in at least two dimensions of time can travel anywhere in time and yet never had a beginning, since a plane of time has no starting point. Either interpretation leads one to the conclusion that God has no need of having been created.



The idea that God can be eternal leads us to the idea that maybe the universe is eternal, and, therefore, God doesn't need to exist at all. Actually, this was the prevalent belief of atheists before the observational data of the 20th century strongly refuted the idea that the universe was eternal. This fact presented a big dilemma for atheists, since a non-eternal universe implied that it must have been caused. Maybe Genesis 1:1 was correct! Not to be dismayed by the facts, atheists have invented some metaphysical "science" that attempts to explain away the existence of God. Hence, most atheistic cosmologists believe that we see only the visible part of a much larger "multiverse" that randomly spews out universes with different physical parameters. Since there is no evidence supporting this idea (nor can there be, according to the laws of the universe), it is really just a substitute "god" for atheists. And, since this "god" is non-intelligent by definition, it requires a complex hypothesis, which would be ruled out if we use Occam's razor, which states that one should use the simplest logical explanation for any phenomenon. Purposeful intelligent design of the universe makes much more sense, especially based upon what we know about the design of the universe.

Answer 2

You've already made up your mind; you don't want answers, you want excuses, because if God were real, you would be in serious trouble for the immoral lifestyle you strive for.



Nothing anyone says would change your mind, so your question is extremely hypocritical, since you don't want any honest answers telling you that God is, in fact, real.



Furthermore, you say there is no evidence, as though YOUR lack of evidence is sufficient (reverse) evidence in itself, as though the universe was obligated to limit itself to YOUR knowledge base and experience level! Just how big IS your ego, eh?



But you ignore the challenge Jesus gave. He claimed equality with God, then He gave us a "litmus" test to prove His words. But your stubbornness refuses to even allow this objective challenge!



In other words, the ONLY reason why you don't believe in God is because you don't WANT to believe in God, and for no other reason! You're mind is set in concrete, you are extremely narrow-minded, and your theme song is "Don't confuse me with Truth; my mind's already made up."



For all these reasons, there is no answer that will satisfy your hatred for God. And yes, I said hatred. You will claim otherwise, but you have such an extreme animosity against even the very idea of God's existence, that you blind yourself!



But if you honestly, truly believe God doesn't exist, then why are you attacking and mocking God so much? It's like Don Quixote’s "tilting at windmills", or trying to fight clouds with a butter knife. Or, in the words of Shakespeare, "Me thinks he protests too much!"

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Answer 3

I do not believe that any god(s) exist.



I don't necessarily believe that they don't exist either though, however if you define particular god concepts I can then tell you if I merely disbelieve them, or believe they are false.



I don't believe in god(s) due to insufficient evidence being presented to me; I haven't been convinced of the truth of the claims, and the reasons others give for their belief are generally poor and their arguments fallacious.



It's a big red herring to engage any other claims - the nature of survival, the problem of evil, concept of sin, rarity of life, pre-existence - and you seem to have fallen for it.



Not to mention, the claim that god(s) do not exist is a completely separate claim. For the position that you do not believe any gods exist, all you need to do is demonstrate your processing and rejection of anything claimed as evidence for their existence... if you want to disbelieve it in an intellectually honest fashion, anyhow.

Answer 4

God has reaveled Himself through: 1. His creation, 2. His word the Bible, and 3. as Jesus Christ. The Big Bang, the extreme fine-tuning of the universe, the sudden appearance of life in the fossil record(eg.Cambrian Explosion), the order and design found in the universe and life, etc. all point to a transcendant Creator. There are 2,000 fulfilled prophecies in the Holy Bible, which demonstrate that the Bible is divinely inspired. Jesus Christ fulfilled over 300 messianic prophecies and rose from the dead, proving that He is God incarnate. For more evidence for God, go here: http://www.reasons.org

Answer 5

There really isn't any evidence that he doesn't exist either. Best way to look at is he may or may not exist and I doubt anyone can produce any evidence that says otherwise. So just live your life the way you see fit with or without religion.

Answer 6

There is no reason to think that a god exists.



