Isnt the entire concept of God to farfetched for logical people to believe?
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Or you could doubt Gods existence all of the time. I am always surprised at how little people know about their own religions. They ask for no facts, no accountability, and never question what they are told. I think they fear that their belief won't hold up and they will find out that they have wasted all of this time on nothing. I say if you are going to believe in God then at least know why. Don't be afraid to ask the hard questions, and don't let them get away with answers that don't make sense. Also, don't let them make you feel bad asking. If you are asking, and they don't have a good answer, maybe something is wrong.
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The burden of proof is on the people who believe there IS a god, not for people who don't.
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God has a reason for everything. Human beings cannot comprehend God and the reasons things happen.
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It's not really relevent, because people will believe what they want to believe.\n\nIF somehow someone managed to say they had scientific proof that god either existed or didn't exist, then I doubt that all that people would change their beliefs.
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If there is a God and this God designed you and me with a brain designed to think, use logic and reason to solve problems and determine truth, then he would expect us to use it.  How in heaven and on earth could a just God punish us for questioning what is very illogical and very unreasonable?  To believe in something that we can't see and that which can't be proven.  Would God punish us for using the brain he gave us?  I don't think so.\n\nSo, if I am wrong about not believing the God described in the Bible, then it is just as well.   Because he would be a cruel joker to give me a brain and then punish me in eternal fires of hell for using it.  And how about all the good Buddhists in the world who don't believe in the God of the Bible.  He's going to damn them to hell also?\n\nThat would be a cruel and unjust God.  Right or wrong, I don't want any part of the Judeo-Christian God.
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Yes.  Because it is illogical to believe in gods.
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Yes. Many people hold those sorts of beliefs. God created the universe, and Evolution is part of His plan. No biggie.
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The atheists that I have sparred with on YA do not lie. I think atheists are just naturally tied to the physical world that they can confirm with their senses. The living God dwells in eternity which is beyond the physical. He has revealed Himself in scripture, but if you read with the attitude of not caring to find Him, He will not reveal Himself. It is very difficult for the atheist to accept the idea of God, so science is their key to understanding. Unfortunately, like all things physical... it will come to an end. And therein lies the rub. They must come up with a doctrine to explain the hereafter, and that can be quite disquieting.
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People claim religion is 'from God' because they are deluded.  They have no rational reason to believe a deity exists, but they believe it anyway.  If religious claims had any basis in reality then we could reasonably expect babies to grow up with one true religion, rather than almost invariably absorbing the religion of the family or culture they grow up in.
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The idea that God killed himself to pay himself the price for violating the rules he invented is a ridiculous concept.\n\nIt is truly amazing how so many otherwise intelligent people actually believe it to be true.
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Guess what, there's alot of things that don't add up. If you believe in God, heaven and all, then close your rational mind, cause it just don't add up.  Don't forget to wonder how 6 million Jews were put to death during WW II, if God was omnipotent and benevolent, do you think that could've happened?
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If you believe there is something that was not created (god) then you are opening a precedent, paving the way to believing that others things needed not be created (eg, universe).\nTherefore, even those who believe in God shouldn't necessarily believe that the universe was created!
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here is a post i just made somewhere else...\n\nbecause there is no such thing as god, and the bible is made up. man created god, not the other way around. maybe u need to realize that people don't want to change their beliefs bc some strange person told them to. there is a kingdom hall right in front of my neighborhood and i find it really annpying when they come to my door.\nreligion was just something made up a long time ago to control people. and plus i dont know why people have so much "faith" or whatever in god and then when something bad happens to them it just god tryin to show them something, it seems made up to me. i had a friend whose parents werent religious but as a little child she still took herself to church and became all religious and stuff, and then her mom died when she was 10. hmmm.... god punishing her because she gave her life to him? needless to say she is an atheist now. i also dotn get why when people are giving thanks they say it wouldnt have been possible without god, which doesnt make any sense cuz they worked hard and did it all themselves.. .whatever.\n\ni bet i am really annoying to a lot of people but these are my beliefs, and im not saying one should have the same beliefs as me, i respect other people's religion, but not when they try to force it on me. \n\ni sound ignorant... :^(
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If they are more intelligent than us,then why would they believe in something they have NEVER seen.Why would they believe something that as been written by human beings.Why does anybody believe in something that can't be proven.They would think that religious people,who believe in this Great God that is supposed to be so powerful he can do anything,are completely bonkers because,If this God is so powerful why does he let so many  people on this Earth suffer in so many ways ????
