Does God exist?

"who is God? where is God?"
 
The answers to those two questions depend upon what religious faith you accept as valid -- and there are many to choose from!

   IMHO

   1. God created/caused our spirits (entities) along with the universe to come into being. God established the purpose for it all but doesn't involve Its self in the continuance or activities of same.

   2. "Sin" is man's concept and is utilized by men to control other men. The human caused "negative events" that take place are circumstances that are considered by us in the non-life experience between incarnations as we evaluate the successes and failures we made as we attempted to achieve our goals during our incarnations.

   3. The Bible (and similar religious books) is a necessary concoction created by man to control man and his environment. It was necessary because mankind, in its infancy, did not have the medical and technological knowledge to conquer and understand its environment so had to be controlled by superstitions which were found to save lives and further the survivability of the various human societies.

   
   Why did God make the world?
   

   IMHO, God diversified Itself into Its many parts and charged those parts (entities) to go forth and acquire knowledge and experience and to then return to the Oneness of God.

   The entities caused the creation of the universe and everything therein and individually choose to inhabit the physical bodies.

   The entities may incarnate/reincarnate many times before gravitating back into the Oneness of God.
   

   SPECULATIONS

   
   Speculation: 1 Is God necessary?

   Yes!

   There has to be a Source from which the "big bang" sprang forth Creating the universe.

   
   Speculation: 2 What is God?

   God is the ultimate Cause.

   God is the Creative Entity, Energy or Force from which all is derived.

   
   Speculation: 3 Where is God?

   God is in a state of awareness that is outside the universe.

   God has morphed part of Itself into those entities (spirits) that inhabit the universe and the physical bodies within.

   
   Speculation: 4 Why is God?

   God Is because God Is.

   God is eternal, existing independent of time or the universe.

   
   Speculation: 5 Is God concerned?

   No!

   God is not concerned with the daily functioning of the universe or matters within it. That is our domain and subject to our whim.

   
   Speculation: 6 What are we?

   We are the spirits (entities) of God.

   God morphed into Us and we continue to create according to God's purpose.

   Our physical bodies are simply the means we use to experience and function in the physical dimension.

   
   Speculation: 7 Why are we?

   We are for the purpose of gaining knowledge and experience.

   In the end, we gravitate back into the Oneness of God allowing for the fulfillment of God.

   
   Speculation: 8 Evolution

   Evolution is simply a tool of Creation.

   The entities often influence the direction of evolution along desired paths.

   
   From my chosen path i stray,
   Yet my God ne'er turns away;
   For i have learned -- and understand,
   That where God is -- is where i am!

I have found no rational reason to think such a thing exists.

WHY SOME MEN BELIEVE IN GODScientist-inventor Thomas Edison, when asked his view about whether there is a God, replied: “After years of watching the processes of nature, I cannot doubt the existence of a Supreme Intelligence. The existence of such a God can, to my mind, almost be proved from chemistry.”Theologian Thomas Aquinas gave reason for belief in the existence of God with a premise common both to the theist and to the atheist, the fact that “some things are in motion.” ‘Motion implies an unmoved Mover; similarly, there must be an uncaused First Cause that possesses in itself the reason for its existence; the existence of creatures whose nonexistence is possible implies the existence of a necessary Creator; the scale of perfections evident in the universe implies the existence of an absolute standard, a perfect Being.’Scientist Sir Isaac Newton had this to say about nature and God: “Whence is it that nature does nothing in vain; and whence arises all that order and beauty which we see in the world? . . . How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art and for what ends were their several parts? Was the eye contrived without skill in optics, or the ear without knowledge of sounds? . . . And these things being rightly despatched, does it not appear from phenomena that there is a being incorporeal, living, intelligent?”Mathematician and chemist John Cleveland Cothran says: “Lord Kelvin, one of the world’s greatest physicists, has made the following significant statement: ‘If you think strongly enough, you will be forced by science to believe in God.’ I must declare myself in full agreement with this statement.” Cothran further states: “The material realm not being able to create itself and its governing laws, the act of creation must have been performed by some nonmaterial agent. . . . Hence our logical and inescapable conclusion is not only that creation occurred but that it was brought about according to the plan and will of a Person endowed with supreme intelligence and knowledge (omniscience), and the power to bring it about and keep it running according to plan (omnipotence). That is to say, we accept unhesitatingly the fact of the existence of ‘the supreme spiritual Being, God, the Creator and Director of the universe,’ mentioned in the beginning. . . . The advances that have occurred in science since Lord Kelvin’s day would enable him to state more emphatically than ever: ‘If you think strongly enough, you will be forced by science to believe in God.’”The existence of radioactive elements establishes a beginning to earth’s creation. The fact that such radioactive elements, which disintegrate over a period of time, are still in existence is incontrovertible evidence that the earth has not always existed, that it did have a beginning. And since no material thing can create itself, and since not even the wisest scientist will argue that the universe created itself out of nothing, all of this points to but one thing—God.Consider the magnificent universe in which we live. Consider our earth and the great variety and complexity of living organisms on it. Could chance or any known natural laws have built them up from inorganic matter? According to Bryant, Lecomte du Nouy, the first scientist to apply mathematical formulae successfully to the statement of biological laws, shows that “the laws of inorganic evolution contradict those of the evolution of life. He gives mathematical formulae to show that inorganic matter acting in accordance with its laws could not have created even a single molecule of protein—let alone a living organism with powers of reproduction. He maintains that only through the intervention of God could the gap have been bridged between the inorganic and the organic.”Not only does science give one reason to believe in God, but it causes one to see the need for a revelation from God about himself. The Bible fills that need. Chemist Roger J. Voskuyl says: “As a scientist, it is more reasonable for me to believe in a Creator than in an eternally existing cosmos. . . . One cannot rightly know God from the natural world alone. The scientist may work for an eternity, but he will never come to know God and all His attributes. . . . Man is but a creature of a Creator; therefore, man cannot learn about God by investigation of His creation alone, but he needs a special revelation. That special revelation is God’s Word, which has been given in the Scriptures.”

I believe that he does. If not for my faith in him there would have been many times where I have given up.  no matter what even if if you dont believe there is a god, God is always be by your side.

Under and behind all outward appearances or manifestations, there must always be a Substantial Reality. This is the Law. Man considering the Universe, of which he is a unit, sees nothing but change in matter, forces, and mental states. He sees that nothing really IS, but that everything is BECOMING and Changing. Nothing stands still- everything is being born, growing, dying- the very instant a thing reaches its height, it begins to decline- the law of rythm is in constant operation-there is no reality, enduring quality, fixity, or substantiality in anything- nothing is permanent but Change. He sees all things evolving from other things, and resolving into other things- a constant action and reaction; inflow and outflow; building up and tearing down; creation and destruction; birth, growth, and death. Nothing endures but Change. And if he be a thinking man, he realizes that all of these changing things must be outward appearances or manifestations of some Underlying Power- some Substantial Reality. All thinkers, in all lands and at all times, have assumed the necessity for postulating the existance of this Substantial Reality. All philosophies worthy of the name have been based on this thought. Men have given this Substantial Reality many names- some have called it by the term of Deity; others have called it the infinite and eternal energy; others have called it God- but all have acknowledged its existance. It is self evident- it needs no argument.