Do you believe in god? why?
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YES, because... yes it is.
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You go girl! You believe in whatever you want to, whatever feels right to you. And dont ever let anyone try and tell you your beliefs are wrong, just because they may be different than others.\n\nMe, personally, i believe in GOD. But i dont go to church, or preach, or all that stuff. I believe, and thats all that matters to me. I dont need to put on an 'act' for people to think i am a good Christian or anything. I am who i am.
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No, there is no god.\nThe only thing there is to believe in, is yourself.
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I don't believe that any god is real.\n\nAnd to those who reply that it is a choice:  Sorry, but it isn't.  Either you are convinced or you are not convinced.  You can no sooner choose to believe that a god exists than you can choose to really, deep down, believe that the moon is made of green cheese.  Try it sometime.\n\nAnd to those who reply that they believe because of their feelings:  Sorry, but feeling something does not make it real.  If you really want to believe something is real, you will feel it is real, and that goes for anything.  Emotions don't affect reality.  Things are not true just because you want them to be true.\n\nAnd to those who reply that they believe because of miracles or prayers being answered:  Sorry, but attributing things that happen in your life to a god doesn't make that god real.  When people want something to be real, they will look for evidence or manufacture evidence for it being real.  They may not even realize they are doing this.\n\nAnd yes, belief in a god can be used as a crutch to improve your life.  That doesn't make it anything more than a crutch.
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god may exist depending on your religeous  beliefs.same goes for the devil.however if your a bit skeptical of these beliefs you may be one of those other people who belive science provides an explanation to everything.
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As I have heard others say, "I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out there wasn't a God, than to live my life as if there is no God, and find out there was a God."  Proof is all around you--if you look for it, and if you believe, you will see.  God does exist.
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Sure God exists. One simple questions you can ask anyone who does not believe in god is: Who created the initial energy that triggered the Big Bang. Scientists cannot answer this question because they do not know the correct answer, or maybe they know it but theyjust don't want to say it. The only correct explanation is that God created it. And this explains the existence of God. But I think that we, humans should please him for all his work and we should pray to him. But that goes into another debate on which religion we should follow. But just remember something: There is one God who has created everything and it is he we should be thankful to.
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I believe in God but not in the traditional sense. To be honest, I've asked your very same question many times before. To understand it, I looked around me to see the natural order of life; how things worked and the cycles there are. Personally, I don't believe we were created in God's image. I don't believe that we are his only creation or his/her greatest creation, for that matter. The way I choose to view creation is simple; every thing is purpose oriented. Like a sports team, every player/ component/ creature, is an equally important part. Our lives however grand or simple, are part of an incomprehensible mass of life called creation. Creation being every thing from the stars to the microscopic germs on our hands. All things are of different masses and scales. The only thing that all things share is that, they exist. Think of it this way; solar systems are comprised of planets, galaxies comprised of solar systems, a universe comprised of galaxies. We and the world we live in are a small piece of possibly an infinite space. I don't know what our purpose is in life but all I know is, we are supposed to be alive. Every piece of all creation, is like a gear in a machine; each gear turning the other to make some thing move or react. It would be very egotistical and narrow-minded to believe that we are all that there is. Especially considering there is evidence to support the contrary. Every time you see a dog, bird, cat, cow, worm, what ever, that tells you that we're not all that there is. Heck, every time more dinosaur fossils are dug-up, that proves there was life, long before we existed. So we are just another in a long line of creatures. No more or no less special than our predecessors or our future successors. I view our lives as part of an experiment. God wants to know what we'll do; what things we will discover; what horrors we will create, how long we will last, how far we will take our selves. To what end? I don't know. But we, like every thing else, exists to simply live. We do what we want with our life. In my opinion, God does not feel good or bad about the things we do. He/she wants to know how things pan out. We're important to he/she because we are a part of him/her. God is some thing we cannot really understand. God is our creator but beyond that, that's all we know. What is the use of God, you ask? What is the use of anything? To me, to be alive is use enough. We have the ability to do great things. Our lives are what we make of them. God or the idea of God, perhaps is a constant reminder that there is always some thing beyond what we know. In a way, that guides us to the answers to our questions. Well, that's not a diffinitive answer in the least but I'll say this; if I did have the answer, I'd be a very rich man!
