What is your religious/non-religious belief at this time? How did you come to this belief?

I came to a sort of deist belief in a first-cause / prime creator God through a variant of the cosmological argument. Later I came to Christ in light of the conviction of early martyrs.

I was raised agnostic leaning atheist. I still have more ideological commonality with liberal humanists than with my reactionary fundamentalist brethren in Christ.

Born Hindu, currently, I am agnostic.

I firmly believe that most stories of Gods are just stories and my mother and brother also think so. We don't believe any such thing actually happened. These stories were created to teach righteousness and morals to people, because otherwise, preaching values is very boring.

Sometimes, when I see miseries of the world, I really wonder if there is a God. In my country, they say that people who suffer misery did something bad in their "previous life" and it's their karma.

But when you see young children dying of hunger, infants who suffer rape...etc....I really wonder if God is that cruel that he makes little children suffer, who can't understand a squat about karma.

If God created such a big universe with billions of galaxies, why create a world with so much misery??

That makes me really question if there is a God.

But on the other hand, I see evolution, this huge universe. Everything moves synchronously, that it's unbelievable that everything happened on its own.Could this really have been just happened on its own without divinity?

So, honestly I'm confused. But I guess, I tilt more towards atheism.

I was weak and ignorant. These are just the kind f people that God often chooses to call so that they and other people know that God is working through the person and that it is not the person's talents that are accomplishing things. Saying that, God gave me many Spiritual experiences and visions of seeing into the Spirit realm. It took God almost 40 years to get me to believe that the Bible in the original language it was written in is truly the Word of God but He had to figuratively hit me over the head with 2 by 4's to get my attention. I believe that God I because I have had a 60 year close relationship with Him. I believe in the Holy Spirit because He has literally saved my life on more that one occasion. I believe that Jesus is the Son of God and is Literally the Eucharist in the Catholic Church because Jesus told me in words that He is. I believe nothing because some human told me it was true.

I am one of Jehovah's Witnesses. I came to this once I accepted a Bible study and I learned that the beliefs which I had been raised in were false. I found out that the trinity, hellfire, image worship, were false. As Jesus said in John 8:32 "You will know the truth and the truth will set you free."

I'm an atheist, having been raised Christian but always thinking, in the back of my mind when I was younger and right at the forefront as I got into my late teens, that what I was taught made no sense at all.

I'm not someone who cares what other people believe, as long as they realize they have no right to impose their religion on me or anyone else.

Raised Catholic, so always believed in God and that divorce was not optional. Husband betrayed me, I felt that my life had been a lie, and God had abandoned me. Fast forward a few years, I stopped holding a grudge against God and started praying again. Finally at the eight year mark of constant flashbacks of betrayal bitterness,wanting justice, I finally surrendered and handed everything over to God. And I regained my sense of self and developed a new understanding and appreciation of God. At this time, God is ever present in my life, my Father, my confidant, my Savior.

I should also mention that twice in my young years, in times of extreme emotional distress, I felt God's presence. During the time described above, I did not, so I felt abandoned. Now, I have no need for such "proof" again, because I feel so solid in my faith.

What is your religious/non-religious belief at this time?

~~~ At this time, I host no 'beliefs'.

How did you come to this belief?

~~~ 'Beliefs' are an infection of the imagination!

We "come about them" by being deliberately infected, when our resistance is low.

Then we deliberately infect others!

There are various strains of 'belief', the congregation of those afflicted with similar strains is a 'religion'.

Like a leper colony.

The particular strain is geographically/society conditional.

So, that is how all 'beliefs' are 'come by'!

Like someone deliberately infecting you with the flu! *__-

I believe in this:

This physical universe is a virtual reality simulation school for us souls. It’s an illusion – it’s like learning to fly in a flight simulator – you can’t crash and die in a flight simulator. We souls are immortal and indestructible.

“Earth is a SCHOOL for learning duality and understanding “opposites,” which helps you fast track your spiritual growth. Reincarnation and freewill are the tools for this spiritual growth. For every fantastic lifetime of love, joy, and happiness, there has been an equally strong and negative emotional experience of devastation, hardship, pain, and suffering.

There are no such things as hell, the devil or satan; these are false manmade beliefs, which were created for explaining the unloving attributes of pain, suffering, chaos, and destruction created by early civilizations (infant souls). As souls, each one of you has had many different lifetimes on Earth. Before each incarnational cycle, you decide what lessons you want to learn, the basic requirements for your life and the type of polarized experiences you want to explore on Earth.

Reincarnation helps you master your lessons in duality. You have killed and been killed by others; you have been male and female, including mother, father, son, uncle, grandmother etc. You have been a soldier, warrior, villain, farmer, and artist. You have experienced suffering, disease, illness, poverty, pain, joy, love, freedom, and fear. To learn from all the possible lessons of duality that has been possible on Earth, you have experienced every different human aspect available on the planet. Today, many souls have now come to the end of their study of duality. Many of you have nothing more left to learn on Earth.

