Do you believe in God?

@Tumbleweed Yes! He also saved my daughter's life. I've got records to prove it. The doctors completely gave up on her and said she would be dead in a week and there was nothing more that could be done for her because her organs were already shutting down. Being a family of prayer, we did pray for her and got answered our prayers and saved her life. The doctors were absolutely amazed that she was instantly healed and she's still alive and even better today. God literally brought her back from sure death. It was nothing less than a miracle, just like your son. And I praise God for that and your testimony. God bless you, your son, and your family. God is still alive and in the miracle business! Nothing is impossible for Him.

@LadyGrace thank you so much 🫂

@Tumbleweed ❤🫂

@Confined
Per your request = Romans 9:13 https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Romans%209%3A13

63 versions say the same thing.

@Diotrephes doesn't say he still hates him. Rather that he has hated him

@calicuz If I did believe in God, I don't the Yahweh would be him/her. God would be far greater than the Bible.

@JimboSaturn

Yes, I believe the worst parts of the bible are the parts that are man made. Probably nothing more than the stories that the shamans used to tell the children around the fire in the evenings after dinner, and then exaggerated for a more adult liking.

@calicuz All of it then?

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@IM5688
So, you believe in ghosts, spirits, demons, angels, and zombies. When did you do your last animal sacrifice?

@Thodsis Well if you talk to them and wait for an answer it becomes very evident very soon.

@hippyjoe1955 Is this something that you have tried doing?

Which ones did you call and what were the answers?

@Thodsis I discovered that there was more to life than a bunch of random atoms bumping into each other and so began my spiritual quest. I tried Buddhism but that was empty so I tried Islam which was equally void. One day I was walking across a field on the family farm. I had been driving a tractor all day and now it was time to shut it down for the night. It was warm out and the sun was sinking to the horizon in the West. A gentle south breeze was keeping the mosquitoes at bay. I felt some mental discomfort over what I do not know but as I walked I felt an urge to do something I had never thought of before. I spotted a small white rock with pale green lichens growing on it peeking out of the native prairie wool. For some unknown reason I knelt by that rock and asked for forgiveness from God the Father and Jesus His Son. The words had barely cleared my lips before I felt an overwhelming 'lightening of my soul". I can not explain it and I can not describe it but in that minute I was shown that God the Father and God the Son truly existed. After a bit of communing with God I got to my feet and it felt like I had the feet of a deer. I ran all the way to the house where my wife and son were waiting for me. We started to go to church and a few years later I was sitting in the pew when the pastor walked out to deliver his sermon. He looked around at the congregation and threw his notes on the floor. He said he had planned on delivering a sermon but as he neared the lectern the LORD gave him a new sermon to preach. The sermon was a call for me to enter the ministry. Over the years I have witnessed many many miracles that confirm that Jesus is the Lord and I am His child. I was asked to teach a class and wound up teaching a class of Bible College professors for 19 weeks. During the course of those lectures everyone of the professors came up to me and said that they had learned something from what I had said. I preached a sermon one day and as my wife and I relaxed that afternoon a lady phoned me. She was in tears. She explained that something I had said was so prophetic to her that she could not stop crying tears of joy. I let her sob and laugh for awhile as I thought to myself, "I have no idea what I even said" Yes God the Father Jesus the Son and God the Spirit is very real and very much alive. You need to do what I did. Ask Him to forgive you.

@GLITTER Nature is fact, not a religion. Nature is real, tangible. The god thing isn't.

@jackieash I agree. But I do think there is something in spirits and personalities that is less tangible but definitely does exist. I’ve never been a believer in religion. I’m too cynical. I have to see something to believe it

@Ontheroad Jesus suffered horribly on the cross just so he could save us from the condemnation that sin brought to mankind. That sure doesn't sound like a demanding and vengeful God to me. He didn't have to do it, but he volunteered because he was thinking more about us than himself.

@ElwoodBlues Me too, if evidence of God is revealed, I will be perfectly happy to believe.

@Softandsweet2 I totally agree with religious leaders using it against others. It’s very sad.

@LireaSemaji It is sad - and it happens again and again. If it wasn’t that, it would be something else I guess.

@Bumbles I am simply pointing out that claiming ignorance is an evasion that is unbecoming of intelligent people.

@hippyjoe1955 Oh, well, in that case...

@Bumbles I just became aware that hippyjoe intervened in this thread.
You have my sympathy!

@nedkelly And Liberals. 🤦‍♂

@Musicman don’t make it political please. It’s exhausting.

@jackieash

If God ever was here I'm sure God has left us because of that.

@BlueSkyKing I believe in all those things. That's why I believe in God.

@Matt85 Carl Sagan said whenever possible, he’d rather know than believe. So what is the evidence? Preferably objective.