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How many people here actually believe in God?
I do believe in God, its just who I am, I do have faith.
If you dont believe in God, what are your reasons for no belief?
How many people here actually believe in God?
I do believe in God, its just who I am, I do have faith.
If you dont believe in God, what are your reasons for no belief?
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There's lots of theory behind my different ideas of whether there is or isnt a god, but I am certain in my own belief, and have faith in other things which are of more importance and relevance to myself.
three.
agnostic noun a person who believes that it is impossible to know whether God exists.
Yay for me and my dictionary
I perch very happily on the fence on this issue, although I do sway a little toward theism in that I think there must be some kind of God, greater being, meaning of life, and so on. I don't think you can rely on science alone for everything. There's a theory, the name of it is on the tip of my tongue, I think it was by Thomas Aquinas or something; it's something along the lines of 'the big bang started the universe, but what started the big bang?', that sort of principle (long time since I studied RE). Anyway when I read it, it seemed to fit in well with both science and religion, and like I already said, science can't explain everything - what DID start the big bang, and what started what started the big bang, and so on. There is of course the issue of 'if God created the universe, who/what created God'. It's far too big an issue for me to get my head around to be perfectly honest, which is why I would describe myself as an agnostic - I do not firmly believe that yes, there IS a God, but I also can't say for definate that no, there ISN'T a God.
It's also 2.15am, so it's not a good time to try and get the brain ticking over..
Edit: Because Badabing pointed out my confusion of theism and atheism :rolleyes:
"Atheism is characterized by an absence of belief in the existence of gods. This absence of belief generally comes about either through deliberate choice, or from an inherent inability to believe religious teachings which seem literally incredible. It is not a lack of belief born out of simple ignorance of religious teachings.
Some atheists go beyond a mere absence of belief in gods: they actively believe that particular gods, or all gods, do not exist. Just lacking belief in Gods is often referred to as the "weak atheist" position; whereas believing that gods do not (or cannot) exist is known as "strong atheism"."
- atheism is where you do not believe in a god at all.
- agnostic is where you are inconclusive as to whether there is a god or not due to the lack of 'evidence'. agnostic people often believe that maybe there was a great man who did great things, not neccessarily miracles (Jesus), but there is no god for example. so they can believe somethings but not all.
one thing i *do not* believe in though is religion...
I dont believe in the bible.
So I don't like evangelists. Oh, no. :no:
"I cant go out with you any more, my church says ill go to hell"
ahahahahaha
What were thier reasons?
The group teaches its members that they are better than 'non-Christians' and that other religions are all wrong, and they will all go to hell. Even if you are a brilliant person, you could go to hell - Mother Teresa might, for example, because she wasn't a Christian.
Anyway, the relevance of all that is that my boyfriend was lured into that group at the age of about 13 and when I met him, aged 16, I was unaware of this - he was a lovely guy, if a little uptight, so we started going out. Our entire relationship was overshadowed by the church group because he'd told them about me and said I didn't go to church every sunday and wasn't really a 'proper' Christian, so they told him he shouldn't go out with me. After 14months of struggle and me thinking he had more backbone than he had, they finally got to him and he dumped me. End of.
And I felt really shit because they'd made me feel like a bad influence and someone inferior.
So, that was Wednesday morning's happy story
btw i'm in a weird mood and its early hence the weirdness
editted cos: i'm still shite at spelling
You dont have to go to Church every Sunday to be a proper Christian, people can communicate with God in their own personal way and dosen't have to be going to mass all the time, saying that i do go to Church every Sunday though.
But these people believed that you DO have to do that. As I said, they were extremist and in my opinion not real, true Christians.
ahahahahahahhaha the boy has no free will. If those people can control his life, what he does, when he does it, and who he does and doesnt go out with, he has no soul, which in a sense totally defeats the purpose of being on the earth to begin with.
Leave him to his brainwashing cult.
I'm not really in touch with him any more, but from time to time I hear of him and apparently he's still just as caught up in the church group. Silly people. Argh.
okay
They are football supporters group which is fanatical and cult-like. All their members spend every single Wednesday night at a match, Thursday night down the park playing and friday night at the pub listening to people talk about football who are 'supporters'.
so I chose football, but if we put anything someone does under the same microscope, there are lots of similarities.
Perfect day, sorry about what happened to you
As I have said on a couple of these threads what annoys me is that people say the Bible says something (often misquoting) and they actually haven't read it, or took it completely out of context.
I believe in God. I don't think religion is that bad. we are eager to condemn it as the cause of so many problems, but as Clan has said in the other God thread
people hide behind religion to get what they want, to serve their own needs.
for example (sorry its football again) football hooligans use football as a medium to be violent
Def not real Christians.
Just look at the world. The way all the plants and animals interact with each other in the big circle of life. Surely there was some intelligence behind this. Nature seems (to me) far too organised to have been some sort of accident or coincidence.
I belive God made animals, which ate plants (and other animals) and breathed oxygen. Then he made plants to make oxygen for us to breath, and to use as food.