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?

The bible tells us of a God who wants to have relationship with us. He didn't leave us. He sent his son to make a way to Him and He wants a relationship with us here and now on earth and in eternity.

Humans do have free will, and as I stated in my earlier post, we need to examine how we have used and continue to use this free will. Our refusal to love others as ourselves and to instead worship the self has left the world in such a mess.

No, I don't believe in Gods.

Aside from all the irreconcilable problems and contradictions posed by positing the existence of deities, the Universe itself was around for billions of years before humans ever appeared, so to me it is just yet another glaring example of human pomposity and arrogance to come up with this concept of Gods, and then retcon the history of the universe to fit with an entirely man-made narrative that has only been around for the blink of an eye in relative terms.

Of course you can claim Gods have always been around and humans are just late to the party, but then some religions insist their gods made humans in their own image. So what were these gods doing, precisely, for the billions of years in between creating the universe and creating humans? Sitting around watching God Netflix?

100% yes I do xx

So why doesn't he send us some proof then?

We're expected to have blind faith and, if we don't, then we get sent to hell or purgatory? Sounds like bollocks to me and I wouldn't want a relationship with this "god", even if he did turn out to exist.

I don’t want a relationship with someone who doesn’t exist. I have no difficulties in loving my family but have zero interest in worshipping anything.
Life is good!

No. Never have. Can't remember how old I was when I decided this but do remember aged ten being told I must do do some RE work (very free form 70s curriculum) and churning out a pic of Noah's ark to appease my teacher's tick list.

I think the answers show why Christians often don't respond on these type of threads. I enjoy sensible discussion and listening to people's views, hopefully being invited to share mine. Not just rude comments.

This. A creator possibly, but not a benevolent god who takes an interest in how each of us billions of people behave, it seems a ridiculous idea. The god would also have to do the same with all of the life on the presumed many many planets with life forms (given the vastness of the universe with more stars than grains of sand on earth).
Possibly some type of supernatural force that has nothing to do with a god.

It’s interesting that you ask why people don’t believe in god when for me the question would be why on earth would you?
Even from a very young age being sent off to Sunday school every week the concept of god has baffled me. Although I can understand back in the mists of time why it would seem logical to worship the sun on which we all depend.
Beyond that it makes no sense.

Lots of posters are asking for proof whilst also stating their complete determination to not believe.

As I stated earlier, if you are genuinely curious about what evidence there is that Jesus is the son of God, or to answers about things like creation, evolution, dinosaurs then I would signpost you to the book "The Case for Christ" and to your nearest Alpha Course (can also be accessed online. https://www.alpha.org/

I am sinposting on in the same way that I would signpost someone asking me to explain world economics or how a car engine works on to other sources, confident that there is an explanation but aware that other minds have delved deeper into this than mine and would be better suited to answering robustly.

You do you.

HTH.

I believe in God and am a Christian. I believe very strongly that we are called to love our neighbour whoever that may be. I also believe in the big bang and evolution and don't think that Christianity is in opposition to science.

Not even that. Unless you believe in god there’s no ticket to heaven

Absolutely this.

No. But I'm undecided about some form of afterlife. But it's not heaven and God.

Hi Laura is not a Christian but she doesn’t believe that the potential of there being a God is ruled out by science and that there is a God for a creator God still. I think that God created the world and it is grew which is in line to with Science thought of the Big Bang/Cosmic Inflation.Hugo Ross is a scientist who is a Christian to who argues for the existence of a God as well. He has his own website.

I wrote a post on this with some articles-this is where we at agreed. I will post some of Laura’s work that was noted in the New Scientist. She mentions to the Cosmic inflation theory.
Quoting a few quotes from a astrophysics magazine

“For many, there’s something very appealing about the Big Bang Theory, quite apart from its scientific veracity. With its image of a single, dramatic moment of creation, it conforms to earlier mythological and religious accounts”
“While an expanding universe is consistent with the Big Bang Theory it doesn’t necessarily require it”

“Yet the Big Bang prevailed in the end, and the steady state picture fell by the way side. Thanks to further observational evidence” “Scientists found it impossible to reconcile this with the idea that the universe has always been expanding at the relatively slow rate we observe today. Instead they had to assume a very brief period of Cosmic Inflation during the universe grew at a truly enormous rate”
I wrote a post about this topic the Big Bang theory here-
https://www.racheltestimony.com/2025/06/holding-onto-god-creator.html

No I don’t

I also (silently) judge people who do. There is ZERO evidence.

What God would make a young child suffer and die from cancer????

That’s not evidence

For the past week or so I have been reading YEC and creationist websites to get to sleep. The information on them is atrocious. Misrepresentations, intentional non understanding, and just outright lies.

I saw an article the other day, apparently by a PhD geologist. were they claimed that sea creature fossils high up in mountains was evidence of Noah's flood. Because how else could a fossil of a sea creature get up there.

A high school student doing geology can explain how they got there, and yet there it is in black and white, a PhD geologist outright lying.

I am not saying alpha courses are the same.

To quote you here : "Lots of posters are asking for proof whilst also stating their complete determination to not believe."

Proof of what, and to not believe what ?

If you were to claim the God Zeus lives on Mount Olympus, would it not be fair of me to ask for evidence of that ? It should be pretty easy. Just climb the mountain and take a photo of him.

That in no way means I am determined not to believe in Zeus.

And with Zeus, it makes no difference if you or anyone else believes in him, because you would likely not be forcing it on others, to live by the "code of Zeus", or whatever.

But there are people who are insisting we live as per their God. So is it not reasonable to ask for evidence of existence ?

Yes. God of the gaps. We know how wind works, the water cycle, storms and volcanos, so now new gaps are needed to squeeze gods into.

Me too and I agree with you about MN. I feel that my intelligence is insulted at times. I hope the naysayers get a nice surprise!

I'll believe if there's proof. But the Bible and people talking and/or writing about their beliefs aren't proof for me.

If God could be bothered to put in some actual real appearances then sure, I'd believe it.

What surprise could I expect?

That there is a God! We'll probably never know in our lifetimes sadly.

I’m comfortable that there is no heaven or hell - they are used as mechanisms to try and control behaviour whereas in reality as they don’t exist, there is nothing for anyone to be concerned about.