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12/1/2019 11:13:55 PM
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What is THE reason you believe in your god?
You probably have many. But I want the penultimate reason; I want the reason that even I shouldn’t ignore. Because I want to believe what’s true, as should we all. My idea is to make a unique post discussing each (popular) reason.
Many people hate this kind of post. Feel free to ignore.
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Bearbeitet von Ogma: Destroyer of Worlds: 12/6/2019 3:14:53 PMI don’t. As of yet I am unconvinced. I also can’t find a reason I need that kind of belief despite that. I don’t fear death, I don’t want to live forever, and I don’t need the promise of heaven to see the merit in good deeds. The thought of subscribing to superstition as an attempt to quell existential dread strikes me as being dishonest with oneself.
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2 AntwortenI mean, realistically I think it’s very possible that we die and nothing happens. However, because I don’t [i]like[/i] to think that, I choose to believe that there is a God, and hope that he turns out to be a nice guy who only really cares that I try to be a good person overall
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18 AntwortenYou should do a thread about why Jesus' god is called the christian god when he was Jewish and Christianity comes from Palestine and is truly an Jewish/Arab born faith. Wouldnt it being called the Jewish/Arab God be more correct. Isnt it assumption that when people bash Christians they are just skeezing around bashing Jews by assuming Christianity a "white" religion and thus to bash white people.
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I don't. You believe whatever you want to believe, but I don't.
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4 AntwortenI was raised Catholic and started questioning it around 8th/9th grade. I looked at logical arguments on both sides, saw the good, bad, and ugly with both secularism and theism, and after a few years of independant research and personal experiences, I decided to remain Catholic. I haven't regretted it, at least not yet. I looked at logical problems of both Christianity and Atheism, and I found myself seeing more of the theist arguments to make more sense. Plus, I don't really gain anything from leaving the church anyways, if you want to look at it form a secular viewpoint. And one of the more petty reasons is Christians seem generally more wholesome and just generally more kind and positive. I hate Nihilism with a burning passion for entirely different reasons other than my religious beliefs, so that pushed me away from being an atheist. One of the bigger reasons I stayed besides all of the incoherent rambling above, I had an experience in the summer between 9th and 10th grade which both terrified me and helped me make up my mind. Some of y'all may remember my post a while ago, back when I went by Vladimir-7, where I talked about this experience and how I had the holy spirit flow through me and how I have heard God. To give a TL; DR, I went to a retreat, thought I would hate it, but it shook the fabric of my reality, so that was cool ig.
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2 AntwortenI believe in the one true and living God because He is the only one that can give me hope. He set the standard, and by standard I mean the Lord Jesus Christ, for us to live by. Without that standard, everything is useless. There would be no objective truth, no right or wrong, only what you [i]feel[/i] is right or wrong (sounds familiar, doesn’t it?). He gives me hope that one day all the wrongs will be corrected, and on that same day, if I’ve trusted in Jesus and followed his commandments, his standard, that I won’t be separated from God for eternity, and that I will be made whole.
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10 AntwortenThis has a kind of cheesy reason and I might get some flak for this, but whatever. My reason is that I’ve felt the Christian God move and work in my life. He’s brought me to peace and gave me joy in hard times and made me feel inspired and in fire for him. I’ve felt things because of what I believe to be the Holy Spirit working in me. In short, because of what I’ve felt, that’s why I believe.
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8 AntwortenIn all honesty, I was forced to believe there was a God. I grew up in the Mormon church. I wanted to believe, but after hearing how everyone was getting blessings and happiness and their prayers answered, I fell into a little bit of depression. I prayed to help me persevere through that dark period in my life, but my prayers were never answered. So, I slowly started to believe less and less. Currently I don’t believe there is a God. [spoiler]Sorry if this isn’t what you wanted, but it felt nice expressing how I truly felt[/spoiler]
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4 AntwortenBearbeitet von CoolHandLuke04: 12/3/2019 4:14:26 AM[quote]Feel free to ignore.[/quote] I’m feeling it.
