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Does God really exist?
I have lost faith in God. I do not know how to pray. Should I pray to God or Jesus? Who is Lord? I am so angry and dissapointed in God. I always try to be a good person all the time but God is always unfair to me. He doesn't let me have what I really wanted. Not even once eventhough I worked hard. What did I do wrong? I am not a bad person. Why? I am so sad, jealous, confuse and hopeless.........
15 Answers
- ?Lv 78 years ago
There's no reliable evidence for God/Yahweh, Jesus, Allah, Zeus, Baal, Odin, Quetzalcoatl, Vishnu, Thor, Shiva, or any of the thousands of other gods that people have worshiped. If any existed there would be reliable evidence. Since no such evidence exists, these gods do not exist. There's also extensive evidence that they are all just myths, created to help soothe our fear of death, and perpetuated through religion to subjugate the underclass into obedience.
Science has shown that there's no need for gods to explain the traditional reasons for a god -- origin of the universe, origin of life, origin of species, origin of humans, origin of morality. Science also shows us the psychological reasons that people believe in god(s). See the 1st link for the video, "Andy Thomson: Why We Believe in Gods" or buy his book at the 2nd link. And, check out Michael Shermer's "The Believing Brain" at the third link.
Yahweh is typically defined as omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and having free will. Such a god is internally and externally incongruent, and thus cannot logically exist. An omnipotent and omniscient god with free will can't exist, because it could not both know the future and change it. An omnipotent and omnibenevolent god can't exist and allow the true horrors that occur to sentient beings.
All reliable evidence points to Jesus Christ being just a myth. There is no reliable evidence that Jesus even existed, and significant evidence that he didn't. The evidence is in the Bible, the other religions of the time, and the lack of writings about Jesus by historians of the time.
The story of Jesus can be shown to be just a myth created to fulfill prophesy, cobbled together out of stories from the Old Testament and previous gods and myths -- created in the 40's and 50's by Paul of Tarsus (who exhibited symptoms of epilepsy and had delusions of Christ talking to him), the other apostles, the unknown authors of the gospels in the 70's or later, and many other people. The reliable evidence for this is overwhelming.
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Salaam and Hey.
I'm a Muslim by generation of my family.
I don't have enough knowledge to talk a lot about this.
I'm just saying about what i know.
How to discover the exist of Allah?
(1) Do you ever have experience that is too tough to u to go through? For example, you mother get cancer. You really love your mother. You feel very sad when your mother sick. You must be despair isn't? A part from that, you also have the feeling of hope to some power so that the power can heal your mother. The feeling of hope to the 'powerful' is the actually signs that God is the power that exist in your life.
(2) In Quran stated that when we was in our mother's womb, we had promise and acknowledge that Allah is our God. All the person had say it when in their mother's womb.
(3) Human make a chair. So, the chair exists. Human bake a cake. So, the cake exists. Its means that everything that exist has the own creator. cake and chair has been created by human. So, human has been created by Allah (God). We will say it is impossible for the chair that can exists without no one create it.
(4)Don't be too weak. Never give up sis to be a better person. Something you do not know something that you hate sometimes better for u and something that u love sometimes not good for u. Let be a positive person. God never load your with the burden that u can't load it. Believe in God. Try to find and get close to God.
Perhaps this answer will help you to understand about religion. May Allah give His guidance to you.
- 8 years ago
what you are going through is very common, even those in the bible felt that same way, in habakkuk 1.2-4 the prophet Habakkuk was discouraged and said, "How long O Jehovah (god), must I cry for help, and you do not hear? How long should I call to you for aid from violence, and you do not save? why is it that you make me see what is hurtful, and you keep looking upon mere trouble?" (i would quote the rest, but it's long) anyways, later revealed, jehovah explained to habakkuk why he was allowing it to go on, and habakkuk later praised jehovah once again.
so your not wrong for having such thoughts, it is normal. and i comend you for admitting this and wanting to learn more. because all the answers you seek are in the bible.
