How real is god?

Here are a number of opinions on the subject from our contributors.

• I believe that the various levels of energy that permeates this universe are responsible for the numerous configurations and dimensions of matter. Some people refer to this energy/force as singular entity called GOD. There are a number of religious concoctions available to the gullible individuals of the world, where shrewd individuals market a fanatical product they call GOD.
• If something exists it just has to be revealed and experienced. If there is intelligence governing this universe then there must be some principle of balance or equilibrium "cause and effect" that affects all entities equally. The variations of this energy will then depend on ones ability to manipulate this energy with concentration, faith or the focusing of this energy (positive/negative) in a particular direction or with a particular perspective.
• As real as you want him to be. If you believe in 'god' then that is real to you.
• If you mean, 'Can you see, hear, taste, touch or smell God', the answer is probably 'Not real at all' - although some say they have seen and/or heard him/her/it. On the other hand, many have had experiences that have illuminated their consciousness in ways that convince them that they have encountered God, and it changes their behaviour (for the better) in ways that others notice; so perhaps, as an experience at least, 'God' is at least as real as any of the other things we experience, and more valuable than most. Whether something can exist apart from as an object of sensory experience, I leave to the philosophers. How would you tell?
• It seems likely that the vast majority of us have, at some time, asked "How real is God?" Although not everyone is yet aware of this, each and every man or woman has been enabled to seek out their own answer to this question.
• Do you truly want to know how real God is? Then you can know the answer at first hand.
• There are many people who do not see, or do not acknowledge, the glory of God in all that he has created. In the natural, we have a tendency to doubt the reality of God or to doubt his goodness. This betrays the fact that we are naturally in a state of spiritual alienation, personal estrangement, from Him.
• We are meant to know God in a personal way; we were meant to know at first hand that He is real. We have all been made in His likeness - human beings are made for fellowship with God. For each one of us, the alienation and doubt that make God seem unreal can be undone by Him. God has said that He will be found by anyone who genuinely seeks Him.
• By the reference of BIBLE, The Lord says, "heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. what kind of house, then, could you build for me, what kind of place for me to live in? i myself created the whole universe! ( Isaiah 66 : 1-2).

The real God need not a any temple, home by man made, the real God need not anything which is in the world because God made whole universe. the Bible also says that "surely you know that you are God`s temple and that God`s spirit lives in you! (1 corinthians 3: 16). The real God is name is Jehovah and his son jesus christ .

• Yes. God is a real god. and does God exist? Yes, he does. Every thing you see is from God - the mountains, the trees, and even you. We are all made in his image.
• My church prayed to heal a man that was paralyzed from the neck down and 2 months later he was healed. So is there really a God? Ask yourself. Proverbs 2-3 (somewhere around there) explains this.
• Which God are you referring to? There are literally thousands of gods and deities that litter the graveyard of history and mythology. If we assume the questioner is referring to the Biblical god Jehovah, then no-the evidence strongly suggests that this god is nothing more than legend and myth. Yes, Christianity is a widely subscribed religion with many faithful adherents. But this does not offer the slightest reason to believe that their gods (God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Virgin Mary, etc) are real sentient beings. On the contrary, the contradictory nature and absurdity of the stories is compelling evidence that the god of the Bible is simply the creation of superstitious, barbaric men. Peace.
• God is real to the majority of people in the world. Although some do not believe in Him or His Son, Jesus Christ. The beauty of God and of Jesus, is that they allow an individual to decide to believe, follow, and serve them or not. They have the freedom of choice.
• The Bible says that there are all kinds of gods... so, they are real enough. It's just that the "True Creator God" (Jesus Christ - John 1:3) will not tolerate us putting any of them before Himself in worship.

"Thou shalt have no other gods before Me." (Ex.20:3)

• I was at church during a tornado the roof flew off and we kept praying and standing and no one got hurt in the city
• God is not real and never was the world was made by the big bang theory.
  

