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Do you believe in god?

  • 09-09-2011 6:35pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 124 ✭✭


    I know some people will immediately look at the title and think this should be in the religion forum..however, im curious to know how many people in the paranormal forum believe in god.

    I find it hard to believe i must admit, however i do believe in ghosts, ouiji boards & spirits. If you dont believe in god but do believe in ghosts, do you believe there is a heaven or somewhere the ghosts/spirits should be?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭MrMojoRisin


    If you dont believe in god but do believe in ghosts, do you believe there is a heaven or somewhere the ghosts/spirits should be?

    I have a very vague belief in some sort of higher power but I'm not one to choose one set of beliefs to the strict exclusion of another, i.e. the paranormal.

    I'm pretty 'loose' about it all really and I've never stopped to think about a belief in God, or whatever you'd call it, co-existing or not with a belief in ghosts and the like.

    I just don't think about it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,354 ✭✭✭Urizen


    I find it hard to believe i must admit, however i do believe in ghosts, ouiji boards & spirits. If you dont believe in god but do believe in ghosts, do you believe there is a heaven or somewhere the ghosts/spirits should be?

    I prefer to keep the paranormal thinking detached from my religious beliefs, insofar as that's possible. Essentially, I don't mix business and pleasure, and I'm sticking with that :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 HENVEY89


    no


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,024 ✭✭✭shannon_tek


    Simple answer is No, Its just too hard to believe . but like yourself op i believe in spirits and shtuff


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,724 ✭✭✭tallaghtmick


    I dont believe in God but I do believe in some form of spiritual afterlife.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 444 ✭✭EI_Flyboy


    I've seen ghosts, seen a UFO, had a near death experience. Of the three I find little green hobgoblins the easiest to believe or have some sort of faith in. God? If I were to believe in a god, it wouldn't be a jealous god, it wouldn't even require my belief in it, all it would require is my existence and my seemingly random reactions to the seemingly random universe around me. Maybe god is some higher consciousness that watches over us all or maybe it's just a unified theory of everything but if god is anything, it is the order that springs from chaos. God wouldn't be some vengeful murderous hypocrite who demands our obedience because that to me sounds most like the devil. Blind, uncaring, unreasonable belief in one doctrine alone is evil. We have minds of our own, if there is a higher power, it requires we use them to the fullest of our ability.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 456 ✭✭Obelisk


    In my understanding, 'god' is everything around us (and in us) with which we connect, but cannot see or fathom. So if you belive in ghosts n stuff, an afterlife etc (anything beyond the physical) then its pretty mush a yes really...

    I believe in fractals!


    And some other stuff...
    EI_Flyboy wrote: »
    IWe have minds of our own, if there is a higher power, it requires we use them to the fullest of our ability.

    Exactly.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    No I don't believe in any gods

    Nor 'the paranormal' or afterlife


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 104 ✭✭Isard


    I have a very vague belief in some sort of higher power
    The same. And I also prefer to think of it as "higher power" rather than a bearded man who rose from the dead.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭Giselle


    Simple answer is No, Its just too hard to believe . but like yourself op i believe in spirits and shtuff

    I would have thought that both ghosts and gods were equally unbelieveable, no?

    I have no belief in the supernatural or paranormal. That covers everything, I think.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 170 ✭✭portumnadaz


    Hell no ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Giselle wrote: »
    I would have thought that both ghosts and gods were equally unbelieveable, no?

    I have no belief in the supernatural or paranormal. That covers everything, I think.
    I don't think it is looked at as the same thing from many people who believe in ghosts or poltergiests or spirit etc. I think most people view god as the idea of a diety controlling everything. I don't think they view "spirit" or ghosts the same.

    Unless some one can tell me differently?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 271 ✭✭meryem


    I believe both in spirits and god's existence.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭stone roses


    i believe in god becaues satan and evil is very real in our world today and you cant have one without the other, i believe god gave us life and its up to us which direction or road we deside to travel, gods gift to man freewill, the road is long but you are in the driving seat, the choices you make now will change your life forever and you cant blame god!!

    thats my take on it anyway and i have to be honest im happy and thats all that matters in my book!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 523 ✭✭✭jdooley28


    i think i believe in God but im a bit confused really. I know when i listen to atheists talk about it i feel convinced by thier arguments but sometimes I just get a chill thinking about things like that makes me think there has to be something else to life


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