I have a question.............? This is really important to me.?

I'm not sure, but it's comforting to believe.

There must be a creator behind such and incredible world.

I just do -- I know it.

I have a relationship with Him.

Because there is more to life than we can understand.

Because there is much evidence to suggest that God exists and that everything is under the control of God.

"Great are those who have believed yet have not seen."

Because things happen for a reason.

I was brought up to believe and later in life have found answers to my troubling questions in my faith.

My conscience exists; how else if God didn't put it there?

I envisage God as a force not as a person.

Every religion believes in the existence of God.

I've experienced miracles.

I feel calm about being assured of salvation.

I have a feeling of a "greater presence."

God is omnipresent in everybody's life.

Hope.

I believe something created all this!

I believe that he helped me in someway or another in my life to come to the U.K. to study

I believe there's someone to look over everyone.

I don't believe that there is nothing more than human existence.

I have to believe in something!

I'm alive, and there has to be something -- though it could be a force of another type.

Intuition.

It makes sense.

It's very hard to explain -- I just do and I always have done.

Look out the window.

Made up my mind after thinking lots about it.

Personal experience, and it makes sense.

Personal experience and upbringing.

I've seen and felt God's presence in my life.

I have seen things that cannot be explained by science.

There has to be a God!

There has to be something!

I used to go to church; I still believe in God, though I don't go to church any more.

What else can you believe in 100 percent?

Who created us then?

Why not?

You have to believe in something

Regretfully, there is no evidence whatsoever that "proves" there is a God. It's a nice concept, this big, cosmic Muffin that will make everything all right in the end, but so far all serious investigation into this yields no definitive answer, and indeed indicates otherwise.

Apparently life is a naturally occurring substance. Therefore it has no "purpose," it just "is." We have become self-aware however, and realize that life with no purpose is a waste of time and effort. It is therefore up to us as individuals to seek a purpose that will advance ourselves to greater understand of the universe around us, and how to improve our situation. It is probably we who are the closest things this universe will ever see as "gods." (small "G"). We are just not perfect gods.

Apparently gods were originally invented as a way to explain the variances in the fortunes of life. Why the harvest failed, why the baby died, why the storm, why the sunshine? Eventually, the clever learned to use the fear of misfortune to control the gullible, and the literate began to record the sayings of those who prophesied and turned out to be right. Time sanctifies all things, and the writings that survived were no exception. It became a dangerous game to question the veracity of anything having to do with religion, which had become intertwined with state power.

While religious belief still holds Mankind's attention, sometimes with an iron hand, it is perhaps a fool's paradise when we are evidently naked and alone in a violent and unforgiving universe. It is also readily apparent that nature has deliberately set all kinds against each other as a way of keeping our edges sharpened by continuous conflict of one kind or another, and the sooner we accept this condition for what it is the better off we are.

I believe there was a Jewish philosopher/holy man that lived about two millennia ago who was probably named Jeshua Ben Yussef. The English form of the name "Jeshua" is "Joshua." The Greek form is "Jesus." While he was right about the concepts of mercy and forgiveness, I don't think he was right about there being a God.

I also have a problem with the notion that the Bible is a "perfect" book, the be-all and end-all. For example, for a group of people that were born of slavery and escaped to freedom they didn't have another word to say about the subject as being immoral? And what of the people today, who think they know all about the contents of this book, but who speak from the abundance of their ignorance. Quick: name Jesus's older half-brother. It's in the Bible, for once I believe it, and that settles it. Answer below.

Perhaps this is our purpose then. If Nature had meant for us to think and reason we would have evolved brains. It seems we only get one chance at life, after careful examination all "promises" of an afterlife are not proof, nor are they solid and definite. Besides, it's not that you'll eventually die, it's HOW you'll die that frightens me. Any belief in "Heaven" and "Hell" quickly run headlong into inherent contradictions: if the bad go to Hell for eternity, then is it just that even one so evil as Hitler be kept in God's own eternal Auschwitz beyond a certain point? Even if you multiply each lifespan that Hitler took by a thousandfold, a million- or even billion-fold, add them all together and make him stay in the flames for that times two isn't that enough vengeance? Is God crueler than Hitler? Just for the record, every Christian to whom I have asked this question suddenly wants to talk Baseball instead.

