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Bj864
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We have all debated many times, whether or not God exists. This tread is not about that question.
The questions here are:
What does believing in God add to a persons life?
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What does believing in God take away from a persons life?
For those on the other side:
What does not believing in God add to a persons life?
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What does not believing in God take away from a persons life?
Please tell us what your answers are and why.
Please just speak only for yourself on this one, not other people.
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| Nov 5 @ 9:56 AM |
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yashaenka
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What does believing in God add to a persons life?
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What does believing in God take away from a persons life? Simply what they wish it to, it is their life and no one else's.
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| Nov 5 @ 10:28 AM |
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southernlass
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Believing in God adds to my life through so many countless ways, I don't have time to explain them all.
The wisdom I receive is doled out in just the appropriate amount that I need in order to grow. It's like being in a school with God as my professor and as I love school and learning, this is incredible and fulfilling and it's always at just the right level. It's awe-inspiring. I can't say enough about the learning through Him; it's the best kind of learning I've ever experienced.
The love through believing in God is unconditional. Once I made my initial decision, (though it's odd because I think I was born loving Him), I felt Him with me. I felt Him with me during some awful times as a child. He is steadying. He is beautiful. He is golden. I'm reminded of the poem "Nothing gold can stay," by Robert Frost, but with God, gold can and does stay.
Believing in God takes away poor judgment much of the time. The journey of believing in God is like putting on a pair of special glasses that alter the way I look at and perceive the world. Belief improves everything in that it brings out the best within me and teaches me how to connect to that best, so in this it takes away much of what is ugly in this world; it washes one clean and restores ..
When one is washed clean, one notices the contrast between the clean and the dirty. Belief takes away a willingness to get dirty once one has been made clean.What is taken away through true belief is the carnal nature of a man or woman, one undignified, primitive, uglier instinct at a time. The desire to participate in that which is inconsequential and meaningless on so many levels also begins to ebb, so what one who does not believe may feel is lost, the believer realizes as gain.
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| Nov 5 @ 10:39 AM |
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Angel54214
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Simply what they wish it to, it is their life and no one else's.
Yash can't read... 
Please just speak only for yourself on this one, not other people.
Bj...I have to go to work, but will reply when time allows... 
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| Nov 5 @ 10:48 AM |
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joe_kerr
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What does not believing in God take away from a persons life?
How is it possible for something you don't believe in to take away from your life?
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| Nov 5 @ 11:03 AM |
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yashaenka
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Joe Angel is going to say Joe cannot read 
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| Nov 5 @ 3:31 PM |
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joe_kerr
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| Nov 5 @ 4:39 PM |
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Jankia
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Believing in God isnt really what its all about to me because Gods belief in me is what adds to my life. His belief has given me life.That may sound simple but God has a purpose for my still being here or I would have been long gone some time ago.
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| Nov 5 @ 6:04 PM |
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Bj864
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Believing in God gives me something to strive for and motivates me to learn more and more about where I am and where I need to be spiritually.
To me, God is pure love and all knowledge and I believe god set everything up for all humans to progress at their own pace and their own level.
I also believe that I experience life because of God and that I will always live, in one form or another because of God.
I also believe that no matter how far I fall behind, God is always constant and I always have another chance to progress beyond where I am today.
I think it would be a lot harder to endure a lot of things in life, if God wasn't part of it. I would hate to think that this life is it and then it is over. How very sad and depressing that would be. There would nothing to look forward to.
I feel grateful that I do believe in God. Very grateful.
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| Nov 5 @ 10:12 PM |
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ServantOfChrist2
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"I think it would be a lot harder to endure a lot of things in life, if God wasn't part of it." --Bj 
"I feel grateful that I do believe in God. Very grateful. --Bj
I'm unable to imagine not believing in God. The emptiness of a life without Christ would be profound. It's difficult to imagine living that way. (Even though God was barely more than a passing thought for most of my life.)
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| Nov 6 @ 10:02 AM |
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yashaenka
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I'm unable to imagine not believing in God. The emptiness of a life without Christ would be profound. It's difficult to imagine living that way. (Even though God was barely more than a passing thought for most of my life.) Each of us creates our own heaven or hell it is of mind from mind, if you do not get it from your own mind, from whence then does it come. Answer me that please....
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| Nov 6 @ 10:33 AM |
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Bj864
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Please just speak only for yourself on this one, not other people.
Yash, please tell us what YOUR answers are.
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| Nov 6 @ 10:42 AM |
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yashaenka
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Rewards for believing in God To me this is a form of doodling where you mind and imagination make something out of nothing but it pleases you all the same. That in and of itself makes you feel good so the God of mind is put there by you to make you feel good so you create your own rewards.
To wit: "To each their own"  An example I'm unable to imagine not believing in God. The emptiness of a life without Christ would be profound. It's difficult to imagine living that way. (Even though God was barely more than a passing thought for most of my life.)
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ServantOfChrist2
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I think that probably means that I grew up yash.
And along the way I have learned some humility. (Something that not everyone learns.)
The rewards I continue to experience personally, (among them great peace); reinforce my faith and trust in Jesus Christ.
To me such contentment equates to a successful life. 
