say god does exist..if so why did he make a planet so corrupted as ours?
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God. (cheating) This explanation is what everyone eventually resorts to when the other answers fail. Now, before I go any further, I should make clear that I'm not talking about any of the gods defined in various religions. Throughout all of human history, we've been trying to explain existence. But nobody has ever succeeded. And it's likely that nobody ever will. So we create the concept of God, whose only necessary property is being "that which explains existence." \n\nThis doesn't tell us much about god, though. It doesn't mean that any particular religion is correct. It merely defines god as something which answers The Question, because we have not been able to.
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For both of your questions:  God does not exist as he is told of in the Bible.  That is merely a manifestation of mankind's idiocy in a textual form.  Really, somehting as drastic as salvation cannot be attained simply by asking forgiveness.  God exists as a force of nature, and ironically enough, was worshipped under the name Shaitan (Satan) before the Christains came and torched everyone who thought differently than they!  It's historical, YOU CAN LOOK IT UP!  REMEMBER THE INQUISITIONS!\n\nAnd upon your question on god hating anyone?  It is in your Bible.  I swear, I know more about the bible than christians do.  ...Jacob whom I have loved...Esau who I have hated...read your f****** holy book.
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no...if it were possible there wouldn't be these fun debates on yahoo answers..gotta love some of these answers though lol..stuff exists..that means gods exists..nice!..and the ever popular..can you prove he doesn't....burden of proof is on the believer
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Whether or not there is a God I can't believe He spends all\nHis time basking in the worship of His followers,punishing\nthe sinful,and dreaming up natural disasters to test or\npunish Humanity. A Creator of the Universe might not even\nbe aware of our existence. If He was,we could seem like nothing more than microscopic beings,of no real interest.
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Sure there can be.   It's all a matter of perspective.   \n\nUltimately, you can keep questioning everything to the point where we couldn't comprehend a diety.   Where did we come from?  God made us.   Where did God come from?  He always was.   \n\nI've always had a problem with..."He always existed."   So, if he always existed...what did he do?   Just sat in the middle of nowhere doing nothing.
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God has existed forever. He doesn't have a beginning and will never have an ending. I know it's impossible for us as humans to comprehend, but we have to believe it by faith. Our minds just can't comprehend it. \n\nI know that alot of people won't agree with what I just said, but can they come up with a better explanation? I don't think so.
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Wow, I was talking with some friends from church recently about this. I also had this feeling deep inside, "what if God didnt exist?" We talked for hours, debating on facts. Our conclusion: Yes, God exists. I'll try to give you some insight on what we went over.\n\nOk, let's not get too complicated and just give an everyday example. Suppose you got home today, and there was this beautiful chocolate cake with icing and everything, on top of ur table. Now, we have 2 theories of where that cake came from:\n\n1) There was an HEB truck this afternoon going by ur house, and all of a sudden, a car hit it at 70mph, and the truck rolled over violently. There were eggs, flour, all sorts of stuff in the truck, and they all got mixed up in the crash, and the truck caught on fire, and the extreme heat baked all that stuff, and as the truck continued to roll on the street, the stuff flew through ur window and miraculously landed on ur table.\n\n2) Someone who knew how to bake a chocolate cake, went there and did it, and then put it on top of ur table for you.\n\nWhich one makes more sense? If you answered #2, good! Then God created the Earth and everything in it. If you prefer to believe in an absurd and very creative theory called "the big bang", in which somehow gases mixed up, just in the right proportion, and then everything exploded and the earth was formed ... my friend, you have a very creative mind. First of all, how were those gases there? Someone must have created it. God. Stuff doesn't just appear.\n\n=D Doesn't that make sense? Ok, now, let's get a lil more complicated.\n\nScientists say that man evolved from monkeys or whatever their creative mind came up with. Well, it has been proven that over time, living beings only lose genetic material, constantly. Therefore, evolution cannot be possible. The human body is so complex, there is no way it just "evolved" from something. A project called GENOMA, just recently finished their research. Their task: make a complete mapping of the human DNA. Many countries joined forces to complete this project, each taking a body part, like arm, leg, or whatever, and finding out the DNA code for it. Germany was in charge of the human eye. At the end of the project, they said that the human eye was so complex, that there was NO WAY it could have evolved from some other animal. It's a fact. Scientists researched and wrote it down. Aren't they contradicting themselves now? Ok, I believe I made a point on this one. Mankind did not evolve. God made man in His image.