Though it cannot be proved that *A* god does not exist, it can be proved that the god of the Bible does not exist. That is because the Bible describes a god-created cosmos that does not actually exist. Since an existing cosmos is essential for existence, the god who created the non-existing biblical cosmos does not exist either.



Note: Because only a few verses would not make the case, the material below is necessarily quite extensive and shows that the Bible has a consistent view of the structure of the cosmos throughout, with parts that are fully consistent with each other. That structural consistency indicates that it accurately represents the cosmos as conceived by the writers of the Bible.



According to Ecclesiastes 1:5 the sun goes (hasteth) around the earth



"The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose"



--as, of course, it must, since, according to Ps 93:1, Ps 96:10, and 1 Chr 16:30, the earth does not move. And the earth cannot move because, according to 1 Samuel 2:8 and Ps 75:3, it is placed on pillars. And because it is placed on pillars, it has an underside and an upper side, as confirmed by Isaiah 40:22 which indicates that the earth is a circle--i.e., a flat disk.



That is also confirmed by Proverbs 8:27, which describes god as beginning the creation of the world when he "drew a circle on the face of the deep" (ESV). The Hebrew word translated as “circle,” "compass, “ and “horizon” in the different Bibles is the same word used for circle in Isaiah 40:22. The ancient Hebrews would have gotten the idea of a circular earth by viewing the horizon from the top of a mountain.



(The Hebrew word translated as "circle" in Isaiah 40:22 is chuwg, which means "circle" not "sphere." Strong's Concordance: "circle"..."describe a circle." Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament: "Circle...the earth conceived as a disc, Is 40:22." Hebrew-Aramaic and English Lexicon of the Old Testament: "draw round, make a circle." If Isaiah actually meant "sphere" he could have used the Hebrew word duwr, meaning "ball" as he did in Isaiah 22:18.)



(But what is particularly significant is that the Jewish scholars who translated the Hebrew scriptures into the Greek Septuagint during the third century B.C. used the Greek word gyron--γῦρον, meaning circle--for their translation of the Hebrew chuwg, instead of "sphaíra," meaning sphere. So those scholars CLEARLY understood what Isaiah was saying, in contrast to those today who ignorantly say that chuwg means "sphere.")



Underneath the flat disk of the earth is the abyss, the bottomless pit, which is referred to several times in the Bible (ex. Rev. 9:1,2).



That is also what is being referred to in Job 26:7 when it says that the earth hangs over nothing. (The Hebrew word translated "upon" in the KJV also means "over.") The actual sphere of the earth in space is not "suspended' or "hanging" "over" or "upon" nothing. It is orbiting the sun at 66,700 miles per hour. If the earth can be considered "hanging" over anything, it is the sun, which certainly is NOT nothing.



Several other verses in the Bible also indicate the earth is flat, such as Nebuchadnezzar's vision in Dan 4:10-11 (the tree could not be seen from all the earth if it were not flat). Dan 2:28 states that the visions of Nebuchadnezzar are from God. If the biblical god says the biblical earth is flat, it must be flat.



The original Hebrew word translated as firmament is raqiya, which is a noun derived from the Hebrew word raqa. That word is a verb meaning "to beat out," and is used in the bible in reference to beating out metal into plates or expanses of the metal (as in Exodus 39:3). So raqiya, as a noun, would literally mean "that which is beaten out."



The biblical firmament, or sky, is therefore a solid, beaten out expanse or vault set on the rim of the flat disk of the earth. That is confirmed in Job 37:18, which states:



"Can you beat out the vault of the skies as he does,

hard as a mirror of cast metal?" (New English Bible).



There, the Hebrew word translated as "beat out" (or "spread out" in other versions) is, as noted above, raqa.



The solid, or firm, nature of the biblical firmament is also indicated by Proverbs 8:27-28:



27. When he established the heavens...

28. When he made firm the skies above... [ASV, ESV, NRSV, NASV, NAB]



The Hebrew word translated as "firm" there is amats, which has a meaning of "be hard".



The solid vault of heaven is also implied in verses such as Deut 4:32:



"Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created man on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of?"



The "ends of heaven" would be the base of the vault of heaven where it rests on the rim of the disk of the earth.



See also Ps 19:1-6, Isaiah 13:4-5, and, particularly, Matt 24:31, which states Jesus as saying:



"And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other."