If you were a scientist you most likely don't belive in god. Its just logic . God is not real and never was.

• Everything was and is made up by, and to, control people. We are all animals, we eat, sleep, and multiply, and try and find the easiest way to do those 3 things. We have just evolved more and brought stupid thinking into the mix. I am surprised at how many religious people think they are so amart about their people made religions and gods, yet they aren't smart enough to look back and see how religions and their gods really started. Past myths and legends if you don't know, changed over thousands of years to stay up with the times. The first original creation story was a tree and a egg, believed true by everyone at that time, now religions wiht hteir own creation stories sit there and say "they didn't know back then" lol. They didn't know then as you don't know now.
• Sometimes things happen that can't be explained. If you don't believe in Him, it is your choice.
• You don't know. Whether or not God is real is just a matter of faith for believers. Just as whether Brahma is real, or Ahura Mazda is real is a matter of faith for their believers.
• God is certainly real, whether or not people believe in Him. His existence cannot be disbelieved into non-reality. God is also not merely a 'God of the gaps' in our understanding of reality or an explanation of what we do not understand. He has acted in space and time, both of which He created 'in the beginning.' There is also the evidence or witness He has left of Himself for all who wish to see.
• God is not real why these are the reasons. There is the big bang an energy that caused the universe to begin 13.7 billion years ago. God did not cause the big bang to happen atoms, matter and anti matter did. Atoms, matter and anti matter cannot be created or destroyed hence being called god particles. Evolution humans share a common ancestor with apes and other primate as do all other animals from the sky, sea and land share common ancestors with their counterparts. Atheism and science are the way forward religion and spirituality is not they are out date
• Which god or gods are real depends on the religion you believe, and what you follow. Some say that only the God of the abrahamic religions is real, others say only Ahura Mazda. Many people believe that there are many gods and that they are all real. Others say that there is no god.
• That would depend on what you believe in. What may not be real for one person could be real for another. Whether or not you believe in it doesn't mean anything. Newton believed in gravity and was imprisoned for it because it was considered blasphemy.
• The answer is in your heart. Do not let anyone tell you who or what to believe in. Those that force anything on you are wrong. If you feel good about what someone is telling you, then it is right. And better yet, if you find god on your own, with out human interaction, then you have found the one true god.Many blessings.
• For Jews, Christians and Muslims, God is the real god. However, for Zoroastrians, only Ahura Mazda is the real god. For people of other religions, the real god or gods are defined by their beliefs. And for atheists, there is no real god, but only faith in God.
• As a young adult, I was trapped by the logical fallacy of a false dilemma, caught between the cold hard oblivion of Atheism and the the contradictory, wrathful and counter natural scriptures of Christianity. I had an epiphany, possibly even from on high, that no matter the number of conceptions of God (and Her nature) that humankind has forged, there are a vastly greater number of possibilities that remain unimagined. It is significantly more likely the truth of God is in the latter category than the former.
• There is a higher purpose in life. I don't know what that purpose is...But many things we know and experience indicate that something of "higher essence" is part of our existence - that we are partly made of something more than dust...Science may never understand why we come to tears when we listen to an old favorite song, why we laugh, why we may love someone so much that we may give our life to save theirs. Understanding how the human brain works will not answer the big question "why it works that way."
• [To me, the following biblical passage inspires belief in God:] Genesis 2:5,6,7 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. 6. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 7. And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
• Lets make a distinction here between God and a creator. There is an entity referred to in the Bible as God. This is simply a fictitious character to whom all things great and wonderful are ascribed. This God in the Bible can walk on water and part seas. This fable God never did anything except fire up the imaginations of gullible people. While there is, in my opinion, a creator, this does, in no way, resemble the man made fairy tale in the Bible.
• God is real because He is and always has been! That's hard for us to comprehend in our limited minds, but He is real and made everything, including us! The only way to overcome that is to choose to believe that God is God and that He loves us and sent His son, Jesus, to come and die on a cross a long time ago to take away the bad things we as humans chose (our sin)! If we accept Jesus and believe in Him we can be right with God and He can help us be good. Someday when our bodies die we get to be in perfect heaven with Him!
