does god exist?

This is all very true,,,we are so very lucky to have our Heavenly Father, His Son and the Holy Spirit. I can`t wait to all be where we are going and the beautiful lives we will all finally be able to enjoy...together!!!

 

Yes, I hope we can be together for eternity. Life is forever.

 

we already are where we are going. the next stop is 6 feet under to be wormfood. if you knew what life was worth, you would look for yours on earth.

 

So many Christians are always reciting their beliefs as though no one had ever heard them yet or as though just the repetition of them alone is enough to convince everyone that they're right. Why do they never seem to realize that most people have HEARD IT and have thought about it and made up their own minds and hearing it again and again won't change that. Seriously...in america anyway , where everyone grows up in a Christianity dominated culture, do you really think there are people who haven't heard all the basic Christianity stuff? But keep repeating and repeating ....the heathen will repent, they just have to be beaten to submission by pure repetition.

 

I'd rather live my life believing there is a God to find out there isn't, than to live as though there isn't a God to actually find that there is!

 

So very true. I would rather be wrong later--than to be wrong now. But that is why there is "free will" and Gods` grace. And that we don`t all have to be alike. But, like I`ve said before. I know what I know and I know what I have been told by those who do know. From the other--side.

And no I wasn`t smoking any pot or peyote. Sometimes I wish I did when things go down. But I want my kids back. God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit comes first, then my kids and then James. These are my main concerns in this life. I have my friends who I love dearly.
Zen, Fedora, I think,,,Starsrainbow is a pretty cool person too and samson. and there are a few others. But I say my prayers for all,,,we are all human --breath the same air,,,bleed red unless you are from Mars and I hear that is green:jester:. So, worm food or not God is on my side of this world.

 

Why? You go through life worrying about a God ( pissed off old) man running the universe, or you actually have a God ( pissed off old man) running the universe. Either way looks like crap to me.

 

Are you pissed off old man? Does the world look THAT bad to you? Just wondering?

 

I don't worry about it!

 

Maybe because the way you look at it?

 

What is this whole thing christians have with blaming everyting on the devil? Seriously, why can't people just take responsibilty for their own actions and admit that yeah, poeple are bad because they are bad, not because "the devil made them do it" or that atheists don't believe in god because that's what the devil is telling them?

 

I believe that I do bad because I allow myself to, not the devil. Yes some Christians believe that, but not all. I think people should be allowed to believe what they want providing it doesn't hurt anyone else. There is alot worse to believe in that God.

 

Now I never said anyone was bad for believing in god. People should be free to believe or not believe in whatever the hell they choose. But pushing one's beliefs on someone else (that also goes for quoting the bible in regards to what will happen to someone who doesn't believe) is TOTALLY wrong.

And moon beam, I think it's great that you are one of the few that takes responsibilty for your own actions, but from what I have witnessed, most that I have met and almost all christians around here blame it on the "debil"

Around here, people get just plain nasty is they find out someone doesn't believe in god. Even in high school, kids were allowed to bring bibles to school and preach to the "heathens" as well as throwing (yes I mean THROWING) pamphlets in our faces, but to make one complaint about it got you a trip to ISS or detention. It's kind of funny but I never actually came out and said I was athiest, but having green hair and piercings and wearing metallica shirts was enough for them.

Also, religions are supposed to be about PEACE (mostly) so what the hell is everyone fighting for???

 

The problem is dualism. When everything is all about "good" against "evil," no one can be just a person who believes and acts differently----they are "sinners", "heathen," "infidels," "evil doers" etc. What people don't realize is that that perception of evil is it's own evil in it's self. It creates hatred and self-righteousness which hurts other people.

Real innocence isn't being perfect. It's accepting your faults and imperfections and those of others too and being at peace with yourself and everyone else....but if you believe that everyone who doesn't follow the bible or some dogma is under the power of the devil, then you walk around seeing evil everywhere.

It's a very sick way of looking at things. There are more colors to the spectrum than black and white, but when you separate everything in your world into good and bad you are basically choosing to see in black and white and miss colorful diversity of a rich full life that is fully experienced.

 

VERY well said.

 

God does exist. I believe in the God of the Bible.

 

He does exist,,,but we can only help each other out in the best and the worst of times. That is what Gods` love is all about. To care about each other and show true caring love towards one another. We all know right from wrong, it is not cool to lie to one another,,,it only hurts one another and we know how that feels. I do believe we do need to fess up when we do wrong to another. Love is the only real thing that matters. I did wrong to one person, whom I love with all my heart and soul. And every day, even though it was straightened out it still tares me apart inside to think I went about it in the so wrong way. At least he forgave me. As God does I just miss him soooo much.

 

God is an evil douchebag. Why would you WANT to see him?

 

'depends on how you define "god." Though I've never seen the point in the formalities surrounding organized religion, I do believe there's a central force out there, so I guess that makes me agnostic, but I wouldn't refer to god as "he" or "she", god doesn't have a sex. God is everything, and everything is god. Your sins are the wrong doing you do to others, no prayer will rid you of that.

Some of the manifestations of god, oppression and repression, make god an extremely unsavory character, shame on organized religion for making god that way, but it doesn't have to be that way, you just gotta be a believer...

 

what about a "maybe" for us agnostics?