What do YOU believe? - Page 2

December 11, 2007, 6:41 PM

Well I'm agnostic 'cause I don't really know what to believe. There's no hard proof for God yet it's perfectly possible that God can't be disproved if he exists. If God is transcendent, there's no way to prove or disprove him... Too many possibilities! I like to think there's a God and an afterlife but Philosophy is opening my eyes to so many valid points against the reliability of the Bible. I've never been religious, nor athiest.

December 15, 2007, 10:04 PM

I do not believe. I do not believe in things that we do not know exist. God included. So I'm atheist, agnostic
or atheist-agnostic, whatever you call that.

December 18, 2007, 8:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Angelus-Mortis

I do not believe. I do not believe in things that we do not know exist. God included. So I'm atheist, agnostic
or atheist-agnostic, whatever you call that.

Atheistically agnostic?

I am the same way. I am an agnostic who leans more on the atheistic side of the fence than the theistic side. I really don't know what to believe. I do believe in logic, though. I believe in what I can sense. If I can use one of my 6 senses on it then it is real.

December 18, 2007, 1:09 PM

Well, I am supposedly catholic, but I prefer to have my own views on the whole thing. Like, yes Jesus may have existed, but whether or not he was the son of God I don't know. I guess I'm more agnostic really because I don't know what I believe.

Personally I think that the idea of organised religion is a bit silly, everybody believing the same thing and following this set of rules made up by the church ages ago.. If you are going to say that a God exists with no proof, then there could really be anything out there, as we can only sense what our 5 senses (although there are apparently like 22) let us.

I don't think of God as an actual being though, i think that he (or she/whatever) is more symbolic of.. everything, really. I wouldn't say that it applies so much to materialistic things though.. Like if i was to give an example, faith seems a nice place to start. The idea of God, and believing in him gives people faith, so without him (or the idea of him) then there would be no such thing as faith, if you get what I mean. And obviously, not everybody believes in him aswell, because if everybody believed in him, or if there was definite proof that he existed, then there also would be no such thing as faith. It's a complicated thing to explain, but I think you could make it apply to pretty much everything if you had the time.. it's just that 'everything' is such a wide area of subjects for me right now

December 22, 2007, 4:54 AM

i don't believe in god but i do believe that there is some force in the universe I think that the most important thing is that you believe in yourself.

December 22, 2007, 3:34 PM

Hmm. What do I believe? I believe a quote would suffice here

Quote:

Originally Posted by Togira Ikonoka

[i] give credit only to that which [i] can prove exists. Since [i] cannot find evidence that gods, miracles, and other supernatural things are real, [i] do not trouble [myself] about them. If that were to change, if [God] were to reveal himself to us, the [i] would accept the new information nd revise [my] position.

Yes, that is a quote from a fantasy book, Eldest. However, regardless of where it comes from, it does illustrate what I believe. I also believe that one should live a humble, ethical life, rather than blindly devoting oneself to a god of which they cannot prove exists. I believe one can do so much more if they devote their time to helping solve the world problems, or educating themselves so that they can hep sole world problems, as opposed to kneeling in a chapel and chanting.

I don't deny the historical existence of certain figures, like Jesus, Sidhartha Gautauma (Buddha), and Muhammad, but I believe that's all they were, historical. Nothing divine about them, they were just people who managed to become great religious leaders.

All that being said, I do believe that there is a higher power out there. I'm not going to waste my time trying to find it, not when I can be helping others or furthering myself so that I can help them, but I do think that something must have started it. The only thing without a beginning is a circle, and the universe is not a chronological circle.

December 22, 2007, 4:27 PM

I was Christened but I'm not religious at all - Im not really sure how to expand on that lol. I just don't believe in God or anything....

July 31, 2008, 1:18 AM

What Religion do you believe in? or do not you believe in any religion?. This is the place to say what you believe(and why you believe it) And to discuss basicly. Please vote on the poll aswell.

July 31, 2008, 1:25 AM

You should've had an 'other' category, but yea, my religion is simplistically put at Christianity. I believe that there is God, and that he created all of us in his image. I believe that Jesus is his only begotten son and that he died for our sins.
However, I don't take everything the Bible says as literal. After two thousand years of rewriting and translating, things can be severely disfigured and altered.