Your question has two parts. Belief and God.

Lets take belief. Believing means we do not know for a fact. Thats why i need to believe. Else what is the need to believe. For e.g there is Sun rise and we all see it shining daily. So you will not say i believe there is a Sun. So is belief the truth? It cant be. For truth has to be universal. So your question should not be about belief in God. Some may say they believe. Some may say they dont. But both will be beliefs which is not the truth. They have not yet found out.

Now you may say that it means everything has to be proven. Like Science. And hence only what science says can be true. Because scientific laws apply to everyone and they dont deviate. But science only deals in matter. That which is tangible. So only science cannot be an answer.

In any experience there is outside and the inside. What you experience is related to outside. But what you are is the inside. Science does not deal with the inside. The inside can be only known by you. It cannot be measured by science.

So my suggestion would be that you need to find out for yourself. If i tell you there is God, its not going to help you. Because you will again take this for face value and make a belief out of it. And the same thing will happen if i tell you that there isnt any God.

But what i can tell you for certain is that it can be found out. For that you need to know who you are? You need to know your own Self. Only then can you find out the truth about God.

If you don’t believe in God you either haven’t researched the evidence well enough or you don’t want God to exist .

There are many lines of evidences for Gods existence . One of the more powerful new ate ndes or near death experiences .

Even though I haven’t read his book yet dr Jeffrey longs God and the afterlife is a great cure for atheism . Ndes don’t prove one religion right over another but they provide powerful evidence against atheism in that in dr longs research one common core element shared amongst nders around the globe is that they see a being of light who they recognize as the creator and this is irregardless of cultural or religious upbringing .

Even children ages 3-5 who aren’t yet indoctrinated into religion describe the same being of light .

Nde science is becoming more solid every year .

As Francis bacon said a little philosophy makes a man an atheist but a lot of philosophy brings him back to belief in God .

I would say that those who devoutly believe in God haven’t seen life as it really is yet. They haven’t suffered enough. It is constant, unmitigated suffering that makes a mockery of the idea of a benevolent, interventionalist God. Suffering and loss makes you realise that prayers are utterly futile. It makes you realise that there are no such things as miracles, aside from the miracle of science and modern medicine. Then you realise that essentially all you are being offered by belief and religion is ‘jam tomorrow’. You are going to suffer terribly in body and mind on this earth, and no God or saviour is going to save you from that. The idea that you get some badge of merit for suffering which allows you into Heaven is gross and turns our existence into a pissing contest.

Best wishes.

‘Believe and you’ll see ‘ – not the other way around. People don’t believe because they don’t see. If you will look deep inside and chose with your own free will to follow the GOD and the universe law God will definitely show you.

I’ve seen God – literally I SAW GOD.
beautiful Blue Entity. You think probably – yeah right – what drugs did you take?!
But on my daughter life I promise to you all I saw inner higher world , where time no mater , where there is a pure love and bliss and peace..

Bad event around the world happens not because of absence of God but because every soul has karmic patter to release. If someone hurts someone and continued this path than the bad comes back to this person.. there is no coincidences.

Our job as a Soul and humans is to focus on what we are in our Mind Body Soul if you achieve balance within you and you will be true to yourself and others and kind and grateful. . Simply pure, than God simply can’t ignore you.

Don’t look at the outside suffer like the job of God. All things come to him who patiently waits. But if you not choose to believe you will see nothing.

While there is a life there is a hope.
Xx may God bless you all.

The mind is incredibly powerful and can conjure up images even without the help of hallucinogenic substances. The question is, what is real and what is the product of the mind.

“Do you believe, and how do you know God is out there?”

Yes, I believe in GOD.

How do I know GOD is out there?
1)
All life and things I see around me are the product of conscious design and building/creation OR reproduction from one or two conscious living things. Thus to me, it seems there must have been a conscious starter/creator of the universe.

