Whoa, Quiche, so what is it with all these threads about God? Well, it's certainly a topic with endless opinions because that's what it boils down to: opinion. If it could be proven that God existed, it wouldn't even be an issue, simply a fact.

I believe in God.

Why?-maybe my strongest reason is that I really really want to belive in God. I would like to believe I have an eternal soul..that I won't just die after a few years (or right this minute) and that'll be the end of Freddie...that's it, game over. Or maybe it's still fear of the wrath of God that I grew up knowing there's a great force which created me and can snatch my life away just as easily.

Ironically, all these reasons are also my strongest toward not believing in a God.

But there are still a lot of unexplained phenomena that I would attribute to miracles of a higher power..a higher force that exists everywhere and I believe in the power of prayer.

I think it boils down to giving a name to those gut feelings you have, the Karma, higher powers...if you label all that "God", then most people will say it exists..but when you get more specific about "God" being a certain man in our likeness, or the Holy Trinity, there's where there are divisions.

Freddie

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