Will you tell me why YOU believe in God?
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When I was a child, my parents partied wildly and fought each other with venom and hatred.  I heard the gospel from my grandmother.  Anyway, when I was about eight years old my five year old sister came to me one night and asked her big brother what she should do about Daddy.  I learned that night that Dad was molesting her.  This was a complicated issue for a five, eight, or fifty-eight year old to deal with.  I told her I didn't know and that I would think about it and get back to her.  My dilemma was that if I told Mom, Mom would use this in her war against Dad.  If I confronted Dad I was sure that he would just reject me for it or at the very least just deny and shuffle me on to other things.\n\nWhat I didn't decide to do was deal with it, basically I sold out my sister for a relationship with a broken Daddy.  At this time the weight of the world settled on my little shoulders.  I had no understanding at the time of my guilt and the weight of my non-action on my sister's behalf.  Three years later we were living in a little town and we kids got involved in a neighborhood church for the cookies and punch in Sunday School.  Some ladies talked Mom into going to church and so it happened the summer of the next year when an evangelical group came to our church to run a crusade.  There was great music and powerful evangelistic messages and one night in the two weeks this went on, I felt God calling me.  I'd listened to the preacher/evangelist and was considering his message but it was God who'd moved in my heart.  I was no longer a child with childish concerns, but the harder issues were upon my mind.  I still didn't have any understanding of my guilt about my sister, but when I went forward, once I'd made the decision to step out, I felt light as a feather, as though walking a foot off the ground.  The release of guilt was so freeing, I was in tears and didn't know why.\n\nIt wasn't until twenty years later that I went over those memories with an adult understanding and realized what my poor sister had had to deal with all by herself that I realized where all that guilt had come from.  We discussed these events and are quite close today, but the years in between were more distant between us.  I know God is real from many other experiences but this was what brought me to faith.
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You still have the freedom to choose to believe in God or not.\n\nAnd if you believe in God, how you want to practice your faith.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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Atheist here (agnostic if considered deism and other non interventionist beings)\n\nI don't know why people answer whats' not being asked, if you don't feel like playing, why answer with something else?\n\nWell, if we are talking about the christian god, according to the belief, he already knows what's on my heart.\n\nAnyway, I am atheist because I am being honest with me and everyone around me. To say "I believe in god" would be a lie and I'd be an hypocrite.\n\nIf I have to give explanations to god, all I'd tell is "I honestly didn't believe you existed and I made a mistake", no further explanations needed. I'm sure that I live a moral life and I wouldn't feel like "excusing" me as if I've done something wrong.\n\nBye\n\nEDIT:\nI just saw what you proposed in another question: "People want to ease their conscience of sin by convincing themselves that there is no God."\n\nThat's a false assumption since I doubt you know what are everyone's motivations to do so. Does your religion allow you to judge people without proper knowledge?
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No offense taken.  I believe in God because of what He has already done.  He gave His son for us, would he not freely give us all things?  (Romans 8:32)  That does not mean that we will be rich if we ask Him for it, because that may not be good for our spiritual growth.  However it does mean that He has everything we need and He wants to provide for us.  Just like I would do for my sons.
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cause the existence of god is questioning..
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My question: Why should I believe you?
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My belief?  To be honest, I'm uncertain.  I would like to think that there is a God and there is a Heaven, but I can't say that I believe 100% that there is.\n\nMy feeling is that I will live the best life I can, serving others, and generally being a good person.  If there is a God and a Heaven, then I hope that the way I lived my life will be the deciding factor in where I spend my afterlife, rather than whether or not I believed 100%.
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The short answer is that God made you for a purpose. Really this is way too big a question to answer here.  Look at "The Purpose Driven Life" by Rick Warren. (If you really want to know)
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Excellent question :)\nIn response...\n\nI used to be an atheist. Over a period of time however, I grew convinced of the existence of the Christian God, and ultimately committed my life to Christ. \n\nFor a draft-version of my journey from atheism to Christ, see http://www.godsci.org/gs/chri/testimony/seek.html\n\nFor scientific and intellectual evidence for the existence of God, see http://www.godsci.org/gs/godsci/evidence.htm\n\nCordially,\nJohn
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I believe that God created the universe.He created you and me..that's why I believe in Him.I believe His Son Jesus Christ whom He sent to deliver us from the enternal death, I believe the power of His Holy Spirit whom with us today..I believe that God never give us any temptation that made us into sinner. I believe in Him.....I just believe in Him.
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Yes, I believe in God. I believe in Him because I have seen too much evidence to possibly believe that He doesn't exist. Many athiests/agnostics would disagree I know, but think about it...\n\nIf God didn't create you, how did you get here? Evolution? If someone showed you a Rolex watch and then told you that several million years ago a rock washed up on Miami beach and over all those years changed into the watch you see, you would probably say they were nuts. After all, what difference does time make? If a frog turns into a prince from a kiss immediately, then it's a fairy tale, but if the frog has enough time (like several million years) to turn into a man, then that's science? \n\nYes, I personally believe in God; besides the evidence that He is the only One that could put such complex creations on this planet, I have seen the difference that He can make in people's lives. A changed life is the most amazing proof for God.
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Yes.  Because it is illogical to believe in gods.
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Does GOD believe in you?????
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The best is to look at my life before GOD found me and after GOD found me. Then You see why I believe.\n\nk1
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Question:  Does God truly exist?\n\nAnswer:  You won't know for sure until you die.
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If you would specify what you wished me to believe in, I might be able to better answer your question.
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yes! i believe i God!! he is SO awesome!!!\nNope i don't need any help. . . well nothing about God newaiz