Can you tell me why you believe in God without referring to the Bible?
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Faith is personal and, it does not rely upon any dogmata and scriptures.  When you bleed, you know that you are bleeding.  Same with faith, it is in the knowing of it is there.  People do backup their faith with scriptures but, the latter reinforce the former and not the vice versa.
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No, I don't believe in any gods. I have never experienced or perceived anything at all that makes me think a god exists. It isn't possible for me to believe in something that has no evidence for it, that would be like me believing there is a flying cow in this room with me now.\n\nI'm perfectly satisfied with my lack of belief because it isn't contradicted by anything that I've come across. It wouldn't bother me if a god did exist, I would be quite satisfied with that too if that was where the evidence took me. It isn't though, so I continue lacking belief.
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I do not believe in god because there's no reason to suppose that god exists. If there were any evidence for the existence of a higher power it would have been in the papers.\n\nDespite what you may have heard, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. It is not up to me to prove god exists, it is up to other people to prove that he does.\n\nNon existence of supernatural entities is the default position. I require evidence for the existence of Shiva, Zeus, Baal and God. Christians don't believe in Zeus, Shiza and Baal. I'm just more rigorous in my world view.
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I believe in the God of the Bible. None of your definitions encapsulated that entirely. Somewhere between 1.and 2.
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I am currently of "undetermined" faith, but here's the answer I think you're looking for:\n\nIt's possible that your friend believes in God, and believes that the Bible was the original word of God, but that through translation, some of the true meanings of that important history of the religion have been lost. If I ever return to Christianity, that would be my idea on the matter.\n\nHowever, there are whole religions that have either additional passages that are included in the Bible or who have selected only excerpts from the Bible (such as the Jehovah's Witnesses). Just my personal beliefs, but I tend not to trust someone else's vision of what is or isn't important from that religious work. But many people do accept this.\n\nAnd overall, the Bible is only a collection from a vast array of religious works available, that the Church set about in the early years to determine what was "important" and what was either a duplicate work, would be confusing, or just wasn't important. You can read a lot of these additional works at the Guttenburg project's Web site: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page.\n\nPerhaps your friend wouldn't be as upset about your question, and would be glad to explain her personal reasons to you.
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Explain your question, do you want to know if God exists or why God exists?
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there is evidence of God. look at some of the crazy things that happen that just don't seem possible. and what about the Bible? If you can't believe a Book that is the Word of God, how can you believe anything? even science, since man came up with it and man is not perfect? if there is a God (and I believe there is) than it only makes sense that He be perfect. but man is not. I personally would trust God any day.
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I have often wondered about that "term" myself. I do have a belief in God, but I don't follow any religion. I was raised to believe that God was all forgiving, so I see no reason to "fear" God. I agree that we do not need a God to be told what is good and what is bad. We all know within ourselves if something is right or wrong. I do my best to follow what I believe to be right and I try to avoid anything that I know is wrong.  Great Question! \n\nA.H.
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We don't...it's not really our job to be able to answer all the tough ones...we've experienced the Truth that Jesus offers and we in no way claim to have all the answers. God doesn't need to be explained. The Bible doesn't need to be explained. Christians don't need to be explained. It's more than a belief system, so all the questions trying to point out the inconsistencies really don't make any difference to us...it's God's thing...we've just taken His Hand.
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When you are able to think, you do not need faith. I do not follow blindly. I don't need any other person to explain things to me. Mainly ones that claim we all are inbred, coming from two original people, or somebody claiming that I must do as they say and give money or burn forever. There is no proof of god, only inconsistent explanations that contradict themselves.
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The Bible is not the silver bullet, of course. I do believe in God and in Jesus's ressurection, however, there are parts of the Bible that sound like pure nonsense to me while other parts contain great, true wisdoms everyone should live by.
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I am a Deist.  We believe in God, but do not believe in holy texts.  So there is a whole religion out there that believes in God, but no texts.
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No one has proof. That's why it's called faith.\n\nThe real question is why do you need to beleive?
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Q1: Yes I believe in God. One look at my beautiful children tells me god exists\n\nq2: Go every so often. I have too many issues with our local church\n\nQ3: Once in a while I will read from the bible and this depends on the time of year, such as Good Friday, Christmas etc.\n\nGood luck
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Youre right, you cant prove it. But thats fine for most people, cause if you keep telling yourself thats something exist, its gonna exist. So you dont need a proof. If you keep telling yourself that theres God, God will exist. If you dont, then he wont. It simple. And about the Bible, I could write a book right now about a new God, bury it in the earth and then about 1000 years later someone's gonna find it, and there will be a new religion, and everybody will believe in my God. You know what im saying? So you cant prove anything, its just whether believe in it or not. If you do you'll see it.
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Amen! If you think the Bible is false, you would be calling Him a liar. If you think it's written just by men, you are calling God a liar. How could you believe in a God that would lie? You wouldn't. So no, you cannot believe God and not the Bible. Without the Bible how would you know God? God Bless!
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I spent 15 years as an atheist with no faith.\n\nThen I met some people I knew had something I wanted.  They asked if I believed in Jesus and between us we established I believed He exsited but not that He was any more than a historical character.  I had training across the ocean at that time and during that time asked God that if He existed would He give me a sign.  He did but thats a long story.   Still I had no faith I just understood there was a God.  Knowing that however did change things.  Latter I got back in touch with other members of this same group that had something I desired.  They gave me a set of tapes by Malcolm Smith that did an excellent job of telling who Jesus was and what He did and what He would do for me if I asked.  \n\nAt this point I had the faith that if I asked Jesus to give me the comforter He would.\n\n\nThis is like a scientific experiment.  I studied formed a theory and figured if I completed this experiment I would get the expected result if I did the experiment correctly I would have the results I wanted to receive.\n\nLike when you flip the light switch you understand that if you do this the light will go on.  You have faith that flipping the switch will give you what you desire ===light.\n\nSo I said a sinners prayer and let God know I wanted to be His friend and that I accepted the leadership of Jesus and the comforter.  I received what I desired and was a changed person.  Upon receiving I also got free of charge a love for reading the Bible.  Where I never could understand it b4 now every word was full of meaning and as I used what it said I began to see the world in a different manner.  Now all was true that I understood and at every turn more truth and understanding.  Since then I have read it completely several times and find that although this Book was penned by many contributers there is a continuous influence that is easily recognized consistant and very much a friend.  I have read the Qu'ran and find this same friend there as well.\n\nSome say the Bible contradicts itself and can be made to say anything but I know that all of God's friends know this to be false.   Note not everybody who says they have faith in the Bible knows it like we do but those who do, do not disagree on much.