• Everywhere you look you see God's handiwork. God created everything in the universe. Man is not his own god. Nor does he actually control things that are beyond his own comprehension. Real isn't just want you see it's also what you know. Even common sense tells you that something or someone created the universe with a grand design. You cannot prove feelings exist because feelings are not tangible. Feelings come from the human soul. Unlike your body, your soul is hidden from view, but it is just as real. It is the effects of God we see as real. Everything that has life in it comes from a life giving God. Can you create a human being from the dirt of the ground and breathe life into it and call it a living soul? You are the greatest proof that God exists. Study the human body and then come and tell me that it all just "happened" in the most perfect and complicated way without intelligent design.
• Considering the sheer size of our universe, we represent within it a smaller factor than what would be to the Earth, a specific patch of Spanish moss under the bark of a given Sequoia just northeast of Bodega Bay, California. It would be extremely anthropocentric to imagine the human race, or even the planet Earth is somehow significant to a grand purpose of the universe, let alone to assign relevance to each of the six-billion-plus individuals that reside here. Richard Dawkins (father of the meme) borrowed the term "Tooth Fairy Agnostic" or "Teapot Agnostic" (from Bertrand Russel's Teapot thought experiment) to better recognize those of us who cannot rule out the Christian god, but comprehend the severe improbability of His existence.
• I think God is real because [many of those who, in dire times, call to God for aid, receive it. Cancers go into remission. Lost children are found. Natural disasters are survived.] When I was bitten by a dog I called to God [and escaped peril]. When I have nightmares [God comforts me.] This why I believe God watches over us all.
• Why do people believe that God is real? Loneliness, a need to make sense out of what we cannot explain or understand, and a fear of death, I personally believe that the idea of God was created by powerful people to keep people under control and obedient, to strike fear into them to establish order and social control.
• People need to believe in something, or we go crazy from the horrors of modern life. But he doesn't exist, at least not as a conscious entity that controls the cosmos.
• All big philosophical questions cannot be answered via science, in the context of physical laws affecting matter. Great philosophers have tried to answer them but with no success. There are many logical arguments in favor of the existence of God (e.g. the teleological argument, the First Cause argument etc - see other related questions in WikiAnswers for arguments for/against God's existence), as well as against the existence of God. The bottom line is that we cannot prove or disprove God only with the scientific tools we have today. That is why a leap of faith is finally required to believe in the existence of God, or to believe in the non-existence of God.
• It amazes me the degree to which some of us extrapolate recklessly from a given indication that God exists. Sophisticated eye? Yahweh. Finely tuned universe? Yahweh. The standard model requires a theoretical boson that remains undetected? Yahweh. [We should] apply the principle of Occam's Razor: if there was a watchmaker, if we are designed by intelligence, would it not make more sense that the designer was a natural thing, rather than supernatural? If we were engineered, would it not be more prudent to seek out our engineer within the universe we live than without? We are far more likely to have been designed by three-legged invertebrate alien vampires who traverse space-time in spinning flying saucers than an omnipotent being that exists beyond the eleventh dimension. And this is still on the dubious presumption that we were designed at all.
• The world is so amazing and complex that people tend to assume a mastermind, or masterminds, must have designed it. People then figure that maybe, if they ask God, or the gods for help or favors, their [petitions might be heard and acknowledged].
• The need to search for and to be like God is embedded in each super-conscious mind along with the plan for completing that goal. [The super-conscious being a hypothetical spiritual counterpart to the conscious, unconscious and subconscious components of the psychological model of the mind. It is potentially the cradle of the collective conscious.] This drive is in everyone, though some may only just be able to sense it while to others it is an irresistible compulsion. Those in this latter group are typically not satisfied by provincial religious or academic teachings and have to venture abroad to discover their own epiphany. For me, I knew there was more [than what was readily apparent in my original walks], and I was driven to seek out and learn my truth.
• This question is actually two questions.

