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Does God Exist?

DEBATE: 'DOES GOD EXIST?'

At one level, the difference between a theist and atheist is simply a small gap of white space. But the divide between the two is also a chasm, a difference not just about sect and doctrine, or church vs. State, but about fundamental questions of the origin and purpose of life.
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Exist God Does

YES GOD DOES EXIST many people are so full of this life's worries and in gaining mortal things they do not look at the full picture. Not only of life and the why's but of the afterward effects of things.
We are like babies here on the earth with a scant knowledge of things to come, and yet when we take time in a prayerful and thoughtful look things can and are opened to our thoughts and minds that no mortal or supper mortal mind can come up with.
If you look at the ceremonies both in and out of the temple you can see things not only in the now but as they were and as they will be. and the reasons for them, so my advice is to stop looking for this question of is there but that there is and there is great reasons that people are in the dark so to speak.

Does God Exist? Beliefs Religious General

Of course God Exist. We may not always understand his ways, or why things are done in the way it is, but then sometimes we don't even understand why we do certain things. There are just too many things that exists in the world to deny his existence.

Exist God Does

If God exists, then why would he continue to let people not believe in him?

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Exist God Does

Why would he intervene in the free agency of man? Why would he "force" people to believe in Him?

Does God Exist?

I'm sorry, I phrased that poorly. What I meant was, God appeared to man many times throughout the old testament, but hasn't in thousands of years. There are more infidels now than there ever have been...why not make another appearance?

Does God Exist

Says who?

Depending the religion, this is not necessarily true. As a Latter-Day Saint I can testify based on my belief, that God appeared to a man called Joseph Smith in the 1830's. Now this is NOT the Studies of Latter-Day Saints board where we study these things so I won't discuss it further within this thread but just show it as an example that not all religions believe that God stopped appearing to men in Biblical times.

Does God Exist General Religious Beliefs

To have faith that God exists is not the same as certainty. I would have to answer the question honestly and say simply that I have no idea whether he does or not.

There is an argument against God's existence that goes as follows: the complexity of the universe and the life within it are such that the probability of the existence of a being even more complex (as he would need to be in order to have created it) is just too incredible.

Again, I can't say whether that is true or not but it does make sense to me. A being such as God would need to be extraordinarily complex if he is to be responsible for everything he is described as. For example, hearing/answering the prayer of every being on the planet who talks to him simultaneously whilst still having the time to smite the ungodly and rewarding the holy-oh and judging the dead.

What puzzles me are things like the fact that God - all powerful creator of the universe - needed to "rest on the seventh day" having created the world in six. Why does an immortal being- capable of the creation of everything that exists- need to rest? This is where my warning lights start to flash and I begin to believe its all fables from ancient times.

That evolution and the dinosaurs...

Edited: Dougiep on 6th Nov, 2007 - 10:52pm