Do you believe in God?

Well it is my belief that God was not created per se but has, and always will exist, in other words he has /always/ existed. I think that's the part that many non believers and even believers, including myself, struggle to get their head around.
Also how do you believe that say the first living cell/ particle was created? How can something come out of nothing? What existed before that? Surely this is similar to the whole who created god ordeal. Idk man the whole thing is mind blowing to think about

Well it is my belief that God was not created per se but has, and always will exist, in other words he has /always/ existed. I think that's the part that many non believers and even believers, including myself, struggle to get their head around.

Also how do you believe that say the first living cell/ particle was created? How can something come out of nothing? What existed before that? Surely this is similar to the whole who created god ordeal. Idk man the whole thing is mind blowing to think about

Wait, what?!

Sorry, I was under the impression I was talking to an intellectual theist. I'm done arguing with you.

And the probability that a being that is complex enough to design that just came into existence is infinitesimally smaller.
More details in 'The God Delusion' by Dr Richard Dawkins.

Science doesn't have a definitive explanation for it either. There are loads of theories, but I'm a student who's currently doing their GCSEs, not someone with PHDs in physics so I'm not nearly qualified to explain them, there will be loads of stuff on the internet if you're interested. (though the creation of a living cell isn't so mysterious)

Anyway, this is I think the main way in which science and religion differ. Science says we don't know, but we will keep searching for the answer and in the future we will find it.
Religion however doesn't seek to explain it but just makes up an explanation and gives some terrible reasoning for it and leaves it at that.

The omnipotence, omnipresence, etc., of God means that He never 'came into existence'. He always existed, and will continue to exist.

Well to me religion and science work together to give in my opinion the "true picture". I and quite a number of Christians believe that God USED the Big Bang et voilà problem solved, hence giving logical reasoning that science alone or religion alone can't provide

The omnipotence, omnipresence, etc., of God means that He never 'came into existence'. He always existed, and will continue to exist.

Yep, that is a fair point, and if you are prepared to disregard all of your ideas of God when science finds a better explanation then that's a reasonable point of view.
I don't really see the point in making up an explanation though, in my opinion it's simply easier to say: 'we don't know yet, and I can't wait to find out!'

This is the point that I simply don't understand. That is illogical and not possible.

I believe in Schopenhauer's concept of "the will", but no actual God or anything.

There is evidence- look around you. Is it not a sheer fact that a tree has been designed, everything in nature has a purpose and this purpose couldn't have happened by chance. As the famous saying states: "Everything happens for a reason"- a reason that only a divine, transcendent being knows. We, as human beings, are too ignorant and selfish to actually know what the reason is. We see things in black and white, and evidently assume that the world is continuous process

So, when we die, do you think we just die and that's it. Don't you think that the existence of evil and suffering, both moral and natural evil, and the fact that we have free will show that there must be a hidden reason for so. Why would we have free will if all of us were going to die and that's it. Surely, free will is a 'test'.
Why would we have free will and we have the freedom to kill anyone we like as well as natural disasters killing us freely if life is not a test.

Evidently, you disregarding a divine being is slightly stupid to be honest. It's obvious a divine being is evident as how can we explain the sheer beauty of the world if there is no God. Obviously, we have different conceptions of a 'God' and you would probably assume God would exist if there was no evil and suffering but evil and suffering is a test, an evident obstacle.

Let's say the world was all perfect (and dull) as evil and suffering doesn't exist. How will we develop our qualities? A person withdrawing an obstacle of life(evil and suffering) will help them develop those necessary qualities. But, of course, we have different definitions of evil and suffering as an individual.

God does exist but His nature is ultimately up to you and how you think he is to be.

Very fascinating i just had a read about that and it seems very interesting, any books about him you would recommend.

Do you have any opinions on Nietzsche? as I believe in quite a few of his ideas or at least like them

Why? God created, and exists outside of, time and is therefore not affected by it. The problem you posed is only applicable to a material being, not a transcendent being that exists in neither time nor space

And what caused Big Bang, when according to the laws of physics and the conservation of mass, there would need to be some source of energy to start the Big Bang? What was this force?

Also, what do you believe about objective morality?We all believe (or should believe) that killing 6 million Jews during World War II was morally wrong. However, if the Nazis had successfully taken over Europe and convinced us that it was ok to commit this genocide, would it still be morally wrong?

If there is a god why did he give the bullies at my school free will to make my life absolute hell, yes hell, for 5 years?!


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