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I know there is a God. I didn't arrive at this conclusion by my intellect, for human intelligence is limited. Give up on trying to figure everything out, for common sense itself should tell you that you can't know or understand everything. This is not a matter of the head, but of the heart. Ask yourself this: "If God is the truth, do I really want to know the truth?" Our sinfulness makes us afraid of a holy and righteous God who we feel must demand an accounting of us His creatures. Atheists say they don't believe in God, but I don't believe in atheists. If they don't believe in God, then who are they so mad at? They claim wisdom and knowledge and call believers simple, but I see atheists as being extremely smallminded and limited. Did atoms and microbes not exist until some human came along who was smart enough to detect them? How small these people's reality must be! How futile and pointless their existence! I commend you for at least being openminded enough to ask? How foolish it is to think that one's ignorance is evidence! Thanks for not being that way, wisdom is not beyond the grasp of one such as yourself. There is a God; He is beyond human comprehension; He is absolutely holy, righteous, and frightfuly just. His awesome majesty and power is terrifying and he is completely unapproachable by vile, prideful humans. Remember I said that it is our innate sense of this reality that drives some to deny His existense out of fear of the truth. They can't face themselves and their guilt, and they can't face a righteously angry, holy, and just God whom they rightly think will demand retribution of them. What they don't understand is that this same God is also infinitely loving, kind, gracious and merciful, and that He paid the penalty for their sins and removed their guilt which was keeping them from Him. How? He gave us His only begotten Son Jesus Christ who took our sins and guilt upon his holy and innocent self and was put to death so that we may go free. Believe this, make claim to it as a FREE GIFT from God, confess it to Him and to others, then walk in peace from now on with Him, always trusting Jesus' sacrifice as your justification in God's eyes, not your own merit. Then keep on learning more of Him and growing spiritually.><>Sir Brian
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Sigh...this is the sort of thing that makes me twitch.  Okay, here goes:\n\nAn atheist believes that there is a logical contradiction inherent in the idea of a/the God.  Because it is otherwise impossible to prove that something doesn't exist (for example, try to prove that there is now or never was any such thing as a unicorn), atheists hold that the idea of God is logically impossible.  Atheism is usually opposed to the traditional omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent God of monotheists.  In other words, atheists find it impossible to believe that a being can be all-knowing, all-powerful and all good at the same time.  They usually cite something like the problem of pain.  (If God is all-good and all-powerful, how can He let bad things happen?)\n\nI realize that there are atheists that are complete materialists and reject the idea of anything that can't be perceived through the senses.  However, usual usage of the term "atheist" is one who doesn't believe in the Christian/Muslim/Jewish God.  (Let's be honest:  how often do you see atheists and Hindus duking it out?)\n\nAs for agnostics, there are two kinds:  1) those who think that it is impossible to know if God exists and 2) those who think it is possible, but aren't convinced one way or the other.\n\nHere is an example to clarify.  You're walking down the road, and a big light from the sky suddenly shines on you.  You hear your name and are told to repent.  Would you acknowledge the possibility that you had just witnessed a miracle, or would you immediately assume that you've done one too many acid trips?\n\nThe 2) kind of agnostic would believe that it is possible and that it might even be the proof they were looking for.  The 1) kind of agnostic would lay off the drugs for a while; he doesn't believe that a God, even if He/She/It exists, can interfere in such a way in human affairs.\n\nI realize that this might not be the simple answer you were looking for.\n\nThe quick answer is that atheists say no and that agnostics say maybe.\n\nSome agnostics are convinceable, and some are not.
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the basic premise of the question is in itself wrong, GOD aint everyone and everything, it is a part of him in each one of us and in things around us.\n\nso clearly a part cannot equal the whole entity, hence our pea brains as compared to HIS all encompassing knowledgeable self. \n\nso the situation you described is justified.\n\nas simple as that dear.