Whether such a 'divine creator' exists cannot be proved or disproved via hard scientific evidence. Scientists axiomatically believe that the world consists of particles and physical laws governing their behaviour. Taking that for a starting point, it is logical that no hard evidence can be found for the existence of anything spiritual in the cosmos. Any indications (like the ones mentioned above: First Cause, Teleology) are more a matter of philosophical debate rather than something LHC will answer.

Q2: Why do humans believe in [a given] God (In this case, specifically Jesus or Yahweh?)

A: The most common reason people believe in the Biblical god is because they were dictated Him in their childhood. As Homo Sapiens is extremely adaptable to clime and circumstance, one of the mechanisms that improves our survival is the open-architecture nature of our minds. We are born with very few instincts, and hence must be taught much by our nurturers (usually, our parents) about how to survive in the specific environment in which we live. Much of Christian dogma is framed in the context of survival: those who toe the line of the Christian faith gain immortality and salvation, where those who do not face the eternal wrath of a vengeful deity. So hereditary religious faith can be explained as a side effect of one of our principal survival mechanisms: our inclination to learn non-critically when we are children. (But note the afterthought, below.)

Humans are also inclined to stay faithful to the religion of their upbringing. In psychology, this is due to a psychological phenomenon called attitude polarization; once humans establish for themselves a specific belief, they seek out and strongly regard new data that confirms this belief, and avoid and disregard new data that is contrary to it. We actually get a mild endorphin rush from hearing someone agree with us, or express an opinion that supports what we already believe. We can see the consequences of this in the wedge partisanship that has run rampant in US politics throughout the Bush administration.

There's a Jesuit saying (either from St. Ignatius of Loyola or St. Francis Xavier) "Give me a child for for his first seven years and I'll give you the man." It usually takes a significant amount of effort and thought or an identity crisis (such as one's sexual orientation being condemned by one's ministry, or a personal betrayal that is not acknowledged by the religious community) to propel a human to change their hereditary belief system at a root level. This is why missionary efforts even to this day seek out children, the downtrodden and the desperate to mine for new converts.

