i know this sound silly if your r a person that knowjesus and stuff. how did we exist before god and jesus.?
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I would say we did not exist before God. We only existed in his mind as he was planning to create us.\nMen probably think they can rule somebody because they are strong enough to do it but not smart enough to understand they don't have to do it.\nI would say the contrary concerning about men avoiding household.
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It's a combination of the two actually. We are finite beings but the only perspective we have is consciousness... For us to imagine non-existence is impossible... This is probably the earliest root of how religion came about. Since then people in power have seized upon this basic human need for understanding, dressed it in fancy clothes and paraded it through the masses (with distinct modifications of course) in order to control those in need of such revelations.\n\nWithout science to help us understand the truth about our world, and our universe the only appeal to authority was through the church for a long long time.
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Do yourself a favor and wake up.  Religion was invented by men.  You are basing your life on something dreamed up thousands of years ago by ignorant people and passed on from generation to generation as fact.  You're expected to just believe it and without any possible way of getting confirmation until you are already dead.  You want to spend this existence worrying about invisible beings that someone else told you about?  Get a grip!
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I don't feel that I need to prove my existence and I'm not nearly as powerful as God is!\n\nThe world is a big place and I live in Kansas City.  I'm not sure where the people reading this question and answer tree live, but it's pretty darned likely that I have never met any of them.  Do you believe that I exist?  Is this posting "proof" that I exist?  Could it be faked?  Sure.\n\nGod has sent us messasges through prophets.  God has worked miracles.  God has spoken to many of us.  God has answered our prayers and still people say "there is no proof" -- why is that, I ask.  Why is that.
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Before God created the physical universe--none existed.  Only the Spiritual world--a different level of existence.  God has always existed and always will.  That is beyond our ability to truly comprehend.   However, if He could be so easily understood He would not be God.\n\nWhen people try to bring God down to a human level and put Him on par with the physical universe, you wind up with stupid cults like the Mormons.
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If you'r a Christian and a true believer, then what is it thats confusing you. Don't you read the Bible? Where does it say anywhere in the Bible that anyone except Jesus ever came back from the dead to live a new life? No, I do not believe in past lives.
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For us to exist, and do our best in life, before coming to heaven.\n\nA test of sorts.\n\nScience does not have much better an explanation.\n\nAccording to Atheists, we ceast to exist upon death.  It just don't seem fair to live "this" life and then just die for the reward.  There HAS to be something else, thus/hence, I belive in the afterlife, hence God.
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I agree with (pregowtwins) up there and: 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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i could say the same thing to you. Why are you so ignorant? have u not thought of who created you and those before you?
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We do not know what came before the Big Bang.  There is no evidence/data yet to give us any direction.  There are many who think that that the Universe is eternal.\n\nThe fact that you ask "Who", implies that you think an entity of some kind created everything.  There is no evidence for that either.  In fact, insistence that there was a divine creator begs the question, "Who created the creator?"\n\nIf you answer that the creator always existed, then next question is, "Why couldn't the universe have existed forever?"\n\nOccam's Razor... which is the simpler theory?  Eternal universe or an eternal creator who created the universe?\n\n--------\n\nTo the Bat_Freak:  Wasn't it the Anti-Monitor and the Spectre?
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it's John 1:1-2 that states "In the Beginning was the Word(Jesus) and the Word(Jesus)was with God and the Word(Jesus) was God." verse 2 says " He was in the beginning with God." so you see He was. And also think on Adam and Eve, since no man can look upon God, how then did they walk with Him? Jesus is the visible form of God that humans CAN look upon! Also seek in the old testament when it speaks of "The Angel of the Lord" you will see when the A is capitalized that the people see Him as a Deity, I believe it's Jesus, given all the studying I've done on the subject. Sampson's parents even made a sacrifice to Him, and He left them as He went up in the smoke of the sacrifice(as Jesus is The Sacrifice)!!! I hoipe this confirms this to you and God bless you.
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we forgot god , because we dont have any relationship with god.\nbecause we are busy with around so that cant search for it untill the world ened for us .then it will be so late to think about god.\ni have a probem with and dont konw how to relate with god and i want never forgot it but it is imposible.
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the concept of a higher being came first. even today god is not a universal word for th higher being that a lot of people believe created humanity.
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It's an age-old question, and one that is the very basis of religion.  It's incredible that we can understand both the creation of the universe and the creation of life itself.  We're very lucky to live in this time!\n\nGood comment for "brainless".
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You don't need historical evidence to belieive in God. Its a matter of your level of faith, you either believe in him or you don't. Sure, there may not be a lot of proof, but I know he is there, I know he exists, without him where do you think you came from?
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You can just add details to your question, so people can see what you're talking about.\n\nAnd also, as I said in my other post, if you can believe that god came from nothing why can't others believe that something else has just always been?
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There were no other religions before christianity.  As there were no countries before America.   By the way, the bible was written in English, I believe by people with southern accents.\n\nHow can Christians know so little about their faith?