Can there really be a god or are we all just brainwashed, does it depend on what society your raised in?
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Sure there can be.   It's all a matter of perspective.   \n\nUltimately, you can keep questioning everything to the point where we couldn't comprehend a diety.   Where did we come from?  God made us.   Where did God come from?  He always was.   \n\nI've always had a problem with..."He always existed."   So, if he always existed...what did he do?   Just sat in the middle of nowhere doing nothing.
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God is our creator. He loves us and he sent his son to us to save our souls. You have to have Faith. He is with you all of the time whether you believe in him or not. Everyone is God's Children, all you have to do is ask him into your heart and believe in him.
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Yes, although some people worship Him differently and believe there is different ones... bs God is God...theres one.
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Okay you say there's no God. Then can I ask how you and everything that was made exist? Everything that is made needs a maker. Nothing Just is. And no I don't have much faith in Christianity. I've been burned more times than I can count. But when I look at the sky and how many changes of color it goes through each day, when I look at the grapefruit plant that's growing in my window, when I look at the trees and the grass and the animals the roam the fields , the singing of birds, the playing of squirrels I can't say that there isn't a God. And even more amazing how we are born. Did you know that the babies soft spot in it's head is so it can compress when it's exiting the womb? The way we are put together the way we walk, we're the only species that can walk up right with great balance. And the complexity of our brain and the boundless possibilities for learning. i know that there is something bigger than me and all of us. Now my faith in that will never waver.
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Do you really think anyone on Yahoo Answers has the answer to what many philosphers have been trying to figure out for thousands of years? Ehh... I'll try.\n\nI have spent countless nights trying to get some sort of answer myself. It's really hard for me accept that there is a God though. Either that, or it's hard for me to accept the God that my parents tried to drill into to my head since I was a baby. (They are fundamentalist Christians by the way. the outrageous ideas make me sad that there are more people out there like them.)\n\nI think there might a God because it seems very unlikely that such a complex life could have happened by accident, or by an explosion of matter. The way that DNA is constructed, cells, and just the way that the human body functions seems all too perfect for it to happen by some random chance. \n\nHowever, I as I said before, I don't know if I could ever believe in the Catholic or Christian God. Supposedly, God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent. That means he is all-good, all-knowing, and all-powerful. I'm sure that you are well aware of the sorrow, suffering and pain that a billion people feel every day due to war,starvation, genocide, poverty, and most importantly evil. If God was all-good, he would not allow this to happen. If God is all-good, but he can't stop it, that means he is not all-powerful. If said God is not all-powerul, then he cannot be God. \n\nGod cannot be omnicent or all-knowing, because humans have free will, and those two are contridictory. One might argue that everything needs a creator. Even the Universe. Something cannot create itself. So God created the universe, but who or what created God? \n\nPerhaps there is a God, but it is likely that all of those rules, and dogmatic views that Christians teach is not accurate. The texts of the Bible have been PROVEN to be altered by numerous kings, who put into it what they wanted. Similar to how George W. Bush is running the country based on his morals. I don't know, you decide.\n\n The answer will probably never be solved, and people will always be kept wondering. I believe in God, but I don't believe in organized religion.\n\nRead this, you would find it interesting. It's a converstaion between an ordinary man and God. Good read.\nhttp://www.fullmoon.nu/articles/art.php?id=tal
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Humans have almost always looked to one god or another to help them explain things they could not understand as well as to use to control the masses around them ... don't think that the "christain" god is anything other than a new god on the block ... there have always been gods for as long as there have been men and yes, they are the creations of our minds and not the other way around ...
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Good questions!  I like good subjest matter.  God is not some bug eyed monster up in the sky.  Why would he be all hateful when he needs us as much as we need him?  We do have free will, and i can do whatever i want because of it, but heres the rub, i was created by something with a view of the bigger picture.  So by virture of where i was born and my personality there are huge sections of human reality that will never even occur to me to do because of who and what i was made to be. Example : kiss my boyfriend, you betcha!; eat chocolate covered ants, hell no!
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i think there might be a god, but i'm not sure. i don't think a god would be as judegmental as christians make him out to be. what would really make me a believer would have to be a personal experience of some kind.
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Does it really matter what other people believe.  You need to figure out what you believe, whether that is in God or not.  Think for yourself.  It can be fun.
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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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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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Of course it's all made up, if someone stood on a hill now and started preaching about how god came to him and told him how we should live our lives, nobody would listen, he'd be locked up and called insane.\n\nReligion is based on BLIND faith and is all about controlling people. The truth is it can not be proved or disproved whether a god exists, and the universe carries on functioning in the same way whether a god controlls it or not, so belief in any god is redundant and irrational.
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We are ALL born atheist, that is "without belief in gods".  That's called "implicit atheism".  Even if we're programmed to "search" for something to worship (which I highly doubt, by the way), we BEGIN without any actual knowledge of deities.  We are, by default, without belief and therefore atheistic.
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The reality is that most PEOPLE of average or better intelligence (let alone scientists!) seriously question the existence of god, but understand that it is easier just to go along with this popular myth. If god did in fact create everything, he did kind of a crappy job (what's an appendix for? why did he make malaria? why do babies get cancer? why do priests molest children? why did so many Jews perish in WWII? Was Hitler more powerful than god?), so that's why people don't believe.  Even if there is a god, clearly he is neither omnipotent nor truly benevolent.  Do you have a family member with cancer? Do they deserve it?
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First of all, I don’t think there is a God or a Devil. But I guess just like some people believe that God made everything he must have made the Devil, or the bad things in life, too. I guess the Devil would be everything bad we do so we could blame someone other than ourselves or, in the religious perspective, God. I really depends what your concept of the Devil and God is to you. It also depends on what religion you practice and believe in too because if your religion descends from Christianity then The Devil is a liar and wants to make you doubt your religion. \n\nThis is what I think. If you have any other questions, if you want to enlighten me, or if you want to just want to say how stupid I am you can email me to \n\ngbrl_question@yahoo.com
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It wouldn't change it at all. I don't assume there is a god. I try to be a good person "for Goodness' Sake," not to receive some heavenly reward from a bearded man in the sky.
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No, I lack belief in all gods that I've come across so far. It's not possible for me to believe in something if I haven't seen/experienced/perceived anything that makes me think it exists.\n\nTo akpajuju, what if you believed in the wrong god and that god treated idolatry much worse than simply lacking belief? Or what if there is a god that respects honest lack of belief due to never having seen any evidence, but condemns insincere profiteering people who "believe just in case"? You're no "safer" than an atheist. Also it isn't a choice, I can no more choose to believe a god exists than I can choose to believe I'm sat on the back of a unicorn right now.