How can you tell the difference between a false god and a real one?
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a false God is only false to a person of opposing beliefs ...\nno one is right no one is wrong ...\neveryone believes their God to be true .. and it is for them\nno one can say any different even if a book tells them this ... because everyone has another book saying differently
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One word- FAKERS!  Many so-called prophets sure ain't real!  The SAY that God speaks to them but how can we be sure they aren't making it up or are delusional.  \n\nHere is one example... Said God spoke to him, told him where to find stuff, blah, blah, blah.  Called himself a  prophet, formed his own religion the whole nine yards.  The holy book he wrote plagerized parts of the bible word for word.  Turning out most everything in there has been scientificlly debunked  Every prediction he made never came true.  And most now can't because the people they were attributed to are dead.  Not a real good one...\n\n\nNext one... He changed his name, said God was talking to him, swore up and down he was a prophet in a religion that said there would be no more.  When the followers didn't believe him he swapped tactics and formed his own religion out of mumbo jumbo from all kinds of religions.  One part is so close to another religious text it is almost plagerism.  Is he a prophet? My guess would be no, he made it up for his own reasons.\n\nNext one... Swore he was a prophet, God spoke to him.  Then started getting paranoid about all kinds of things and immagined slights.  Moved his followers to South America.  A large chunk of them committed suicide on his orders.\n\nNext one... Swore God spoke to him.  Was very charasmatic and knew his theology.  Sounded convincing.  Started stockpiling weapons for Armageddon.  Ended up dead with a lot of his followers.  He a prophet?  Claimed he was.\n\nNext one...  Swears he's a prophet, God speaks directly to him on how to run the church.  A very good forger came along and started selling him documents, both good and bad, about the faith.  Swore God said they were the real thing.  They weren't.  If God spoke to him and he was a prophet how did he not know these documents were faked?\n\nThis is just a FEW of them.  The track record for prophets aren't good so how can we truely believe they are?  Expecially ones that are old and the text has been tampered with.  Delusional disorders exhisted in ancient times as well.  Rather casts doubt on all of them...
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where is the proof that he/she/it is real.
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God can be real if you choose to believe in Him. In english, He is a He because the word It carries a somewhat negative meaning, and becuase of the <presumably> male-centred society existing in Britain when the word and concept of God was adopted.\nAs for Him becoming, if you believe in Him, than He would have to be ever-existing. Read the Quran's Sura-tul-Ahad for further information.\nI personally have a belief that God is more an ever-binding omni-present force than He is a discrete thing. I.e: closer to electricity, which we cant touch, feel or usually see, than a statue.
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Whether there is or isn't a god, the fact is you ARE allowed to search for the truth, and so those who object on religious grounds would not be speaking for whatever god may actually exist.\n\nWhich is precisely why some people prefer to be called agnostics, because their objections are to the religious depictions of a god, and the rules that supposedly come from that source, rather than to the existence of some supreme force or being per se.\n\nMost important, in my view, is to object to depictions of a creator god, as again this implies rules exist in nature that are inconsistent with science as we know it.  Mythology is one thing, but a belief that regards that mythology as true because one wants it to be true is not consistent with the type of search for the truth that you are advocating by this question.
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You really can't.  Except for creating the universe... and seeing that we can't really witness that firsthand, you have to take that miracle with a little skepticism too.\n\nIf you look at most modern religions currently being founded, you can easily imagine how "miracles" could be artificially created.  The Buddha Boy in Nepal for example.  He meditated under a tree for six months without food or water.  Sounds like a miracle, hunh?  Except, local priests would erect a tent around him at night so people wouldn't disturb him and wouldn't let anyone examine the boy up close at any time.  A skeptic could easily say the boy got up and stretched his limbs, ate, urinated and defecated during the night hours under the cover of the tent.\n\nOther "leaders" use such things as sleight of hand to materialize objects or use "cold reading" techniques to demonstrate amazing divination powers.\n\nIn short, the only way to tell an illusion from a miracle is by suspending your disbelief or being allowed to study a "miracle" up close.  As any professional skeptic can tell you... people with "miracles" never let you examine them up close.
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at the point in time it is truly impossible to say if god is real, a myth or man made. I believe that he is real but his word has been passed down and wrote and rewrote so many times that nobody can truly prove what is real and what isn't
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The voices in my head tell me what's real.  Just like this question.  It's not real.\n\nNice try though.
