• Expendable said on Nov 12, 2006....

  why are there so many gods? maybe because humans have too much imagination.

• silverwhisper said on Nov 12, 2006....

  assuming for the sake of argument that a god exists:
  
  1.  god transcends distinctions such as life/death: can a god die?
  2.  memes exist distinct from human consciousness, in the sense that the meme can be recorded (books, etc).
  3.  we have a deep-seated need to believe and have an explanation for why, the one question science cannot answer.  :>  succor we can get from other mortals and it isn't usually too difficult.
  4.  in the ground/mausoleum.
  5.  possibly.
  6.  depends on whose definition of god you're using, no?
  7.  no, b/c humans will take any excuse to fight.
  8.  people are willing to be fooled.  and the deceivers are sometimes deceiving themselves.
  9.  free willl is required for humans to have choices instead of just blindly following a script we've been handed.
  10. b/c the idea of god exists in the human spirit and there have been, are now, and will be so very many human spirits.
  
  JMHO.
  
  ed
  

• queenparanoia said on Nov 12, 2006....

  God exist dear. The only thing is that HE is too great that our mind cannot fully grasp the idea of God.
  p.s.
  he does not hate. he can be jealous, angry and can feel other emotions. except hatred. people hate. God just love...

• raft said on Nov 12, 2006....

  I'm not going to answer all the questions right now (the kids are waking up). I'm a little ambiguous about the whole thing. I'm raised Roman Catholic. I feel and understand the succor that religion can provide in times of uncertainty, but I'm still not sold on the whole thing.
  

• secretlife said on Nov 12, 2006....

  I'm on my way out to teach my Sunday School class-- you see, whether or not God ends up existing, it's still important to me to teach kids to have faith in something bigger than they are and In mystery and in goodness and in hope.

• PAPERBACKWRITER said on Nov 12, 2006....

  I have been avoiding, blogs with religion, politics as theme, dear Happykat.
  
  But I guess just in real life you cannot avoid everything all the time.
  
  There was a long phase in my life where I was just asking questions about life; seeking "the" absolute truth; and questioning all that exist.
  
  I remember reading an interview with Julia Roberts ---yeah I´m an entertainment magazine whore, well that is the most harmless fact I have so far exposed here in SC....but I got sidetracked again...if I remember it right she was asked about WWW and Internet, and reply was...well paraphrased ..she sometimes cannot understand why people what to know more and more and more.
  
  Well after going through a lot of life turbulances, there would come a point you just have to believe in something, someone because the alternative is madness...well in my case that is.
  
  So I believe in God; I am raising my children to believe.
  
  My mother reared us to believe in God.  And somehow this has helped me in my path in life although, in between for a long period of time I wavered in my belief.  Still it is a blessing to have something to go back to.
  
  paper
  

• PAPERBACKWRITER said on Nov 12, 2006....

  Excuse me for asking, but I was born curious...what is JMHO?
  

• silverwhisper said on Nov 12, 2006....

  JMHO: internet abbreviation for "just my humble opinion".  it's a variation on IMHO: in my humble opinion.
  
  ed
  

• ALIENated said on Nov 12, 2006....

  secretlife is right. When we think this is it, I am it, there is nothing else, God is a tree, we start to drift and get lost. We start thinking we have all the answers. Usually, like you, when I get one answer it leads to a dozen more questions. As a Christian, I believe Jesus was God on earth. He said there are really only two things we need to do, not the ten that Moses gave the Israelites. We are to love the Lord (God) and love our neighbors. To answer all your questions, I would more likely trust a good Bible and listen to good teachers. I have heard hours and hours of teaching and preaching, both in person and on TV and radio. You have to take what you hear and weigh it against what the Bible says. Maybe even what several versions of the Bible say. Each Bible has a bit of translation prejudice in it (the Jehovah's Witnesses version, for example), but do not get hung up on one word. Try to get the overall message. Most, with satan's help, pick the Bible apart, word by word, which usually comes from bad translation.
  
  I weigh different religions against that two proposition deal. Radical Islamics, for example, claim to love God, but the do not love their neighbors. Blowing people up is not loving them.
  
  Plus, like with politics, people tend to look at one person as representing the whole group. Leaders of various part of Christianity may be smucks, but that does not make all Christians smucks. Certain Islamics, Jews, Hindus, Buddists, etc., may be smucks, but by an large these groups are filled with sincere lovers of God.
  
  My feeling about God it based on logic. Jesus said belief in Him was the only way to God. He also claimed to be God. So in essence, if you believe in God you believe in Jesus, whether you like it or not. Shalom.

• Alyss said on Nov 12, 2006....

  hk; I have to think about this some before answering.
  

• PAPERBACKWRITER said on Nov 12, 2006....

  ooohh right...thanks ed
  
  where do i learn all about this?
  
  (scusi HK, i seem to be doing this a lot in a couple of blogs...maybe i should post one now to get someone to interact with?!?)
  
  grazie HK
  ciao , paper
  

• missb said on Nov 12, 2006....

  Your questions all makes sense, HK. But i think that most of them, none of us humans would ever know.
   
  You just believe, that's all. Oh, and I don't think God hates though :)
   
  Cheers!

• Jenna said on Nov 12, 2006....

  HK....I believe he is alive and well....I just spoke with him a couple of hours ago.

• Morden said on Nov 12, 2006....

  "Did man invent God to have something to fight about?" No, man invented gods so he would have something to justify the fighting.

