GUDI Mario
New Arrival
I believe in God, however my beliefs stray heavily from those of the standard Christian. I myself chose not to associate with any one religion as every religion has different beliefs and, in most cases, different Gods. As such, all the arguments and such that break out between them aren't something I wish to get involved with.
I'm in no way a Bible thumper. You won't see me throwing passages out left and right to justify and shoot things down. I'm a strict believer in equal rights, as such, I reject the idea of condemning homosexuality, people of different religions, people who question authority, and people who chose to act and think of their own will when such will follows a trail off the trail of any Bible provided it's not a harmful trail.
I believe in God not because I don't believe in the teachings of Science, but for a multitude of reasons common and uncommon to most religious people.
1 - It makes me feel at ease. I have an extremely rough life and not many people in it to help and/or comfort me when things get really bad. Having a God I can go to puts me at ease and gives me strength to keep going.
2 - I'm a science student and I see the one thing science has yet to set in stone. That is the afterlife. Science hasn't been able to confirm anything on where we go when we die. Lots of scientists insist we go nowhere when we die. We definitely go somewhere. I believe in the spirit and I believe it leaves the body when we die. And whether it roams the Earth, goes to Heaven or hell, or floats aimlessly in some dark endless void, it's all still something and somewhere. I believe it's Heaven we go.
3 - Laws residing over here and there. Just like we have police and then the government and the presidents and prime ministers to the kings and queens here, I believe there is a higher law that governs over the after life as well. That law is God.
4 - As a future scientist, I'm huge on biology which revolves around evolution as a center point. While I do believe in God, I'm not close minded enough to reject evolution and feel it ties in along the way. Due to such, I feel like God got the "ball rolling" as we say. The big bang and the evolution is, in my mind, things set in motion by God. It allows me to hold my faith in God strongly and yet keep in tact my passion for the sciences.
5 - Conflicts, contradictions and messes are popular within religions. I believe in no such contradictions present in God. I believe in the common belief that God is both loving and all powerful and knowing. As such, I believe he knows what will happen before it does happen. From this, I refuse to believe he hates certain groups of people since, due to the fact he created people and such, I feel it is impossible to hold the loving title and yet make people with the traits you hate just so you can send them to Hell. This is the base argument behind why I believe in equal rights alongside God.
I feel we can't be close minded. We want proof for some things and we take other things we can't prove seriously and yet we can never find a way to meet somewhere in the center. Faith itself is to believe in what we can't see with the naked eye, and let's be honest, have we physically watched fish evolve in process to humans in one way or another? If humans have fish related cells and stuff does this mean we can also evolve backwards? We say we have proof of evolution and yet we've never witnessed it first hand through species. Does this, to an extent, mean that believing in evolution requires the same level of faith as believing in God? We've yet to actually see either with our eyes and can only go off of scientific, archeological and spiritual evidence of varying accuracies.
I'm in no way a Bible thumper. You won't see me throwing passages out left and right to justify and shoot things down. I'm a strict believer in equal rights, as such, I reject the idea of condemning homosexuality, people of different religions, people who question authority, and people who chose to act and think of their own will when such will follows a trail off the trail of any Bible provided it's not a harmful trail.
I believe in God not because I don't believe in the teachings of Science, but for a multitude of reasons common and uncommon to most religious people.
1 - It makes me feel at ease. I have an extremely rough life and not many people in it to help and/or comfort me when things get really bad. Having a God I can go to puts me at ease and gives me strength to keep going.
2 - I'm a science student and I see the one thing science has yet to set in stone. That is the afterlife. Science hasn't been able to confirm anything on where we go when we die. Lots of scientists insist we go nowhere when we die. We definitely go somewhere. I believe in the spirit and I believe it leaves the body when we die. And whether it roams the Earth, goes to Heaven or hell, or floats aimlessly in some dark endless void, it's all still something and somewhere. I believe it's Heaven we go.
3 - Laws residing over here and there. Just like we have police and then the government and the presidents and prime ministers to the kings and queens here, I believe there is a higher law that governs over the after life as well. That law is God.
4 - As a future scientist, I'm huge on biology which revolves around evolution as a center point. While I do believe in God, I'm not close minded enough to reject evolution and feel it ties in along the way. Due to such, I feel like God got the "ball rolling" as we say. The big bang and the evolution is, in my mind, things set in motion by God. It allows me to hold my faith in God strongly and yet keep in tact my passion for the sciences.
5 - Conflicts, contradictions and messes are popular within religions. I believe in no such contradictions present in God. I believe in the common belief that God is both loving and all powerful and knowing. As such, I believe he knows what will happen before it does happen. From this, I refuse to believe he hates certain groups of people since, due to the fact he created people and such, I feel it is impossible to hold the loving title and yet make people with the traits you hate just so you can send them to Hell. This is the base argument behind why I believe in equal rights alongside God.
I feel we can't be close minded. We want proof for some things and we take other things we can't prove seriously and yet we can never find a way to meet somewhere in the center. Faith itself is to believe in what we can't see with the naked eye, and let's be honest, have we physically watched fish evolve in process to humans in one way or another? If humans have fish related cells and stuff does this mean we can also evolve backwards? We say we have proof of evolution and yet we've never witnessed it first hand through species. Does this, to an extent, mean that believing in evolution requires the same level of faith as believing in God? We've yet to actually see either with our eyes and can only go off of scientific, archeological and spiritual evidence of varying accuracies.
