What Makes You Doubt the Existance of God

Thank you! The Baha'i Faith believes that Christ has returned in the form of Baha'u'llah (which translates into English as "the Glory of God") in order to establish the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, as foretold, which He said would take about 1000 years, it has been about 150 years since He proclaimed this message. He correctly predicted the dates of WW1 and WW2 and said many other great wars would follow before the Most Great Peace could be established. It is a beautiful Faith which accepts all major world religions as truth if you look at the Manifestation and not the followers of the religion. It has brought me so much joy and peace! I wish I could share that joy and peace with everyone who is struggling, unfortunately, people today are very scared and suspicious so it is hard. I am so blessed to have found my path so early in life! I hope God guides you to truth, love and peace in whatever path He has chosen for you!

I'm not familiar with the Baha'i religion, but it seems to have something in it that you needed. I hope you'll continue to study spiritual matters and will ask God to lead you to all truths.

I do not intend to bring down anyone's personal beliefs, but the predicting of major world events before they happen has been discussed and debated before. I don't know if you have ever read about the controversies on Nostradamus' predictions, they say he saw the coming of Hitler and 9/11 and so forth but alot of it is just very flowery language that people have found very weak correlations to events that have occurred in the past sixty or seventy years. The relation to 9/11 goes something like a large bird will strike two pillars and the sky will be lit with fire. I mean, considering he wrote this in something like 1100 A.D., there was bound to be an incident where a plane hit a building. But the point I am trying to make is that people see what they want to see. By all means you are entitled to believe what you choose and I have nothing against that, but we also cannot forget that these scripts were written by ordinary human beings with no divine power, and I DO NOT condone claiming that because there may be meek connections between something written 1000 years ago and something that took place fifty years ago, that that is evidence enough of a divine being. I think if people want to "find god," it should be on their own terms, not people feeding them "facts" about prophecy to yank them by a chain that their definitely is a God.

I cannot agree with your "science is a religion" theory, yes it's true that some 500 years ago people said the world was flat...but soon that idea was challenged and corrected! Thats what makes science, science and religion, religion. Science is any number of studies that are constantly being challenged, corrected, and changed. Religion on the other hand is a universally accepted belief by a group of people, and while people do interpert their religious scripture, it can never be changed.

The question of "where did God come from" is one that's been around probably since man was created. Years ago I read a book titled, "Does God Play Dice." In it the writer talks about the four dimensions (up and down, back and forth, inside and out, and time) and I came to the conclusion that the "beginning" in the first verse of the Bible "In the beginning,God..." were those dimensions. With our four dimensional, finite minds it's hard to conceive of a time before "the beginning." If God was the creator of time, He had to have existed before time. Therefore He always has been.

Thank you for responding and God bless you.

I disagree with both your theories...so called "bad things" happen because we need them to....they are our lessons, they give us balance and wisdom...Truth be told there is good and bad in EVERYTHING...and thats as it should be..

It is my opinion that Satan is the cause of bad things happening in this world because he tempts us to sin against God and do very ugly things whether its to our fellow man or to nature. I believe God has give the world the formula needed so bad things don't happen. The problem is everyone thinks his religion is the formula that's right.

We all should belive in almighty

I believe God gave us a brain and expects us to use it, but it's nice to know that we can go to Him in times of trouble.

I don't think you need to feel like a sinner. I don't believe God has a problem with our questioning Him. That's probably why Jesus said, "Seek and you will find, knock and the door will be open to you."

Having read the Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John), it's hard for me to understand how anyone could find fault with Jesus. Unfortunately many so called Christians have not followed His teachings and have given Christianity a bad name.

Some of us to need improvement, don't we.

I think some people claim to not believe in God because they don't want Him to exist. I think they think that if He does exist, they'll be bound to a set of rules.

I believe suffering in this world is because of choices mankind makes. God could have created us as mindless puppets, and loved us like a child loves his/her toys, but puppets could never love Him in return. Just like the parent who lets the child walk on its own, God is there to pick us up when we fall. If you're looking for God, you might try asking for the help of His Holy Spirit.

I don't know any atheists personally, but the ones in the public forum seem to be unwilling to listen to the other side. I would love to see a debate between someone like Richard Dawkins and Ravi Zechariah (I'm not sure I spelled his name correctly). I bet that would get some blood to boiling and hearts pounding.

You're right, we all believe ours is the "true" religion. Maybe the only way to know which is right is to test them. There is always going to be things in any religion that cannot be proven, but what's the track record regarding things that can be proven? Is there prophecy in religion? Has that prophecy been fulfilled or is it being fulfilled? I believe there are answers out there and that God wants us to look for them.

It's funny how we can look at the same things and see them so differently. I look at every aspect of nature, see how intricate it is and am convinced that it had to have been created by an intelligent being. I think about the position of the planet and how precise their placement has to be so they're not crashing into each other and am convinced a higher power had to have put each of them exactly where they belong. Science might be able to manipulate nature, but they've never been able to duplicate it. God is the only Creator. As far as the writing of the Bible, it was not writer by a MAN, but by MEN over many centuries and each was inspired by God. This is my opinion (which I believe to be correct), but I respect yours. Thanks for responding.