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Don't think God exists.
Creation could exist.
God c = Invisible with a capital I for Invisible.
Air c = invisible with a small i for invisible.
Just because God ( could equal ) c = Invisible may not = that God may not = some - where.
Just because air c = invisible may not = that air may not be or = some - where.
Christmas c = on the way.
Hope you have a merry one.
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Opinions on God's existence:
"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson quoted by Gerard Straub in "Salvation for Sale"
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Actually, it is not really that simple. It could be that there really is a God and whether or not you believe in god or not has nothing to do with god's realness.
As the first answer stated, each of us has to decide for ourselves what we believe.
And consider this. Do you believe that evil spirits exist? If so, then why would it be difficult to believe that God and His angels exist?
The existence of God is a topic of much debate and personal belief. Some believe in the existence of a higher power based on faith, personal experiences, or philosophical arguments. Others do not believe in a higher power due to lack of evidence or philosophical reasons. It is ultimately a question that each individual must explore and come to their own conclusion about.
The existence of any intelligence or being beyond the physical world has never been demonstrated by any defendable scientific investigation. Real proof would require defendable and repeatable evidence. The results and the initial description would have to be evaluated by an uninvolved (neutral) party.
There are tens of proofs for God's existence. These have been recorded for centuries and are easy to look up. However, this subject ultimately becomes one of personal belief, since our possession of free-will mandates that it be possible to put forth arguments (fallacious or not) against every one of the proofs.
Here are a few.
1) Teleological Argument: The universe has definite design, order, and arrangement which cannot be sufficiently explained outside a theistic worldview. (This is how Abraham, without benefit of teachers, came to reject the chaotic world-view of idolatry and the possibility of Atheism). For example, theoretical physicist and popular science writer Paul Davies (whose early writings were not especially sympathetic to theism) states concerning the fundamental structure of the universe, "the impression of design is overwhelming" (Davies, 1988, p. 203).From the complexities of the human eye to the order and arrangement of cosmology, the voice of God is heard. God's existence is the best explanation for such design. God is the designer.Is there evidence against Evolution
God's wisdom seen in His creations
2) Anthropic Principle: The laws of the universe seem to have been set in such a way that stars, planets and life can exist. Many constants of nature appear to be finely tuned for this, and the odds against this happening by chance are astronomical. Professor Russel Stannard (a particle physicist) states: "The universe has been bent over backwards in order that intelligent life should exist...must have known we were coming."
3) Sensus divinitatus: The innate sense of the divine exists within all people. People and cultures of all time have, by instinct, sensed a need to believe in and worship something greater than themselves. No ancient society ever existed that did not believe in a supernatural power.
4) Tradition: There are historical events which cannot be explained without God. Many people have had personal experiences that turn them toward theism, but there are also historical events such as the Giving of the Torah to over two million people at Mount Sinai, which are underpinnings for the belief in God.
5) Pascal's Wager: Belief in God is the most rational choice due to the consequences of being wrong. If one were to believe in God and be wrong, there would be no consequences. However, if one were to deny God and be wrong, the consequences are eternally tragic. Therefore, the most rational choice is not agnosticism or atheism, but belief in God.
6) Logic. Why is there reality rather than nothing? Aside from God's creating it, there are only five options:
a) The universe is eternal and everything has always existed.
- Even atheists have abandoned this possibility, especially because it would violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
b) Nothing exists and all is an illusion. There is no reality; there is only nothing.
- This possibility, it should be obvious, is completely self-defeating. In order to even make such a proposition, the subject has to exist in some sense. If all is an illusion, where did the illusion come from? Even the solipsist, who does not believe in the existence of other minds, has to explain the genesis of his own mind.
c) The universe created itself. This is the idea that the universe and all that is in it did not have its origin in something outside itself, but from within.
- Like with the previous two, this makes a logical absurdity. It would be like creating a square triangle. It's impossible. A triangle by definition cannot be square. So creation cannot create itself as it would have to pre-date itself in order to create.
d) Chance created the universe. The odds of winning the lottery are not very good; but given eons of time, everyone will win. While the odds of the universe spontaneously appearing are not minuscule, could it happen, given enough time?
- This option is a dishonest sleight of hand that, like "survival of the fittest," amounts to nothing, because it implies that "chance" itself has quantitative causal power.
The word "chance" refers to possibilities. It does not have the power to cause those possibilities. It is nonsense to speak of chance being an agent of creation, since chance is not a force. "What are the real chances of the universe being created by chance? Impossible. Chance is incapable of creating a single molecule, let alone an entire universe. Why not? Chance is no thing. It is not an entity. It has no being, no power, no force. It can effect nothing because it has no causal power within it. It is a word which describes mathematical possibilities which, by the curious flip of the fallacy of ambiguity, slips into the discussion as if it were a real entity with real power, the power of creativity." (R.C. Sproul, Not a Chance. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1999.)
e) The universe is created by nothing. Simply put, nothing created the universe.
- The problem here is that it is either a repetition of option "a" (the universe is eternal) or fails due to the irrationality of "d." In our current universe, the law of cause and effect cannot be denied by sane people. While we often don't know what the cause of some effect is, this does not mean that there was no cause. When we go to the doctor looking for an explanation for the cause of our neck pain, we don't accept the answer "There is no cause. It came from nothing."
