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do you believe in the Christian God?

I am curious about how many people believe in the Christian God. If you believe in God, do you believe the bible is literal or figurative?

Do you believe people who dont believe in God are destined for hell? If God is supposed to be a loving father, why would he send his children to hell? An eternity of suffering and torment seems a bit of an excessive punishment for, lets say, 80 years of sinning.

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Yes I believe

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Yes, I believe in God and the afterlife. I believe the bible speaks in metaphors at times.

If you don't believe in God I don't think you will burn in hell, but you will not go to heaven. Hell is absence of God

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The church I grew up preached hellfire and brimstone. Eternal suffering. Everyone is a sinner, and unless you repent and asked jesus to save you, you are dammed to an eternity of agony. That makes God sound kind of like a dick.

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No. No more than I believe in all the other Gods and saviours of other religions.

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I think being genetically engineered by an advanced extraterrestrial race makes more sense than most religions.

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The question I have: what makes our monkey brains need a deity?

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No, but I don't disbelieve. I'm an Agnostic.




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No. The evidence is non-existent for any kind of deity.

If this fact changes, please let me know.

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No, I don't believe in any deity.

The train is coming with shiny cars, comfy seats, and wheels of stars. Hush, little ones, have no fear; the man in the moon is the engineer.

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No

Well, this is a tomb. I'll make them feel at home

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I believe in God, but I am not sure of his religious beliefs.

I am addicted to you; I have tasted your mind, and I cannot forgo its flavor.

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Believe in him?

Shit…nigga still owes me 20 dollars!

We went to high school. I took his kid sister to the prom and lost my cherry to her behind the bleachers

God found out. kicked my ass a little but it was worth it!

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Yes and it's possible if people screw up before and after the rapture that yeah probably be thrown in the lake of fire.

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God wouldnt do that to me. I took his kid sister to the prom.

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Do you believe people who don't believe in God are destined for hell? If God is supposed to be a loving father, why would he send his children to hell? An eternity of suffering and torment seems a bit of an excessive punishment for, lets say, 80 years of sinning.

Playing Devil's Advocate here…

I'm not sure.

God doesn't send people to hell. People send themselves to hell, by not believing on the Lord Jesus Christ. God has no control over it. You're attributing human morality and emotions to God: that perhaps God should be a "nice guy" and let the guy into Heaven who didn't believe in Him. But it's out of God's hands. If it were up to God, everyone would believeth in Him, and we'd all be allowed into Heaven.

If God had the power to let whomever he wants into Heaven, then why was Jesus Christ's death necessary for us to be forgiven for all our sins? God, being a magical omnipotent Being, could have skipped out on this unnecessary task and simply snapped his fingers, erasing all of our sins instantaneously.

But see, even God cannot make anything He wants happen. Some things are out of God's jurisdiction. God has to go through steps, too. He had to send Jesus Christ to take our sins. We can only get to Heaven by believing in Him and His Son Jesus.

Think of it as part of a contract God and Satan made years ago. Satan said to God, and I'm paraphrasing here, "Ok fine, how about you get the people who believeth in Jesus, and I'll take everyone else for my world. That sound fair? Now sign on the dotted line." God has to stick to his end of the contract.

Make sense?

God and Satan both have the ability to tempt us, too. Satan can take control of us and influence us to make horrible decisions, and be in a state of hopelessness, depression, and despair. Why does God allow this happen? Because again, God has no control over everything. Satan has his hands in the mix, too. But God can also influence our lives, and help us resist Satan's temptation and control, if we ask Him too. But all he can do is help and guide, not make it disappear.

I am addicted to you; I have tasted your mind, and I cannot forgo its flavor.

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My God, that was accidentally beautiful.

I am addicted to you; I have tasted your mind, and I cannot forgo its flavor.

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What do you think of this poem by Edward Carpenter, about Satan and God?

And so at last I saw Satan appear before me- magnificent, fully formed.
Feet first, with shining limbs, he glanced down from above among the bushes,
And stood there erect, dark-skinned, with nostrils dilated with passion;
(In the burning intolerable sunlight he stood, and I in the shade of the bushes);
Fierce and scathing the effluence of his eyes, and scornful of dreams and dreamers (he touched a rock hard by and it split with a sound like thunder);
Fierce the magnetic influence of his dusky flesh; his great foot, well-formed, was planted firm in the sand-with spreading toes;
‘Come out' he said with a taunt, ‘Art thou afraid to meet me?'
And I answered not, but sprang upon him and smote him;
And he smote me a thousand times, and brashed and scorched and slew me as with hands of flame;
And I was glad, for my body lay there dead; and I sprang upon him again with another body;
And he turned upon me, and smote me a thousand times and slew that body;
And I was glad and sprang upon him again with another body-
And with another and another and again another;
And the bodies which I took on yielded before him and were like cinctures of flame upon me, but I flung them aside;
And the pains which I endured in one body were powers which I wielded in the next; and I grew in strength, till at last I stood before him complete, with a body like his own and equal in might-exultant in pride and joy.
Then he ceased, and said, "I love thee."
And lo! his form changed, and he leaned backwards and drew me upon him,
And bore me up into the air, and floated me over the topmost trees and the ocean, and round the curve of the earth under the moon-
Till we stood again in Paradise.

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That twist, though… I love this.

What I take from this is that Satan was really God, and he was testing him.



I am addicted to you; I have tasted your mind, and I cannot forgo its flavor.

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There may be some existential order to everything but god is probably not the word for it. I don't believe in nihilism. I don't think it's a coincidence that the universe evolved a creature which could at least try to understand and explore it.

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If life and the universe began as physicists believe, with an infinitesimal point of condensed matter, and it exploded and is expanding and that matter is being strewn forth propelled by some material force, then just as galaxies have a direction, hurling outward into space, so does life.

Nothing in our physical selves or the world around us is of new material. It all existed in that pinprick of matter which exploded in the big bang. So why not life and the human brain and all that we do and create? Can that not be seen as part of that expanding purpose of an explosive universe?

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Where did that pinprick of matter come from though?

It all existed in that pinprick of matter which exploded in the big bang.

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Great question and I can't answer it. I did browse a few sites and this one says it came from the energy in light.

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/101-the-universe/cosmology-and-the-big-bang/general-questions/570-where-did-the-matter-in-the-universe-come-from-intermediate

This one offers a slightly different version:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/02/26/scientists-may-have-solved-mystery-of-matters-origin/?utm_term=.bb3c2b3ebd5a

I have more the brain of a social scientist. Maybe a physical science geek can explain it better.

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The first link helped a lot. Light is what became matter. That makes sense. Where did the light come from though? Always more questions..

In the beginning, there was not yet any matter. However, there was a lot of energy in the form of light, which comes in discrete packets called photons. When photons have enough energy, they can spontaneously decay into a particle and an antiparticle. (An antiparticle is the exact opposite of the corresponding particle–for example, a proton has charge +e, so an antiproton has charge -e.) This is easily observed today, as gamma rays have enough energy to create measurable electron-antielectron pairs (the antielectron is usually called a positron). It turns out that the photon is just one of a class of particles, called the bosons, that decay in this manner. Many of the bosons around just after the big bang were so energetic that they could decay into much more massive particles such as protons (remember, E=mc2, so to make a particle with a large mass m, you need a boson with a high energy E). The mass in the universe came from such decays.

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I was baffled by that too. It's a lot to absorb. It would seem light needs a material source.

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Re: do you believe in the Christian God?

I don't believe in God. I believe in me.

Mephistopheles is just beneath and he's reaching up to grab me.

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If God exists, i believe. Regardless, my reality does not seem to be affected.
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