God?

[GommeInc]

God = Comfort.

People believe in God for comfort when no one else can give it to them.

[Corey777]

God = Comfort.

People believe in God for comfort when no one else can give it to them.

Your opinion only. If you follow a religion, you see and believe there is a God.
For example, (this may not be broadcasted in the UK, but it is Canada and the USA) when you see Benny Hinn on Television with THOUSANDS of people in the audience, you can see that God has given him a special gift. He uses powers through God to help the sick, let blind people see, and let the deaf hear.

You just have to experiment a bit and watch some shows like that, and it turns you all around on the subject of "God."

[Homesrfan]

Yes, I belive in god.
But I don't believe that god forgives EVERYONE.
That is incorrect for the reason that ,as Mentor stated, there is a hell. You can't just go around killing people and then ask for forgiveness and suddenly get it. I believe that if you truly believe in god then, yes, you will be forgiven of sins, but not murder or anything of that sort.
I don't know, just my opinion.

[Mentor]

more killing and wars have been in the name of god than anything else.
this is not becuse teh religion or its followes are bad. it becuse religion encoarges blind faith what i belive if one of teh most dangeros things possible, someone high up can say god said to do somthing, and the followers will blindly follow, without thinking for them sevels, even if what is said is oviosly untrue.
Its a proven fact, that many people do turn to god when they need comfort, if a war starts the amount of religios people goes right up. when people are happy i goes back down. its possibly human nature to need a high power, such as in the communist error, when religion was banned, lennin was seen as more like a god than a great preson from there prospctive.

[Pulchritudinous]

I was just thinking, I'm not religious and I still seem to say 'I swear to god...' and 'God knows why' and all that even though I think God does not in a billion years exist.

[GommeInc]

You just say that to give a comment really, 'God damn' etc.

[Ciaran]

But... those kind of "sayings" can be really offencive to religious people so if you stood next to a preist and said "god damn" he would take alot more offence to that than someone you knew or a friend. Whats wrong with the world? lol its stupid how words can have more mental effect on one person to another... oh well i dont get it..

[Michael.]

If you say "God Damn", it's Blasphemie, which basically means that you're using God's name as a swearword.
I've been brought up NOT to say "God Damn", or "Jesus Christ" when something goes wrong.
Most people say this as they need someone to blame something on. Like if you dropped your Mum's best vase, you want to blame it on God, but you should only have yourself to blame.

I'm a bit of a sceptic on the 10 commandments. One of them is "Thou shalt not kill". Think about this. Saddam Hussain was an evil dictaitor in Iraq. He has killed thousands upon thousands of people. Are we right to invade Iraq and kill people so we can bring Saddam to justice? That's a question off one of our RE assignments.

Btw Mentor you are very right about blind religion, but Jesus only told Christians to do good things, and even if there is no God, we should feel satisfied that we've tried our best in life and done good things for the community.

[GommeInc]

Yes but, for people who don't believe in God can say these things as they are either making fun of people believing in God and using his name in vein or they know there is a god but don't believe cos they hate him and then say these thing.

[Convictions]

Its 12 miles to Canaan from Jordan and it took moses and co 40 years to travel that far, and in a book it says thats .278 of a mile a year.

I sorta belive i sorta dont, i just think if someones there , its there , if it ainnt well it aint