This is for a Science Fair Project, I would like honest answers and i will use all input in my findings. I NEED 100 responses. Send friends! Thanks for your help and input.\n\nDo you believe in God or a Supreme Being / Creator? (Expound)\n\nHow many times do you go to church? (Weekly, monthly, yearly) Why?\n\nDo you read your “religious book”? (Often&#92; weekly&#92; daily) Why?
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I believe there IS a Supreme Being...God because I was raised with a religious background and honestly feel that someone/thing had to be responsible for creating our earth.\nI go to church weekly because it gives me peace and a bonding with others. And I read the Bible regularly during the week because, as the prior answer states, it gives me comfort and peace. Hope my answers helped!
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yes of course i believe in God... he is the almighty creator...\npeace out:)
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I can't tell if you really want an answer or not.  \n\nIf you really are ready to hear the answer, here it is:\n\nLet's get back to basics.  There is no "her" as a god.  There is only one God, and He has come to us in three ways to have three functions.  God is the Creator, and Jesus is the Savior, and the Holy Spirit is the Comforter.  \n\nWhat is the point of this life on earth?  We are put here to make a choice.  Are we going to choose God or not?  God has a mass amount of love for each one of His creation- even if they are not in love with Him, even if they ignore His creation as a witness that He exists, even if they try to analyze their life away without just admitting they can't make it on thier own.  That is how Satan fell.  Pride.  It is a great barrier.  The meaning of life is to become Christlike.  \n\nGod is not controlled by time because He is not in the physical realm.  He knows what our choice will be.  Think about that- He knows that He is going to have His own Son die just so that a person's sins can be covered, and that person says "no, thanks".  He still goes through with it.  He still creates that person.  It is amazing to ponder.  \n\nOur own choice takes us away from God.  In this life, it means that we will live a life that always has an empty spot in it.  We choose not to turn to God even when we are alone and He is there, with His arms open just wanting to carry us through our trials.  In the life after death, choosing to say "no" to God means an eternity without God- out of His presence.  Nashing of teeth, etc.  Hell doesn't sound very hospitable.  \n\nHowever, God is still there.  No matter how many times we reject Him.  If this is you, you can always start now.  No matter what you have done, God has passion for you.  He is on your side.  I encourage you to call out to Him now.  "God- I've been totally denying your being.  I'm so sorry.  Please reveal yourself and your love to me.  I want to run to you.  Open my heart to see your amazing creation.  Help me to meet people who can guide me to you.  Open my heart and eyes to the price that Jesus paid so that you throw my confessed sins away as far as the east is from the west.  Thank you."  Get a Bible, or check one out from a library.  It doesn't have to be the King James Version (although that is a fine version).  Find a biblical church in your area where you feel like you can ask the pastor all of your questions.  Church is not only for the already saved Christian.  \n\nI've already been praying for you.
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My husband and I believe in God and have faith in Jesus, not religion. Both of us have tried different religions throughout our lives but it seems like they all have negative aspects. We feel that we don't have to associate with any particular church or religion to have a relationship with God and we are much happier for it. We also believe that since God created this earth, then God is everywhere, so why should we have to confine our worship to a building or on a particular day?
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Wow:  Thanks for the info about the DNA.  For those readers that wondered how the world comes into being without God creating what He alone is able and willing, such info as the DNA, let alone the rest of the whole complex of Created mass and masterpieces, it rests on this issue.  You see, you think, and you understand.  OR you see, and refuse to see, you think and you refuse to think, and you refuse to understand.  Part of that matter of Free choice.  The simple fact is, what you choose to believe is also part of the gift you were given in Creation.  You believe or not, and amazing, it gives you a part in the rest of the community.  There are adequate numbers of unbelievers, that will all affirm your faithlessness, just as there are adequate numbers of believers who will affirm your believe in pagan cult, just as there are adequate numbers of believers in Islam, or Christianity or any other form religion.  Numbers however, doesnt affirm factuallity.  Flat world theorists believe it.  Round world hanging in space believe it.  Sun circling the earth believers affirm it, as do earth circling the sun believers affirm their bit of observation.  \n   Did Noach go searching for the animals?  No, the Text says, according to Moses, affirming that GOd instructed him to write, that God caused the animals to come to the ark.  Noachs job was to build it and stock it with grain and grass, as all the animals would eat vegetarian while aboard, including Noach and family.  Is that possible?  Depends on how you view and believe.  Impossible for those who refuse to believe that GOD was involved.  Possible for those that choose to believe in such miracle process or natural process.   It is all amazing, no matter what you believe.  If you believe God created, thats amazing.  From my point of view thats acceptable.  What would be more amazing is to try to figure out how all this world in all its complexity came into being without a Creator God, since it is obviously more complex than any human can contrive.  Heck,,,we cant even create a blade of grass from nothing, let alone a human eye..or the rest of a human being.\n   The story of the group of scientists who were all working on a grand assignment, to duplicate life...and one day they all agreed, they had done it.  Accomplished the grand impossible,  they had developed a life form in a petri dish.   Eureka they shouted...we did it.  We dont need GOD any more.   THEN GOD SAID :  Now, try it without anything:  No dirt, no fire, no water, no air and no petri dish.