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Wow, good question!\n\nFirstly, your question is concerned with the idea that God believes in Himself. If He believes in Himself then He still has one believer. But then anyone of us could believe that we are God, which is why I would prefer to use the definition of God as our creator.\n\nSince you are asking 'can there be a God if...' can we first start with the assumption that there is a God, and he does have believers? If you can accept this idea, then it should be quite easy to accept that He doesn't just cease when people stop believing. He still created us, even if the creations reject him.\n\nOf course it depends what you mean by 'be'! If we don't talk about, or know about, God, then what would be the point in there 'being' a God. If he has no point, then is his existance still relevant?\n\nI've asked more questions than I have answered, but I hope this gives you something to chew on!
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I am Christian and I recognize everyone believes in God. Even atheists, but they believe themselves god in a different way than theists think of God.\n\nHowever, some people may believe in a false God. Couldn't that be true?\n\nSo you are correct in that it is a great starting point to springboard into the truth of Jesus Christ being God.\n\nthanks for the question.
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I believe in the God of the Bible. None of your definitions encapsulated that entirely. Somewhere between 1.and 2.
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My not believing in god comes from me. I was raised to think, believe whatever I wanted. I was exposed through my life to most religions, beliefs, sciences, and theories. After looking at all, I chose. I used logic, and observations to make my decision, atheism was the choice. I came into life a clean mind with no beliefs, and over time made my own, but only after many years. Most of the theories I believe are my own, and I am the only one who believes them. The only influence on my beliefs is me, my thought.
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I believe in God by reason and revelation. Reason: this world is so perfectly balanced it could not be an accident. Can you look at a beautiful sculpture and say it happened by accident? No, someone created it! Revelation: the Bible!\nAnd yes I attend Mass at a Catholic church often. I would definitely call myself Christian.
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God. (cheating) This explanation is what everyone eventually resorts to when the other answers fail. Now, before I go any further, I should make clear that I'm not talking about any of the gods defined in various religions. Throughout all of human history, we've been trying to explain existence. But nobody has ever succeeded. And it's likely that nobody ever will. So we create the concept of God, whose only necessary property is being "that which explains existence." \n\nThis doesn't tell us much about god, though. It doesn't mean that any particular religion is correct. It merely defines god as something which answers The Question, because we have not been able to.
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Yes, I believe in God. I believe in Yahweh, the God Who made the world and created it in six days but rested on the seventh, Who made man for His pleasure and companionship, Who punished Adam and Eve for their disobedience but Who also promised a Savior for mankind, and Who sent that Savior, Yeshua, to save people from their sin. I go to church usually 3 times a week, to Sunday school and regular services. I do this because I have done it my whole life and feel that it is necessary to be with other believers, especially because of attacks from the world. I read the Bible daily because I am trying to read it all in a year and it helps me focus and deal with life in a more positive way.
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I wish I could answer that with a Full Yes or a Full No but the thing is... I dont know! I chose to Believe in Good, and  I Chose to believe with my Heart. I know those are 2 things that have never let me down before. I wont believe everything I hear, or see because my heart, soul and spirit controls me... If its something that God himself wouldnt do or believe then nor would I.... That may sound stupid but its the best I can answer... Im sorry:(
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Atheist here (agnostic if considered deism and other non interventionist beings)\n\nI don't know why people answer whats' not being asked, if you don't feel like playing, why answer with something else?\n\nWell, if we are talking about the christian god, according to the belief, he already knows what's on my heart.\n\nAnyway, I am atheist because I am being honest with me and everyone around me. To say "I believe in god" would be a lie and I'd be an hypocrite.\n\nIf I have to give explanations to god, all I'd tell is "I honestly didn't believe you existed and I made a mistake", no further explanations needed. I'm sure that I live a moral life and I wouldn't feel like "excusing" me as if I've done something wrong.\n\nBye\n\nEDIT:\nI just saw what you proposed in another question: "People want to ease their conscience of sin by convincing themselves that there is no God."\n\nThat's a false assumption since I doubt you know what are everyone's motivations to do so. Does your religion allow you to judge people without proper knowledge?