Just curious, how many of you believe in a higher power?
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As only a few year old Christian, my life has never felt more complete. I was always an Agnostic until I hit below rock bottum, and to know I was not alone I was able to climb back out. God saved me in so many ways. I don't think I would be here if it was not for Him. So yes. I am a sole believer. Amen!
Edit- On top of all that, I had cancer when I was young, and I feel the way everything turned out and how they caught it and how we faught it was nothing short of a miracle
Edit- On top of all that, I had cancer when I was young, and I feel the way everything turned out and how they caught it and how we faught it was nothing short of a miracle
I think I do, I'm not entirely sure. I think i do though just not in the way I've been told to by the church. I believe in evolution but that maybe God set things into motion, made that meteor hit the Earth in just the right way to get it moving in that perfect spin that supports life. Maybe he put the first single celled organisms here, but I don't believe in Adam and Eve or many of the other stories of the Bible. But with so many people claiming to have had some sort of experience with God and the fact the Jesus did exist have kept me from discounting the existence of a God, i just don't see Him like they tell me to, I guess I made up my own. Who knows.
Q: What's Agnostic mean? (try and say it in a way I can understand lol).
Q: What's Agnostic mean? (try and say it in a way I can understand lol).
I'm in between believing in SOME sort of higher power and atheism. I really, really have a hard time believing everything just appeared on it's own and it wasn't made by something. I do not belong to any religion, though, and frankly don't believe in the God Christians believe in.... the idea of an all-knowing, ever-loving, perfect god who will allow most people to be tortured for eternity just doesn't sit right with me, I'm afraid.
I was raised Baptist. Was Baptized and Saved but when I was about 17 or so I started thinking about religion more critically and eventually decided that it was very illogical to believe in a religion, so I gave up on it as it no longer made any sense to me. Everything I'd known about it was merely stuff people told me about it. There was no proof of it besides some book that holds many contradictions and is interpreted in many different ways and only if it benefits the people interpreting it. Else it's dismissed.
Couple that with my study of biology and I find evolution to be a much more plausible way of things happening. To me, it makes no sense for there to be a God. There are some very hard things to explain in science, granted, but it's the greatest injustice just to look at something that hasn't been figured out yet and go "God did it". Sure we don't know how the universe began, yet. But it had some logical beginning other than "this guy over here wanted it that way". If you think about it, the Greeks, Egyptions, etc. put a lot of natural phenomena down to 'God did it' (or gods) such as lightning, which we now know happens because of molecular shifts and depolarization.
We don't have the answers as of yet, but will some day. My only regret is that I won't be able to see all the answers. I'd be thrilled if there was a God and I got to see how everything ends. But that's not going to happen.
So I guess you could say that I believe in science, if anything. Plus, if there is a God, how egocentric would he have to be to punish me for not believing in him when I've otherwise followed his commandments and teachings (AKA common sense) and led a good life? Doesn't sound very all loving (or whatever the word is) to me to punish someone who carried out your will, but just didn't believe in you being the guiding force.
Basically that humans can't know one way or another whether God exists or not.
For a more formal definition:
agnostic - a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience.
Couple that with my study of biology and I find evolution to be a much more plausible way of things happening. To me, it makes no sense for there to be a God. There are some very hard things to explain in science, granted, but it's the greatest injustice just to look at something that hasn't been figured out yet and go "God did it". Sure we don't know how the universe began, yet. But it had some logical beginning other than "this guy over here wanted it that way". If you think about it, the Greeks, Egyptions, etc. put a lot of natural phenomena down to 'God did it' (or gods) such as lightning, which we now know happens because of molecular shifts and depolarization.
We don't have the answers as of yet, but will some day. My only regret is that I won't be able to see all the answers. I'd be thrilled if there was a God and I got to see how everything ends. But that's not going to happen.
So I guess you could say that I believe in science, if anything. Plus, if there is a God, how egocentric would he have to be to punish me for not believing in him when I've otherwise followed his commandments and teachings (AKA common sense) and led a good life? Doesn't sound very all loving (or whatever the word is) to me to punish someone who carried out your will, but just didn't believe in you being the guiding force.
Basically that humans can't know one way or another whether God exists or not.
For a more formal definition:
agnostic - a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience.
God is amazing to me.. I swear He makes a way out of no way.. I have had so many things in my life, we could physically solve, turn it over to Him and man- He fixes it in such a way I can not even start to tell you how....
Let me try..
I was pushed off a deck by my ex- hit the ground from 15 feet up.. ( note the word ex..)... I went into shock within minutes.. I woke up at the hospital and they were talking about possible amputation of my leg or maybe just surgery to try first etc. I Gave it to God. .. I woke up, leg in a cast of words of " well you have your leg but will need a brace when the cast comes off..."
LET ME tell you- ON 6 weeks they took that cast off I WALKED OUT of the office!
