Is God a myth or a fact?

Answer 1

Another answer from our community:It depends on what god you're talking about. But if you're referring to the One True God, than yes, He exists more than you do! He created the world, you, and everything you see. It's up to him how long you live and why. Read The Bible, and you'll see him speaking to you.

Answer 2

Yahweh, Jehovah, Elohim, hundreds of names for the tribal deities of the world. All tribes believed the Earth was flat, the Sun orbited the Earth, and their tribe was at the center of the Universe. Sadly, all is a myth. The Earth is not the center of the Universe or even the galaxy. We are so much wiser now than when racists ruled and all racists proclaimed their deity, their tribal god, to be the one and only true God.

Of course God is a myth. All tribes believed their race was the only and only true race. Sadly there are still people who believe that they are God's chosen people. This has led to wars and deaths of millions of innocent people. God does not protect the Jews. If he did then Adolph Hitler was an instrument of God to punish the Jews for not listening to God.

Answer 3

Explain it as you wish, but events such as the Holocaust are predicted in the Torah (Deuteronomy 32 and elsewhere).

• 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.

• 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."
• The glaring lack of transitional fossils has been noted by the evolutionists themselves, such as this statement from the famous paleontologist and evolutionist George G. Simpson; quote: "The regular lack of transitional fossils is not confined to primates alone, but is an almost universal phenomenon."
  "To the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation" (Corner, E.J.H., Contemporary Botanical Thought).
  
• "Nine-tenths of the talk of evolutionists is sheer nonsense, not founded on observation and wholly unsupported by facts. This museum is full of proofs of the utter falsity of their views. In all this great museum, there is not a particle of evidence of the transmutation of species" (Dr. Etheridge, Paleontologist of the British Museum).
  "To postulate that the development and survival of the fittest is entirely a consequence of chance mutations seems to me a hypothesis based on no evidence and irreconcilable with the facts. It amazes me that this is swallowed so uncritically and readily, and for such a long time, by so many scientists without murmur of protest" (Sir Ernest Chain, Nobel Prize winner).
  
• The fact that you need DNA to make DNA. No genetic code can be demonstrated to have arisen by chance, together with the ability to read that code and carry out its instructions. Information does not arise spontaneously; and there is an incredible amount of information in even the tiniest cell.
  "A living cell is so awesomely complex that its interdependent components stagger the imagination and defy evolutionary explanations" (Michael Denton, author).
  "The astounding structural complexity of a cell" (U.S. National Library of Medicine).
  Concerning a single structure within a cell: "Without the motor protein, the microtubules don't slide and the cilium simply stands rigid. Without nexin, the tubules will slide against each other until they completely move past each other and the cilium disintegrates. Without the tubulin, there are no microtubules and no motion. The cilium is irreducibly complex. Like a mousetrap, it has all the properties of design and none of the properties of natural selection" (Michael Behe, prof. of biophysics).

Answer 2

Regardless of whether you are religious, spiritual, or a particular denomination, or none at all. Whether you are a person of faith or do not believe in God, God is a matter of faith alone. You either choose to believe or not.

The irony is that whether or not you choose to have faith, God gave you that free will to choose.

GOD - FACT OR BELIEF

Interposed between our body (real world) and mind (brain) is the user

interface, using which we can control both our real world and mind.

The Complete Original User Interface of Life (COHIL), in the abstract form is what we call god.

Since the Complete Original Interface of Life of all human beings is the same, god is not a belief but an absolute fact.

We can use COHIL in complete or incomplete forms. In the complete form god is a fact. In the incomplete form god is a belief.

GOD - AS A FACT

1. If we use COHIL in its complete form, god is an absolute fact, independent of time place and person

2.This god is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient

3. It gives absolute freedom in life, which Hindus call Moksha.

4. It is absolutely reliable and therefore we accept it as an absolute fact.

GOD - AS A BELIEF

God in the complete form is ideal but not practical.

1. Even decades of dedication may not be enough to use god in the complete form.

2. Absolute freedom is not only unnecessary but also makes life very complicated.

3. It also makes both self and the society flaccid.

4. God need not have to be absolutely reliable because we can solve problems manually also.

Therefore, to make the use of god simpler, most options in the COHIL are blocked using code of conduct. This makes god simpler but less reliable. In this situation we must believe in god and not accept it as a fact. This means that we must have the manual option always ready.

Thus, in the incomplete form god is a belief.

ATHEIST AND GOD

If we use the COHIL in the manual form only, we would be Atheistic.

1. In the Atheistic way we can use just the central part of COHIL.

2. We have to solve one problem at a time

Atheism doesn't prove in anyway that god doesn't exist. It just proves that if we lead a simple life we don't need god.

It must be mentioned here that Buddhists use the central part of COHIL and Hindus use it in the complete form. This not only makes Buddhists Atheistic but it also makes their life grossly simple.

Thus,

1. God is a fact if we use our Complete Original Human Interface of Life in the complete form

2. God is a belief if we use COHIL in the incomplete form.

3.We won't need god if we use just the central part of COHIL manually.

Answer 3

I have read the entire Bible, most parts of it several times, and have sought explanations for everything that could be proof of a God. When carefully studied, the Bible becomes proof that God does not exist rather than proof that he does. I have familiarised myself with events of the biblical period and the views of others, both for and against the existence of God. I can say that he is not a fact.

Answer 4

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

• 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.

Link: 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.
  

Link: Ancient belief

• 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 events such as the Giving of the Torah to over two million people at Mount Sinai, which are underpinnings for the belief in God.
  

Link: Archaeology

• 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 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."