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the concept is clearly written in the BIBLE, the rests u'd know it if you were close to God
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Quote: God is what we humans make of it. Humans created God, not the other way around.
how did you know that, you were unsure of yourself
Quote by priincessthe concept is clearly written in the BIBLE, the rests u'd know it if you were close to God
merged: 04-28-2009 ~ 06:10pm
Quote: God is what we humans make of it. Humans created God, not the other way around.
how did you know that, you were unsure of yourself
I haven't read much of the Bible, but I know it's full of contradictions. You could argue almost anything if you cite some passage of the Bible.
I wouldn't exactly say I'm an atheist, I guess I hold that there could be a God or gods or something out there, I'm just a bit skeptical. But I pray every night and ask God to protect everyone in the world, which I know is impossible. It's like my little challenge to God.
I also hold that there might be a heaven and hell, although I'm not sure we have souls, so I think we just die for good when we die. But if there is a heaven, I think only young children and pets who die go there. Children dying makes me so sad that I need to believe they go to a happy place :(.
Find something worth dying for and live for it...
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Quote by priincessthe concept is clearly written in the BIBLE, the rests u'd know it if you were close to God
merged: 04-28-2009 ~ 06:10pm
Quote: God is what we humans make of it. Humans created God, not the other way around.
how did you know that, you were unsure of yourself
I haven't read much of the Bible, but I know it's full of contradictions. You could argue almost anything if you cite some passage of the Bible.
I wouldn't exactly say I'm an atheist, I guess I hold that there could be a God or gods or something out there, I'm just a bit skeptical. But I pray every night and ask God to protect everyone in the world, which I know is impossible. It's like my little challenge to God.
I also hold that there might be a heaven and hell, although I'm not sure we have souls, so I think we just die for good when we die. But if there is a heaven, I think only young children and pets who die go there. Children dying makes me so sad that I need to believe they go to a happy place :(.
True the bible has contradictions, but let us put into consideration that the bible is a compilation of books with different authors, written in span of several years with large gaps in those years.
Also the main thing is that the teachings does not contradict each other...
"If faced with a life and death situation, an average person would choose life; a hero also chooses life, just not
for himself"
"Knowledge is Power. But Power unused accomplishes nothing"
"Everything fades away, slowly but surely, everything fades away"
God for me is a spirit of pure light, created of love, peace and tranquility. The Devil is the contrary, a spirit created of hate, rage, despair and born only for destruction. But I always believe in the balance of the things, even God can kill humans just for fun, since they both use a common weapon, Death.
Death, for me, it's not a natural event of life, I truly believe in a spirit of Death, even the bible mention the angel of death.
May these deaths be the first of many
Stand Alone Complex
From the state the world seems to be in and the direction it's headed in, I'd say God was pretty damn mean. And really doesn't care about the people on it. I really don't care about some otherworldly being that won't make it's self known to it's followers and at least say "Hey, it will all work out for the best." Even if it never comes back to say anything else ever again, it at least owes the people that much after all these thousands of years. Look at all the lives lost in holy wars over the last several hundred years in the name of God. If I was a God I'd at least say thank you or I'm sorry or anything to prove that brutal murders and rapings of thousands of women and childeren wasn't in vain.
I'm not interested in what's waiting for me on the otherside until I get there. Now is now and looking to some fake or uncaring god for guidance seems like a waste of time to me. I'm perfectly able to guide my own life. I'm also perfectly comfortable accepting that bad things happen just because sometimes. I don't need to seek some comforting answer to why things happen from any religion or some pervert in a robe.
I like to disturb the harmony of the pond by throwing a handful of pebbles in all at once. XD
My concept of God is that He is the one who created all and gave us our freedom of choice. When humans sinned and turned from Him, He sent His son Jesus to die on the cross for our sins that we might live in Heaven with Him.
Things in this life don't happen for no reason. There is no coicendence or happenstance. Everything is preordained and God knows all of it and has guided humans through wars, famines, floods, and draughts and have made people stronger. What happens, happens, but it does happen for a good reason.
The dream is ending; the nightmare only just beginning.
God created the univers and after that he goes to retirement and let humanity to do what ever she wants without
intervention.
Oh!, I forgot, he had 3 interventions with the 3 big religions and after that he goes to retire for the rest of
eternity.
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I believe that God is a transcending entity that knowns everything and is nowhere yet everywhere and for him the past
the present and the future are present before him.
yes he can be kind and just yet people misunderstand and say
life is harsh so ether god is flawed "he can't see our future misfortune and can't be everywhere to help us"
or "he know it yet he didn't help so he is not kind or even he inflicted pain on us so he is evil"
what those people forget is that life is a test period to see how people will conduct in life when faced with hardships
and temptations
i don't agree with a limited God that can't lie and can't know the future, he is not a God to begin with.
how can such a weakling being be inferior and don't know how his creation will react ,while humans build machines an
know them better than him ?
Belive me and DIE !
God is Beautiful and is unpredictable.
Sorry if this thread is a little old and/or dead, but I kind of would like to put in my two cents.