\n\nOk, now back to the big bang stuff. The NASA has been measuring the distance from the Earth to the moon, and it's a fact that every year the moon gets further and further away from the Earth. Fact. It's been proven. It's also a mathematical equation. So, if we take that mathematical equation, and do it backwards, we come up with how long since the earth and the moon we're almost touching. The calculations say something about 10 thousand years. It can't be more than that, otherwise the moon would have been rolling around on the earth.\n\nAlso, it's possible to calculate the rate of aging of the Earth. Every year, scientists calculate the rate at which the Earth is aging. It's roughly the same. If we then backtrack how long since the Earth was relatively "new", the calculations vary from 10 to 12 thousand years. It's fact.\n\nAlso, the population of the Earth. Today, we have roughly 6.5 billion people alive. Populations, increase in a mathematical progression. In other words, there will always be more people alive today, than there are people dead. Fact. It's not possible to have more people dead than alive. Draw a sketch of a simple family tree, and you'll stumble upon the same conclusion. So, if we backtrack how long since the beggining of population, the results say somewhere between 10 to 12 thousand years.\n\nEvery fact that we
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God never came into being, he just "was". A good philosophical question though. I think rephrasing it to something more like "What is God" Because God created time, so there was nothing before him, because he created the sequence of events. If you eliminate time from your thought and say, well if God is this thing out there always and been there always, can there be anything bigger or better or precede him. I try and ask these questions all the time but again I remember some simple things. God created our understanding. He created the unniverse, time and is all powerful. I don't think we could ever comprehend even what he is or "how he came into being". To us, we understand everthing as having a start and end, or at least a start. To God, none of this makes and difference to him. We would have to think outside the box to even start to understand. When I say out of the box I mean beyond our ability to think. Although if we goto heaven we supposedly are just our souls and then we can understand because our souls aren't limited to the physical realm which our brains are. \n\nAnyways hope this has helped. Yes God is always around us, don't think he is living, he is neither dead nor alive, just existing.
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If Jesus is loving, why would Jesus say in John 15:6: “Anyone who parts from me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned.” What makes the Christian God real and not the Greeks’, Romans’, Egyptians’ or others real?As Carl Sagan has said, “If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?” (Cosmos, p. 257).If God is a jealous God, then why does he not act or become jealous when people deny his existence.Nothing is perfect; God is perfect; so God doesn’t exist.If God both intends to prevent evil and is capable of doing so, then how can evil exist? If God is omniscient, He must know beforehand exactly what a person will do in a given situation. In that case, a person is not in fact free to do the alternative to what God knows he or she will do, and free will must be an illusion. To take this one step further, if one chooses to commit a sin, how can it then be said that one sinned freely.You cannot define or imagine a thing into existence. If you allow one thing to exist without cause, you contradict your own premise. And if you do, there is no reason why the universe should not be the one thing that exists or originates without cause. The principles of self-organization and evolution provide complete explanations for apparent design. The usefulness of a belief does not prove its truth. In any case, many societies have thrived without these beliefs, while crime has thrived in theistic societies believing in heaven and hell.Since the Gods of various religions differ widely in their characteristics, only one of these religions, or none, can be right about God. If evolution is true, then creationism is false, and therefore God doesn’t existThroughout the world there is suffering of people, plants, animals, and the environment, so my question is: How can a loving God let this happen?If some type of God exists then why are humans the only animals on Earth that worship him or any God?God is (to me) not an all mighty being, but more of a symbol of hope. For example, you’re down on your luck, either there has been a murder or you have no money, so you pray to God; it is not him that gives you answers of some kind but it is a way for you to give yourself hope and something to look forward to.When Jews were slaves in Ancient Egypt God supposedly saved them, when Jews were held prisoners in the Holocaust why didn’t God save them then? According to The Gospel of Infancy Thomas, Jesus killed a young boy; and according to the Ten Commandments, “Thou Shall Not Kill”.  Jesus broke that law, therefore making him not pure and proving that he was not the son God, thus proving that God does not exist.To me, God came to existence for man to have reason and to be able to explain the hows and whys of life; now that humans of today are smarter than humans of yester-years and we have found science, we are able to find numerous contradictions in religion, that prove that God doesn’t exist.