• sunsethue said on Nov 12, 2006....

  hey hp... i don't know if you know me but i had been on the road where you are right now... the asking, then the searching, and lately i have found a satisfactory answer i can live with...
  
  it took me a lot of years to study god through science, immersion with different kinds of religion, philosophies and practices to really understand where this life really came from... until i was able to understand that "truth is relative" and from religion i worked my way towards spirituality... i began to understand that religion is a sort of "collective consciousness" where a group of people believe a certain set of rules of truth while spirituality is a belief system that you create where the truth is what came out of your own experiences... this is kinda tricky to understand if you haven't really immersed yourself in this thing so maybe i will just write about it one of these days...
  
  anyway, if you can read my latest post about "why i love mornings" maybe you will get an idea where i am on the issue of god at this point in my life... after being diagnosed with malignant cancer, had a relapse after six months of finishing a combination of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, I was told by my team of doctors that they don't have the power to save my life anymore and what they can just do is just extend the remaining part of my life... this is where all the knowledge that i incurred through the years came in to help me deal with what life forced me to deal with... my own mortality...
  
  how do you deal with death? how do you die with grace? how do you deal with fear? why do you feel fear of dying when we all know since we were born that eventually we will die anyway? *sigh* ... and what do you do now that you know you're time is about up... your game is almost over? and how do you face god, if there is such a creator called god?
  
  in this kind of experience you are forced to define a lot of big words like death and life, good and evil, right and wrong, truth and fantasy, love and hate, priorities and boundaries... words that we avoid because they overwhelm us... but defining them leads you to the root question which is what you are asking here... is there such a thing called god?
  
  in situations like mine life forces you to answer them for you to know where to go after life forced you to face your own mortality... after tedious, brain wracking, emotionally depressing months of dealing with my own death i finally found peace and serenity... and i found this after all my hopes failed... ironic... but it is only when all my hopes failed that i found the true meaning of faith... faith from someone who never really felt secured in the religion i was born in, the religions that i tried to be part of to find the truth i had been searching about god, and even to the reality of trying not to believe in a god... i found faith when all my hopes failed... and it's not that bad... actually it's the thing that keeps me going right now...
  
  how do i know that there is a god? i can feel him in my life each moment as it comes... how? in many different ways... signs and small things that we don't really notice until we come to a point where everything is taken away and you then see the minute things that we take for granted each day because our minds and schedules are so full we don't have time for "little things"... little things that make up the whole thing... i see them now because i don't have a choice anymore but look at them every single moment as i await my own demise...
  
  it is lonely at first but then when i got used to the loneliness that was the only time i felt "that presence"... that i wasn't alone... that everytime something goes wrong and i don't know what to do a thought/idea or some event comes up to strengthen the fact that there is something or someone there watching over me... guiding me... and i define that something as GOD even if i don't understand it... i may not understand it but it feels kinda familiar... like you're a part of it... or its a part or you... or both... part of a bigger thing i so

• sunsethue said on Nov 12, 2006....

  NOTE: i didn't know that there is a limit in the length of posts here and i was just writing and writing but when i posted my reply it was cut... hehehe... sorry for the long reply... please bear with me... i just felt good writing about this... anyway, this is the continuation...

  
  ...sometimes define as life or what everyone calls god... but whatever your definition of god is you have to believe in something... or a god... or at least in a spirit... or an energy as science defines it or a soul as religion and spirituality calls it... it is hard to comprehend because it is bigger than life itself... but it's logical coz everything must come from something...
  
  Fairytales are fantasy... something that we escape to when we can't deal with reality... but in my situation now i can't escape anymore to any form of fantasy... i have to deal with reality and in my reality God is real... i can feel him with every breath i take... i can sense him in my every endeavor... i wouldn't know what to do with each day of my life if i don't open up myself to a morning prayer... i am nothing without my god...
  
  keep on searching, my friend, coz the journey is relative as well as truth... it's all up to you... don't be afraid to know more about god... listen so you learn from others... immerse so you will learn from the experience... coz you can't avoid that path so you might as well enjoy it... and the path might be a rough road but i promise you it's all worth it... at least for me it is.
  
  Keep the faith... it's the only thing left when all our hopes fail.
  
  Have a blessed life and Good morning! :-)
  
  p.s.
  the sun always sets to allow the darkness to set in and for silence to thrive... it is in the stillness of the night that we can listen and feel "that presence"... it calms... it renews... it enlightens... and as the dark creeps away to let the light slowly shine through, then is the time that we can be thankful when we still see another sunrise the next day... and with a smile we say "Good Morning!"

• ShortShortMan said on Nov 16, 2006....

  Is God alive? - I don't think so.
  Is God alive only through our minds? - Yes
  Did Man invent God out of a need for succor? - Yes
  When people die, where do they go? How long? - A human being has 2 components (not 3).  Mind and Body only.  Scratch the Soul.  There is no proof of souls / spirits / ghosts, blah, blah, blah.  When we die, our mind and body will just rot on earth.  That's it. But then again you may ask - What's the purpose of our existence? - It's not our fault that we existed.  We didn't force our parents to have us exist.  We just exist to experience living, to survive (like insects and animals (they don't have souls too).
  Did man invent God out of fear of oblivion? - Yes
  If God is love, why does God hate? - God hates who?  Evil?
  Did man invent God to have something to fight about? - Yes
  Why do so many men use God for munipulation, control, money, etc... and we believe them? - God doesn't control us.  We control ourselves.  So take care of yourself, okay?
  If God controls the universe, why is there free will? - We have free will because God doesn't exist.
  If God is God, why are there so many Gods? - There are many Gods because people have different beliefs and religion.  And that people just created this beliefs and religion.
  Is God a fairy tale? - Yes
  happykat, you and I have the same thinking.  You are having doubts.  I feel you.  If you have many more questions, just feel free to read my blog.
   
   

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