• [Asking why humans believe in God is] like asking, how do we breath? God is as real as you can fell the wind in your face. God can be felt; He is spirit. If you try to find explanations, good luck to you. But the ones that believe, do so by faith and not by what we see. [Faith is, in my opinion, a stronger foundation of belief than the observation of natural events.]
• I think believers are pressured by society, their surrounding family and community into recognizing a provincial faith. Also, the promise of Heaven, a pleasurable afterlife, brings home and comfort to those whose lives are rife with misery and suffering. Why have humans always believed in gods, be they patrons of volcanoes, the sea, the sun or indeed the redeemer that is the Christ. Undoubtedly, Yahweh, Jesus, Allah and the prophet Muhammad will, in the passage of time, go by the same way as Minerva, Bilquis and Nabu in favor of newer deities.
• [Biblical passages that inspire me to believe in the biblical god include:] Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be FRUITFUL, and MULTIPLY, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. # 1. And God said unto them, Be FRUITFUL, and MULTIPLY, YES OR NO. Genesis 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. # 2. For in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. did we obey God commanded YES OR NO Leviticus 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. # 3.For the life of the flesh is in the blood YES OR NO YOUR SOUL WILL NEVER DIE (WHY ARE THEY tormented day and night for ever and ever. Revelation 20:10.. And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. IT SHOW YOU THAT YOUR SOUL DON"T DIE BECAUSE YOU WAS MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD who will never die YES OR NO Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
• Because it is obvious [to me] that there is a Creator. There is no excuse not to believe: "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse" Romans 1:20 (KJV) Don't miss the last part of the verse... so that they are without excuse. Biblically, there is no such thing as an atheist. In the early stages of a child's life, they recognize that there must be a God, a Divine Creator. It is public school brainwashing, with the lies of Evolution, that blind children to the truth. Children must be taught Evolution or they would never believe such nonsense. A child who sees, hears, feels, touches, and tastes God's creation doesn't need to be taught that there's a Divine Creator. It is obvious knowledge! Evolution must be taught, because nothing in nature supports it's claims, i.e., it doesn't come natural."The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen. He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God." Psalms 98:2-3 (KJV) "For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men" Titus 2:11-12 (KJV) You don't have to teach a kid that God exists.
• * Because [as I see it,] he is. * I am a creation; creations require an origin (a creator). Thus, I accept the existence of a creator. A=B B=C then C=A.
• It's all made up! I am surprised at how many people think they know everything about their god except where they started from... Ancient Africans, who had many gods. As people got smarter they didn't believe the old gods so then changed their gods to be more believable. Every religion today has been copied from all the ones before it. It's all fake. You can only believe in a god if you have faith...believe in something that's not really there. Grow up already. We are all animals. We eat sleep and have sex, we just evolved with a bigger brain to bring stupid thinking into the mix.
• YES, GOD IS VERY REAL! He is visible, tho you can't see Him...you can feel Him....tho you cant touch Him. You can hear Him, smell Him, taste Him tho He has no physical attribute. I garuntee that if you search for Him, you will find Him. How? you ask....You get to know people by talking to them. If you start talking to Him and looking for Him (in your bible) you WILL find out for yourself if He is real or a hoax. Don't take my word for it. Try it.
• Gods are real to those who believe in them. Anyone who tells you that Gods are real, believes in them. Anyone who tells you that they aren't, doesn't. It's simply a matter of faith. Of course, those who tell you gods are real will offer their proofs, and those who tell you they aren't will offer their proofs...but whether or not you accept those "proofs" is, as I said, a matter of faith. In the end, it's a question you will need to answer for yourself.
• God is real to those who believe in him. No one really knows for sure, but they find out when they die. If someone does not believe in God then its ok. You might be right and you might be wrong.
• I think that if you believe in God, then it is what you believe but some people you meet throughout your life might not believe in the same things that you do. When we die, we would always like to come back and tell everyone what it is like, but we can't because it is physically impossible. There is no one that will be able to answer this question positively because nobody will know and be able to tell people because when we do find out, it will be physically impossible to come back and cure people's wonders.
• Well, everything depends on your personal belief. If you believe in god, than god do exist, if you are a kind of person who doesn't believe in God, than God doesn't exist. But no one ever saw God before, so we don't know. Some people believe in God by fate.
• If you are someone who believes in some religion than God exists for you but if you are someone who is non believer of religion then God doesn't exist for you.
• There is no shred of evidence that there are or have ever been any real gods. However for many it is very comforting to think there is/are.
• It's a big question. It needs a big answer.

Thomas Jefferson said that ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them. What he meant was that you can't discuss an idea until you have thoroughly defined it. The problem with the question, "Are gods real?" is that no one has really settled on the definition of "gods". Sometimes people are referring to the fictional characters of ancient Greek myths. Sometimes they mean Yahweh, the god described in the holy writ of the Jews, Christians, Muslims, Rastafarians, and a few others. Sometimes they mean a sort of non-descript benevolence in the universe.
Without first deciding what you're talking about, this kind of question is unanswerable. Unfortunately, the more you try to decide what you mean by "god", the more slippery the concept becomes. For example, say that by "god" you mean the aforementioned Yahweh. What does it mean to ask whether Yahweh is real? Does it mean "Is Yahweh a truly supernatural being who can suspend the laws of nature as we know them?" Or does it mean "Is Yahweh a perfectly natural product of the universe who just happens to have excellent technology, and perhaps a brain structure that makes him naturally far more powerful than we?" These two questions in particular show another problem: there is no way that humans could distinguish between a supernatural being and a very powerful natural being, which again means that the question is ultimately unanswerable. We could meet Yahweh in person, and allowing that he (it? Who says that our intuitive notions of male and female would apply to a supernatural god or an extraterrestrial?) is powerful enough to alter reality (or just alter our minds to perceive reality differently), we could never know whether he is a god or not, and therefore his existence and presence even before our very eyes could not be used as a basis for answering your original question.