2)
In the past, scientists believed in a steady state universe – i.e the universe just always was – no beginning or end. This was not compatible with the creation story since in that story, there was a point at which the creator said “Let there be….”
Now, by calculating back from the current position of bodies in the expanding universe, scientists believe that everything in the universe started from one point. As you can see, this is compatible with the idea of God’s conscious creation of the universe.
“Let there be…”
The start is now called “THE BIG BANG.”

Thus, if life and the universe is finite, and everything comes from a conscious creator, the initial creator must be infinite.
Think about it, if the “first” creator was finite, then it wasn’t the first, there was one before it to create it, and so on and so on backwards, if the creator is finite.
Thus it is impossible to be first creator and finite at the same time.
I may be wrong, but I think the initial creator must be then infinite.

Thus, logically I can start to understand a conscious, infinite creator which I believe in as GOD.
I don’t know so much about GOD, but I am trying to learn more about GOD.

As Ninja said, blessing to all of you today –

In life, it seems virtually all our problems with others originate from one person’s expectations of how another should act.
I see that virtually all atheists are so at least in part because they have some particular expectations of how GOD should act. When those expectations are not met, they choose not to believe. It is very interesting.

Please, Kristin123, I just want to beg you not to put your own human expectations on GOD who we barely know and who we do not, and maybe cannot, understand. It just doesn’t seem wise.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by manbuddha.

When asked if he believed in God. Jung replied, “I don’t need to believe, I know”

I’ve often puzzled over that statement of certainty made by Jung. Was Jung certain in his faith? When faith is certain is it still faith? Is there a difference of being certain and acting in the certainty of one’s faith in times of doubt? Do we, should we act with certainty, even when we are not certain?

So many questions. What was Jung’s concept of God, faith and belief… what was mine?

My observations of others as they talked about god became confused as it seemed to me that they were talking about an Alien being with supernatural powers to which we must obey, worship, or else.

Reading the religious texts literally such a being did not appear to my mind worthy of worship let alone obedience. In the face of such a being we could be nothing but play things at its mercy and so like Job must remain silent in its bombast.

I could not believe, let alone have faith, in such an Alien being. Yet my inner most being would respond to the question of G_d with a yes. What did I know? Not much, doubt a constant companion, yet a inner something within answering yes.

In my religious training I was taught to fear doubt, to banish it, to deny it and pretend…. But what if doubt was the door that all seekers must open and pass through. That it is in times of doubt when ones faith is discovered and exercised, open to learning better so that I might do better.

I was saying yes, but what was I saying yes to. What was my experience of G_d

Joseph Campbell study of the stories we tell lead him to an idea that the words used in myth should be allowed to be Transparent to the Transcendent. That the map is not the territory. That the word god is not God but a symbol that points to an idea, experiences, a something that is no-thing. Words as a open window that we are meant to look through and not a wall that blocks the way.

In Islam images of God are not permitted. In Judaism God is often written as G_d. In early Christianly a requirement that anything said about God must also be un-said. The intention I believe to remind those with ears to hear to look pasts the words to that which they point. We use to know this. Today I wonder if for many religious texts haven’t become an idle, a graven image of God, a wall.

“It’s like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.” ― Bruce Lee

All words are symbols, windows, that point past themselves and when you begin to allow the words to be transparent, especially those in religious text you begin to see how they all pull in the same direction.

Each story is connected, we are all connected, all part of each other, the all that is one. The life – death – life cycle that is LIFE as it is. LIFE requiring the sacrifice of life for its becoming,

LIFE as it is, every breath, a virgin birth, sacrificed (suffering/betrayal as the moment is not meant to last), death, re-birth. LIFE as it is, LOVE, GOD.

YES

I believe in something.
I’m not sure what’s out there, but there are things that have happened in my life that I know must have come from some divine power.
I suffer from anxiety/ocd, and I have had some badddddd days, but I can never shake this feeling that something is watching over.
Not everything is an accident.
I don’t think that you need to believe in anything to have purpose or anything like that, but just having faith in general goes a long way.