Do you believe in a god, if so why?

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I believe in Yahweh.
Why? I've got a big scar on my back. Lucky to be born, lucky to be alive.

Long story short: I wanted to know who this "God" I learned about at church was.
I wanted more than just reading the bible, I wanted God to be as real to me as He was to Moses, Abraham, Paul etc. I wanted to personally encounter Christ.

I got what I yearned for. And I'm now a Christian before anything else.
tl;dr I wanted god to be real so I convinced myself he was
No convincing dude. I won't believe or devote myself to a lie. So something very real had to happen for me to believe in God.

And that was...? Your not really offering up any evidence or your belief besides your 50/50 chance thing, which is just luck. Your telling me every time I flip a coin, it's a miracle if it lands on heads?
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I neither fear, nor despise.
I believe in Yahweh.
Why? I've got a big scar on my back. Lucky to be born, lucky to be alive.

Long story short: I wanted to know who this "God" I learned about at church was.
I wanted more than just reading the bible, I wanted God to be as real to me as He was to Moses, Abraham, Paul etc. I wanted to personally encounter Christ.

I got what I yearned for. And I'm now a Christian before anything else.
tl;dr I wanted god to be real so I convinced myself he was
No convincing dude. I won't believe or devote myself to a lie. So something very real had to happen for me to believe in God.

And that was...? Your not really offering up any evidence or your belief besides your 50/50 chance thing, which is just luck. Your telling me every time I flip a coin, it's a miracle if it lands on heads?
I have explained this multiple times. I didnt feel like typing it all out. It pretty much summed it up, I have plenty of anecdotal evidence for myself.


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What do ya know. Another God thread where atheists make fun of religious people!

Fucking lowlifes.


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What do ya know. Another God thread where atheists make fun of religious people!

Fucking lowlifes.

What do ya know. Another post from PSU complaining about atheists.

Business as usual.


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What do ya know. Another God thread where atheists make fun of religious people!

Fucking lowlifes.
Tbh you're doing the same to them, what's that about forgiveness and turning the other cheek?


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What do ya know. Another God thread where atheists make fun of religious people!

Fucking lowlifes.
Tbh you're doing the same to them, what's that about forgiveness and turning the other cheek?
#burn


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What do ya know. Another God thread where atheists make fun of religious people!

Fucking lowlifes.
Tbh you're doing the same to them, what's that about forgiveness and turning the other cheek?

What about it?


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What do ya know. Another God thread where atheists make fun of religious people!

Fucking lowlifes.

What do ya know. Another post from PSU complaining about atheists.

Business as usual.

Of course I'm complaining about them (you).

Whenever someone posts why they believe in God, you have 3 warrior atheists jumping out of the woodwork and making fun of them.

You're an atheist? Thats all good. Do you. Why do you guys feel the need to ridicule every religious person?



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"I've been battling with the struggle of love and anger and the anger has won. It's impossible for me to go back to the way I was. I've tried changing back but it didn't work. I still had it in me and doubt it will ever go away. I have no control over it anymore. It has become part of me."
I believe in Yahweh.
Why? I've got a big scar on my back. Lucky to be born, lucky to be alive.

Long story short: I wanted to know who this "God" I learned about at church was.
I wanted more than just reading the bible, I wanted God to be as real to me as He was to Moses, Abraham, Paul etc. I wanted to personally encounter Christ.

I got what I yearned for. And I'm now a Christian before anything else.
tl;dr I wanted god to be real so I convinced myself he was
No convincing dude. I won't believe or devote myself to a lie. So something very real had to happen for me to believe in God.

And that was...? Your not really offering up any evidence or your belief besides your 50/50 chance thing, which is just luck. Your telling me every time I flip a coin, it's a miracle if it lands on heads?
I have explained this multiple times. I didnt feel like typing it all out. It pretty much summed it up, I have plenty of anecdotal evidence for myself.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias


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What do ya know. Another God thread where atheists make fun of religious people!

Fucking lowlifes.

What do ya know. Another post from PSU complaining about atheists.

Business as usual.

Of course I'm complaining about them (you).

Whenever someone posts why they believe in God, you have 3 warrior atheists jumping out of the woodwork and making fun of them.

You're an atheist? Thats all good. Do you. Why do you guys feel the need to ridicule every religious person?
Except it's apparently not "all good" with you. Any time an atheist mentions something about the Pledge or "In God We Trust" on our money, for example, it's a problem for you.


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What do ya know. Another God thread where atheists make fun of religious people!

Fucking lowlifes.

What do ya know. Another post from PSU complaining about atheists.

Business as usual.

Of course I'm complaining about them (you).

Whenever someone posts why they believe in God, you have 3 warrior atheists jumping out of the woodwork and making fun of them.

You're an atheist? Thats all good. Do you. Why do you guys feel the need to ridicule every religious person?
Except it's apparently not "all good" with you. Any time an atheist mentions something about the Pledge or "In God We Trust" on our money, for example, it's a problem for you.
Yep, because atheists make those things a big deal when they really arent.