The elect are those on the earth who will be saved in the last days. Jesus is saying there that the angels would gather the elect from all over the earth, from one side, or end, of the base of the vault of heaven to the other side or end, from the east, west, north, and south, which is what the reference to the four winds means.



Isaiah 34:4 likewise indicates that the firmament is solid rather than being the upper atmosphere or the emptiness of space.



"the skies will roll up like a scroll,

and all the stars will fall"



The material making up the vault of the firmament will roll up, and the stars that were attached to it will fall to the earth.



The solid vault of heaven has a specific purpose in the Bible. As Genesis chapter one indicates, the whole cosmos consisted of water before the creation process began. Before god created the earth on the fourth day, he created the firmament of heaven on the second day.



6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so.



So that passage clearly indicates that the purpose of the solid firmament was to hold back the waters above the heaven. Furthermore, those waters continued to exist in the biblical cosmos, as indicated by Psalm 104:1-3 and Psalm 148:4. Also, the firmament of heaven has windows that are opened to let the water above the firmament fall as rain, as indicated by Genesis 7:11 and 8:2,



The stars in the biblical cosmos are just lights set in the firmament. As mere lights in the sky, they will fall to the earth in the Last Days (Matt 24:29), which conflicts with finding that the actual stars are other suns and many times larger than the earth.



So, according to the Bible the earth is a flat, immovable disk, supported by pillars and covered with a solid vault of heaven, the rim of which is is resting on the perimeter of the disk of the earth, and the stars are just lights set in the vault of heaven.



That this is the correct view of the biblical cosmos is shown by the fact that it describes a structure with parts that are fully consistent with each other. That structural consistency indicates that it accurately represents the cosmos as conceived by the ancient Hebrews and as its writers incorporated that view in the Bible.



In addition, according to the Bible, earth is the centerpiece of creation and in the Last Days god will destroy the earth and the heavens as part of his plan for mankind. (2 Peter 3:10)



Is that really realistic considering the vastness of the universe and the enormous number of galaxies? In the actual universe that science has uncovered, the earth is an insignificant mote, even more insignificant than the size of an atom is with respect to the size of the earth.



It is the height of geocentric idiocy to think that the whole universe was created merely for the sake of the earth and its inhabitants. All of which goes to show that the cosmos of the Bible does not exist, and therefore the god who created it does not exist.



So, if one fully accepts the modern, present-day view of the universe as factual, then one would have to conclude that the Bible reflects the ignorant, myth-based beliefs of its writers and is not the word of god.





In addition, there is further evidence from the Bible that it is just a conglomeration of myth, superstition, embellished histories, phony and false prophecies, and fabrications.



See my answers to the questions in source below for examples.

Answer 7

Over 90% of the world belongs to a religion who believes in a God or Gods, according to Wikipedia.org, list of world’s religions.



And science, the study of the material world, uses evidence to prove or disprove theories.



Religion is not science. Religion is spiritual in nature, prayer, meditation, is not provable. God is a spiritual being. There is no proving or not proving God.

Answer 8

Even if you don't think about God, God lives.

Answer 9

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He does exsist and his grace is abundant! Your missing out profoundly. Try opening your heart in sincere prayer, reading the Bible and going to church on Sundays. His sheep hear his voice and follow him! Faith is a gift. Pray Father help my unbelief!

Answer 10

Yes surely

Answer 11

Common sense dictates that God exists.

Answer 12

You exist. God lives. He offers you the same....

Answer 13

Yes, there is a God, but of course simply saying that God exists does not mean there is one. The existence of God has been debated for centuries. Atheists deny him, or say they “lack belief in God.” We Christians, of course, not only believe in God but also claim to have a relationship with him through the person of Jesus Christ who has been revealed in the four Gospels of the New Testament.

These four Gospels are historical documents that tell us who he was and what he did. They let us know that he claimed to be God in flesh. Consider Exodus 3:14 of the Old Testament when Moses asked God what his name was, God responded with, “I am that I am. Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, I am has sent me to you.” In John 8:58 Jesus said, “...before Abraham was, I am.” Whatever you might think of Jesus, according to the Gospels he claimed to be God. So, if you believe Jesus, then God exists.