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1 AntwortenWell, I don’t, kinda because, uh, [GESTURES TO EVERYTHING]
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32 AntwortenAll these people claiming you cant be a good person without a religious leash holding back your psychotic urges to murder everything in sight have clearly never been taught by their home schools that humans and many other animals have this amazing thing called Empathy. Wonder why wolves work together? Or lions? Wonder why your dog loves you? Wonder why elephants mourn their dead? Oh it must be something supernatural and not at all something certain things develop to survive by working together...
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11 AntwortenThere are many stories in the Bible talking about this. In Genesis 19:26 it says that [quote] But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. [/quote] This is when Lot’s wife moves her family to a city of... now I don’t mean to offend people so I’m just going to say Nonbelievers. God then sends 2 angles to guide them out of the city and he sends them with a message saying whatever happens don’t look back. Now I know this sounds unbelievable but how can a woman turn into salt? If you want more I might edit later on with some more verses from the Bible if I need to.
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3 AntwortenI don't believe in a god
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2 AntwortenBearbeitet von f3: 12/2/2019 11:18:11 PMduh also don’t use words like penultimate if you don’t know what they mean ffs
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3 AntwortenVariks believes in God, yes?
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[b] [/b]
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7 AntwortenIf there was not a being who was not defined by reality (I.e. if God didn’t exist) Morality and definitive correctness would become subjective: slave to whoever had enough power to impose his own idea of what was good and right on those under him. Because God exists outside of space and time (not defined by his creation; if he was then he would cease to be God) we need not try to define what is good or right for ourselves because he does that for us. Because he is over everyone weather they acknowledge his existence or not, everyone recognizes generally what is wrong and right (i.e. killing people is bad, helping people is good) In summary because we all understand that truth and good and right must be absolute and concrete, they cannot be subject to our interpretation: thus God.
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4 AntwortenBearbeitet von epicperon: 12/2/2019 5:36:35 PMI personally don’t see any reason to exist without a God
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31 Antworten“You either exist in a universe where everything is a miracle, or nothing is a miracle.” —-Albert Einstein.
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3 AntwortenBearbeitet von themirror2man: 12/2/2019 11:59:16 PMFolks only believe in a "god" cuz they think it gives them "entitlement". No wonder folks are so self important these days. Their god is better than yours. god = title not a name. Edit: to answer ops question. As a theist agnostic i do consider a Cosmic consciousness to be worthy of my acknowledgement... Something has made itself real enough to me that i do show respect to it. But the puny "gods"of this world/mainstream society are not it.
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[quote]Because I was always taught to believe in myself.[/quote] ^Wyoming
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My take on it is thus. Is there something greater than us? Yes. Whether it be a creator or a mere cycle, there is something that gave form to the universe and makes it tick. But I don't believe that it cares about US. If it's an entity, then it's all but impossible that it would pay significant attention to one species on one of trillions of planets. If it's a cosmology, it's simply an it. A force without will or agency. Beyond that, on a more intimate level, I believe the "god" of humanity is less a deity, and more a conceptual amalgamation of the collective cognition of humanity. Thus, all religions are true, but also fallacious. Like looking at a grand image through different pinholes, each religion sees only a part of what the whole of the "god" is.
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4 AntwortenNothing wrong with a little faith and belief in a higher power.
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Religion is man made for control in times before effective policing was feasible
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9 AntwortenThe first reason would be is because that is how I was brought up, although I am old enough to explain why I think so. Ironically, it’s because Human Reason cannot explain/justify the existence of Human Reason, Morality, and Consciousness. Morality cannot just “Evolve”, because doing a nice thing for the good of a random stranger goes against natural selection. Even if Evolution were true, there still has to be a starting point to the universe, which in Evolution’s case is the Big Bang. Who caused the Big Bang, creating Time itself? Only a supernatural, intelligent being could do so.
