Is it ok to believe in God......

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@Octobertiger
What I am saying to you is that he can't be governed by a book. He himself can't be governed by anything. It is his book that governs you, through its teachings, not snide mentioning of absurd fairy magic.

The Bible is a history book, and a book to live by. Everywhere it talks about God's nature, it never describes God having a solid rule to what he is. Most of the time it mentions him being all-powerful, indescribable, things that suggest he has both a free will, and the power to do anything a human can and can't imagine with the thought of his mind.
That is what the Judeo-Christian God is, and in this belief, we believe any other person telling us there are more than one God, Shintoism is the true religion, or that someone is an elf vampire and we should drink his koolaid, is wrong and doesn't believe in our (the) God.

Religions like Buddhism, Shintoism, Taoism, they promote collective thinking, all accepting for the most part. Yet to them, when a someone comes and starts telling the people they preside over for spiritual advice, that they are all wrong, and are going to hell unless they believe in God, they believe that person is not good for the health of their people. It is quite obvious as to why.

You can't believe in our (the) God, without believing what he told the world to do. That is monotheism. But as you said yourself, he can't be governed by a book. That doesn't mean he can be governed by any thing else we could comprehend either, as in rules, even the word God itself.

What a meaningless label to apply to the universe if it's sufficient enough to just call the universe a universe. It also detracts from the main point, which is that there is no evidence whatsoever for an entity that is believed by many to be the Creator of this universe and to be distinct from the universe and everything in it.

I have no idea with regard to your level of intelligence nor its relationship to my own, nor for that matter the intelligence of those who have done the research which I look to for understanding. However when you start talking of my subservience to the known evidence and what i perceive as your elevation of your own contemplation's above them, I seriously have to wonder about the way in which you are applying your intelligence.

Are you really suggesting that thousands of physicists, astronomers, chemists etc have missed the obvious evidence that you have hypothesised . That all the peer reviewed literature and experiments have missed this marvel of cognitive acrobatics. The scientific method allows for speculation and contemplation followed by the search for evidence. If evidence is found then it is rigorously tested again and again in an attempt to verify or falsify.

Really

We're going in circles. You insist on having evidence provided in a format in which it cannot be done. And if it could be, well, you'd be so terrified you'd never escape a psychiatric ward.

At least you like Sepultura

:roll: :roll: :roll: Of course I get it. I just do not wish to enter a debate on the nature of God from this point of view, I do not wish to discuss whether we are all god, whether the universe is god, whether the Interconnectedness of things is god etc, these things do not bother me, they are purely speculative and do not interfere with mine nor anyone else's life. If I or anyone else chooses to ignore them there is no consequence.

I do have an issue with the Abrahamic style of god, or any god who's believers feel they must interfere with the lives of others. Which is where I started out in this thread by saying, believe what you will but unless you have evidence to back up your belief do not force others to behave in the way your belief dictates.

I'm agnostic. Believe that is the most rational and ''logic choice of beliefs, because isn't the extreme gnosticism and also the extreme agnosticism, like atheism, one spectrum. (All abstract human things are spectruum).
I ask mylsef ''who'' or 'what'' created all universes (are more than one, right??), My genius teen cousin explain to me about the ''strings theory'' and upon this i developed some inferences like, don't there death, all of things of universe stay on a eternal and perfect cycle.

If it cannot be done, then you have no valid reason to believe such an entity exists. An entity as powerful as God could reveal himself with ease if he so wanted to. He could incarnate in the flesh, show us miracles, solve heaps of mysteries of the world for us, teach us things we couldn't know otherwise about the universe, resurrect the dead, and do lots of fantastical things to show he exists. And even if such an entity did not turn out to be God, I'd still consider it God myself (until I had a better explanation coming for all these miracles).

Also, my username is based on a character for a game called Grim Fandango. It stands for Manny Calavera (check avatar), not Max Cavalera.

By definition GOD is agnostic...

Think about that ONE

for a

while

if
one wills...

IT is really simple math....

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Unless, of course, the world is a dream, so what would be the point of all that.

Oh, right! Shame.

I'm agnostic. Believe that is the most rational and ''logic choice of beliefs, because isn't the extreme gnosticism and also the extreme agnosticism, like atheism, one spectrum. (All abstract human things are spectruum).
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If it's all a dream, I couldn't know anyway. Science has been working quite well for the past few millennia, so I'll live with assuming that this universe operates according to the various laws of science and mathematics.

Thank you Goddard... I speak like this to elicit wonderful responses such as the one you provide here...

Without a little controversy..there is not the same Passion to gather the greatest of responses in discussion so ALl can learn more...

God is a mystery..and Mysteries are always agnostic..as we cannot measure mysteries as proven entities of realities..the verity of the expression of mystery IT..self...IS ALL