Is there a GOD? If so, why so much hatred in the world?

Darkness is the absence of light.

Evil is the absence of God.

In eternity past there was no throne and no heaven. Just God. Since God is light there was no darkness until he created the sun.

God created Lucifer with the power of choice. Sin came from Lucifer's free will. When he chose to rebel against God, evil was born.

Skeptics often complain that God set Adam and Eve (and us) up to fail.

However, God had to give Adam and Eve a choice. Without free will to choose, Adam and Eve would have been mere puppets.

True love always requires choice. God wanted Adam and Eve to choose to love and trust Him.

The only way to give this choice would have been to command something that was not allowed.

God Bless You

The answer does not lie within you, because if it did, you would know by now. The answer doesn't even lie within scientific evidence, because God is supernatural and impossible, but exists. I believe in God and I know that the answer lies within His Truth and Word. The Bible is God's main line of communication, in it is the answer to every problem, prayer, and question you could ever have. It's a love letter and a guidebook to all who want to live for God and are seeking Him and want answers! You just have to seek Him, then you will find him. Ask, and you will be answered.

If Jesus, God, were next to you right now, what would you ask him? What would you say to Him? Well the fact is, He is there and He is not afraid of what you want to say and ask. It's okay to have questions! Go ahead, talk to Him yourself. he may answer your prayer immediately, later, or much much later, but He will answer. Just seek Him. God isn't going to just suddenly come out of no where without cause and say to you, "I am real!" No, it takes some action on your behalf too. Read Matthew 7:7-11 to get a better understanding of this.

God or no God, we have to carry on, progressing one step at a time and toward of a better world. What would be the point of bringing made perfectly to begin with, and then going down hill, only for a few holy people to go to heaven? We should try to make this life better. Only love can conquer hate.

You said yourself that there is proof that Jesus existed, why shouldn't you believe that God exists because Jesus believed God exists. Jesus taught about God's kingdom when he was on earth, and what he taught was not his but belongs to the One that sent him. (John 7:16)

John 7:28-29 says: Therefore Jesus cried out as he was teaching in the temple and said: “YOU both know me and know where I am from. Also, I have not come of my own initiative, but he that sent me is real, and YOU do not know him. 29 I know him, because I am a representative from him, and that One sent me forth.”

Jesus said in John 5:36-38:

But I have the witness greater than that of John, for the very works that my Father assigned me to accomplish, the works themselves that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father dispatched me. 37 Also, the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. YOU have neither heard his voice at any time nor seen his figure; 38 and YOU do not have his word remaining in YOU, because the very one whom he dispatched YOU do not believe.

In John 5:24, Jesus said:

Most truly I say to YOU, He that hears my word and believes him that sent me has everlasting life...

John 3:16-17

For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, in order that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent forth his Son into the world, not for him to judge the world, but for the world to be saved through him.

A short answer regarding your question as to why so much hatred in the world...

1 John 5:19 tells us that the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one. However, soon the wicked one will be no more and hatred will no longer be found.

Psalms 37:9-11

For evildoers themselves will be cut off, But those hoping in Jehovah are the ones that will possess the earth. 10 And just a little while longer, and the wicked one will be no more; And you will certainly give attention to his place, and he will not be. 11 But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth, And they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace.

Having accurate knowledge of God's Word will help you determine whether God exists or not.

If there isn't a God, why so much love in the world?

Jesus is the proof that God exists... the Bible is the proof that God exists. I personally think that every living thing on this planet is the proof that God exists. To me, DNA is the stamp of an intelligent creator... God.

One day, you will meet Jesus. You can question your faith and still be a Christian. God wants you to be a seeker. Wise men still seek Him.

1) Yes, there is a God. He is clearly revealed in the Holy Scriptures.

2) We exist because He created us. We didn't evolve from nothing. That's obviously impossible.

3) The answer doesn't lie in our beliefs. That's patently false.

4) We can not prove that God exists, but we know in our hearts that He does. He has revealed Himself to us in the cosmos and in our conscience. But that's not something that one proves to another. We all experience it ourselves. We can witness, but not prove.

5) The only way you will meet Jesus as Savior will be to bow the knee and accept Him as Savior and Lord before you die (or He returns, whichever comes first). Otherwise, He will destroy you with all the others who spurned Him. I pray that you accept Him.

The answer lies within me to understand. The logical, observable world is so much more satisfying than some "spiritual" search for a nirvana that doesn't exist.

The bible says that men were created in God's image, right? Well, when we get to be the creators--that is, when we make books and television shows and movies--what do we make to entertain ourselves with? Lots of hatred and violence and murder and jealousy and rage and all that good stuff.

Not so hard to understand, is it?

Gods are made up by humans. We are an amazing product of a natural process - evolution - in an uncreated universe.

The evidence of hate means nothing. Just like the evidence of love means nothing.