Even if we could nail down the question as, "Is Yahweh, as precisely identified in the bible, real?" we still have a lot of work ahead of us. Do we mean, "Is Yahweh real in a scientifically testable way?" Or do we mean, "Is Yahweh real in a way that we could not test but could still affirm to be true?" Most people would mean at least one of these two questions.

Science has historically proceeded by consensus among people all using the same publicly available knowledge and mostly the same set of intellectual tools for determining truth. Most scientists and laypersons who subscribe to the scientific method consider the possible evidence for Yahweh to be sketchy at the very best, and conclude that there is no compelling reason to believe that Yahweh is real in any meaningful sense.
Also, many people who examine Yahweh closely via the bible find him to be quite the immoral character, especially in the old testament (the near-extermination of all life on Earth in the Great Flood, the near-sacrifice and permanent psychological scarring of Abraham's son Isaac, etc.), and conclude that the bible's claims that Yahweh is loving and merciful prove conclusively that Yahweh cannot exist, simply because his description in the bible is grossly self-contradictory.

If we go with the non-scientific form of the question and just ask whether Yahweh could indeed exist in a way that makes no sense to us whatsoever, then we must admit that the answer cannot take a form that would be of any practical use to us in day-to-day life (one may object that there are spiritual and/or moral implications in the answer, but those points are subject to vigorous debate, so they cannot be discussed usefully here). If a person asks you, "Is it safe to sit in that chair?" then a yes or no answer would be very pragmatically useful. The person asking could make practical decisions based on your answer. But if a person asks you, "Is Yahweh real in a way that can't be fully comprehended by human understanding?" the answer is irrelevant to any practical decision that could be made. Note that some might say that the answer could help one to decide whether to pray or not, and that would be practical. But the practicality itself of prayer is open to debate; it is not useful to use prayer as an example of practical behavior.

The only other practical benefit of the answer to this question is whether one's relationship with Yahweh determines one's eternal fate. One's eternal fate is definitely not a question of day-to-day existence, but it of course is a very important question, perhaps the most important that any human will ever ask. Therein lies both the use and the meaning of the question, "Is Yahweh, as described in the bible, real?" The real meaning of the question is, "Might I suffer even after my natural death, and if so, is there a way to avoid the suffering?"

It is obvious that this question cannot be answered scientifically, and therefore must rely on the type of mental representation known as "faith". Here I'll refer to it as faith-knowledge, to distinguish it from other aspects of faith, such as the trust aspect, as in, "I have faith that you will honor your promises to me." Faith-knowledge is a tricky concept. Some religious believers think of faith-knowledge as a body of proposals that is described in their religious doctrine. Others think of faith-knowledge as something infinitely more fluid than any particular religious doctrine. The only reasonable conclusion that one can make about faith-knowledge is that there is simply no way for any human to claim that his own faith-knowledge is more valid, more true than anyone else's faith-knowledge, even when the faith-knowledge of two persons is completely contradictory. Therefore, faith-knowledge must be a wholly individual kind of knowledge based on childhood indoctrination, personal inclinations, or even conscious choice, therefore entirely subjective.

Therefore, the answer to the question, "Are gods real?" depends on whether you mean per human reason or per faith-knowledge.

Per human reason, the answer is that we don't know, and any facts that might suggest an answer are in principle unusable, as we have no way of distinguishing between a supernatural being and a very advanced natural being. In the scientific, humanistic sense, there is no way to arrive at a meaningful answer in the affirmative. Therefore, "no", or at least "probably not", seems to be the safest bet.

Per faith, the answer is that you must decide for yourself.

