I thought the “blah” was in reaction to my post! A little paranoia seeped in, lol.
Throwing money to the casinos is a belief in luck though it does help to have a little skill at blackjack.
Throwing money to the churches is more like blackmail. How’s that for a confusing analogy, lol?
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God is love 
“God” is usually an “unusual belief” for people who have schizophrenia and a normal belief for people who are “normal.”
If a schizophrenic believed in a normal conception of God that would be unusual.
“God is a concept,
by which we measure,
our pain”.
John Lennon
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I think the best description of God is in the book “When Bad Things Happen to Good People”. He created us but is not a micromanager who controls everything. He doesn’t like the terrible things that goes on but cannot prevent them. I don’t know if there is an afterlife or what the afterlife consists of but I hope it is better than what I’ve experienced on Earth. I pray every day and find things to be thankful for and feel happier about life but I wonder if it is due to positive affirmation rather than someone actually listening. I have often imagined God to be as imperfect morally as human beings although obviously his abilities are greater than our own as we can’t create what He has created and yes we can die at any time. Some have imagined that God has a mortality or may even be dead. Regardless of that we can always hope for a Heaven although it is hard to imagine a World without some anxiety or concern. Plus receiving a pleasant happy newspaper or news summary every day would bore a lot of people. I kinda envy those left brain people who are positive all the time. In any case as a famous philosopher said (can’t spell the name but it begins with a N) “Against boredom even the Gods strive in vain”. I wonder how they would prevent boredom in Heaven. Also when I consider how few friends I’ve made in life I wonder how I could enjoy Heaven that much without there being a lot of people I’ve spent a lot of time with. When I’m more paranoid I imagine there being no Heaven and there just being a Hell. I don’t believe everything in the Bible but what I believe gives me hope in the idea of hope that there will be forgiveness of the many sins I’ve committed. In a strange way I developed a more positive attitude when I saw myself as just as sinful as everyone else and not a special person. So in conclusion I believe God may not be as omnipotent as we’d like to think or even as moral but He has good intentions and has done incredible things that we are so far incapable of doing. If you are disillusioned by God go to a national park and see all the incredible things in nature, see all the things around you created by the human mind and then compare it to the Sun and the planets. God has done many awesome things and although terrible things happen we continue to persist. In the past week we have explored another one of God’s creations of Pluto and I hope some day we explore the rest. I am both disillusioned morally by God and in awe of his creations.
God is a sadistic puppet master who manipulates humans on earth and events on earth to please himself.
Seems that way doesn’t it? Sometimes I think God is a computer programmer and that is how he manipulates us.
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God is many things to many people, its not ‘what is God’ it is ‘What does God mean to me?’
and i cant actually find him or see him but i can see his work, i could blame him for something or act like he is not there or worship him and his Son,
basically i can either see it as a Good thing or a Bad thing and personally i like to try and remain positive and use it as a weapon against the Bad, because even though i might not think it Bad things actually happen to me but i cant always blame God, there are evil forces at work in the world today that i need to be aware of, things that are unknown, evil can take any shape or size, it can be seen in many different ways so i need to be on guard for that, i think the correct word for that is vigilant.
Yes so true. I do agree with you
Or what are Gods? Plural… some societies still worship multiple gods, a polythesic society.
i like to try and keep it simple, like even with one God it is still far from being simple but if there are multiple Gods for different things then that just complicates things in my opinion.
One God for everything just makes it a lot more simple for people to understand and i do not believe in multiple Gods,
we have the trinity but that is 3 very different things that make up the one God, 3 parts to the whole… makes it a bit more complicated but at least its not a God for every little thing.
Did man invent God to pin the blame on someone else?
It’s amazing to me that the mods let you nonbelievers bash God for as long a thread as this…watch what happens when I say this…“God is real”. “God is loving” this world belongs to Satan which is why there is so much bad in the world @crimby Jesus said, " I am not of this world and my kingdom is in Heaven".
Everyone here is entitled to their point of view, be it based in belief or experiential observation.
Juke , its not a case of god bashing. I don’t bash God , I just feel there is no evidence for him. There’s a reason why these threads are discouraged you know.
I’ve just posted a quote that I found funny form an actor that I also like. It is not my intention to create much fuss about this. But I think people can talk. But when beliefs - whatever they are - come into play all hell breaks loose.
God is a feeling to me.
Or feelings to me
Here’s how my fave sponsor explained God to me at a meeting many years ago:
Good
Orderly
Direction
Religious, agnostic, athiest, or just indifferent, we could all use some of the above in our lives. I’m okay with that.
Pixel.
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Ive never thrown money or devotion God’s way but that doesn’t mean I don’t believe contrary to popular belief I don’t think that God needs or wants our money or devotion.
He’s God !!! He knows what’s what no matter our excuses or rationalizing of how we are…I wouldn’t but I guess that he still loves us no matter how we try to out smart Him.
There are not many TRUE believers but those that we have are poised to move to the next level.
My honest to God belief is that GOD is the guy that’s gonna open up on the world and just let loose.
Because we as his, greatist creation screwed things up bad, but the way that I see it …if you don’t try to play him for a idiot then you should be good.