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To what religion are you referring? It sounds alot like you're a wicca.. If you practice "The Craft" , GREAT!!! Blessed Be to you. As far as the "false" gods are concerned, my question in response is this... the Bible clearly shows God saying to Lot " I am a jealouse God "... jealouse of what exactly? Other gods?!! Why? If there is only one god there's nothing to be jealouse of. Furthermore, the first two COMMAND-ments refer to the existance of other god-forms, eg."Thou shalt have no other gods before me","Thou shalt have no graven images". If no other gods exist, why is it such a big concern for christians? The answer is simple. Acknowledging the existance of other gods weakens the position of THE ONE GOD of the christians. \nArchiological PROOF of the pervasive worship of gods not connected to the god of Abraham is all around us and goes as far back as 5000-10,000 YEARS!!! The evidence of judeism only goes to 2500-3000 years. In short, babies get jealouse easy.\nSatanism is a subject which raises alot of confusion for christians. While THE CHRISTIANS were killing villagers for not converting, they came across the star within a circle. Upright pointed, the star represents the four elements, earth, wind, fire, and water, with the upward point represents SPIRITUALITY ABOVE ALL!! The center of the star represents all of mankind and the circle surrounding it all represents the universe which is all encompassing. In an effort to defame paganism, to make it something to avoid and to vilify those who practiced it, christians turned the star upside-down and said it stands for the devil.\nAnd no, the bible doesnt say our religion is a myth, in fact it acknowledges witches as very real. Unforunately, in Gods love, He supposedly ordered "Suffer not a witch to live.."
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It depends upon the person.If he/she is a straight cut and true person then ask him?her directly.I am sure you you will get the truth.But never expect any thing from the hippocrates  who will always give you the incorrect information.So its important to differentiate between them.
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Nobody can really know how to tell if God exists. It's all a matter of faith. That's what most religions are based on: faith in (a) supreme being(s). The Bible isn't much PROOF, but it does help to strengthen the bonds between God and His people. \n\nAnd no, the Bible is not straight from God. He may have spoken to his people, but he spoke through prophets (special messengers). Many (real) historical figures and prophets have written down their experiences with God in the Bible. Remember, the Bible was written hundreds (perhaps thousands) of years after these evens were said to have occured. Many of the stories in the Bible began as that--stories told from person to person through the oral tradition. \n\nAs far as proof goes, many of the historical facts (such as the dates of battles and kings of nearby kingdoms) have been found true. Names of Assyrian kings have been preserved. Do you remember reading about King Xerxes or the great Phoenician State of Tyre? These things have been proven to have existed at some point, only reinforcing the fact that there IS truth in the Bible. Whether or not you want to believe everything in it literally is up to you.
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real= that which is physical/tangible and can be detected by all the human senses.\nvirtual= is neither physical/tangible and generally can only be seen.
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You can't tell for sure. Just like God, ghosts can neither be proven nor disproven. It's something many people believe, but there is no verifiable evidence either way.
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If I believed a thing was a myth, that would automatically mean I didn't believe in it.  If I believed in something, then I would automatically say it was not a myth.  Atheists believe God is a myth, Christians do not.  I think your question is a paradox.
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The real enemy of God and man is Satan the Devil, although it is true that false religion is a favorite tool used by Satan...\n\n(1 Peter 5:8-10) Keep YOUR senses, be watchful. YOUR adversary, the Devil, walks about like a roaring lion, seeking to devour [someone]. 9 But take YOUR stand against him, solid in the faith, knowing that the same things in the way of sufferings are being accomplished in the entire association of YOUR brothers in the world. 10 But, after YOU have suffered a little while, the God of all undeserved kindness, who called YOU to his everlasting glory in union with Christ, will himself finish YOUR training, he will make YOU firm, he will make YOU strong\n\n(2 Corinthians 4:3-4) If, now, the good news we declare is in fact veiled, it is veiled among those who are perishing, 4 among whom the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine through
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It really depends on how you read the bible.  I would think that the way God is portrayed in the Old Testament is the way that people looked at power (kings, etc) - all knowing, vengeful, demanding ....  I think the OT God really is more a perception that people had rather than an accurate depiction of God Himself. \n\nThe NT God is trickier.  It certainly is a different God - they definitely don't act the same, but I think it's not a different God as much as it is a different perception of God.  The NT perception of God is based on Jesus' perception.  Now if you believe Jesus is the Son of God, then you have to label this a pretty accurate perception.  On the other hand, whether you consider Jesus to be divine or not, you have to agree that it's a different perception; one that is at least as likely to be accurate as the one from the OT.
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No one knows, no one knows if either truly exist. Good luck with your journey, if you find the answer to either and can tell me, please I would very much like to know.