Is god real or just a way of keeping society stable?
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It depends on your point of view.\nSometimes, some people feel that "God" is merely a device to keep us humanity in check, something that we have concocted to explain all the mysteries and unexplainable (in our current era. There might be an explanation much later.) stuff which happens in our lifetime.\nIt is plausible. People used to think flying was impossible, forget the flying machines. Air conditioning? How about all the laws of Physics that led to so many wonderful creations? They used to think that such things were unthinkable, magic, strange, impossible.\nBut never say IMPOSSIBLE, because we don't know what is and what isn't possible. \nJust a few centuries ago we all thought the Earth was flat.\n\nSome people, think and feel God is the God in our Scriptures. After all, they feel, the people of the past were much purer than the people today.\n\nSome people think that God is merely a presence in the world, an omni-present entity with powers of the unknown, and no apparent good or evil intentions, just there.\n\nIt's all up to what your heart tells you, and what you feel you can believe truthfully without deceiving yourself. Just be honest to yourself, that's all - you don't need people to justify, give a reason or judge you for what you believe in.\n\nJenova\n(d.yuffie@gmail.com)
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First of all: I consider it really important to base your faith upon something that is reasonable, because if you do not do so, when faith is replaced by doubt, it would be really difficult to sustain. according to this, I consider that God is evident because: if we, the world we live in, and the whole universe surrounding us exist, then we could say that "Emptiness" (understand this as the lack of everything  doesn't exist), therefore Everything (understand this as the total lack of Emptiness) exists, therefore God (or something that could be considered to be infinite and eternal exists.=)
420824
Why would God need that? God is for real!
47645
God exists. His existence is a fact. \n\nIf the Gospel is simply fiction then it would be terrible terrible for us all...
19951
No religion is definitely not fake and God is definitely not fake.It is impossible for everything to have come about from nothing. For the Sun to Rise everyday from the East and Set everyday in the West. All these different plants, animals,could not have been created from nothing.  We Have to believe that there is a Supreme Being behind all this. That supreme being is God. That we are all here for a reason. That is to believe in God's existence and seek his guidance to the straight path which would lead us to our ultimate goal Paradise. God's gudiance to the straight path would be the religion which we would have no doubt is from God for the simple fact that it would have no faults as the Creator Himself has no faults.  Through my research the conclusion I came to is that this Religion is Islam. The evidence is found at WhyIslam.org\n“Verily, for the righteous are Gardens of delight in the Presence of their Lord. Shall we then treat the people of Faith like the people of Sin? What is the matter with you? How judge you?” [Al-Qur’an 68:34-36]
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It is a result of a crazy desire to be someone or something we are not, and never can be in truth.  \n\nGod is everything, but everything that is real.  The Nature of God is freedom, thus, we are free to discover our true state of being, beneath the illusions of abuse and poverty, and all other things that are not so.  \n\nThere is God, and everything God created.  Only this.  Everything else is perception, and perception is a wish fulfilled.
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God is real.  He is the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, so He has no mom and dad (except for Jesus whos mom is The Virgin Mary, but He is still His dad - though St. Joseph was his step-Father)
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Check out Godel's theorem.  The way I read it it states that given any language you can write sentences that are true, false, or neither true nor false (i.e. "This sentence is false.").  I see God as the language which is Truth.  If you have the concept of truth, falsehood is derivitive from truth.  So if you have a true omnipotent God who is all good, you can have the false concept of his opposite, suffering, or any other sort of bad or evil thing you can imagine.  Just because you can say it in the language of God, doesn't make it true.  The material world is an example of sentences which you can construct in the language of God which are not true, i.e. illusion or relative.  As our thought becomes more spiritual or absolute, we find that the so-called evil in the world falls away from our experience, not that we ignore it, but our thought changes the world within the sphere of our consiousness.  The world is our collective shared consiousness, lots of people think that it is all that is real and filled with both good and evil, so it sure seems like God must have created all this suffering, while in fact he is of purer eyes than to behold anything but pure 100% good everywhere.  Just because you can have the concept of suffering or anything else bad, doesn't make it necessarily real.  We are God's image and likeness, we have free will, therefore, we can believe that which is not true to be true, i.e. believe that illusion is reality.  Without free will, the universe would not be infinite.
85970
Well that's a good question.  I think so!  There are many things that are real, we don't have to always understand how it works for it to be real!
397894
If you're going to believe in God it has to come about from your own experiences. It has to be based in your own faith and trust. Im at the point where I think there is a spirit world but not necassarily a higher power, but sometimes I go back to thinking there is a higher power but not necessarily the conventional god. I think hes probably a sarcastic bastard if hes up there.
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Everything around you is true because of god caring for you. Anyone who says there is no god is making a fool of himself coz his/her very existance is due to a power beyond his/her imagination and control which we name god. This is regardless of religion/holy books. Imagine what would be your situation if you were running for your life in a place like Iraq. Instead you are sitting before your laptop , having fun in a protected environment, drinking coffee, hearing music and talking crap that "God is not there"...lol....which by itself proves that god cares. Some things are beyond explanation....
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your right, i actually cant explain it very well. I'm not defensive, i just want you to read this \n\n\nhttp://everystudent.com/features/isthere.html?OVRAW=God%20existence&OVKEY=existence%20of%20god&OVMTC=standard\n\n\nit has overwhelming info that should help you see that there has to be a God, because this world is no accident
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It works logically, but not spiritually.  The fact that we're all here is enough to prove that He does indeed exist.  The odds of our planet forming and sustaining life over the course of billions of years on science alone are too insanely infintismal that it just isn't possible.  God exists.
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I would say..."Well to some people God really does exist but to some people he just a myth made by people and some people believe in the devil so it all depends whether you believe in God!"
575662
Since I don't understand why a lot of things happen in this world, it is good to know that there is a God who does.  My faith lies in the belief that God will take care of everything according to his perfect timing.\n\nFaith is not something you are to prove with concrete evidence.  So often we want scientific data to back-up the existence of God.  Jesus told us we are to have a child-like faith.\n\nTrust in God.  Ask him to increase your faith.
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This is a very good question.  People that deny it are narrow minded and need to look at it for what it really is, truth.  It has to be either one or the other, for if there really is a god, then why were we created other then the reason that he needed something.  If god does not exist then it was man that came up with him, kind of like an imaginary friend, to comfort him and give him the answers to life after death.  Personally, I believe that if god cannot be needful, then man had either to had a part in making him seem so perfect, or man made him up.  That is my logic, there's not much to it, sorry for that...
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I utterly agree with you. \nAny religion I know of has one (or more) creator/god which made the world and humans. This is not something that can be proven but a matter of faith. Faith as such means believing in the unprovable (this, by the way, would include atheists - if it is impossible to prove god's existence,  it is also impossible to prove the opposite). \nAs such anybody's faith is valid. \nHowever, many religions actually state that their God is not only the only one, but that all other faiths are false. And a fair amount of religions do require their believers to proselitize and show all others the errors of their ways. \nI believe that a lot of the disagreements between religions stems from that - I am right, you are wrong. Very often people of faith will feel they need to point out the errors of your way in order to save you, firmly believing that their faith is the only true one. \nBut I still think you are right - it seems to me that showing other people the "rightness" of your faith would be best done by showing them what an exemplary life you live and what a wonderful loving religion you follow. This is unfortunately not likely to happen anytime soon.