If you believe in God or a Creator what's your main reason for believing

If you believe because of scripture would you still believe if there was no scriptures. Or was it a personal experience. Or does it just make sense to you to believe in some higher power of some sort

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DocSavage · M

@SandWitch [quote] The inference you made of course, was that you're one who comprehends but few others do! 😆 [/quote]
Hardly. Axrobert it talking constructing atoms from scratch. Electrons, protons, neutrons.
Most people see gods as beings that simply will things into existence.
They also believe that gods have everything planned out in advance. Completely ignoring the billions of years the universe has been here.
God has a plan, and there are no surprises.
Creating atoms in itself would be a major task. Creating them for purposes that would not exist for millions of years, all without a blueprint seems highly unlikely.
I see a constructed universe as being far too complex for anything to do it deliberately. And of course, you got to wonder why would they do it.

DarkHeaven ·

@DocSavage so many assumptions in that, though. I totally respect your opinion but you are placing human constraints on a higher power. We don’t know that this entity even sees or feels time they way we do… or needs or wants to plan things the way we do. Lots of assumptions in your complications listed.

I however, try not to get so technical on all of that. My faith guides me and gives me comfort… and that’s enough for me.

DocSavage · M

@DarkHeaven
Assuming there is a higher power, why assume his behavior would be so different from our own.
A creationist I went up against, told me god was a spiritual being, who created the universe out of love. He gave us the ability to choose right and wrong. And watches over us.
If god is a superior being, who existed before creation, what could he know of love ? Prior to creation, he could have no experience of it, nor right or wrong. Love and morality are social concepts, he would need a population to exist before hand to understand either.
If god is a spiritual being, why create a physical universe, something completely alien and opposite his own nature ? Life forms reproduce after their own kind. Wouldn’t god do the same before going in the opposite direction ?
I just don’t see any reason behind an all powerful being going against basic desires and expectations. What kind of agenda would an omnipotent being have, that he couldn’t already have ?

DarkHeaven ·

@DocSavage no, I get it. I’m not a creationist, so I’m not arguing from there… and honestly, I also accept the fact that everything I believe could be shit. But it is plausible… and it’s gives me comfort. There are other spiritual things, that make me personally believe, but they are personal. Light and love. Be safe and be well. 🦋

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@DocSavage What's up with those hard questions? They will never give a logical answer to even the most simple question. They should just say "I believe in the fairytale even though I have never actually read it."

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