One problem with arguments in favour of the existence of God, is that exactly the same arguments can be used to prove the existence of Brahma or any other god. And no matter what god it is whose existence the supposed proofs are claimed to support, those proof can be shown to be invalid. So, whether or not God exists is a matter of faith, and faith alone.
God is no more likely to exist than the gods worshipped by the Hindus or even those worshipped by the ancient Greeks and Romans. There is not a shred of evidence for his existence, just as Christians are proud to say there is not a shred of evidence for the existence of the other gods.
Because of this, theologians have, over the centuries, devised philosophical arguments that attempted to prove the existence of God through the use of logic and the order that seems to exist in nature. All such arguments have been found to be flawed, leaving us with no proof that God exists - indeed no proof that any god exists. The conclusion is that God is not necessarily real and thus there may no longer be a reason to believe in him.
There are tens of proofs for God's existence. These have been recorded for centuries and are easy to look up. However, this subject ultimately becomes one of personal belief, since our possession of free-will mandates that it be possible to put forth arguments (fallacious or not) against every one of the proofs.Link: Is there evidence against Evolution
b) Nothing exists and all is an illusion. There is no reality; there is only nothing.
- This possibility, it should be obvious, is completely self-defeating. In order to even make such a proposition, the subject has to exist in some sense. If all is an illusion, where did the illusion come from? Even the solipsist, who does not believe in the existence of other minds, has to explain the genesis of his own mind.
c) The universe created itself. This is the idea that the universe and all that is in it did not have its origin in something outside itself, but from within.
- Like with the previous two, this makes a logical absurdity. It would be like creating a square triangle. It's impossible. A triangle by definition cannot be square. So creation cannot create itself as it would have to pre-date itself in order to create.
d) Chance created the universe. The odds of winning the lottery are not very good; but given eons of time, everyone will win. While the odds of the universe spontaneously appearing are minuscule, could it happen, given enough time?
- This option is a dishonest sleight of hand that, like "survival of the fittest," amounts to nothing, because it implies that "chance" itself has quantitative causal power.
The word "chance" refers to possibilities. It does not have the power to cause those possibilities. It is nonsense to speak of chance being an agent of creation, since chance is not a force. "What are the odds of the universe being created by chance? Impossible. Chance is no thing. It is not an entity. It has no being, no power, no force. It can effect nothing because it has no causal power within it. It is a word which describes mathematical possibilities which, by a curious flip of the fallacy of ambiguity, slips into the discussion as if it were a entity with real power, the power of creativity." (R.C. Sproul, Not a Chance. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1999.)
e) The universe is created by nothing. Simply put, nothing created the universe.
- The problem here is that it is either a repetition of option "a" (the universe is eternal) or fails due to the irrationality of "d." In our current universe, the law of cause and effect cannot be denied by sane people. While we often don't know what the cause of some effect is, this does not mean that there was no cause. When we go to the doctor looking for an explanation for the cause of our neck pain, we don't accept the answer "There is no cause. It came from nothing."
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Romans 1:20
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Yes of course he does
Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician, philosopher, and theologian, is credited with this idea, known as Pascal's Wager. He argued that it is rational to believe in God, as doing so may lead to eternal rewards, while disbelief carries the risk of eternal punishment.
He is a non-existent. My 'feelings' about a deity are neutral; I'm not convinced that the deity exists. I am open to possibilities but very skeptical. I am an agnostic. (another user's thoughts about god) I think that god does exist and he is ALWAYS helpful to me. God NEVER lets me down!
"God is eternal" means that God exists outside of time and is not limited by time constraints. God has always existed and will always exist, without a beginning or an end. This belief is central to many religious traditions.
Chemical formulae exist to describe the composition of real things. Christians and most other religions describe their various gods as being supernatural and not made of matter. Atheists deny the existence of any god(s). In either case a chemical composition cannot be described for anything not made of real matter or which does not exist. Accordingly, there is no chemical composition for "God" or any other supernatural being.
Beliefs about the nature of God vary among different religions and individuals. Some people believe that God is external, existing separately from humans, while others believe that God is internal, residing within each person as a source of guidance or spiritual connection. Ultimately, views on this topic depend on one's personal beliefs and religious or spiritual traditions.
No one has proven that God does not exist.
If a father (God) doesn't exist, then no son can exist.
not necessarily; polytheism means that many types of God, or no God can simultaneously exist.
If you choose to believe in a god, they exist because he wanted them to exactly as they are. He doesn't allow them to exist, he wants them to exist.
It explains that prayers to a god are not always answered, not that a god does not exist. However, if the god in question meets some criteria that would allow an expectation for all prayers to be answered, it does not exist.
According to the Christian teachings both God and the demons do exist.
He does exist like God
they exist because GOD created them
yes, god does exist
god does not exist
We do not even know that God exists, and this is just a matter of faith. We therefore can not 'know' that angels, the biblical messengers of God, exist.
The majority have two angles.Agnostic: Those who believe God does not exist but are open to proof.Atheist: Those who believe God does not exist