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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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 have always believed in God, but two incidents convinced me that He loves me:\n\nOne: My car broke down on the highway in San Diego (I think it's Hwy 94) but the lanes going the opposite way are down a steep hill from the lanes I was on.  I had my two children in the backseat.  the police stopped, and they called my husband at work to let him know where I was.\n\nWhen he got there, we put the kids in his car, then he turned to walk around to open the hood and see if he could figure out what was wrong.  Just then, my car's emergency brake failed and the car started rolling backwards, across the lanes of traffic and toward the steep hill. It gained speed as it went, and whoosh! went over the side, down the steep hill, across those lanes of traffic (Luckily there wasn't much traffic and most people could see it coming), and slammed into the retainer wall. The back seat was crushed into a pulp.\n\nI was in the car with my kids for about 15 minutes before the police arrived. I waited for my husband about a half hour before he got there.  All this time the kids were in the back seat, and I was pacing around outside (on the side of the road). That brake could have given out at any time. I truly believe God saved my children that day from certain death.  They could not have lived with the way the back seat was crushed like an accordion.\n\nTwo:  My husband and I separated prior to divorcing.  Every Friday, I would take the kids down to a halfway point where we would meet so they could stay with their dad for the weekend.  I lived in SF, he lived in San Jose, so we would meet in Mountain View off Hwy 101 at a movie theatre.\n\nAnyway, it takes about half hour to 45 minutes to get there, and I was going about 65-70 all the way.  \n\nI got off the freeway, went to the movie theatre, dropped the kids off, and was on the entrance ramp going about 5 MPH to get back on 101 when THE WHOLE RIGHT HALF OF THE FRONT AXLE, including the tire, just fell off, out of nowhere.  Here I am on the entry ramp, my car slumped over to the side, and the tire, a long rod and this big spring thing laying there. If it had been 10 minutes earlier or ten minutes later, the results would have been tragic.\n\nEvery day, I thank God for His love for me and my children and His loving protection.
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I went to church today... Church makes my whole day feel better.  I am a saved Christian and believe in God without a shadow of a doubt... I know where I am going when I die- I hope you do to. \n\n" I can't see the air, but I know it's there- I can't see my Lord, but I KNOW he's there."\n\n        -WORDS TO LIVE BY
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i guess i must have as well \n\ni believe that god=universe. he is life itself, the energy force that keeps the world operating. i believe that one day this energy force, would be detected by scientist. i dont think i have to bow down and worship this energy force. religious faith that teaches that god wants us to worship him makes no sense to me, because it makes him sound like a dictator: he created us soley to worship him? couldnt be, if he is SO good.\n\ni believe everything, and i mean everything has this god/energy within it. for living creatures it might be considered the soul. we're all connected to this energy... we're part of it. as a result, we can manipulate this energy through such practices as prayer, meditation, witchcraft, feng shui, etc. i believe in mind over matter... great amounts of faith, can move mountains...\n\ni believe in evolution. i think the universe has always existed, though planet earth hasnt. like i said, to certain christians, this cant be so hard to believe being that they think an omniscient, omnipotent god has always existed. i say the universe has always exsted, because no one has actually every made anything. everything in the universe is always recycled, which is also why i believe in reincarnation, because, the soul energy is also recycled.\n\ni think jesus christ did exist. but i think he was a prophet, like mohammed. i think many of them knew the truth of the universe, but could only explain the importance of being good to others, by using "god" to explain it. at the time, and now we're still too small-minded to figure it out for ourselves\n\ni also agree with you in combining parts if different faiths, not just with what i said about controlling energy with prayer/ meditation/ witch craft. i think most religions have the basic guidelines on how to live life. it involves being good to others and being modest.
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What is God?\n\nIt's a good question, but it's impossible to answer. Does anybody really understand the nature of a being that can create universes? It's beyond my capability, and I suspect it is beyond any human capability, to understand.