I'm a Christian and I believe God is all knowing, all powerful, forever loving and merciful, yet he's also a jealous and
wrathful being. After all, we, as Christians, are like his bride and when we indulge ourselves in worldly things rather
than him, any spouse would become jealous. However, unlike us, God doesn't show his jealousy the way we think of
jealousy and it being displayed. He also gives us more opportunities than we deserve, and continues to forgive us no
matter how much we make the same mistake (so long as we ask for forgiveness, he's willing), however, when we turn away
and refuse to return no matter how much he calls out to us to return or when we turn away and end up hurting those he
loves, then yes, he will show his wrath.
As for all of the supposed evil deeds he's commanded others to do, like the proverb from the Bible said, one cannot put
new wine in an old wine skin. Therefore, one cannot create a new, pure city while the old impure and unclean things
still exist (and considering how many times God has given these people the opportunity to turn away from their sins and
they refused, the only other way was to remove the source of evil and corruption from the root in an attempt to start
over).
Or something to that extent.
In any case, I don't blame God for the state of the world or anything of the sort. God created humans with brains to use and this is what we've decided to do with it. Blaming God for our own actions is kind of funny really (and quite a natural human thing to do). God does not take our hands from the moment we're born and tell us how to live, where to go or whatever. Instead, he waits for us to go to him and seek his help. He's always there, ready and willing. However, as humans, we tend to seek independence and refuse the help of others. Therefore, when God "doesn't help out" it's more or less that we won't let him.
Anyway, I really don't think God needs to prove himself to a bunch of people who don't even want to believe in him. Why should God show himself to someone who only wants him to as a show of mockery? God does not get pulled into such worthless gimmicks and he doesn't need to show or prove that he's real to people, especially those who won't take the time to realize all of the proof he's already given us (though, those who don't believe tend to shove 'science' as the reason why everything exists and refuse to realize that the science has to have come from somewhere too).
Mm, something like that anyway. I like God the way he is. Even if my ideas of him are wrong, I don't want to think that I'd come to hate him or dislike him for any reason. Many of my prayers have been answered, more than what was deserved anyway, so I have no reason to deny his existence, love or grace.
fire..
God is all, and to be happy depends only of you
It's all i can say
=)
I believe god is beyond our comprehension there are things we do not understand never will understand
what i believe is that god is benevolent i do not believe he is warlike i think that mankind used him to justify his
perverse actions
Ghetto Bhudda in the second set, Breaking out in a cold sweat.
I'll meet you in the music. We meet in the music,those we never met.
Keep dancing like there's nobody watching
Everyone can win the toss.I may wander, bit I am never lost.
Something like a human appendix. Might have had a purpose in the past but currently serves no purpose and can actually spread infection if left alone too long.
I hate space elves so very very much. Except the small ones are good on bagels.
Nonexistent.
...But, I suppose that's too short an answer, isn't it?
Well, if a being such as "God" existed, however, I would imagine him as powerful and wise, but not exactly all-knowing or all-powerful. And, if God really did create this world, he wouldn't be monitoring or controlling our every actions. (Do you know how boring that can get?) I think he would just checks up on us one in a while, kinda like how a parent would after their kid has grown-up. (And, I believe that he doesn't actively affect our actions in the slightest. A good parent would raise their kid to be independent and fix their own mistakes.)
...I kinda imagine him as an old man with a beard like Santa Claus. xD
(Or maybe that just came from my upbringing, since my parents are honestly too Chinese for their own good and actually
believe in a Jade Emperor in Heaven, as per old Chinese legends.)
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Net Wanderer
If he does exist, he is either cruel or simply insane.
But that is only in my mind, same with everybody else. God can be anything you want to believe, or do not. There is a word for that: Hope
I see God as a person who accepts all people. Including the people that humans refuse to, or that humans label. (Like
gay.)
And I see him as a figure of great love over all else. I think it's people, that throw things out of context. Like some
of the things that may be written in the bible, some people go over board with it. But, you have to keep in mind that
the bible was written by human hands. Not by God.
I think God loves everyone, no matter what background they come from or what gender they prefer. Love is love.
I feel God is something that is present in every thing.So, according to me we should love everyone.
(But,when i see the terrorists killing people....,i do not find any God in them.)
i love this planet,its my God for now.
Sakuraii
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for me, GOD is the superior being behind all this, the universe, and everything (in a computer game, GOD is the programmer). My concept is quite simple isn't it?
i don't believe in god
One way i think "god" could be defined is: A set of universal truths that lead to everything else, wherein if one were to know these truths, can determine the general fate of all things formed in this universe... however this "god" would not be a being per se, the only reason we think "being" when we hear "god" is because for some odd reason humans believe there has to be a sentient being that created us, because there apparently is no way things can come into existence when the universe is left to do it's own thing...
but who knows, maybe we were all created, and "god" is currently wondering why we are even debating these kinds of things when we really have no idea:P
Kids these days... taking love too seriously, shouldn't be worryin about love til they're at LEAST 11 years old
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Supernatural entity created though man to give answers to which they do not know or put a blame on.
I don't really believe in a god or gods, but if such a being does exist it would have to be some sort of super genius scientist. Instead of the commonly worshiped magic man(Yaweh).
All good posts ^^ although I'm Ignostic there are still different types of patheons I like more than others like the ancient egyptian myths.. parts of shinto.. but also parts from popular culture like the concept of the Naaru to Elune... but as for believing in it.. nah.. but I like the concepts ^^
to me..i just believe that there's a higher power in the universe.... dunno who or what it may be...or even if it's kind or just...but it's there watching us...=)
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