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Is God Real?
When it comes to God the probability is infinite. No one knows what he or she is able of doing. Staying with that mindset there could be more than one God that exists among us. Who’s to say that only one being controls our universe? To see and hear everything surely could take more than one immortal. We don’t know for a fact, therefore all we can do is guess. God in reality is everything we touch, smell, eat, or hear. God is anything and everything, the great and mighty. We can argue the fact that there are unlimited amounts of “God’s” in the universe. For example, if God is everything and we have a paintbrush, that paintbrush is a God on it’s own. Or another example is that we are our own God, and there would be over six billion God’s in the world. If there is no actual one being guiding us, who will say which God has more power over the other? Or what is right or what is wrong? If that is the case then we are free to live life how we choose, and ignore any of the commandments. Right? We are our own Gods and are able to choose our own paths and the way we live it. I am extremely opposed to believing in a God that is so imperfect, the world itself is an imperfect place, full of evil and sin, and I know I can live a fulfilling and happy life without the need of a Religious figure to sustain me, because of my ethics. The way I understand it, God wants us to worship him, in whatever ways he wishes. That brings me to eternal damnation. God gives us free will but if we choose to oppose him he damns us to hell, although he forgives all sin. How do people in prison that rape and murder innocent men, women, and children turn to God and all sin is forgotten? Or is it? That hardly seems like something a 'loving" and "merciful" God would do. I didn't begin to let go of my religion until I realized that God could possibly be an evil God, but who will ever know. This is why I am concerned with the existence of God, it all comes down to open ended
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