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To answer the second question first: to truly BE God, He cannot have been created. He MUST be eternal, without beginning, without end.\n\nWhy do I believe in Him?\n\nA) Read St. Thomas Aquinas arguments (ontological, teleological, etc.) for the existence of God. You will find them in the first volume of his Summa Theologica.\n\nB) I am a degreed theologian, a degreed anthropologist, and a degreed geologist (admittedly only a Masters in geology).\n\nC) The ONLY alternate explanation to creation by God is random chance and mathmatically random chance is insufficient to explain the phenomenon of random chance. If it cannot even explain itself how can it possibly explain creation? Not logical.\n\nD) From personal observation I have witnessed people and events profoundly altered by faith in ways that modern science cannot even begin to explain. Though I do NOT take these as prima facie evidence of the existence of God, I DO accept them as superior evidence of what kind of Deity He IS.\n\nE) As a theologian and a scientifically trained individual I am more aware then most of HOW the universe, and man, really works. I understand the "problem" of good and evil. For me, there is no problem.\n\nF) Scripture says that God has written His law upon our hearts. Perhaps our cultural choices reflect that. We DO tend to prefer a society that operates under the law, rather than an anarchic approach to communal life.\n\nG) My body and brain chemistry being the fount of emotions present no problem to faith either. When you're dealing with a being both material and spiritual there of necessity MUST be a way to link the two disparate elements. Perhaps enzymes, pheromones, and chemical components are the means by which God accomplishes this delicate task.\n\nH) In the end, though, it is faith that rules. Knowledge can take one only so far, and if you use it for your journey you will find that the more you know about creation at all levels and in every aspect of its being, the closer you can come to God. But it is ultimately a "leap of faith" that will carry you into His Presence. And then only if you really want to go there.  I went. I liked. I stay.
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I had some very personal unexplained experiences that helped me.  I'm not religious though. I believe religion is politics and people. I love God and I believe in the virgin birth, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.  I was not raised with any sort of Christan up bringing.  I also do not currently attend church. I was hurt by people there. I still love God and Jesus, they did not hurt me.  I want a church that is a reflection of heaven...all races, gay and straight, bikers, rappers, prostitutes, homeless, rich and poor, skinny and fat and everything in between, no judgments everyone just doing their best to be more like Christ. Sometimes we get it right and sometimes we will fail miserably but in this church it will be OK to fail. You'll admit it and do better next time and the people will love you and encourage you just the same.  If you know where this church is let me know, I've got to meet these people.
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holy.........haha. well, at least you believe greatly in your disbelief.......you a lawyer? or should be one anyways. so if you were, would you put someone on the stand and ask them to swear on the bible? hmmmm.....i believe in god. cept i call him creator. i believe there is a spirit world.......were we all evolved from. but, i ain't going on and on about  that. i'm not trying to convince anyone of anything. but.....i just thought there was so much effort put into your question.........a great belief in presenting your disblief
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Do u believe I exist???\nwell U never saw me, but here I am!!\nAnswering ur question!!!\n\nI say, I can believe that some one the SUPREME ONE, THE GOD, exists because I can see many of his creations.....\nHE left signs for us to observe his existance.\nHe dosent need to be in front of us....\n\nwell there is someone who created u, BUT who??\nIts GOD ofcourse !\nwho is multiplying ur cells dayby day[that u r growing older]???\nGOD is!\n\nWho created the mountains???\nGOD!\nWho created universe??\nGOD !\nDon't u think how is it possible with out any superbeing, that every planet is moving in predefined orbits from long ago.\nwhy don't they collide with each other....\nObviously someone super-being is controlling all this..\n& THAT is GOD!\n\nI can see all these things & lot more...\nSo I say that GOD exists......\n\nAll these things which athiests qoute that the planets are not colliding with each other coz there is centripetal & centrifugal forces which keep them in their orbit....\n\nBut don't u think where those forces came from??????\n\nWho created those forces among planets????\n[I say that those forces are actually created as signs to understand how the planetary system is working]\n\nThe athiests say the storing of large info in DNA is just a creation of evolution...\nI am quoting from a website,\n\n.       http://yourgodisimaginary.com/i37.htm\n\n"As we saw in Proof #25, however, there is no "creator" for DNA. The creator is evolution. No intelligence is required to encode DNA. Instead, the information in DNA is the result of natural selection acting upon random mutations, rather than the actions of a "being" like God."\n\nit says\n"NO INTELLIGENCE IS REQUIRED TO ENCODE  DNA."\n\nIt means that any MAD man or even an infant can creat DNA & encode large info in it ...\nHell man!!!\nNOT even a single greatest SCIENTIST dead or alive could ever generate a single DNA from scratch....\n\n\nwho can do this??\nONLY GOD....\n\n \nSO Why do the athiests think that way????\nWhy do they deny GODs existance???\n\n\nBUT now I come to some conclusion...!\nAgain from the same text, from the site, which says in between that,\n"  however, there is no "creator" for DNA. The creator is evolution  "\n\nWhat do these athiests want to display???\nthat they are unsure ....????\nof what they are uttering out of their mouth???\nremaining within senses???\n\nfirst they say "there is no creator", then they say "the creator of DNA is EVOLUTION"...\n\nThe athiests are not clear in their own minds whether there is some creator or not....\n& afterall they actually BELIEVE in their heart, that there is some creator[ofcource GOD] atleast, who created DNA[from scratch].\n\nI think these athiests actually BELIEVE that GOD exists, \nBUT they name their GOD as EVOLUTION.....\n\nBecause their forefathers have been saying that GOD dosent exist,, & they now know that GOD actually exists ,BUT they don't want to be humiliated in front of the world... So they keep on saying that "GOD osent exist....\nEGO problem...!!!!
