I Believe in God Because....
 

I believe in God because when I'm out in nature, absorbing its perfection, I can't do anything but believe in Him.

That's just one reason of many.

What about you?

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I believe in God. I believe the Grand Canyon is just one of many awesome creations.
I believe in God when I see a child smile...
A prayer answered.
When I look into my cats eyes who *just showed up one day.*
When I hear from someone I had recently been thinking of.
When I see others working together for a good cause.
When I look at the evening sky.
When I see rainbows.
When I see or hear about a miracle.
When I am counting my blessings. Amazing!

I believe in God because...
 

When I walk thru a hospice, I see Him. God is love. Love beyond what you and I can ever imagine.

When I am outside hiking, I see the beauty He created in nature.

When I am swimming in the ocean, I feel the ocean waves and sand between my toes He made.

When fishing, I see and bbq the fish He made for me to catch and feed others with.

I don't believe in G-d. I feel G-d. I always have since I was little.

Great thread Words!!! Thank you!!

My God
 

I believe God is the only power present in the universe. I believe God loves everything she has created . She that's right, I said she. God is not male or female, so why not say she, instead of he all the time, for lack of a better pronoun. I believe God is the pure energy of love. And we all have that same energy within us, it's what causes us to breath and live it's our magnetic force. I believe God doesn't care either way how you live your life, God simply observes. Without a care or judgement about. I beleive God doesn't answer our prayers, we do. By our thoughts words and deeds. If you want something bad enough ...... Like a xerox machine to the universe everything we think say and do comes back. You manifest your reality. Every second of everyday. Even if you don't beleive God exists , God has no problem with this. It's by design. And we will all reunite with God at some point. When our (souls) life energy evolves enough to be pure love like God.

I had my daughter through IVF. I saw her on an ultrasound monitor when she was 'nothing' but a follicle still growing inside me. I saw her under a microscope when was 'nothing' but a newly fertilized egg. I saw her, again, on a monitor, not once, but several times as little by little, she grew into something recognizable as a baby. And then, finally, I saw her when the doctors placed her in my arms.

The birth of a child is a miracle in its own right. But to actually witness its very conception, yes, I think that was the point at which - as Julieisafemme said so beautifully - I began to feel God.

Thank you to everyone who's posted.

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The dogma of a building is no longer my place of worship. My God is within, expands beyond and I see the shimmering raindrop on a rose, a mountain raising from the sea, the clouds at 35,000 feet and feel the warmth of a hug. And God must have given the cat that purr as he sleeps against my side.

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I believe in God ... because I cannot imagine that this universe, and all things in it, created itself. Every living thing is it's own miracle and blessing.

I believe in God because when Pope Benedict XVI (82 yo) was knocked down during the starting procession to Christmas Eve Mass, by a woman, he did not respond with anger or wrath. Instead, He got up with help, and continued on. St. Peter's Basilica will never be the same. I am sure security will be rechecked after this event.

I believe in God because:


I do not believe human kind could create anything without a little help.

I do not believe humankind could screw up so badly and come out smelling like a rose without a God.

I believe in God which is love, not vindictive

I believe in God which bonds us all together as brothers and sisters not just the ones I like.

I believe in God who I can curse, condemn, holler at and lament and still feel the warmth of God's embrace.

I believe in God who gives all humans the right to make their own decisions no matter how hurtful, painful, destructive those decisions may be; because without the right to make bad decisions we would not have the right to make the good ones.

I believe God's will is an excuse we make so we do not have to accept responsibility for our: lack of action, inaction, that causes people to die, suffer, go hungry.




please note: in this response the term God & he and HIM refers to: Divine being, in whatever gender or human trait the reader wishes to assign to this in explainable in words being.

I have the God gene
 

The only way I can explain "why" I believe in God is: It's in my genes. I do not believe that those who are atheist or agnostic are wrong, and I know that while I walk this earth I will never be able to prove the existence of God. So to paraphrase the great Lily and Jane "it's a collective hunch." The more I study my ideas of God the less form God has, the more formless, more like pure energy God is for me. I sometimes think of It as the stuff between all the stuff we experience with our senses, the cosmic glue holding all that stuff together and out of which all things are formed. Its not the tears or the laughter, its the energy that creates those experiences. But of course it is those experiences too, they are not separate, nothing is separate from God. Nothing.

The pronoun that suits It best for me is "It", though that is not as warm and fuzzy and as personal as I experience It. And I do still talk to Jesus sometimes, but that is different (for me) than the entire experience of God.

I believe in God because He is the only One who has never given up on me, and believes in me, and loves me. He doesn't care if my words come out wrong, or if I am judged as a misfit. He knows my heart, my intentions, and my free will. All are good. It's like the book called "When the Brain Can't Hear" is how I live my life. God is the engine that does hear. He is my constant companion, protector, and guide. I would rather have God on my side than anyone else.