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| Nov 7 @ 4:01 AM |
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eyesofastranger
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In another thread Iam brought up Pascals Wager. A flawed argument but facinating and belongs here too.
In the seventeenth century the mathematician Blaise Pascal formulated his infamous pragmatic argument for belief in God in Pensées. The argument runs as follows:
If you erroneously believe in God, you lose nothing (assuming that death is the absolute end), whereas if you correctly believe in God, you gain everything (eternal bliss). But if you correctly disbelieve in God, you gain nothing (death ends all), whereas if you erroneously disbelieve in God, you lose everything (eternal damnation).
How should you bet? Regardless of any evidence for or against the existence of God, Pascal argued that failure to accept God's existence risks losing everything with no payoff on any count. The best bet, then, is to accept the existence of God. There have been several objections to the wager: that a person cannot simply will himself to believe something that is evidently false to him; that the wager would apply as much to belief in the wrong God as it would to disbelief in all gods, leaving the the believer in any particular god in the same situation as the atheist or agnostic; that God would not reward belief in him based solely on hedging one's bets; and so on.
Problem is there's 3000 or more gods to choose from
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yashaenka
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I think that probably means that I grew up yash. You did not probably grow up SOC either you did or did not. But did you grow up mentally as well as physically.
Since your enrapture with Jesus you seem to have turned your mind off from any other learning or so you have said.
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| Nov 7 @ 8:13 AM |
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ServantOfChrist2
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Hmmm....  Is that what my sentence meant??
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yashaenka
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I do not know what was in your mind when you wrote it SOC I am trying to read through your tea leaves.
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| Nov 11 @ 4:24 PM |
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dizzydoll
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such funny comments here and I dont know how this thread slipped past Iams sights 
What does believing in God add to a persons life?
God is in you and me and everything we see..... hows that for value?
Lets hope Angel comes back to this thread as she said she would try.... 
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| Nov 12 @ 10:10 AM |
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LanceVarden7
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What does believing in God add to a persons life?
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What does believing in God take away from a persons life? First thing, thie question is NOT about whether or not God exists, but what is to be gained by believing in him.
What is ganed by believing in God? Well, the question itself is flawed in a way.
It is in a contradiction.
If I sign on for God, what is God going to do for me. Following the Christ is not about that, but more on that in a sec.
What will it do for you? In the here and now, probably not much more than comforts and feelings. In the afterlife, possibly more, but if you don't believe then those promises hold no merit.
So why bother? If mostly, in the here and now, it is just a rule book of restrictions on my freedoms, why bother? Give me one good reason!
Alright, let me talk a shot.
Consider a shark. It is a primitive life form. It cares only about itself and where its next meal is coming from. It has two purposes, to eat and make little sharks. It is little more than a non-thinking machine. That is all it is. That's all it ever will be.
Now take a look at a cat. It is a notch up from a shark. It has the capacity to form relationships and become friendly with others. Ultimately, though, it is still a selfish creature. Try taking a chicken bone away from a cat and see what happens. The cat has no sense of right and wrong. If it sees something it wants, it is going to take it, unless someone else is preventing it or threatening it. A cat will never deny itself anything because of any sort of moral code. It has none.
Now take a look at people. They understand what a moral code it is, but it is not in our nature to follow it. We are inherently selfish. Our nature is to never do anything good for anybody unless there is some sort of benefit on the backside.
There is a quote that I found of, and it was written with the idea of visiting a large city, but it applies to the internet quite well. If you want to learn about yourself, observe how you treat people when you are alone amongst strangers that you will never see again. However you behave when you are totally anonymous is what you really are.
I have a challenge for everyone. Consider it a social experiment just with yourself. Do something nice for someone anonymously and don't ever tell anyone. Ever. For the rest of your life. Let it be a secret with just yourself. It is a strange feeling. It is a step to answering the riddle of "who am I?" -or- "what am I all about" -or- "Underneath all the fluff, what kind of person am I really?"
The funny thing is, we all want to think of ourselves as good people, but we all actually want to be bad people. We are born with the basic idea that if I did something good, and no one else knows about it, it is a little like it never happened.
Then you take a step back and ask yourself why that is so important. It is about who am I am and what sort of person I want to be. Is getting a pat on the back from someone else really that important? Most people barely regard each other anyhow. If you do something utterly fantastic, you will be lucky to be a blip on thier radar.
OK, back to it.
For me, believing in God means that I acknowledge that I am not at the top of the evolutionary ladder.
For me, believing in God means there is something better than me out there, and I can aspire to be somethign better than I am right now.
For me, believing in God is about the direction I want to be evolving. I want to be less like a cat because a cat is a step up from a shark, and a shark is a step up from a machine, and a machine doesn't really exist at all.
I believe in things beyond this world, because frankly, this world leave much to be desired. Perhaps the only reason we aren't allowed to see through the portal is that, if we could, this place would seem all the more dismal.
For a long time time could run the 4 minute mile. Scientist were saying things like "your heart would burst" and such. After Roger Bannister finally did it, it broke the barrier and many others have done it since.
I believe that people have the capacity to evolve and change, but that many become stagnant. I believe the existence of God shows us that there are higher levels of existance to aspire to.
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