• umm,i pray but i do belive god,god creates this world,if it was not for him we would not be alive.
• Yes, to the people who believe like me. But if you do not it is ok because when we die we will either go to heaven or hades. who knows what is really up ( or down) there. Just worship and pray to who you believe.
• As a Christian, the One True God Exists, all the others are false or made by human hands. Refer to the Bible, the Word of God.
• It is according to how you see god.Some thinks that god is some one leaving up in the sky and stuff like that.But according to me the person who created us are god.And who created us???That is the question.Some might say it is our parents and some might say it is the God.So make up your mind and see in your angle.No one has seen God at the same time no one have 'have not' seen God.Thus there is no concrete decision for this.
• All gods were made up by people, copied, changed, rearranged to suit the people of the times. All religions and their books state all the others before it are false and their god is the real one, when all are made up. Gov. and religions were made up to control us animals. Remember we are all animals, we just evolved with a bigger brain to bring stupid thinking to the mix. You want to get an idea how all religions acted. Check out the Muslims of today over in Islam, they are still a few cultures behind and still kill people in the name of their god, which all religions did and some still do.
• From an 11 year old perspective: Why must you need proof ? Okay, here's your proof, you Don't need proof to believe in him. must always Believe in him not with your mind,but with your heart.Just think....How would Earth be made without God ? It wouldn't. God is the answer to all your problems. Pray to him asking him to save you...Or give you a sign that he is real.He will do it.He is not only my god, but yours as well. PLEASE just believe because you will go to hell and burn forevermore.And you know that has to hurt and in heaven I believe that when people use the term,"It's like Heaven!" It means Glorious.
• The one true God is "I AM" he is written in the Bible, Torah and Koran. He is known by many names: the four Hebrew letter's that spell the name as He identified himself to Moses, in English, are "YHWH" or"I AM"
• He is the same True God in all three of the Holy books. The one true God is the creator of all that is seen and unseen. The Pope, The Rabbi, as well as the Iman (pronounced e-mom) all know him as one and the same.

Christians and Hebrews Know Him as a loving and protecting God "I AM", one that loves all people. A God that hates sin but loves sinners, as all of the flesh are sinners that have fallen.

Muslims know him as stern and strict God (Allah) who presents the proper path that all should follow in life,
Christians (through the Bible) know that he sent his son "Jesus" down from Heaven to forgive us all of our sins according to the holy scriptures.

Jewish, (Hebrew) (through the Torah) Believe that the son of God is coming still.
Muslims (Islam) (through the Koran/Quran) Believe that Mohamed is one of the 124,000 Prophet's of God.

All three books start from the same "I AM" then they veer off. But, only one can be correct.

I would suggest you read or listen to the Bible, Torah or Koran in your language in order to learn for yourself who is the one true God.

• Each faith has its own tenets, and different divisions of each faith have beliefs that may differ. Individuals who are raised under any religion will naturally adopt many of the beliefs of that religion. Even so, they may have personal feelings that can change the way they act within their faith.
• I am a Muslim a true one.

I believe Allah is the real god.
I have proof because when I need help, I pray to Allah
He always helps me, and if i lose something, he always helps me to find it.

• Any god in which you believe is the real god.
• All gods were made up by people, copied, changed, rearranged to suit the people of the times. All religions and their books state all the others before it are false and their god is the real one, when all are made up. Gov. and relions were made up to control us animals. Remember we are all animals, we just evolved with a bigger brain to bring stupid thinking to the mix. You want to get an idea how all religions acted. Check out the muslums of today over in islam, they are still a few cultures behind and still kill people in the name of their god, which all religions did and some still do. There is no proof any god was real. Faith is what you have to go by (believe in something you don't see).
• Foreword: "god does not refer to the deity of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, Jainism etc.

There are numerous claimed proofs for god as it has been a central question to theologians and philosophers for centuries, thou through careful scrutiny all of them have flaws. but that is not to say that god does not exist and neither is it to say that he does, but until a proof that is flawless appears (if there is one) humanity is likely to remain divided on this issue.