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If god in fact exists, and actually did create people, then that is a very interesting point.  So basically what you are saying is, either god doesn't exists, or if he does exist then he is irrelevant.  Sweet.\n\n~Kyle
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I agree that the Universe was created by a higher being. I don't agree that said being created man at all. However, I do think that by becoming aware of ourselves and simply believing in said being's existence that said being is now aware of us. I don't believe that God/Diety/whatever you want to call it really gives a damn what we do. Anyway...I think that all beings, sentient or otherwise, that exist in the Universe are a result of the divine and since the divine makes no mistakes we are as we were meant to be. Flawed but still here. Still trying to find the meaning of it all.
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Explain your question, do you want to know if God exists or why God exists?
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Yes because why would god creat planets just to sit them there?
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There is no more proof that God exists then that he does not.  Let those who need their faith have it.  It is their security blanket in a very large and lonely universe.\n\nEdit:\n\nYes, very lonely.  I refer to the prophet Yakko:\n\nEverybody lives on a street in a city\nOr a village or a town for what it's worth.\nAnd they're all inside a country which is part of a continent\nThat sits upon a planet known as Earth.\nAnd the Earth is a ball full of oceans and some mountains\nWhich is out there spinning silently in space.\nAnd living on that Earth are the plants and the animals\nAnd also the entire human race.\n\nIt's a great big universe\nAnd we're all really puny\nWe're just tiny little specks\nAbout the size of Mickey Rooney.\nIt's big and black and inky\nAnd we are small and dinky\nIt's a big universe and we're not.\n\nAnd we're part of a vast interplanetary system\nStretching seven hundred billion miles long.\nWith nine planets and a sun; we think the Earth's the only one\nThat has life on it, although we could be wrong.\nAcross the interstellar voids are a billion asteroids\nIncluding meteors and Halley's Comet too.\nAnd there's over fifty moons floating out there like balloons\nIn a panoramic trillion-mile view.\n\nAnd still it's all a speck amid a hundred billion stars\nIn a galaxy we call the Milky Way.\nIt's sixty thousand trillion miles from one end to the other\nAnd still that's just a fraction of the way.\n'Cause there's a hundred billion galaxies that stretch across the sky\nFilled with constellations, planets, moons and stars.\nAnd still the universe extends to a place that never ends\nWhich is maybe just inside a little jar!\n\nIt's a great big universe\nAnd we're all really puny\nWe're just tiny little specks\nAbout the size of Mickey Rooney.\nIt's big and black and inky\nAnd we are small and dinky\nIt's a big universe and we're not.\n\n<insert Carl Sagan voice correcting math here>
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Well I already thought that he might not exist, but I was proven wrong by God himself as he came into my life answering my prayeri nstantly showing me the way, as I asked of him.Therefore I know  there is no way it could bre proven in any way that he didn't exist only to the contrary that he doesYou can't prove what isn't true terefore you can't prove He is not existing! Otherwise it would have been proven by now seing there are so many!trying to disprove His existance.
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Personally, I feel that Evil would have just had ultimate reign.  For creation to cease to exist, wouldn't God have to make it so?  It doesn't seem like God's character to just give up like that.\n\nThen again, God knows everything that is going to happen, so if he *had* bowed down, maybe God would have had another plan to fix the matter?
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Aliens seeded us on this planet, but they'er not extraterrestrial beings. They are subterrestrial, living deep within the bowels of the earth. They have been here for a very long time. In the bible it says God had walked up to Abraham with two others, supposedly they were angels. I believe all three were "aliens". \n   God, on the other hand, does exist. But what is God? What form? Nobody knows. This God created everything: us, the aliens, the universe.