Do you believe in god?

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i have recently been thinking a lot about religion and wondering how many believe in god and also what made you come to the decision of believing?

I believe in God, though I don't like the word. It always makes me think of an old man in the sky. I believe in a universal energy. I don't believe in religion.

Any sliver of belief I might have had was completely extinguished by a thread on here a million years ago when Mumsnet was a different place and we were gathering to support a woman whose child was dying. She had asked for people to pray, to sent thoughts, to do anything-and we did. And she died. It wasn’t the fact that she died that flicked the switch finally for me. It was that the woman’s friend, who was organising the “group” said “We must lift her up so God can see her”. God who said “not a sparrow falls” needed us to pray more before he would heal a dying child?

No

Hi, I am a Christian and believe in God, the Father Son and Holy Spirit. I was raised by Christian parents who were quite liberal and went to a Catholic school and had a Catholic education. I was baptised at 8 years old and always had an interest in religion, but got more serious about it at 16 when I started praying for a miracle. Christ confirmed my faith for me through the Holy Spirit. The promised comforter he gives to his believers as a gift of faith. Christ gave me a cherished gift out of 8 and showed me significant things that he was the Son of God. The Holy Spirit has been that promised comforter for sure and made me life more bearable.

I have had healings to from Christ through the Holy Spirit which he communicates his word today. I was cured from a nervous condition the palsy without asking.

God has many faces as Pslam 18 shows. He can shrewd to those who show themselves as shrewd and kind hearted to those who truly worship appropriately.

You get the comforter by being baptised with the Holy Spirit.

Jesus said he would send his followers a comforter which is the Holy Spirit (John 14:26).

I have written about my journey with my faith on my blog which has been a good thing for me to do. I have talking about how things started and some of the mysteries I have seen. I have also added a section to share about the healings I have had.

I will share with you two posts that show a different face to God and a love letter video that people use to show a different side to God to. God abhors violence as Psalm 11 tells us, but he is the leading authority and I have studied this argument well.

https://www.racheltestimony.com/2022/09/my-testimony-of-gods-grace.html

https://www.racheltestimony.com/2025/12/why-does-suffering-happen-in-life-with.html

https://www.racheltestimony.com/search/label/Divine%20Inspiration

https://www.fathersloveletter.com/

No

Yes, but here is not a good place to hear from Christians.

Have a read through this thread with some thoughtful comments from Christians, atheists agnostics etc. it's very long but during the holidays people had time to write lots!
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5464778-to-be-furious-at-local-church-carol-service?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share

Hello, I have some question if ok, do Buddhists beleive in God / higher power and an afterlife?

Hi, I wanted to say Galatians 3:28 tells us that we are all the same before God whether man or a woman etc. I have thought about this before and believe that we all have our destiny. Some peoples can be longer or shorter and it will be the will of God for their lives. We have a modern world and a lot of sickness has come in which is the fault of God and we in end times some agree in the world where difficult things may happen. Also, I think some people are so Holy that they will see God. God says that pure people in the Beatiudes will see his face. It is a promise of God. It is a painful thing one of my aunts lost several children in miscarriage and was a woman of God. She went on to have three children as a gift from God. Christ can help us heal from these scars and wounds of mental pain. Although loss is very painful, this world is not eternal and there is true joy to come and free from illness as a promise through Jesus.

No. I also don’t believe in Nessie, the yeti, ghosts, leprechauns, fairies… you name it. If there’s no evidence something exists I don’t believe in it til there is.

Yes, I believe in Jesus (God)

I meant that a lot sickness has come which is not the fault of God but society like asthma and allergies etc. I was taken to hospital at two months with an infection due to poor living enviornment and was poorly and it was not God's fault but how we have treated the world and human poverty.

Yes.
I pray, go to church, have a relationship with God.
I believe because things have happened to me that I would say are more than coincidences, people have prayed for me about things they couldn't know about, and (to me) it makes sense within the Christian framework that we have as our prevailing religion here in the West.
Had I been brought up somewhere else in the world I might have ended up Buddhist or Sikh or Muslim or A N Other, but I wasn't.
I tried not to be a Christian for about ten years but there was something about it (and God) that I couldn't let go of (or wouldn't let go of me)

Really? Do you mean it’s not a good place for Christians to have their say without question?

No.

My biggest fear is that there is an afterlife and I may once again have to meet up with a certain person from my childhood.

I find the "Why do bad things happen to good people" question tricky, but these are my thoughts on it so far. I'm sure we can all point to a time in our life or an experience that felt unjust and cruel.

I'm not a theologian or a student of applogetics. My faith is simple and based on a relationship with God through Jesus, rather than on ritual or religion.

I believe that God is a being that is order of magnitudes greater than humankind and for that reason there will always be things that don't make sense to us during our life on earth. In the same way that creatures like dogs, cats or birds cannot perceive things through our lens.

I also think there are many times we point the finger at God or see evidence for a lack of God without considering humnakind's role. We have free will and we are told to love one another, yet we love the self. We idolise it.

Imagine if humanity truly loved each other as we have been told to. If all of the money, effort, time and resource was put into loving one another instead of the self. Into finding cures instead of funding wars into early detection and protection against natural disasters instead of building mansions, private jets and vanity projects, into ensuring society was fair and equal.

I think i read a while ago that Elon Musk had the oppertunity to end world hunger but he chose to fly another ego rocket into space. It is easy to point the finger at the elite, but we all do this in smaller ways.

We want the new clothes or the must have gadget or the flashier car or the insta-worthy photo. So we buy the stuff made in sweatshops, we book the flight and push away any thoughts of rising sea levels or pollution, we consume more to impress others and buoy up the self rather than out of genuine need, we don't care what hideous industry our pension and investments are funding so long as it's making good returns for us, we want a great variety of foods available to us year round and cheaply and we often don't care where the food has come from or if someone else needs it more than us. We exploit, we suppress those weaker than us.

Then when we hear of children dying of hunger or in horrible working conditions or of some sort of illness we shake our fist at God without looking at what resources humankind has had and what we have chosen to do with them in disobedience to the command to "love one another" (the second most important commandment).

No, I believe in science

No, my mum was raised Catholic by horribly abusive parents and as a result religion really has never made sense to me. I quit Brownies because I realised (at the time) it was based on Christianity and I felt like a hypocrite!

I sometimes do envy people who believe, because they have the comfort of belief at times when I don't. But I can't believe in something just to have that comfort. My dad wanted me to be christened etc but he only goes to church for weddings, funerals and christenings and that's the Christianity I see most often, he never prayed outside of church or anything

I do believe in the power of nature and have done some sage sticks / tarot in my time with Wiccan friends, which brought me some comfort. But an omnipotent God figure (whether a ball of energy or some bloke) doesn't do it for me

Yes absolutely. No doubts whatsoever

No

Some scientists today like Laura Mersini-Houghton do not see a conflict between science and religion in essence.
I have studied this the Big bang theory that it doesn't rule out there being a creator God with the cosmic inflation theory. Science does not rule this out and this is where current thought is at critically I think with the Justin Webb telescope and Vera Rubin will be interesting developments.

So rude

Yes. I was an atheist for most of my life though then God did amazing things that were hard to ignore.

No

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