A year and half ago my uterus ruptured! Loosing blood went into shock.. I woke up barely.. the surgeon was there and and said " Mrs. (((((((((( I will try my best..." ... I said God has it in his hands.. I had lost a ton of blood, in shock and not good- I woke up in the hospital room.. Yes it took me some time to heal but I know my Lord saved me. The health condition I had killed alot of woman in my family- I should be dead- I know my Lord saved me..
Sometimes when things make no sense as the Bible says " keep in prayer" that is exactly what I do.l
Like now- I hate moving from this house- I hate this situation- but uhhhhhhhh this perfect house shows up out of no where????????????? DO NOT tell me My God did not do that... as the Bible says " I wil not forsake you..."..
I fail to understand people that do not believe in God.. I know my life lives on, I know my God helps me daily, I know there is a reason for the garbage around me- God has it in control... You can call him by any name but God is God..
I have had things happen I can not possibly explain.. The day a big bill is due and suddenly that day a unknown check shows up.. or a dog is sick and looks horrid, and next day the dying dog is fine.. I tell you I believe in the powers.. And its not to say prayers for self gain.. Its a gut wrenching I need your help.. Its not self gains- its My God is there... He is there..
Let me try..
I was pushed off a deck by my ex- hit the ground from 15 feet up.. ( note the word ex..)... I went into shock within minutes.. I woke up at the hospital and they were talking about possible amputation of my leg or maybe just surgery to try first etc. I Gave it to God. .. I woke up, leg in a cast of words of " well you have your leg but will need a brace when the cast comes off..."
LET ME tell you- ON 6 weeks they took that cast off I WALKED OUT of the office!
A year and half ago my uterus ruptured! Loosing blood went into shock.. I woke up barely.. the surgeon was there and and said " Mrs. (((((((((( I will try my best..." ... I said God has it in his hands.. I had lost a ton of blood, in shock and not good- I woke up in the hospital room.. Yes it took me some time to heal but I know my Lord saved me. The health condition I had killed alot of woman in my family- I should be dead- I know my Lord saved me..
Sometimes when things make no sense as the Bible says " keep in prayer" that is exactly what I do.l
Like now- I hate moving from this house- I hate this situation- but uhhhhhhhh this perfect house shows up out of no where????????????? DO NOT tell me My God did not do that... as the Bible says " I wil not forsake you..."..
I fail to understand people that do not believe in God.. I know my life lives on, I know my God helps me daily, I know there is a reason for the garbage around me- God has it in control... You can call him by any name but God is God..
I have had things happen I can not possibly explain.. The day a big bill is due and suddenly that day a unknown check shows up.. or a dog is sick and looks horrid, and next day the dying dog is fine.. I tell you I believe in the powers.. And its not to say prayers for self gain.. Its a gut wrenching I need your help.. Its not self gains- its My God is there... He is there..
Exactly.... back when my mom got me into the Christian religion, that never did sit quite right with me, and always disturbed me a bit. Just last year I really started thinking about it... and I realized the word for the feeling I had was revulsion. I can't, and wont, believe in a god like the Christian religion tells me there is.
Nolu . . . you'd enjoy, I'm sure, reading this http://www.amazon.com/Letters-Earth-Mark-Twain/dp/1595477349/ref=pd_sim_b_1
I didn't answer. I fall somewhere between Religious and Agnostic.
I was raised a Christian (Lutheran to be exact) - I believe many of the general principles of the Christian religion, but I don't believe many of the literal stories. I don't believe that the church should tell you how to live your life - on issues such as homosexuality, abortion, sex, etc. But I do believe in a "God", in a "higher power", just not verbatim to what the church says exists. I believe that religion is a highly personal thing, meant to be between you and your "higher power" of choice - and it's no one else's business, unless you choose to share it with them. I think that religion is something that is always changing - what you feel/think/believe today might be different from what you feel/think/believe tomorrow - circumstances change, things happen, and we and our ideas change with them. I don't think you can ever really pin it down and label it. I think that many churches have overdone it with forcing it down children's throats, which has made them turn away from ANY kind of religion.
I think that people should be allowed to practice what they want to practice, and believe what they want to believe.
I however, believe very strongly in fate and karma. I believe that everything happens for a reason, whether we like it or not.
I was raised a Christian (Lutheran to be exact) - I believe many of the general principles of the Christian religion, but I don't believe many of the literal stories. I don't believe that the church should tell you how to live your life - on issues such as homosexuality, abortion, sex, etc. But I do believe in a "God", in a "higher power", just not verbatim to what the church says exists. I believe that religion is a highly personal thing, meant to be between you and your "higher power" of choice - and it's no one else's business, unless you choose to share it with them. I think that religion is something that is always changing - what you feel/think/believe today might be different from what you feel/think/believe tomorrow - circumstances change, things happen, and we and our ideas change with them. I don't think you can ever really pin it down and label it. I think that many churches have overdone it with forcing it down children's throats, which has made them turn away from ANY kind of religion.
I think that people should be allowed to practice what they want to practice, and believe what they want to believe.
I however, believe very strongly in fate and karma. I believe that everything happens for a reason, whether we like it or not.