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Good luck getting a good answer for that. I don't believe that God as a supreme being exists. It doesn't make sense. There are way to many things in this world that have come and gone and it didn't affect us in the least. To believe that this world was created purely for our experience is ridiculous.
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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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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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i dunno i've ran into some people on here like that but that's true how could you explain anything. science, no science is something people use i think to jump away from the fact that god does exsist whether they like it or not. i've tried to make people beleive in god but some don't. so all you can do is beleive pray for those people. HE IS OUR SAVIOR SO WORSHIP HIM! GOD BLESS.
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Roman Catholic and I attend mass almost every week. I do go with my friends to their Christian Fellowships, some being born again. I also attend the occasional Jehovah's Witness meeting, when friends ask. I don't try to be ignorant to other belief system and I do think the underlying theme with most faiths are similar. Everyone believes in the same God but have different versions of him :)
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I believe in a "higher power" but am not religious...The difference is that the higher power (God) is interpreted in many different ways but they all have one thing in common..Thats is that they are all MAN MADE..Every religion on earth past and present starts with one persons interpretation of God..This is why there are Christians, Muslims, Hindus and thousands more religions...We are all trying to understand existence and this "higher power" but many of us come to different conclusions...Christianity itself is split into many different denominations because of this very fact..Catholics, Evangelicals, Baptists, Episcopalians there all trying to understand the nature of God but go about it in very different ways...My personal belief is that existence itself is the "higher power"..I do not refer to it as a God but thats my belief and I stick to it..You dont need religion to find God because the concept of God is different for all of us...Thankyou for listening
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Non religious to Christianity: A friend took me to church with her and I liked it for a time.\n\nChristianity to Agnostic: People of the church were disappointing.  They judged a lot more than "enlightened".  I was considered a trouble maker for asking questions.  I found that any place that tries to hide answers has a reason to do so, and that's never really a good thing when they're taking your money.\n\nAgnostic to Atheism:  Over time, I just felt that the concept of God was not logical and not for me.  I prayed so hard for many weeks for him to allow me to believe in him.  I was miserable for a time after realize he didn't exist, but I began living for myself and being truthful to myself and I just became happier than I ever have been.\n\nThis entire process was over the course of ten years.
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It's a great concept. I am leaning towards it. I'm not in religious organization nor do I go church but I do believe in God. I have been studying religious Humanism which I believe is the same as Christin humanism. I believe in the trinity but yet I see contradiction in the scriptures. In my heart, I believe that Jesus was God. I just started studying this in the past few months.
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I believed in god very much.  Bible camp counsellor.  On the bible quiz team.  Memorized books of the bible.  I went to a Baptist Bible College to study the bible in depth.  Imagine my surprise when the "small little holes" in the bible became huge GAPING holes when studied in the original languages.  It was the last thing I expected to happen at bible college.\n\nAfter a few years of trying to hold onto my faith, it vanished all together.  I tried shutting myself in a closet and praying every night.  To stop "thinking" and just will myself to believe.  Nothing worked.\n\nBasically, the first thing to go was "the bible isn't correct."  After that it was the morality of god (eternal punishment for a finite sin?  All of humanity being punished for a chick munching on fruit?)\n\nEventually, getting a degree from a "secular" university in history helped me think my way out of religion.  \n\nHope that is what you were lookin for.
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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'm kind of a bi-believer :\n\nTechnically speaking I am an agnostic because I can't prove the existence of god one way or the other.\n\nHowever, I am currently working under the assumption that there is no god because of the utter lack of evidence.\n\nSome people just like to sit on the fence, I guess.\n\nA
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dear ash,\n\nIf you say that you believe in a supreme being then technically you are not an atheist.\n\nTo be an Atheist means that one do not believe in the idea of a supreme being (God); hence, the word A-theist (A="without" theist="Theos" = "God")\n\nIf you say that you are not sure of God's existence, but still open with the idea of the supreme being then you are an Agnostic.\n\nIf you believe in God, then you are a "Theist"