Its not really a problem in my book, just slightly annoying that atheists have nothing better to worry about. 


 
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What do ya know. Another God thread where atheists make fun of religious people!

Fucking lowlifes.

What do ya know. Another post from PSU complaining about atheists.

Business as usual.

Of course I'm complaining about them (you).

Whenever someone posts why they believe in God, you have 3 warrior atheists jumping out of the woodwork and making fun of them.

You're an atheist? Thats all good. Do you. Why do you guys feel the need to ridicule every religious person?
Except it's apparently not "all good" with you. Any time an atheist mentions something about the Pledge or "In God We Trust" on our money, for example, it's a problem for you.
Yep, because atheists make those things a big deal when they really arent.

Its not really a problem in my book, just slightly annoying that atheists have nothing better to worry about.
The fact that it's these "little" things we go after is a good thing. Atheists aren't being beheaded in the streets or being rounded up and executed. We have relatively few problems compared to other areas of the world, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't keep fighting for them.


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What do ya know. Another God thread where atheists make fun of religious people!

Fucking lowlifes.

What do ya know. Another post from PSU complaining about atheists.

Business as usual.

Of course I'm complaining about them (you).

Whenever someone posts why they believe in God, you have 3 warrior atheists jumping out of the woodwork and making fun of them.

You're an atheist? Thats all good. Do you. Why do you guys feel the need to ridicule every religious person?
Except it's apparently not "all good" with you. Any time an atheist mentions something about the Pledge or "In God We Trust" on our money, for example, it's a problem for you.
Yep, because atheists make those things a big deal when they really arent.

Its not really a problem in my book, just slightly annoying that atheists have nothing better to worry about.
America is a secular nation. It should not have lines in the pledge devoted to something not everybody believes in. I pledge allegiance to my country, not a fairy tale.

You want to be religious? That's fine with me, because I actually care about freedom. But do not think for a second that means your religion is important enough to be part of the pledge of to be on the money. Why not pledge allegiance to Zeus? No religion should hold power like that. If you impose your religion on me and I take it lying down, where does it end? America is the land of the free, not the land of the oppressive majority. Atheists should not to have to worship something they don't believe in, and those of other religions should not be forced to worship a god they don't believe in.  Religion does not belong anywhere but in your homes, minds, and places of worship. It has absolutely no place in the miltary or government.

I'd be more inclined to agree with you if you didn't refer to my beliefs as fairy tales.

But sorry, this is a place of freedom. If voters want religion recognized, its going to be recognized.

You seem like the type of dude to complain about the word "Christmas" being used in a local mall.


 
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The Omnissiah is the one true god.

But no, I don't. I'm not exactly an atheist though, just an apathist.


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What do ya know. Another God thread where atheists make fun of religious people!

Fucking lowlifes.

Hebrew discents*

Buddhists ain't go no problems here.


 
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I do believe in a single god. A god that cannot be found in any religious text, nor any modern religion worships it. My faith is my own to muster, and the higher being I believe upon has no name, no human traits, knows nothing about fear, love, sadness and happiness. It's not a god that answers or cares about prayers, as it's not a god that perceives such human things.

There's no god that I believe upon in truthfulness. Only my unending faith, my hopes, dreams, fantasies. That someday, somehow, I wish are realized. An image, an ideal, to simply counter my fears, nightmares and horrors, which I hope are never realized.

I can't describe in a proper way for others to understand. My "god" is not a supreme being, but only, a congregation of my spiritual faith towards my spiritual tuning, for myself, by myself, and will start and ending with my petty lifespan that is all but a speck in the unending sequence, and relativity of time.


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I do believe in a single god. A god that cannot be found in any religious text, nor any modern religion worships it. My faith is my own to muster, and the higher being I believe upon has no name, no human traits, knows nothing about fear, love, sadness and happiness. It's not a god that answers or cares about prayers, as it's not a god that perceives such human things.

There's no god that I believe upon in truthfulness. Only my unending faith, my hopes, dreams, fantasies. That someday, somehow, I wish are realized. An image, an ideal, to simply counter my fears, nightmares and horrors, which I hope are never realized.

I can't describe in a proper way for others to understand. My "god" is not a supreme being, but only, a congregation of my spiritual faith towards my spiritual tuning, for myself, by myself, and will start and ending with my petty lifespan that is all but a speck in the unending sequence, and relativity of time.

Druid..


 
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Everyone here should be praising the Sun.

Edit: just saw that this a was in #Serious, nvm
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I am always around, but never seen. I am often avoided, but you can't out run me. for I will come when you're old and grey, or maybe even the very next day. I will come with cold embrace, and give you rest with a chilled kiss on your face. I come in many forms of emotional state, whether it's irony, love, laughter, or hate. I am everyone's final fate.
Yeah, I believe in God wholeheartedly.
I'm not going to share the stories I have though. Pearls upon swine.


