Do you believe in God ?

[Sunny-side-up]

We are all ONE on a PATH, where did it start and where is it going.

If you believe the above then who put the path there

Thx Eagle Eye

[ExomatrixTV]

• change the word "believe" with: "I seriously consider" and do the same poll all over again ... you might have much better & more accurate (useful) results!

Even then, you still have to answer the question about who is doing the "thinking/reasoning/judging" and who is really responsible for your quality of your "thinking/reasoning/judging" >>> based upon what exactly?

If people need others to do the thinking for them they can always blame them later on when it turns out to be lies or "half-truths" or "deliberate narrow perspectives" serving their system of control mechanism agenda.

• I did not participate in this poll for that reason!

Same issue with "believing" in UFOs or not poll.

cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳

[Waldo]

I didn't believe in god until I saw this

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bj78yCaumpc

[ExomatrixTV]

Posted by Waldo (here)
I didn't believe in god until I saw this

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bj78yCaumpc

I immediately recognized the voice of Seth MacFarlane in your posted video ... to me, he is a genius on so many levels among others because of producing 3 seasons (!) of Orville

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=B6vmGabgzH4

cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳

[Dumpster Diver]

God (Source) yes, religions NO.

[Eagle Eye]

First I want to thank you all for partecipating and also expressing your concept about God. If we all would communicate like this in everyday life, we would elaborate more the complexity of our Creator/God/The Almighty, but sadly this kind of discussion is "forbidden" in many places and allowed mostly in religious institution and that is precisely where the word God is misused (intentionally or not).

[Tyy1907]

Posted by Eagle Eye (here)
First I want to thank you all for partecipating and also expressing your concept about God. If we all would communicate like this in everyday life, we would elaborate more the complexity of our Creator/God/Source, but sadly this kind of discussion is "forbidden" in many places and allowed mostly in religious institution and that is precisely where the word God is misused (intentionally or not).

Totally, the g word. They've tried to cancel God. Like coyotes luring your dog to the bush line.

I firmly stand by bringing God "back" (God never left) to help us out of the quick sand we're all in. They are acting but only in proportion to those that ask.

[O Donna]

Posted by Waldo (here)
I didn't believe in god until I saw this

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bj78yCaumpc

Profanity will do that.

Just change to haven and heck

Example:

Homeless have been reclassified (unsheltered), problem solved.

[bearcow]

If any of you see him, dm me his number.

He owes me a lot of money.

[Matthew]

Posted by ExomatrixTV (here)
If people need others to do the thinking for them they can always blame them later on when it turns out to be lies or "half-truths" or "deliberate narrow perspectives" serving their system of control mechanism agenda.

They've corrupted religions long ago, so long ago it's set in stone. Like Sodom and Gomorrah is far more than a bum sex story, yet sodomy has become the word for it. Sodomy should mean gratuitous rape culture not what it does mean. Fear based control in the Catholic church is another derp, twisting the message into you are bad and you must be punished which is a cruel spin, and it remains as the subtext.

I never identified with any established church. I was a Christian in my head for a long time before I found the Nag Hammadi, then I stumbled upon something in there that kind of activated me; it was profound, and sort of rang like a bell for months or years. I showed it to another avant guard independent Christian friend and he said the same, it was profound and lingered. I made an instant friend at the Stand In The Park, and she(/(biologically he)) talked about a profound verse from the Nag Hammadi, and I spotted her book, and the bookmark was on the page of the same profound verse as if she was stunned and had to process that for the rest of her life.

The Nag Hammadi consists of books once thought entirely destroyed during the early Christian struggle to define "orthodoxy". Then it started coming back in time for the internet haha. What's the opposite of pyrrhic victory? A winning lose? I feel like I win when I lose. That reminds me of a song.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Sj_9CiNkkn4

[Eagle Eye]

Also if we want to speak about God, we should speak with greater respect and careful choice of words. Anything less than that, is cheap talk.

[O Donna]

Posted by Eagle Eye (here)
Also if we want to speak about God, we should speak with greater respect and careful choice of words. Anything less than that, is cheap talk.

I get it, its an opinion but God... unsoilable, untouchable. God of 'feelings', that is but an idol, a cult of personality. World's full of that problem. IMO

[DaveToo]

For those who voted "I believe that God is the prime Creator of everything."

Why would God create evil people or allow people to become evil?

Wouldn't his creations function much more smoothly if, in his almighty power, he did NOT ALLOW evil to exist?

Because of this, would you say God has a sadistic streak to him/her?

[Eagle Eye]

Posted by DaveToo (here)
For those who voted "I believe that God is the prime Creator of everything."

Why would God create evil people or allow people to become evil?

