Before I say anything, I must make sure you realize I have only read the first post of this thread. Sorry if I say something already in here.

Now, to my answer:

I, personally, think that some people just need some consolation. Most people only believe out of fear of eternal damnation in case they DO stop believing in God.

All logic points to God not existing. However, faith and logic never intertwine. I, personally, believe in God. Not to the extent that I would go and preach it to people and try to be a converter (I hate people who throw their religion into other peoples' faces), but I just think he exists.

Logic was spawned from humans, not from an almighty being. For all we know, two plus two could equal "fish" to God. It's our logic, which means that we might be using our minds the wrong way when we point to why there couldn't be a God.

Think about it. God gave us the power of free will. He knew this would lead to non-believers due to the human train of thought and logic. Not his logic.

This isn't to say that people who don't believe in God don't make good points.

For example.

If God is all-knowing, but at the same time, we have free will, wouldn't he know what we were going to do? This means that he sends people into a life of damnation knowingly.

But maybe that theory is wrong.

And another controversial topic is sins.

We don't know what the real sins are. The people who rewrote the Bible took out everything they thought of as blasphemy. This means that they also added things. No one has actually seen all of the true Bible (although they DO know it stated that Jesus had human urges--this was considered blasphemy by the church).

God is something that no one can prove exists or doesn't exist. It's something we have to decide individually.

Why should anyone believe in God?

If nothing else...

For hope.

Without a God, there would be no afterlife. Just nothingness. No conscious thought, no memories, no dreams...Just nothingness.

Is that really something that you want for the afterlife? Granted, it is better than eternal torture in Hell...But I'd rather have a chance at a peaceful afterlife among the angels than to have nothing but an eternity of nothingness.






Another religious debate from your resident Mudkitten (seriously...I'm the only one under twenty here!).