You believe in god, but not aliens?

I honestly dont know what to think when it comes to religion. There are so many different kinds that believe so many different things. Whos to say whos right?? I feel like I could get bored one day and just sit and make up a religion and people would...

start to follow it bc its human nature, its what we are taught from the day we are born. It just seems so hard for me to realize that there is a man in the sky watching us all "sin". You people will believe in a man in the sky but you cant fathom the thought of aliens or vampires or unicorns?? This just seems very absurd to me. Religion is not real. God is not real. These are society induced beliefs to try and help bring people together so there wont be so much violence. I will say that ya know it was a good idea. They got a lot of people to believe and the damn churches are makin a hell of a lot of money!

So tell me, whats your story with this whole "religion" thing???

I don't believe in anything actually. I don't even believe in you. You don't really exist.

Oi.. You dont believe.. well thats why God gave us free will.. He will never force us to take the right path.. love to see your face one day when you meet him.. LOL.. Now aliens do exist.. Think about it.. Check out pictures from the hubble telescope.. out there is never ending.. more galaxys out there than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on earth.. why would only one grain support life.. might not be inteligent life.. but none the less life.. our galaxy took billions of years to form to what it is today.. galaxys billions of light years away that we see are just busy forming are in fact already formed seeings that it took billions of years for the light from there to reach us.. so if you are there looking at us.. we will look the same.. just busy forming.. Some thing to think about.. even look it up on the web.. Enjoy life.. be good to others and do not judge them for you will be judged just as harshly when the time comes.. IE.. you dont judge.. you will not be judged

Aliens suck balls and are fake. and you should be a mormon not a moron... just kidding but really if aliens are really where the hell are they I want to blast on...

"He will never force us to take the right path"

If God wants humans to choose to be with him, and is willing to risk most people making the wrong choice thus being tortured eternally, then that is not the sign of a loving being. It is the sign of someone with insecurity and a massive ego.

*** You dont believe.. well thats why God gave us free will..

That makes no sense at all. If there are any invisible magic people living in the sky in some parallel dimension, and they want us to believe in them, all they have to do is come down and introduce themselves. ...and no, claims that they did such a thing thousands of years ago doesn't count.

How is this God character any different from Santa? He too is magic, hidden, living in a place you can't get to, able to observe everyone, and his main concern is that you believe in him ...being nice rather than naughty is secondary.

We do not choose our beliefs. They are determined by our experience independent of our will.

It would make more sense if God WAS an alien...

There is proof God exists. I shouldn't have to but I will.

Scientists say that Energy cannot be created, or destroyed, right? They even teach that same quote in school textbooks.. anyways.. According to that Scientific Law, it contradicts what the big bang theory says how the world came into existence. It stated a few years ago, the universe came from some random explosion. Now it's saying that molecules has always existed, then just collided, and made the universe, etc..

Well this proves right there that God exists. Something has had to exist eternally to create something like the universe. By the way, space does have an end.

You'd have to be closed-minded to believe in this junk. Yes I may seem closed-minded to you, but I've been there, I've done that.

*sigh*

That doesn't prove that God exists...

Disproving one theory, doesn't prove another.

creationsfollower,...I'm not even going to say it
You just make no since

There are many theories of how the universe came to be, there's one that 2 parallel universes collided & made this universe, the ripples of the universes created the clupms of matter.

You said yourself that energy cannot be created or destroyed(least in this dimension & universe), what are souls but pure energy? I'ld say that would support reincarnation more so than God creating us. As many humans & animals that have diedthee would have to be more energy being created as each passed to creat a new soul. Reincarnation the soul is born into another body thus the energy is being re-used.

We all know that the idea of santa came from what kris kringle(or chris) did. And we all know that Santa Claus isn't real. How many adults believe in Santa? How many adults believe in God? Why is that?
First, Santa and the Easter Bunny are on an entire different level than God.Like I said, How many adults believe in Santa or the Easter Bunny?
Second, there is more meaning to God than those two. Everyone knows that it's not the easter bunny that gets the candy and eggs, and everyone knows that on Christmas nite, parents put presents under the tree and eat cookies and drink milk, which is just tricking your kids into believing something you know for sure isn't real. No one knows if God is real or not. but if you believe in Him, He is real to you(at least to me). But, God is different God is real to people that believe in Him. God's spirit lives within everyone that believes in Him. Santa and the Bunny don't.
these are just questions I'm curious about, sorry if I seem close minded I don't want to be.

