what are YOUR reason for or not believing  in god?
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If Jesus is loving, why would Jesus say in John 15:6: “Anyone who parts from me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned.” What makes the Christian God real and not the Greeks’, Romans’, Egyptians’ or others real?As Carl Sagan has said, “If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?” (Cosmos, p. 257).If God is a jealous God, then why does he not act or become jealous when people deny his existence.Nothing is perfect; God is perfect; so God doesn’t exist.If God both intends to prevent evil and is capable of doing so, then how can evil exist? If God is omniscient, He must know beforehand exactly what a person will do in a given situation. In that case, a person is not in fact free to do the alternative to what God knows he or she will do, and free will must be an illusion. To take this one step further, if one chooses to commit a sin, how can it then be said that one sinned freely.You cannot define or imagine a thing into existence. If you allow one thing to exist without cause, you contradict your own premise. And if you do, there is no reason why the universe should not be the one thing that exists or originates without cause. The principles of self-organization and evolution provide complete explanations for apparent design. The usefulness of a belief does not prove its truth. In any case, many societies have thrived without these beliefs, while crime has thrived in theistic societies believing in heaven and hell.Since the Gods of various religions differ widely in their characteristics, only one of these religions, or none, can be right about God. If evolution is true, then creationism is false, and therefore God doesn’t existThroughout the world there is suffering of people, plants, animals, and the environment, so my question is: How can a loving God let this happen?If some type of God exists then why are humans the only animals on Earth that worship him or any God?God is (to me) not an all mighty being, but more of a symbol of hope. For example, you’re down on your luck, either there has been a murder or you have no money, so you pray to God; it is not him that gives you answers of some kind but it is a way for you to give yourself hope and something to look forward to.When Jews were slaves in Ancient Egypt God supposedly saved them, when Jews were held prisoners in the Holocaust why didn’t God save them then? According to The Gospel of Infancy Thomas, Jesus killed a young boy; and according to the Ten Commandments, “Thou Shall Not Kill”.  Jesus broke that law, therefore making him not pure and proving that he was not the son God, thus proving that God does not exist.To me, God came to existence for man to have reason and to be able to explain the hows and whys of life; now that humans of today are smarter than humans of yester-years and we have found science, we are able to find numerous contradictions in religion, that prove that God doesn’t exist.
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Yes, I truly believe in god. Think, who gave life to you? Don't tell me your mom. How are you born? How do sperms and eggs exist? They are created by God, and these are created so that you can be born. Also, who gave you the five senses, your eyes, ears, tongue, nose, skin? Who gave you a brain, so that you have the chance to be smart and have a better living? Who gave you hands to do good deeds? Think about all these. Although we can't see god, we know god is always beside us, protecting us and guiding us. Sometimes, god even gave us miracles.
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"Think about it, you have to acknowledge that there is a god (higher power) for you not to believe in, right? In that case, wouldn't you be agnostic?"\nTHAT MAKES NO SENSE, SHOULD I SAY: I DON'T BELIEVE THAT GOD EXISTS, IS THAT BETTER?
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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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I disbelieve on the grounds of lack of evidence so short of proof being forthcoming I couldn't say I believed God existed. Convictions or subjective opinions don't come into it-it's purely down to a lack of valid evidence.
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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.=)
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I believe in God.  I believe man wrote the Bible, and I agree with you that it is inaccurate.  That does not mean that God does not exist.  For the same reason, just because you do not accept part of it, does not mean you cannot accept God.
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I don't have a religion...I see no proof that a god does exist so until I see proof I choose to not believe...There are way too many bad things happening in the world to think that somewhere there is a god/higher being that could make it be better and just chooses to do nothing.
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I would and do believe in God.  \n\nIf in the end I was wrong, who cares?  \n\nIf someone does not believe and then finds God is real, whoops!
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Well simply, if you don't go by the bible (or other religious texts), then there is nothing to tell me there is a god.\n\nTherefore there is nothing to believe or disbelieve anything about a god, because without the bible pushing his existence, i have nothing to suggest he existed.  It is a non-issue/problem.\n\nThat aside: Here are the main reasons why I don't believe \nin god\n\nEvolution (including evidence of unintelligent design)\nBig Bang Theory\nHistory of Religions (diversity of opinion, and change)\nEvidence (or lack of) supporting Religions\nOther Animals\nMoral contradictions in some religious teaching.\nHow Impersonal Nature Is! (Think 'evil' in nature, natural disasters, etc, why make a world that threatens to kill it's population from a multitude of different ways)\n\nLook up parasitoids or even the more commonly known parasites! What is god's will for them! To be a burden? To kill the host?
