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ArishMell · 70-79, M
No I don't pray to any god, but "the god": which god?
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@ArishMell The one true God. You have many gods in your life but there is One who Created you.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@hippyjoe1955 True if you are a Christian, Jew or Muslim, but those are not the only religions, all equally true to their own followers even if to no-one else.

The question did not specify any deity though, and referred to something called "the god". Not "God" with a capital G.
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@ArishMell You would have to understand what the word God means. It is not always a spiritual being that you can't see. It may well be your car or your job or your government. God simply is that keeps you safe and secure and not likely to jump off a bridge out of despair for lack of meaning in life.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@hippyjoe1955 Well, I'd not gone that far though, I did consider only spiritual gods, though I appreciate many people seem to "worship" things like material possessions. Evn though those won't necessarily keep them secure.
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@ArishMell Don't worry we all have gods. Some Gods are much better than others. I like the God that has Will and Reason and Presence. His name is Yahweh. It means I AM. I AM therefore I will bring something out of nothing and light out of dark and dry out of wet and life out of non-living. Not did He do it He did it in such a way as to confound even the most brilliant chemists and physicists and biologists. As has been noted by those who are honest about origin of life chemistry not only is it impossible now the more we know the more impossible it becomes. Take Darwin's mud puddle. One major set back is that the chemistry that could lead to life cannot function in water. In fact water destroys the reaction so.....
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@hippyjoe1955 I have no difficulty with the notion of being both a Christian and an astronomer, geologist, biologist or palaeontologist, but I am not a Creationist!

(One of Britain's leading astrophysicists, so likely knows internationally for his research work, is not only an active Christian. He is also a lay preacher. I did know but I am not sure if a Methodist or Baptist.)
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