Who Believes In God?

donnieosmond said:

We can only partially comprehend the notion of God's existence. To do so, we must use human concepts to speak of God: "without beginning or end"; "eternal"; "infinite", etc. The Bible says that He has always existed: " . . . even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God" (Psalm 90:2). And, "Your throne is established from of old; Thou art from everlasting" (Psalm 93:2). Quite simply, God has no beginning and no end. So, where did God come from? He didn't. He always was. To us, the notion of time is linear. One second follows the next, one minute is after another. We get older, not younger and we cannot repeat the minutes that have passed us by. We have all seen the time lines on charts: early time is on the left and later time is on the right. We see nations, people's lives, and plans mapped out on straight lines from left to right. We see a beginning and an end. But God is "beyond the chart." He has no beginning or end. He simply has always been. Also, physics has shown that time is a property that is the result of the existence of matter. Time exists when matter exists. Time has even been called the fourth dimension. But God is not matter. In fact, God created matter. He created the universe. So, time began when God created the universe. Before that, God was simply existing and time had no meaning (except conceptually), no relation to Him. Therefore, to ask where God came from is to ask a question that cannot really be applied to God in the first place. Because time has no meaning with God in relation to who He is, eternity is also not something that can be absolutely related to God. God is even beyond eternity.

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donnieosmond said:

Because God doesn't push his beliefs on others. He wants you to have faith, hope, and most of all he wants us to love the message he is spreading. If you believe in God you should have 3 things in your life, faith, hope and love. When you get to heaven, you don't need faith because you've seen God, you don't need hope because you now know heaven is real... but you'll always need love. God doesn't want more people to believe in him just because he's there. If he all of a sudden showed up tomorrow, it would eliminate the need for faith and hope because evidence existed. He wants us to spend our lives hoping and having faith that he exists, and in return he will give us life after death. I'm sorry if you think having faith and being gullible are the same things, but that just reflects back upon you your complete lack of knowledge (and faith).

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donnieosmond said:

We can only partially comprehend the notion of God's existence. To do so, we must use human concepts to speak of God: "without beginning or end"; "eternal"; "infinite", etc. The Bible says that He has always existed: " . . . even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God" (Psalm 90:2). And, "Your throne is established from of old; Thou art from everlasting" (Psalm 93:2). Quite simply, God has no beginning and no end. So, where did God come from? He didn't. He always was. To us, the notion of time is linear. One second follows the next, one minute is after another. We get older, not younger and we cannot repeat the minutes that have passed us by. We have all seen the time lines on charts: early time is on the left and later time is on the right. We see nations, people's lives, and plans mapped out on straight lines from left to right. We see a beginning and an end. But God is "beyond the chart." He has no beginning or end. He simply has always been. Also, physics has shown that time is a property that is the result of the existence of matter. Time exists when matter exists. Time has even been called the fourth dimension. But God is not matter. In fact, God created matter. He created the universe. So, time began when God created the universe. Before that, God was simply existing and time had no meaning (except conceptually), no relation to Him. Therefore, to ask where God came from is to ask a question that cannot really be applied to God in the first place. Because time has no meaning with God in relation to who He is, eternity is also not something that can be absolutely related to God. God is even beyond eternity.

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m3atwad said:

god and santa are the same person cause there both lies

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Garden Knowm said:

If this does not make sense to you, then let me ask you this...

Is a CHAIR real?
What is a CHAIR?

A "chair" is a concept.. a made up term to signify somewhere you park your ass.

A CONCEPT!!!!

A CONCEPT...

DO you understand that CONCEPTs are not real? GOD is not real... GOD is a concept..

SO, GOD is WHAT? GOD is something that the mind can not understand... The mind can only understand concepts..

I hope this helps

iloveyou

When ONE experiences GOD, ONE begins to LOVE everything.. BECAUSE, GOD is everything, and EVERYTHING LOVES itself..

iloveyou

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closet.cult said:

no offence, but this is load of baloney. you're attempting to make an irrashional idea rational, if not in our minds, then on some supernatural greater level that we can't understand.

it is a cop out. because other then an old book of fables, you have no information to verify that this non-linear, irrashional god exists. it ammounts to us taking your word on it, because you've read an old book.

so why dont you believe in any of the other gods of old books? like allah or ramose or ra from the book of the dead? you believe what you believe *probably* because your parents believed it. and your concept of god has as much likelyhood of being correct as any other god now, or from a past civilization.

i day nop offence because i was once in your shoes and heard people tell me these things and never meditated on the possible truths of it all. untill i studied the history of ALL religions and the natural history of all civilizations i never knew how wrong i was.

I was just spitting out the same answers to god questions that they explained to me. is that was you are doing?

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m3atwad said:

GOD is fake =] lolz sorry guys i know the truth is hard to swallow
anyway enjoy your lives and be good little boys so you can go to heavan =)

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m3atwad said:

GOD is fake =] lolz sorry guys i know the truth is hard to swallow
anyway enjoy your lives and be good little boys so you can go to heavan =)

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iblazethatkush said:

"A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah."

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closet.cult said:

no offence, but this is load of baloney. you're attempting to make an irrashional idea rational, if not in our minds, then on some supernatural greater level that we can't understand.

it is a cop out. because other then an old book of fables, you have no information to verify that this non-linear, irrashional god exists. it ammounts to us taking your word on it, because you've read an old book.

so why dont you believe in any of the other gods of old books? like allah or ramose or ra from the book of the dead? you believe what you believe *probably* because your parents believed it. and your concept of god has as much likelyhood of being correct as any other god now, or from a past civilization.

i day nop offence because i was once in your shoes and heard people tell me these things and never meditated on the possible truths of it all. untill i studied the history of ALL religions and the natural history of all civilizations i never knew how wrong i was.

I was just spitting out the same answers to god questions that they explained to me. is that was you are doing?

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Garden Knowm said:

saying GOD is FAKE is the same as saying GOD is not fake...

up is nothing without down
fast is nothing without slow..

fake is nothing without real..

SO what is GOD?

Can you say something that CAN stand on its own? Can you say something that does not require the opposite TO ALSO be TRUE..

when you can say something that can stand on its OWN you are POINTING at GOD...

YOU say GOD is FAKE because you belivei something is also REAL...
Who would you be without thought?
Stop thinking.. I bet then YOU would HVAE a different perspective..

iloveyou

and YES, GOD is FAKE

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iblazethatkush said:

Stop acting like you know the 'truth'. You come across like you have a big ego. Science cannot explain everything in the world. Just because you don't have concrete proof of God's existence it doesn't mean he does not exist.

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