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Yes i believe in God. I believe in God because there is so much proof. If you read the book "A Case for Christ" then you would see all the proof you need. Any other religious person here would agree that if you studied your Bible then you would definitely believe what you read. I have studied the Bible and I believe what I read.
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Answer:   The atheist Bertrand Russell wrote in his book "Why I am Not a Christian" that if it is true that all things need a cause then God must also need a cause. He concluded from this that if God needed a cause then God was not God (and if God is not God then of course there is no God). This was basically a slightly more sophisticated form of the childlike question, "Who made God?" Even a child knows that things do not come from nothing, so if God is a "something" then He must have a cause as well, right?\n\nThe question is tricky because it sneaks in the false assumption that God came from somewhere and then asks where that might be. The answer is that the question does not even make sense. It is like asking, "What does blue smell like?" Blue is not in the category of things that have odor, so the question itself is flawed. In the same way, God is not in the category of things that are created, or come into existence, or are caused. God is uncaused and uncreated - He simply exists.\n\nHow do we know this? Well, we know that from nothing, nothing comes. So if there was ever a time when there was absolutely nothing in existence then nothing would have ever come to exist. But things do exist. Therefore, since there could never have been absolutely nothing, something had to have always been existing. That ever-existing thing is what we call God.
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Do you believe in God?
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Proof of god is purely personal.  That's why theists say you need faith.  I learned a while ago that it's useless to ask for proof.  You either accept faith as enough reason or don't.
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we dont have to believe in god. you may believe in anything that you desire to believe in. not everybody believes in heaven, we all go to the same place, we're all human! nobody REALLY knows for ABSOULUTE sure how we got here and where we go after we "kick the bucket."\neveryone will go wherever they believe they will go, because nothing can be proved.
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None. \n\nTHERE IS NO PROOF THAT GOD DOES NOT EXIST.  \n\nBut there is evidence EVERYWHERE that He DOES exist. \nWe see God in all that there is. There is evidence of him in all cultures. Some differ on who and what He his. But throughout history man of all ages and all cultures acknowledge a god. \n\nOne may not agree with all the natural things that point to God, all the history that points to God, all the people that point to God.....yet, and still, there is at least SOME evidence in these things to ANYONE that there is a god.\n\nWhen you weigh both sides, it  takes a fool to not believe in God.\n\nVirtually all our great leaders and presidents alike acknowleged God.  Our forefathers and foremothers, even the immediate fathers and mothers of of those that don't even believe in God; they believe(d) in God. \n\nConsider all the religeous scholars throughout the ages even unto this day, all the songs and hymns that have been written concerning God, etc. We could go on and on.  They don't all agree on many principles, but, they ALL agree that He is.  Somehow, all of these people are nuts and a few dim souls with enough free time to float around on Yahoo for several hours a day think they KNOW that God does not exist! I THINK NOT.  \n\nOne thing is for sure, some of them, before they die will come crawling to the God they denied;  the others will die wishing they had.\n\nIf we that believe in God are fools; then let it  be known that their ancestors, even mothers and fathers where even bigger fools.  Many of those that lived and died before us where fools.  Because they also believed.  But praise be unto God; they where not.\n\n"believe there's no proof"  . vs.  "believe the written testamonies and evidence everywhere"\n\nIt's a persons choice, but it takes a BONAFIDE FOOL to side with "no proof".\n\nThere is no "burden of proof" on anyone that believes in God to prove it to ones that do not believe in Him. The belief in God is ones OWN burden. Everyone only has their own burden to decide to believe or not to believe. \n\nI have no responsibility to prove Gods existence to anyone. Neither does anyone else have that responsibility.\n\n\nPeace
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No, I don't automatically assume a person who asks about God believes in God. I assume this is a person who wants to know about God. The fact you ask at all, tells me you doubt there is no God, and are willing to explore there really is a God.\n\nI do believe in God, I always have and I always will. I look at life with all of its intricacies, diversity and complexity, and i just can not accept we came to be on Earth any other way than by the Hand of God. There are just to many "just happens to be" to say evolution, and not God's creativity put life on Earth.