Why do you believe in God?

Truth

@zawisza I have a message from "god" :

You're wrong.

Norwegian Mugabe

@Truth I can see your point of view. I think there is a big difference between believing as a coping mechanism, and the people who starts to believe in God cause they want to seek something higher. Almost all the best men in history has been chrisitians. The heroic worldview of CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien could certainly enrich people's life. Yet, I can see that going to your local lesbian mass might provide neither answers nor strength.

As far as just focusing on energy metabolism, I do not see any point in this outside of God's plan. People have a various need for answers to the ultimate questions. Many do not want to simply be a cog in the machine without some base understanding and a greater purpose at hand. So there are reasons for wanting to believe in God, and there are great arguments for God's existence as we have provided earlier in the thread. Therefore, we should believe in God.

Truth

@Norwegian-Mugabe That's why I asked you these questions, to find out if the meaning you personally give to "god" was only a thing that would have caused the manifestation of the universe, or a being with intentions, which seems to be the second in your case

Norwegian Mugabe

@Truth Yes, I believe in the second one. It seems right to me. I am happy that you showed interest. It does not bother me that people ask question about my believes.

Truth

@Norwegian-Mugabe in my experience, i suggest Whether it's believing in God as "coping mechanism" or "seeking something higher", it can be the lesser evil in the short/medium term in a person's given environment and what they're exposed to that's useful,
In the long term, it's associated with a sub-optimal energetic state

I don't know if the majority of the "best" men in "history" were "Christian", it's possible that they achieved the best they could in their given environment, it is not a comparaison,

I'm talking about an optimal state that each of us could reach in my experience

As long as fear and submission(and potentially other negative emotions such as guilt and shame) are considered necessary and/or virtues in "god's plan", then achieving the highest degree of energy and potentially optimal Masculinity(in part sovereignty)is necessarily opposed to "god's plan"

The more humble and contrite a person is, the quicker they find God in ways that are only relevant for them. This requires humility and hunger.

Most importantly, I've experienced Several miracles
1.) A cyst fell off my nose in a worship service when I was a teen, with brand new skin underneath.
2.) I went to heaven in several dreams (I'm sure most people will doubt that was more than brain synapses).
3.) Several children in kids ministry in my church prayed for my friend's finger to grow back after he cut the end off while cooking; new meat and skin bubbled back right there under their eyes.
4.) My Pastor laid hands on a guy with white hair to pray for him, and his hair color returned, shaped as the hand print where the pastor's hand was (they were not praying for hair restoration).
5.) I've seen demons with my naked eye. I have never taken hallucinogens.

One of my friends was a former leader in a very perverse community, making a whole lot of money, that my friends converted with street ministry, via supernatural prophetic insight, telling him things that only he could know -- these stories are increasingly common.

Many friends have experienced the above in various ways -- especially seeing real demons in broad daylight with the naked eye.

I don't expect anyone who doesn't want to, to believe me. I now find arguments almost useless. Experience is the most dangerous threat to atheism -- encounter and exposure coming to a town near you

Truth

@BronzeAgePater Hi, how was your dream in "heaven"?

Why do you consider experiments a "dangerous threat" to atheism?

@Truth bro thanks for asking. It was like I was a child, exploring a sort of open world playground of nature, more beautiful than anything I was ever exposed to. Love was like a tactile life force, in a way that couldn't be described in human language. Editing to add all that I could about the feeling: it was such a powerful emotional experience, it's like a childhood version of marrying the love of your life and cuddling with your parents and taking a dopamine hit all the same time --it was the profoundest feeling of acceptance.

Sorry you misread me: "experience," not experiments. Experiencing a Divine encounter that cannot be reconciled with human knowledge is a sort of trump card. I knew an edgy Dawkins-atheist type, who became a believer, when a 12 foot demon manifested in his room one day.

Truth

@BronzeAgePater How did you reach this place in your dream, were you already there?

@Truth it was in a dream. I went to sleep, then went there.