Question for the religious folks on the board...?

I don't admit to being 'religious,' but I am Christian, attend church, and am interested in developing my spirituality.

But I believe in God because of personal experience and how I make sense of it and the perceptions I have about reality.

Not my words added to the positive comments of the folks here will describe the beauty of knowing, loving, believing and serving God. It is an experience worth the living.

Simply because first I sensed something Higher and next I "realized" God and therefore have "certainty" on the existence of God. This is a personal and, or, Individual Spiritual reality and something I could not prove to anyone else or even feel a need to prove it...

If, as Science now believes, everything began at the Big Bang, including time, then whatever caused the Big Bang would have to be outside of time.

This transcendental cause of the big bang could literally have no beginning because there was no such thing as “before” or “beginning” when there was no time.

We can summarise it like this:

1.Time, space and matter came into existence at a certain point in the finite past.

2.Since time, space and matter began to exist they had a cause.

3.Therefore, whatever caused them was time-less (eternal), space-less (not subject to locality, omnipresent) and matter-less (immaterial, non-physical, spirit).

Those properties of what would be necessary to cause time, space and matter exactly match the characteristics of the Creator described in the Bible.

The atheistic response that "there had to be something that caused the causer of the Big Bang" (e.g. Richard Dawkins “If there is a God then who made God?”) cannot adequately account for the time factor. Whereas, the theistic one can: the causer of the Big Bang is a Deity who lives outside of time.

Note that atheists actually have no problem believing in an uncaused first cause, at least when it is not supernatural, but Nature, as they promulgate the following assertions:

* It is ignorant and superstitious to believe that God made everything out of nothing.

* It is rational and scientific to believe that nothing made everything out of nothing.

* It is ignorant and superstitious to believe that God is eternal.

* It is rational and scientific to believe that matter (or energy) is eternal.

* God is an effect and must have had a cause.

* Matter/energy is the uncaused first cause.

* If God made everything, then who made God?

* Matter made everything and nothing made matter.

The inescapable conclusion is that the beginning of the universe was caused by an immaterial, and immutable agent who is independent of space-time, is incredibly powerful, incredibly intelligent and able to act unencumbered, simultaneously inside and outside the time domain.

The Judeo-Christian God of the Bible is described as being independent of space-time, incredibly powerful, incredibly intelligent and able to act unencumbered, simultaneously inside and outside the time domain.

Among all the ancient peoples, only the Hebrews knew this. While the rest of the world believed in a magical, eternal universe that gave birth to the gods, the Hebrews were unique in their belief in an eternal, transcendent God who gave the universe its beginning.

And that is why belief in God is rational and so persistent and wide-spread.

The evidence of God's existence is overwhelming. The idea held by some that this world's existence, all the beautiful and wonderful things of this world, came into being purely by chance, is preposterous. I can't believe for a second that the things in the world that make it wonderful, like music, love, children, and beauty were not divinely inspired.

I don't but I religiously drink 4 shots of vodka every morning

Because it is what I find to be true. I see His hand in the beauty of science, math and nature. I feel His presence and joy.

because He was there when I needed Him........ the rest of the story is way too long to post on YA

experiences starting when I was 6yr old.

it is uhshakable

i dont