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Sometimes to see you have to believe first and at other times you have to see to believe.  I think just like everything else, both have their place in life.  I also think that's it's up to each individual when these principals are applicable.  Why do many believe who don't have proof, but depend on heresay?  Well, I believe (as I see it in people over and over again, including myself) that each of us are born with the spirit to know and understand God/Jesus and divine purpose.  When this proclivity is not correctly harvested and harnessed, we go with what "sounds" right or makes "sense".  I read somewhere, "if you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything."  This is probably what you're referring to.  I don't know......
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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 believe in rebirth. How do scientists explain child prodigies? Mmmm probably the data was downloaded when they were in the womb ! \n\nI think every religion has its own version -> of what happens after death <-. It is something which can only be experienced and not explained. Heaven and hell are concepts to keep people in check . If you are happy today you are in heaven and if you are depressed or sad you are in hell. Neither exist.\n\nIf god really loves everyone (which includes me) why cant he forgive me later? And what is good and bad ???? Relative terms.... Without knowing what bad is you dont know what good is. If everyone is good who is bad ? Then what happens to hell ? I dont even believe in sins. Can you show me one person who has not committed any of the 7 Sins? \n\nI think the best way to find the truth is stop idiosyncrasies. Search for GOD within yourself. See GOD in everyone , everything and everywhere. Jesus is in your heart dont wait for him, experience him . NOW.
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My name in Kim, and I am an unemployed part-time community college student. I am Wiccan, in case you'd like to know that, too. If you would like any further detail on anything, please feel free to contact me via my bio page.\n\n1. I worship a Father God and a Mother Goddess, but all deities of all religions exist.\n2. Nature is both spiritual and reality, and at the moment is stable, but if an imbalance were to occur, however, it could become chaotic.\n3. Humanity is biology in the physical sense, but the spirit, or soul, is what actually "lives."\n4. Whatever you believe comes after death is what will come after death for you. If Mary believes that she will go to Heaven when she dies, she will go to Heaven when she dies; if Joe believes in reincarnation, he will be reincarnated; if Lucy does not believe in an afterlife, than her body will decompose and she will cease to exist. Ghosts are the souls of people who have died and were/are unsure of what happens after death, and ghosts they will remain until they figure it out. Someone may also become a ghost if he/she dies before his/her ultimate goal (predetermined by fate) is completed, and a ghost he/she will remain until it is completed. Someone might also become a ghost if someone they leave behind is unable to let go, and ultimately holds him/her back from moving on to the afterlife. Personally, I believe I will be reincarnated, and have been before.\n5. Sometimes we THINK we know things that we really don't. Anything supernatural, including religion, cannot be proved nor disproved. No one can really KNOW whether any deity exists or not, or what happens to someone after they die, or how we all got here in the first place, etc. All that is determined by one’s faith.\n6. We decide for ourselves what is right and wrong; many take guidance from law or religion to help them decide; some are incapable of deciding for themselves and live directly under someone else's idea of morals.\n7. Everyone has a predetermined ultimate goal. Everyone is here to learn, and we do not have a set path, but set milestones. There are certain lessons that need to be learned, and certain goals that need to be fulfilled, which are different for every person. HOW we learn them or fulfill them is not set for us, because we create our own paths.\n\nI hope this helps you. :)
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Facts ... I believe in "God". I am not able to accept the Christian version of monotheism. I consider it illogical and it makes no sense to me. I do not lie awake at night not believing. The Bible is not perfect. It has been mistranslated by numerous translators in various translations. Christianity is not the worlds longest running religion. There was Judaism and Hinduism and several others prior to 2000 years ago that are still alive and well. You asked for facts. Those are facts. I'm not Christian. That doesn't bother me. You are Christian. That doesn't bother me either. Instead of worrying about others and their relationship with "God" or their lack of same maybe there's something else you need to be looking at? Just a thought. And that's a fact. :-)
