Do you believe in a god?

[Lord Gay]

Was there a topic for this thread, or just a poll?

 

[Mr. Dictator]

Was there a topic for this thread, or just a poll?

I think it's supposed to be a temper restraining exercise.

 

[Joecoolyo]

I'm an APiest.

 

[Lord Gay]

Well then,


Link to video.

 

[Arakhor]

You believe in the same God, you just don't apparently believe in His source of Salvation. So you're an Abrahamist, but not a Christian.

Well, if you're right about God, I'm perfectly fine with that. If I'm right however, we both get rewarded.

 

[strijder20]

Was there a topic for this thread, or just a poll?

Feel free to post your vote in the thread and expand on why you have chosen to believe what you do.

I think it's supposed to be a temper restraining exercise.

How so?

 

[cardgame]

I think the real question and issue we've all been afraid to acknowledge is this:

Do you believe in radioactive monkeys?

 

[strijder20]

I think the real question and issue we've all been afraid to acknowledge is this:

Do you believe in radioactive monkeys?

You can start a new thread. However, I don't see why monkeys who have been forced to swallow a lot of Poloponyum wouldn't be emitting gamma rays.

 

[cardgame]

So, strijder, you think it's okay to make monkeys swallow poloponyum? I may not support monkeys mooching from society, but they're just trying to live a gamma-ray-free life, how can you be against that?

 

[Leoreth]

So, strijder, you think it's okay to make monkeys swallow poloponyum? I may not support monkeys mooching from society, but they're just trying to live a gamma-ray-free life, how can you be against that?

I believe the Poloponyum is actually transubstantiated to bread before the monkeys swallow it.

 

[IdiotsOpposite]

I'm not too shocked. I thought you mentioned it once.

I wouldn't consider your view on the OT, and particularly the historicity of it, as quite as important as accepting the NT. Jews and Muslims accept the OT, to varying degrees, but aren't Christian. Do you believe Christ died and rose again to save us from our sins? Do you believe in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit? If yes, I would consider you a Christian, at least according to an emprical definition (The Evangelical theological position is that a Christian is someone who is saved, the answer to which is USUALLY "We don't know if (Person X) is Christian or not")

Of course I do. That's sort of the point of being a Christian. I reject the literality of a large part of the Old Testament, which puts me at odds with certain people (read: creationists), but of course I believe that Jesus Christ God's Son died for my sins.

And good thing too.

Why is it funny if you don't tell them?

I have an odd sense of humor.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I appreciate it when I meet a Christian of who I don't know it's a Christian.

 

[warpus]

I do not believe in any god-like entities because I haven't seen sufficient (or any) reason or evidence that such a thing might exist.

I am open minded though and would be prepared to change my mind if new findings raised the possibility of one existing. For now though, there is no reason for me to start believing that a god exists.

 

[duckstab]

There was a higher power to create the starting mechanisms of the universe,, that much must be true--else, where are the origins of the beginning?

There must be a natural mechanism to create the higher power, that much must be true, else, where are the origins of the higher power?

This is why I don't see the need for a deity to explain anything. You have to attribute necessary existence to something, so why not simplify things and assert that the natural mechanisms that brought the physical universe into being have always been in existence? There's no need to conclude that these mechanisms possessed any intelligence or choice.

 

[Leonel]

I don't know anymore. I used to but now?

 

[vypernight]

Agnostic here. While I'm open to the possibility that a higher form of existance exists and had a hand, foot, or tentacle in our being here, I see nothing that makes one higher power more real than another.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I need to ask, why is the option "agnostic" in the poll as an answer to "do you believe in God?"

 

[timtofly]

I need to ask, why is the option "agnostic" in the poll as an answer to "do you believe in God?"

People felt left out. It was a compromise between the short list and one with a thousand options.

Either that or the default option whenever the Abrahamic God is in the list.

 

[_random_]

It's still kind of awkward grammatically.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

People felt left out. It was a compromise between the short list and one with a thousand options.

Either that or the default option whenever the Abrahamic God is in the list.

Do you believe in God?

[] yes
[] no
[] I don't know (joke option)