God-damn !!

[Googooboyy]

And following after chris, comes moi. I don't often indulge in 'heated' debates but I'll offer an advice.

It seems you're starting to doubt your faith in god and if that is so, you should seek to replenish yourself with in depth knowledge of your religion. Or for that matter, gather in depth knowledge of as many religion as you can find - with an open mind. And for that matter, I doubt a 100 or 1000 post thread will ever relinquish that thirst of yours.

Oh, and good luck, if you believe in luck that is.

[deepakflash]

Fine, lets halt for a minute. Before scanning through the existance of God, can i atleast expect a genuine answer to this:
Lets just "assume" that God exists and is sweet and kind. Now God will be someone who is not selfish and with no rotten human mentality right? So he only wants us to love each other and be good? Then why the hell we dont do "that" and instead run behind God praising him. In other words why should we do things which he doesn't even expect from us? Believing in God and praising him expecting him to bless us sounds to me like some kind of "bribe"ing. I praise you and you bless me. I will commit a sin and pray, you forgive me??

By loving,caring and helping each other but not believing in god or praising him will make God Angry??

So why??

[Googooboyy]

...In other words why should we do things which he doesn't even expect from us? Believing in God and praising him expecting him to bless us sounds to me like some kind of "bribe"ing. I praise you and you bless me...

Well replace 'bribe'ing with faith and you somehow capture the essence of faith within religion, to continuously do good and spread goodness.

We hold onto that faith for the potential promise of good (eg. heaven) in the afterlife. How strong one believes in this promise, well that is faith. Is this promise real? Who knows? One simply believes and keeps faith.

How much one is willing to work towards this promise, well that's human will. And wills are bended and twisted through temptation and seductions and the surrounding environment, unless you are strong enough (in your faith), and unless you are 'educated properly' within the religion, to withstand them (temptations).

I can't tell you, make you believe or give evidence that God exists. I learn (in my religion) and I come to realise and so I believe he exists. Then there are some of us who share that beliefs and some who don't. I don't doubt God, and that is my beliefs - mine to judge and hold from my own studying and reasoning. And different minds will judge and hold differently.

I sincerely hope you find yours.