The major purpose of reincarnation is learning and also clearing “uncompleted” life lessons from previous lifetimes. After you master your lessons, you do not need to repeat them again. The number of experiences or reincarnated lives is completely a matter of choice for each soul. Some souls may experience hundreds of incarnations while others may master the same lesson in five incarnations.

Before you incarnate from the spirit world, a group of spiritual advisors helps you decide the lessons you need to experience in this lifetime. Between incarnations, all souls return to the “Spirit World”. Your spiritual advisors are known as your “Council of Elders”. The Council review and refine your spiritual lessons for your incarnation. This is known as your “Incarnational Contract,” which serves the purpose for each incarnation. Your contract also includes the need to teach and/or learn from other individual/s or groups of souls, thus you establish mutual contracts with others.

Situations and events are created to bring souls together to learn these lessons. Once the soul contract is finalized, you then select the secondary aspects such as the time and place of your birth, your parents, siblings, sexuality, health status, pets etc and then you finally incarnate into the body during gestation to begin a new incarnation. When you are born, you have amnesia (known as the Veil of Forgetfulness). You start your new life without any recollection of previous incarnations or lessons you have to master in this lifetime.

Each spiritual being has a different spiritual path. There is no right or wrong. Every good and bad experience gets you one step closer to perfection. Compassion means that no person has the right to judge another person’s decisions, choices, and wrongdoings, because you do not know what the spiritual lessons and/or karma those souls are here to experience.

Your spiritual development is dependent on your ability to consciously evaluate each human experience, understand lessons, accept the consequences of your actions and overcome your weaknesses, until you perfect your lessons. Else you will have to repeat the same script in your next lifetime.”

http://ascension2012.in/downloads/Ascension-Study-...

agnostic / pantheist / atheist

If a god did exist it could not just always have been god. The term god implies certain attributes. These attributes are meaningless without something for them to apply to. example - Superman has attributes but if there are no other men he is no longer superman. If there is nothing for him to bend with his bare hands how does the strength attribute apply? If there is nothing for him to see through x ray vision is meaningless. A God before the creation had nothing to be god too. A king without a kingdom is not a king. A god without the creation is the god of nothing.

So for any god to exist before the creation is senseless. It would know all of nothing (omniscience), it has power over nothing (omnipotence), has nothing to be good to (omnibenevolence) and nothing to love so how could it love? The 'god' is meaningless.

The only way a god could exist is with the creation but, theist extrapolate god and put it outside the creation. It's like trying to remove the forest from the trees. God could only exist with the creation if it existed at all.

I do not claim god exist. I do try to conceive if a god existed how could it? The problem with religion is it keeps people with in the box or book (scriptures). They then can't think outside of it.

If a god did exist wouldn't it make more sense to reveal itself always and from the beginning? The gestalt universe could be regarded as one body. We are like protons or neutrons within an atom something in something else in a expanding universe. If existence was the manifestation of god then god is everything that is. In that way it could be everywhere, is in everything and is infinite and it is one. I think of space, matter/energy and time as a universal recycling bin and perpetual motion machine. It's constantly morphing itself. Perhaps so that all parts may come to know that it is. Think of a new born that is learning it's body. The eyes follow the hands and it learns this is part of me. It learns to control it. It comes to self awareness. Because everything is of the universe and everything will surrender all the atoms it gained from it back to it, the cycle of matter to energy back to matter is completed. So time moves on. The arrangement of atoms is infinite. When we gaze into the vastness of space we can not help but, to be awed. If you have ever been to Niagara Falls you would know the feeling of the falls pulling you in. Is it gravity, is it hypnotic or is it your mind has found union. Much like the babe discovering a body part belongs to it. Do you belong to the tide your mind follows looking out to sea or to the stars in the night sky? Does the treed mountain or barren canyon grip you and pull you to it? Is this how a real god would speak? In silence to all life forms from the beginning of time. Not by proxy in one mans tongue left for others to translate. As the creation god would not be in hiding it would be exposed all the time. Like plants it speaks in silence. Like music it speaks in notes. Not in one tongue but universally. It would not matter that you honored it. Like the apple tree it gives unconditionally. If you stone the tree or worship it, it bares its fruit to all who would have it. Any god would need the creation as much as the creation would need the god. Without the creation it would be but a singularity.

To assume a god is to assume the need for it. In the theist religions they make god having needs. If god wants you to follow gods will then god must also have needs. Why would the god that can do anything have needs? You have to ask yourself this in the pursuit of saying everything had to come from somewhere. How could god exist without energy or matter and if god is energy/matter and it (energy/matter) always was then why the need for god?

If I see it, I'll believe it. Otherwise, probably not.