Below is a list of some proofs of god with limitations and successes of each individual argument.

Cosmological argument of Thomas Aquinas (latter made a saint)

p1 Ever thing that exists has a cause

p2 Nothing that exists can cause itself

p3 A causal chain cannot be of infinite length

SC Hence there must of been a first uncaused cause

C The uncaused cause is god

Strengths

p2 - is supported by Aristotle's dissuasion of the four causes

p3 - based on a key mathematical principle

Problems

1.Fallacy of consumption ie;

All parts of O is P

Thus O is P

Analogy - Every human has a mother, therefore the human race has a mother.

2. Hume`s attack on this argument concentrates on the leap in logic between SC and C,

He argues that god is not the only necessary being and that the universe itself may be the necessary being (backed up by the physics theory of interest, where the universe originates from "nothing").

Rebuttal - Others argue that despite there being other causes god is the best explanation.

3. Its is meaningless to talk about causation outside of Space-time

Design Argument

p1 the world around us resembles the artefacts of human creation in that they both display complexity and purpose.

p2 the complexity and purpose of human artefacts comes from having design and being made by intelligent beings (us)

p3 What is true of manmade objects is also true for nature

C Therefore the complexity and purpose in the world come from being designed and by being made by an intelligent being (ie god)

Success

p1 On observation the human eye and the camera show significant similarities

p2 Again on observation, objects seam to gain complexity through design

Problems

1.The analogy is fallacious; as the world is considered dissimilar by some to manmade objects. Hume uses the analogy of a house and the universe.

2. Complexity can come from other sources, such as evolution ie life evolving from simple single celled creatures to complex multi-cellular creatures.

3. All like effects do not have like causes;

ie in the case of diabetes - can be caused by bad diet or genetic inheritance

For example the syllogism below is false:

p1 Sue is diabetic

p2 People are diabetic due to poor diet

C Sue has a bad diet

So we can see that like effects do not have like causes

4. Fallacy of consumption

Draws conclusions about a whole thing by only examining part of it.

Note: just because these common arguments have flaws does not disprove god it only disproves god argued from the stated arguments, there are nuerous reformulations that sovle some problems and and unknown amount of arguments undiscovered. Similarly arguments for the non existence of god have serious flaws too. And until a argument that has no such flaws is created then there is no defintive proof of gods existence or non existence only faith.

There is no proof of god.

We can't say that there is no God just because there is no scientific evidence.

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There is no proof that any deity exists. There is only the written and oral mythology that makes claims of their existence. As society became more educated and advanced, some people were unable to accept such primitive beliefs.

Just as the vast majority of people no longer believe in the gods and goddesses of Greek mythology (who supposedly did so much for mankind), the same is happening for the mainstream religions. People are seeing them for what they are: mythological stories mixed with historical facts.

So as Zeus' great speeches from Mount Olympus have fallen into the realms of Fairytales, so follows the Sermon of Jesus on the Mount of Olives. All mythology holds some basic facts,but none can provide proof of such deities.

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Just because God is not a physical entity that can be seen and measured does not preclude his existence on a spiritual level. It is faith, which needs no proof. We cannot see what we call thought, or mind, or imagination, and yet we accept that they exist.

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However, the physical changes associated with thought, the mind, and imagination can be studied, measured and examined. The effects of a deity have yet to be discovered in any physical form.

This does not mean that a deity doesn't exist - it simply means that there is no evidence to form a scientific basis either way.

well allot I've been a believer since day one and when you pray for something good to happened it mostly happens so never stop believing in our god he is more than $44444444482292695555555555555555548675847586 all the money in the world believe in god and hell save you a spot in his beautiful Paradise i promise i love god

• No.
• God is fake, made up by people. I am surprised religious people fail to see how it all started, by people, made up to control people. End of story. There is no hell and there is no heaven when you die you get buried, maggots will consume you and you will not be going to any good or bad place, you're dead.