in mathew 6. verses 6-10, Jesus instructs his followers how to pray, and say's to pray to the father in heavens, Jehovah God.
in 1samuel, 1.10, when Hannah was feeling disstressed it say's, "and she was bitter at soul, and she began to pray to jehovah and to weep greatly." The end result, Jehovah rid Hannah's husband's other, wife who was taunting her, and gave her a son.
although it is true, not every prayer will be answered, and if it is, it could be in a way you would not expect. but we can reason god is not unfair whenever something bad happens to someone. we can reason from knowing who is responsible. the bible say's in 1john 5.18 that the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one. u can learn more by studying the bible with jehovah's witnesses. they go door to door offering free home bible studies through a book that takes you into your own bible and explains it further. it answers questions such as why do we suffer? how can we cope with life's anxieties? how can we make our family life happier? what happens to us when we die? will we ever see our dead loved ones again? how can we be sure god will fullfill his promises for the future?
do not give up on finding the answers, and know that as psalms 9.18 comforts, "for not always will the poor one be forgotten, nor will the hope of the meek ones ever perish,"
Source(s): i'm a bible reader, and one of jehovah's witnesses :) - 8 years ago
Ask yourself this...
Does the Easter Bunny exist?
Does Father Christmas exist?
Does Snow White exist?
The answer is 'of course not'
God is a fictional character just like all the above, It was created as a story by men in order to try and scare people into being good and conforming to a christian way.
The Bible is a story book of words written by men, not god. Men!
If you want to believe in fairy tales then that's fine go head.
Personally, I went to school were I studied many things, but one thing in particular that I figured out was a little thing called 'LOGIC'
People who believe in God so emphatically are just so dumb. They have to invent this little world of make believe and prey that they wont be tortured in hell by the devil when they die. lmfao, I mean, it'd just so stupid to believe this ****! 2000 years ago, sure... humans were, uneducated, naive, neanderthal even. They believed this **** because they were not capable of logic.
Anyway believe what you like. I know that science is the real religion in our world.
Regards.
Source(s): LOGIC - Anonymous8 years ago
People like yourself can be good in happy in life with out religion...putting your hands together and saying words to this so called god wont make miracles...and dont listen to fireball she doesnt know what she is talking about
- Donut TimLv 78 years ago
If you truly want to believe in god, here's how:
First, you must convince yourself that magic is real. It helps if you consider anything that you don’t know or understand to have a magical cause.
(If you don't like the term, "magic", you can use "miracles" or "supernatural power" if it makes you feel better. The result is the same.)
Then you must decide which magical things you will accept and which to deny.
To help you get started, here's a partial list from which you may like to choose:
Astral traveling or projection, dragons, time traveling, Cupid, reincarnation, werewolves, genies, telepathy, mermaids, vampires, lucky numbers, tooth fairies, homeopathic healing, leprechauns, spontaneous human combustion, astrological influences, Vulcan sleeper grip, clairvoyants, Superman, angels, charmed or lucky objects, unicorns, hexes, space aliens on Earth, light sabers, paranormal anything, dead people walking around, fountain of youth, telekinesis, spirit guides or all supernatural events of any kind.
Of course you must select a God to worship also. There are many to choose from.
► A person can believe in anything if he tries hard enough.
The more time and energy you spend in this pursuit, the more you will want to believe and so it will be easier to accept with less evidence. Also, the greater the reward for believing, the easier it will be to convince yourself. There can be many rewards such as social acceptance, easing of grief from the loss of a loved one etc.
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- 8 years ago
you should rrrrreallly reeally read the book 'the shack'
i'm 2/3 through it and think it might help
And I honestly wish you the best and pray that you don't feel this way much longer.
- ?Lv 58 years ago
You should be more concerned about learning from and understanding everything that life has to offer.
- Anonymous8 years ago
You don't get everything you want in life. If at First you don't succeed try try again. -Winny the Pooh.
- 8 years ago
You can call me God, and blame all your problems on me if you want to...
But you'll never be free of yourself...
Thus I decree for thou