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Originally Posted by Musical Suicide
hahaha I love you weather you hate me or not. = )
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Isn't that the ultimate message of Religion?
As far as the existence of God as an ethereal being, that can not be answered. Either science has not the tools to detect God or there is no God in the sense that you speak of, and that others speak of.
Perhaps a better question for everyone to ask themselves is what is God.
For me, I can only respond that the attributes that the Judeo-Christian God claims for himself represents only one concept.
That single concept is of course Truth.
A look at the commandments can be applied to test this.
1. I am the Truth
2. Do not have any other truths ("other truths" = lies) before me
3. You shall not make yourself an idol ("lies")
4. You shall not mis-use the Truth (distort it or twist it/take it in vain)
5. Honor your father and mother (really has nothing to do with the truth)
6. You shall not murder (deny the truth of another human's existence)
7. You shall not commit adultery (deny the truth of another human's marriage)
8. You shall not steal (deny the truth of another's possession of property)
9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor (deny the truth at the expense of your neighbor)
10. You shall not covet your neighbor's belongings (You shall not have commit theft in your heart, and thus deny the truth of another's possession of their property in it.)
The only power on Earth that can be ignored only at one's own expense is the Truth.
Whether there is a intelligence behind the existence of the truth is beyond me... and not something that really matters, because it does not impact of the truth.