Proving that God exists is another matter. But, you see, proof is for mathematics and logic. How do you “prove” there is a Great Being outside of our universe? Do we look for footprints in a riverbed? Do we examine evidence under a microscope and say, "A ha! There's God!"? That would be the wrong approach. If God exists, he would be beyond our universe, non-material, and transcendent. So, we would have to look for evidence that is consistent with a non-material and transcendent being.

Atheists err when asking for material evidence to prove God's existence

http://carm.org/atheist-error-asking-for-material-evidence-for-god



Some have proposed that the Transcendental Argument for God’s existence demonstrates that God exists.

http://carm.org/transcendental-argument



Others have stated that the Cosmological Argument is sufficient. Check out the links and judge for yourself.

http://carm.org/cosmological-argument





Whatever argument you might accept or deny, it seems that your presuppositions are what determine if you believe in God or not. Atheists, of course, presuppose that God does not exist - by faith. They can't "know" he doesn't exist, nor can they prove that in all the universe (or outside of it) there is no God. But, their atheism means they will deny any evidences or explanations used to affirm his existence. On the other hand, Christians who claim to have an encounter with God rely on the revelation of Scripture to tell them who Christ is and who God is.

I have to ask, how could there not be a God? Look around you. The heavens declare the glory of God (Psalm 19:1). Consider the vastness of the universe, the perfection of the balance of life, and the incredible complexity of the information structures in DNA. Are we to believe that the super-complex information structures in the DNA molecule are the result of chance? Is life an accident? What about beauty? Is it nothing more than a chemical reaction in the brain? What about morality? Are there any moral absolutes such as, “It is always wrong to torture a baby to death merely for one’s personal pleasure”? Or, is such a moral absolute nothing more than the result of chemical reactions in our brains? If so, how does one chemical reaction which leads to another chemical reaction produce moral absolutes or even logical absolutes? Is it easier to conclude that such truths are the result of chemical reactions and brain wiring, or that they are authored by God? Is morality merely the situational-based whims of people’s preferences? Is the beauty of a sunset and the wonder of a new born baby's precious life a byproduct of the survival of the fittest?



Ask yourself if you believe that the miracle of life is produced from the purposeless motion of atoms that have led to the incredible super-complexity of DNA (it cannot happen by chance). Ask yourself if the universal revulsion to murder is an evolutionary byproduct or an innate obligation to do what is right. If morality has absolutes, it implies an absolute moral giver. But if morality is not absolute, then everything is subjective and there is no right and wrong. What do you think?



The vast majority of people all over the world believe there is a God – but of course, that doesn’t mean God exists. Still, there is something within us, something that cries out for meaning, purpose, and direction, and we naturally look to God for their fulfilment. Atheistic evolution doesn't do it.



Some people have said that the reason people believe in God is because societies have brainwashed children into believing he exists. But how do we know it isn’t the other way around? What if atheists are brainwashed by societies into believing that God does not exist? Which is it?



Again, is our universe and our existence the product of randomness in chance, or is it the product of purpose and design? Which makes more sense when we look at beauty, purpose, morality, compassion, kindness, grace, and love?



We have a tendency to know there is something beyond us because we realize that our own insufficiencies and failures cause us to reach out to something greater than ourselves. That’s why we enjoy superheroes in movies and like to listen to news accounts of miraculous, selfless deeds done by normal people. There is something in us that calls out to that which is greater than we are. There is something that makes us feel bad when we lie, cheat, and steal. Why is that? Why do we have this impulse for moral truth, human greatness, truth absolutes, and personal purpose? Are they the result of cold, mechanical principles of an uncaring universe wrapped up in brain chemistry, or are they the interweavings of the truth of God's existence that we encounter within our own souls?

So, is there a God? Yes there is. He is specifically revealed to us in the Bible, and more specifically in the person of Jesus Christ. If you want to encounter the true and living God, you’ll find him revealed in the Bible. Read the gospels that speak of Jesus. He is the representation of God in flesh, John 1:1,14; Heb. 1:1-3.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...and the word became flesh and dwelt among us..." (John 1:1,14).

"God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, 2 in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. 3 And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power," (Heb. 1:1-3).



http://carm.org/does-god-exist

The case for the Creator.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajqH4y8G0MI

Answer 14

No