The book "When the Brain Can't Hear: Understanding Auditory Processing Disorders" by Teri James Bellis, PhD, Pocket Books, 2002

This is how I feel. For me God is an energy. My God consciousness ideally is how connected i feel to all that is. There is no separation.

When people ask me what religion or what I believe in I don't have a name or definition. I am spiritual and conscious. I wake up everyday considering my actions and movements. How can I make the world a better place today? Where will I direct love? I am grateful and I thank God.

I thought this was going to be a long post,not today.To me there are two Gods in this world.And it seems to me the hardest thing to do for some people is picking the right one.There's my God,then there's the Devil.I believe in them both.No,I didn't learn a lot about these two Gods from going to church or reading the holy bible.Nope,you really can't learn much from imitating your friends or reading a book.You must actually go out in the world and see first hand how people treat each other,I mean actually treat each other when no one is looking for approval.The dark and good sides of human nature are there for all to see if your eyes are truly open.All i'm saying is that if my ass was drowning,I never prayed for the devil to save me.It was the devil who lied.Just look at what he made them do to Jesus.That's one powerful God if you ask me.But there is another who is more powerful.
And it is that God that I have faith in to get me out of a jam.

Jesse~I believe in God because....he did save my ass more than once.

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I believe in God because...
 

Why fight it
 

Another intriguing post.*snort*

I think God has a few new things in store for me.All I can do is put my faith in him and let it be.God never steered me wrong.

I believe in God because...
 

I am still here.
I am free to feel...whether it be good or bad.
I have been truly blessed by the people who are in my life.

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5079rCfs6I"]YouTube- C.S. Lewis - "Lord, Liar, or Lunatic" - Mere Christianity[/nomedia]

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

~~Nelson Mandela

god
 

all i have heard "from god" is "believe in me and do as i say or perish in eternal pain and suffering.........."
doesn't exactly have me rushing to join the "Jesus Team"......
it's akin to any dictator or despot ruling by fear.... i am not buying it.

IF there is a god and IF he loves us and wants people to believe in him and have everlasting life *blah blah blah* and all that happy crap, wouldn't be much more effective to be positive, spreading joy and happiness, than threatening and vengeful generalities about the price of sin is death and eternal damnation yadda yadda yadda.......

sounds more like a evil man's idea of ruling, not a loving God.....

I believe in God when I look into the eyes of forgiveness and have learned how important it is to forgive.

I believe in God when I look into my cats eyes and see gratitude. I am grateful they were put in my path.

I believe in God because he believes in me. He knows he can act through me and I will carry out the task humbly and graciously.

I believe in God because he has taught me I am not here to simply exist for my own self importance, but living to help other peoples/animals lives mean something and know they are loved.

often I wonder and thing about god, goddess all that is.. I am in awe at "whatever" it is that guides me, gives me passion, fuel for life but I do know one thing.... that it is inspired by my actions.

I believe in God by Faith alone.
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I too believe in God!
 

I thought this thread was supposed to be about why we believe in God.
I don't know where you got your idea, you said you heard that from God, I've never heard of God giving ultimatums or being a major control freak.

Like many here have stated, I believe in God because of the sheer force of Nature. There's a saying...Nature is the art of God....I love that saying. I believe it to be truth. Two minutes on my back porch tonight. Snow falling gracefully from the sky, a slight breeze, the sounds of the creek behind my house as the running water dances over the ice that has formed, the birds chirping their thanks for the birdfood that's out, the clouds racing across the sky..as if trying to get somewhere before the sunset. And the sunset itself....how can one look at that and NOT believe in a greater being???

The perfection of a child, a rose, a stormy night. The silence of a snowy evening. The peace that overcomes me when I step into the Lord's house (not every church has it..but when one does....there's no feeling like it for me). The smile of a baby. The senses we were given in order to enjoy creation.

The completion I feel in my heart when I search for "why I believe". The sense of the One who was there when my world was crumbling. The pulse that runs through my body, the blood that rushes through my veins, the intense abilities of the mind.

A million and one reasons that I believe...and tomorrow..there will be at least a million and two.

Lovely post and very positive. Your sentiments are appreciated.

I believe in a Higher Power, God/ess, Great Spirit, however you want to say it, because S/he won't let me go. I have tried to be agnostic/atheist. But God/ess keeps coming into my life and talking to me, making it impossible to turn away. And yet I am very mad at God/ess, cause some really fucked up shit happened to me and others I care for, and I tend to blame and hold a grudge. I know this is my own short-coming. It is what it is.

I don't believe in "that" god either. But that god isn't the only conception/experience of a Higher Power. It is good to keep that in mind.