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I love your question....\nNow I finally get a chance to show a side that a non-believer can see..\nI did not grow up in a family that had a belief system..\nBut yet something was there that pushed me \nI had no formal education on GOD \nBut yet something pushed me...\nI should have been dead atleast 4 times over \nBut yet I am still here and each time something pushed me...\n\n\n*I used to be a fence person . In the sense that I believed in a GOD but I wasn't really gonna give up anything just to believe..\nWhich of course I found out later that really the opposite is true.. You really don't give up that much..\nBecause this world doesn't have much to offer anyway..\n*I tried Budda, New Age. Sooo many self-help books that my mind started to get confused as to what was true..\n*I  have read the Quran...And read on Hindu beliefs...\n*I have gone it alone and investigated every possible scientific fact that life was not created ...I have read the BIBLE and correlated those facts with science...\n* I have done everything possible to make sure what I was doing was indeed the right thing...\n* I have lived on both sides of the railroad tracks.. I have been homeless,and did alot of other things that I am not proud of BUT thankful that I did do these things because without them , I wouldn't be where I am ...\n\nMy Belief system was not born on just reading the BIBLE and taking its words as gold.. \nI questioned everything ..I researched everything ( and I still am researching and studying :))of course now because I want to learn and not because I am trying to find a hole in the BIBLE.\n\nMy conclusions....\n\nNo way that our existence just is...\nNo big bang theory... ( that has been disproven by more than just one scientist )\nThe probability that the predictions of the BIBLE are wrong is impossible . Why because some of the predictions dated before the events ever happened...\nEvery prediction in the BIBLE that has thus far came true is impossible on a factual scale of precentages to happen.. In other words.. A phychic cannot make predictions 100% of the time and be correct.. They will be lucky if they get one right and thats probably chance...\nBut yet , if you read the prediction in the BIBLE ( especially the ones that have already happened) what are the odds that ALL of them have came true?? Like a zillion to 1...\n\nDO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ELSE WITH THAT KIND OF ODDS??\n\nI believe because there is indesputabel proof that GOD does exist.. \nJESUS DID WALK THIS EARTH..FACTS CANNOT LIE..\nWITNESSES DO NOT TELL LIES\nBesides , who in there right mind would die for another human being all soley based on 1 fact ...\nThat they believed in JESUS...\nWOULD ANY OF US DO THE SAME???\nThey seen JESUS . they walked with him, ate with him, communed and were taught by JESUS.... They knew him INTIMATELY...\nSOOO...\nWHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD DIE FOR A MAN IF HE WASN'T WHO HE SAID HE WAS AND STILL IS..\n\nIt just begs to be answered....\n\nSo why do I believe :\n\n1st because of proof...\n2nd because of my heart\nOne day I just had enough.. Enough of running and searching when all I had to do was stop and look.. Listen and hear,, GOD WAS RIGHT THERE AND I JUST KEPT MISSING HIM...\nafter I was saved , my life changed and I didn't even try to change it . It just did..\nThings in my life are not what they once were..\nMy prayers are answered \nMy family life is better \nMy life has meaning\nIts not a meaningless belief .. Its based on more than Faith alone.. Its based on Faith and Truth...\nI can say without a shadow of a doubt that if you do not believe or you sit on the fence like I did, Life is not as AWESOME as it is with JESUS.... \nI have been to both sides and been as close to hell as I care to get...\nand to me \nJESUS IS THE ONLY WAY....THE DOOR IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU .. JUST KNOCK AND HE WILL BE THERE FOR YOU..\nLISTEN AND YOU WILL HEAR ...\n\n I am not a fanatic to non-believers .. I understand who and where t
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A very good question.\n\nTo me God is what we are not able to understand beause of our limitations.  I don't tend to define or anthromorphize God so it is easy for me to accept God's existance and all of science.  I tend to think of God more as the unknowable forces at play in everyday life more than as a creator but am perfectly willing to accept that as well.\n\nGod is only a problem when we try too hard to define what God is.
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i believe in Life, Love and Oneness. no need to call it a religion, because religions can seperate and create disharmony. yet, i don't judge anothers view point. if believing what they believe makes them feel good, and keeps them doing good things for others, then it is doing something good. but it is also smart to expand your mind, to open up to other possibilities, and to respect all of life.\ni know, i feel what is true for me. "God" is the creator. and we are also creators, but on a smaller scale. collectively we are a part of God. Energy. Divinity. Life.\n\n*peace