If god exists, why is it hiding?
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God is a sadist - He likes to make lots of people believe the wrong religion or believe no religion at all, so he can enjoy torturing them for all eternity.  Well, that's what the Bible and the Qur'an say anyway, and they must be right - Right?
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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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He doesn't exist. The sad thing is, there are people who think he does and they accept this torture becuase they think it's part of god's plan. Sad, huh???\n\n\nThanks for asking.
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He exists if you need him to exist. \n\nThere is no more proof that God exists then proof that he doesn't. \n\nDiscussing whether or not there is a God is only an argument of contrasting opinions where no one can win.
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God does exist.\nThere are many natural phenomenon which have not been yet discovered by man,nor doe we really know how those that exist come about.\nSome theories have been successfully proven, others , only time will tell.\nSome atheists claim that this universe is in existence from ever and it will last for ever. If this universe is in existence from ever, then it must have infinite source of power and energy, but we see that no material thing is infinite in this universe. The temperature of Sun is falling down, even the earth is cooling off. All the sources of energy in this universe are being consumed up and exhausting. So the world is approaching to its end as was prophesied by all the religions. It proves that the universe came into being a finite time ago and it also has a definite end. We know from our whole life's experience, that if we consider any process, there are only two possibilities, that a process is either started by some human beings, or it might be a result of some other process. If we move back in this tree of processes which are a result of some other process, ultimately we shall come across a process, which could not be attributed to any other process. At that place, we are left with no other argument, except to believe that it was started by some Super being. We refer to that super being as 'GOD', some atheists call this Super Being by the name of 'nature'. Actually just giving a different name to this Super Being really does not make much difference, they believe in GOD, and all they need is just a little fine tuning.
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So that we know about Gods existence and the beautiful things that He has made.\nWhat would God do in a lonely world.. so He simply blew life in it.
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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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GOD HAS ALWAYS EXISTED FROM THE BEGINING ON TIMES.\n\noUR MINDS AND THINKING POWER DOES NOT PERMIT US TO COMPREHEND MORE THAT WHAT WE CAN,SO WE HAVE TOBE SATISFIED WITH WHICH ANSWER/BELIEF SUITUS INDIVIDUALLY.
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Because without God, life has no meaning but to improve the world for those who will live in it afterward.  But the lives of those people have no reason to live but to further improve the world.  But why would the world exist if only for its betterment?  Well, that is the logical deduction, however, if you want my real answer you will have to ask me in private.
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First of all: I consider it really important to base your faith upon something that is reasonable, because if you do not do so, when faith is replaced by doubt, it would be really difficult to sustain. according to this, I consider that God is evident because: if we, the world we live in, and the whole universe surrounding us exist, then we could say that "Emptiness" (understand this as the lack of everything  doesn't exist), therefore Everything (understand this as the total lack of Emptiness) exists, therefore God (or something that could be considered to be infinite and eternal exists.=)
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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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If God wanted to leave absolutely no room for anyone to doubt or try to disprove His existance and authority, He could have done. His thoughts and ways are better than ours - we'd love everyone to just have to believe - but God gives everyone the choice. People don't want it to be true that there is a God - the implications are too big. Like recognising that yes there is actually right and wrong - people don't want to go there - remember Pharohs magicians who tried to explain away the wonders that were shown them in Egypt - they didn't want to acknowlege God either - its nothing fresh!  The reality of our Eternal God who controls everything in life and death is just more than folks can take - they want to "live a good life and be happy" They don't want to know about a God who will hold us responsible what we do with our lives, it just doesn't fit with their "lifestyle choice". They will either try to logically reason a way that it could possibly have happened without needing a God or they will just instantly dismiss these realities without further thought as just "fairy tales". Don't fret. Yes some people will try to explain things in a way that ignores God, they refuse to believe - creation itself cries out! Its of no suprise in one sense ... there is going to be both the sheep and the goats. Stand firm. One day every knee will bow, and every tongue confess that He Is LORD.
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I have been asking myself that same question all of my life. I've asked so many different people that question and in 28 years I've never been able to get a straight answer on the subject. It's so hard to grasp the concept of God always existing. If you do get an answer though please let me know.
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your right, i actually cant explain it very well. I'm not defensive, i just want you to read this \n\n\nhttp://everystudent.com/features/isthere.html?OVRAW=God%20existence&OVKEY=existence%20of%20god&OVMTC=standard\n\n\nit has overwhelming info that should help you see that there has to be a God, because this world is no accident
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Man (We) would not exist, no animals (birds, mammals, extc.) would exist, no plants would exist, and the world would not exist. Don't you see, you run into a large problem without God. \n\nIt's like the world of thinking deeply but not profoundly! Which in there is no God but there is the Messiah, so in other words God does exist! No matter how hard you might try to erase His existence, He is and was and is to come.\nMeditate on this verse:\n\nRevelation 22:13:\n\n13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.”[a]\n\nThat is what the Lord says, get use to it!\n\n-Perilous Rose
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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.\nread this: http://www.toykeeper.net/philosophy/knowledge
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The wise man has experienced so much, and in all his life he had never seen a god, however he has not lived forever.\n\nThe intelligent man can not logically prove that a god exists nor can he dispove the existence of a god.\n\nThe insightful man would ask, "there must be a greater purpose for everything, but I can't say what."\n\nThey would all answer... and rightfully so.\n\n"I don't know."\n\nBecause it takes an wise, intelligent, and/or insightful man to admit... He doesn't know.