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No.  I did until I saw that God is just a crutch for people's suffering, and Satan is just a crutch for people to blame all of their wrongdoings on, and that religion itself is nothing but a money-making machine used chiefly to get people to submit to an authority they cannot see nor touch, in order to condition them into submitting to other, earthly authorities (the church, the state, etc.).


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Yeah, I believe in God wholeheartedly.
I'm not going to share the stories I have though. Pearls upon swine.

"I have evidence, but I'm not going to share it!"



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I believe in Yahweh.
Why? I've got a big scar on my back. Lucky to be born, lucky to be alive.

Long story short: I wanted to know who this "God" I learned about at church was.
I wanted more than just reading the bible, I wanted God to be as real to me as He was to Moses, Abraham, Paul etc. I wanted to personally encounter Christ.

I got what I yearned for. And I'm now a Christian before anything else.
I nearly died at birth.

DOCTORS saved me by performing surgery. Not god. Please don't thank some imaginary being if doctors saved your life by performing surgery on you too.
Doctors saved you, but they didn't save me.

I had a 50/50 chance and there was nothing they could do.

That's just it.  You recovered from a condition that is possible to recover from.  Their is nothing supernatural about that.  If you know you grew back a limb or regenerated from an explosion or something I could see but you just happened to survive a situation where survival was a possible outcome.  That's like guessing heads in a coin toss and being right and believing you're psychic.
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To say, 'nothing is true', is to realize that the foundations of society are fragile, and that we must be the shepherds of our own civilization. To say, 'everything is permitted', is to understand that we are the architects of our actions, and that we must live with their consequences, whether glorious or tragic.
Yeah, I believe in God wholeheartedly.
I'm not going to share the stories I have though. Pearls upon swine.

"I have evidence, but I'm not going to share it!"


Personal stories about how people found their belief in God really aren't something that are worth sharing in this context, because either people won't really care or they'll start going off on, "THAT WASN'T GOD, THAT WAS SCIENCE, YOU'RE A DUMB".

Because God forbid people be allowed to form their own personal beliefs and opinions.

I really find it funny though how so many internet Atheists claim to be persecuted and wronged by society, yet all I see on the internet is those Atheists persecuting others that have different beliefs.
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Too many occurrences have happened to the point where I simply cannot deny it. Not just that, but also all the people that temporarily die and are brought back to life. Why do they all talk about how they visited God and heaven while they were dead? I get that people make up stories, but there's so many stories like this coupled with the fact that even atheists wake back up as born again Christians. It's overwhelming evidence to me, and if you deny it you are simply in denial.

Because peoples minds can play tricks on them.  They have the thought of light engrained in their minds meaning visiting heaven so when it happens they take that as it must mean heaven exists.  Like how when watching scary movies at night some people swear they see monsters in the shadows.  They're psyche is just getting the best of them.  Do you believe in little green martians superior to humans as well?  There are lots of stories of people experiencing other worldly abductions.  That would raise the question of if humans are made in god's image how can these creatures be superior to us in intellect and other traits.


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I neither fear, nor despise.
I believe in Yahweh.
Why? I've got a big scar on my back. Lucky to be born, lucky to be alive.

Long story short: I wanted to know who this "God" I learned about at church was.
I wanted more than just reading the bible, I wanted God to be as real to me as He was to Moses, Abraham, Paul etc. I wanted to personally encounter Christ.

I got what I yearned for. And I'm now a Christian before anything else.
I nearly died at birth.

DOCTORS saved me by performing surgery. Not god. Please don't thank some imaginary being if doctors saved your life by performing surgery on you too.
Doctors saved you, but they didn't save me.

I had a 50/50 chance and there was nothing they could do.
And thankfully you made it through.

But it wasn't god. What about the kids that die at birth? You and me survived, but what about them? All part of his "divine plan"?

You're seeing things that aren't there because you want to believe everything is going according to plan and the world isn't this chaotic mess with no reason or rhyme. Any visions you've had of god or anything you've heard that you think is god, you're imagining/exaggerating or you have some sort of mental problem. Maybe even a tumor.

I don't have mental problems.
And I don't have much of an imagination anymore honestly.

Yes its all part of this ultimate plan. The world being chaotic, is part of the plan.
Why are things getting worse? Revelation tells you what happens.

All those kids who die at birth, yeah that's part of God's divine plan.
There is a reason they didn't survive. Your tempted to simply look at just the child and say "God didn't give them a chance." But maybe that child's death finally broke the mother's hardened heart?
Or caused the father to see that life isn't worth wasting?

I notice a common theme here. The users who don't believe are pretty prone to call the religious users retarded or claim that they have medical problems. Quit being so defensive over the fact that we have a hope you do not.



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But maybe that child's death finally broke the mother's hardened heart?
Or caused the father to see that life isn't worth wasting?

That's actually pretty messed up a loving and just god would kill someone's kid to give them a message.  I find it quite immoral actually.


 
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