*** Scientists say that Energy cannot be created, or destroyed, right? They even teach that same quote in school textbooks.. anyways.. According to that Scientific Law, it contradicts what the big bang theory says

No, there is no contradiction between big bang theory and conservation of energy. Good god do you really think physicists are that stupid?

Why do people who have no idea what they are talking about always presume they know better than the people with IQs twice theirs who devote their lives to studying the nature of reality and developing the theories that describe it?

creationistfollower, I'm curious if you even know what a scientific law is. Scientific termology do not follow in hierarchy with law being at the top, like creationists tend to think. A law is, simply put, a discription of something observable.

Conservation of matter & energy is practical, though it's not completly correct.

Matter & energy can not be created or destroyed, that's over-simplifying it, but matter and energy can be converted. Particle accelerators can convert energy into matter and nuclear fission reactors can destroy matter, converting it to energy. And to add to that, I also think that space and energy can be interchangable and that time has always existed uncreated.

"We all know that the idea of santa came from what kris kringle(or chris) did. And we all know that Santa Claus isn't real. How many adults believe in Santa? How many adults believe in God? Why is that?"

Because santa is a myth foisted on children by adults who know better, while religion is a my that people of all ages have convinced themselves is true.

"First, Santa and the Easter Bunny are on an entire different level than God.Like I said, How many adults believe in Santa or the Easter Bunny?"

How is god different from santa or the easter bunny? There's equal amounts of evidence for the existence of either one, and both refuse to prove their existence. How do you know one exists and the other doesn't?

"Second, there is more meaning to God than those two. Everyone knows that it's not the easter bunny that gets the candy and eggs, and everyone knows that on Christmas nite, parents put presents under the tree and eat cookies and drink milk, which is just tricking your kids into believing something you know for sure isn't real."

Children who haven't been told otherwise don't know that.

"No one knows if God is real or not. but if you believe in Him, He is real to you(at least to me). But, God is different God is real to people that believe in Him. God's spirit lives within everyone that believes in Him. Santa and the Bunny don't."

How do you know that?

We are aliens to any other form of life in the universe...and I do think there is life else where other than our blue spec of dust & water.

Nothing finite can be infinite (eternal). Since the universe is made of finite things (matter, time, space), it therefor must be created by something without time (timeless), thus making it eternal. If it is eternal, it must be infinite, and if its the Creator, it must be God.

The universe changes, and time is the measure of change. How many changes have happened before right now? If you claim an infinite number of changes (which is impossible because you can not have an infinite amount of finite things), it is a logically impossible to conclude we could ever have reached this moment in time. In a world of cause and effect (which we live in), there can not be an infinite regress (an infinite amount of cause and effect reactions to get to a certain cause).

Allow me to rephrase. Imagine that the Earth orbits the sun every 365 days (it does). Now, on Mars, a year is much longer than an Earth year, being 687 Earth days (basically double). So, for every 2 years of Mars, Earth has circled the sun approximately 4 times. Now, imagine that this has been going on for eternity. By your logic, they would both have circled the sun the exact same amount of times, because its been going on forever (this is clearly impossible). This shows the impossibility of an infinite regress, whereby there could not have been an infinite amount of (x) before right now, in a finite universe based on time.

Now, back to God. God exists outside of time, in Eternity. God created time, and time is irrelevant to Him. God is Eternal, not created. Firstly, you have 2 choices; either everything came from nothing (which is impossible), or something always existed and created us. You have no other choice. Take a moment to think about that, remembering that it can not exist in time, that would be impossible. Time can not be eternal.

This thing that always existed would be considered Eternal, having transcended time, space, and matter, being everlasting, having always existed. If you argue this is impossible, I would argue the contrary; it is impossible for this Eternal 'thing' to not exist, because the alternative is that nothing existed, which could only produce nothing. So, something always existed, and is therefor Eternal.

Now, for something to be Eternal, it can not consist of time, because time must have had a beginning. We exist in a universe of causality, so an infinite regress is impossible; there could not have been an infinite amount of time before right now, because we never would have reached this moment in time. That means time had a beginning, and whatever created time exists without time, beyond time, in timelessness; Eternity.

So, this Eternal Creator, created time, and the universe. This Eternal Creator clearly is extremely powerful, because the energy of the trillions of stars in the known universe were created by this Creator. And obviously, the Creator is extremely intelligent, having created an intelligent being such as mankind and a world in which to populate with it.

Personally I think that aliens are real...why wouldn't they be?

I think GOD is an alien or aliens. GOD is supposed to be a "higher" power, right? Aliens certainly are.