Wouldn't his creations function much more smoothly if, in his almighty power, he did NOT ALLOW evil to exist?

God doesn't create evil people, but allow them to become evil, because the rules are set and with that, the free will too. Do those who make corruption everywhere and make horrible crimes should be in the same place with the righteous?! Only for a short period of time, but surely the ways will separate.

[East Sun]

That question can not be answered to the satisfaction
of others or to the satisfaction of ourselves.

[DaveToo]

Posted by Eagle Eye (here)

Posted by DaveToo (here)
For those who voted "I believe that God is the prime Creator of everything."

Why would God create evil people or allow people to become evil?

Wouldn't his creations function much more smoothly if, in his almighty power, he did NOT ALLOW evil to exist?

God doesn't create evil people, but allow them to become evil, because the rules are set and with that, the free will too. Do those who make corruption everywhere and make horrible crimes should be in the same place with the righteous?! Only for a short period of time, but surely the ways will separate.

I don't know if East Sun was replying to my post or the general question you posed, as they didn't specify.

But replying to your response to my post; everything is up for interpretation/opinion when it comes to God.

It is your opinion that God allows people to become evil, rather than creating evil people to begin with.

Either way, would you not agree that for the sake of all the millions/billions of people on this planet,
their lives would be so much more fulfilling if God did not create/allow evil people to exist?

This is just one of the many problems I have with an all-powerful God.
This all-powerful God supposedly has the power to do anything, and I mean literally anything.

Why cause pain/suffering/grief amongst untold numbers of the population when it doesn't have to be that way?

I've heard all the reasons/excuses for this, but none of them have been convincing. (Perhaps this is what East Sun was referring to?)

[Mashika]

If the question was:

Do you believe God is an entity or somehow has a resemblance or similitude to what we call "personality"? Then does God is 'someone'? or lives inside or outside its creation?

Aren't some of the options on the poll a bit like that?

1. I believe that God is the prime Creator of everything.
2. I believe in many gods.
3. I believe in god that had a human form.
4. I believe in spirituality only.
5. I still have to clear up my concept of God.
6. I don't believe in existence of God.

Points 1, 2, 3 and 4 and not necessarily excluding of each other, you can believe there are many gods and that they had human form. And how believing in spirituality only contradicts the existence of a God? Spirituality would exist inside the creation of that God, so is not against its existence?

[Johnnycomelately]

Posted by DaveToo (here)
For those who voted "I believe that God is the prime Creator of everything."

Why would God create evil people or allow people to become evil?

Wouldn't his creations function much more smoothly if, in his almighty power, he did NOT ALLOW evil to exist?

Because of this, would you say God has a sadistic streak to him/her?

Dave, I don’t agree with this reaction to the poll. The poll is just a heartfelt statement of OP’s beliefs, disguised as click bait.

I didn’t participate in the poll. I thought that there should have been an “all of the above” for a 2nd last option, as
I assumed multiple votes not allowed, but not even that.

Hey if god loves us regardless of our disfunctionality, AND was able to kick us sinners out of his home turf, involving practice making ~physical universes and all, how do you get sadistic (and by inference MASOCHISTIC) out of it? Hehe. ~8O

[Johnnycomelately]

Posted by Mashika (here)
I bet you're naked under those clothes, how indecent of you

I feel more unease about the skeleton beneath my porn-worthy skin. Please don’t tell kids about that, they might get SPOOKED.

[DaveToo]

Posted by Johnnycomelately (here)

Posted by DaveToo (here)
For those who voted "I believe that God is the prime Creator of everything."

Why would God create evil people or allow people to become evil?

Wouldn't his creations function much more smoothly if, in his almighty power, he did NOT ALLOW evil to exist?

Because of this, would you say God has a sadistic streak to him/her?

Dave, I don’t agree with this reaction to the poll. The poll is just a heartfelt statement of OP’s beliefs, disguised as click bait.

I didn’t participate in the poll. I thought that there should have been an “all of the above” for a 2nd last option, as
I assumed multiple votes not allowed, but not even that.

Hey if god loves us regardless of our disfunctionality, AND was able to kick us sinners out of his home turf, involving practice making ~physical universes and all, how do you get sadistic (and by inference MASOCHISTIC) out of it? Hehe. ~8O

If he wasn't prepared for others' opinions, like or unlike his, I don't think he would have created the poll.

The problem with my brain is that it is too logical.

When you enter the realm of religion, belief, God etc. you must by necessity, totally surrender your logical thinking.
The too are mutually exclusive.

I could give you many examples but I don't think it would provide for a fruitful discussion.

If anyone cares to answer my previous questions though in a logical (non-religious) way I'm all ears.