And how about the current practitioners of faith? It is an article of both Christian and Muslim faith that to give up the fight to either convert the other or subdue him is to give up on God himself. Yet neither group can prove their belief system is actually what they say it is, and belief cannot be instilled by force anyway. This conundrum has been the source of most of the world's misery since ancient times. Will we not learn?

I'm sorry, but it's time for a new belief system, one like the metric system that is based on a solid, provable, and measurable foundation. One where questions of any kind are encouraged, freedom of thought is the ultimate ideal, and one not designed to focus attention on a "salvation character." This is not to say that ethics will be different, for they are borne of experience, not handed down from on high. The Golden Rule is golden because of the concept, not because of who first promulgated it.

The answer to the quiz question is "Satan." See Job 1:6 KJV.

Buddhist opinion:

I am here - that is, a human being living on earth, because I have shown great kindness to others in my previous lifetimes, as an animal. In some of these previous lifetimes I was a 'lower' animal (eg., an insect), in some a 'higher' animal (eg., a dog), and perhaps fortunate enough to have been a human being before; the path was probably not linear. But now that I am a human, I have an opportunity to show kindness to others, and by this means, progress...Be reborn as a human being in a better situation (eg., instead of being born in a poor situation, be born into a wealthy family), or better still, be reborn ABOVE the human state in a status called Nirvana, or sainthood. In the Nirvana state, not only will I be permanently happy, but - more importantly - have the opportunity to help other beings achieve a higher rebirth and/or even Nirvana.

I believe in God and it's not a weird question, I wonder the same thing because I go to a Christian school but I'm one of the only ones in my class that believes in God. How can people believe in stuff like the 'Big bang' theory and not believe in Jesus? It's weird.

I do believe in God, but it's weird. I want to believe that I can be forgiven and be loved no matter what, yet I don't consider going to church to be very important. I just want to become a better person and I try to learn what will help me achieve this from different religions and adapting it to me. I think that every religion's goal is to make better people, and so that should be every person's goal as well, don't you think? I don't think that this "principle" should be very "institutionalized", like the church, once again. Don't take me wrong, I'm not against it, I just think that it could be a little more open.

If we all focused on being better persons and didn't just judge a person by their race or beliefs, then it would be a better world.

I definitely believe in God!!!! I find it impossible to believe we were all created by "chance" and some "big band theory" God is very real and very active in my life, as well as everyone else's. I believe after death that if you are a Christian and you truly believe in God then you will live eternally with Him in heaven. All the proof is in the Bible! I applaud you for having the courage to ask this online. I hope God does great thing in your life!! :]

I'm a Christian myself, so of course, I believe in God. And no, it's not a weird question, I think it's something everyone should have some time to think about. You prove a good point here. I too am curious about other peoples' view.

I have questions for you then. If you can answer them, maybe I'll believe in God.

If we "came" from God, where did God come from?

If He has always been, why did He just decided to create humanity?

If God is this great, all-mighty entity, why is He so childish in that He is vengeful?

If He loves us all, unconditionally and we are all his children, why do some of us go to Hell? Surely God, of anyone, would understand we are only human and make mistakes?

I don't mean to question your faith, only to explain my mistrust in the idea of God.

I can see it from your point of view, but no, I don't believe. I wish I did, because I can see how much of a comfort it would be to say, well, my relative died, but they're in a better place now. I just can't see it like that. I believe that we got here through evolution, through natural selection. I'm just too much of a logical, proof-needing person to believe that one day a mythical being just decided to make us and formed our lives. Because, if he did, why is life like this? Why create something that dies, or that can kill? I respect your way of thinking, but I can't wrap my mind around it. I can't get myself to believe in heaven or hell, believe me, I've tried.

I personally don't believe in God.

The thought that "if I do this, I could go to hell" has never really phased me in the slightest. The way I see it, we live, we die. I'm not too concerned about whether or not what I happen to be doing is pleasing a "God." I believe that the love I have for myself is much more important than love from an almighty being you can NEVER be sure exists.

Stay open minded, you never know. For all I know, as an atheist, I could die and Jesus could be at the gates of heaven all "Sup bitches!"