Does God exist? Or, is there a God?

Before I answe can I ask why? Why do you want to know? If it is to strengthen your belief in God I'm all for it but if it is to cause a descussion of which two parties do not hold the same absolute then why even talk about it?

Not even a question to debate. He exist and is the best thing to keep you whole!

Yes and no. It is up to the individual to answer that question. For me, yes. For the guy next to me - probably not. Is there a higher power - there has to be for I would hate for the most intelligent beings on earth to be us very flawed humans.

I once got into a debate with my father about religion and told him that Christianity was no different than ancient mythology. Of course he hit the roof until he heard me out. Every faith to include mythology all had a supreme being - all had lesser gods and demi gods - and all had tales to explain how nature and life came to be. These tales are laid out in the books of the Bible, the Koran, etc. Ancient man had to come up with an explanation for thunder and so on.

I digress - yes there is a higher power.

Well, I can only offer this photo taken by me while we were updating our family board, I will let you see the picture and judge for yourself, any explanations are welcome, and we have NO picture in our house like that where it could have been a reflection of. My Wife & I have taken the picture to a Photo Specialist, and they have said that it is NO Overlap of another picture, that the picture taken is real and everything on it is legit, they covered every pixel on that picture and could not find any pixel out of place. We since have decided to take this as a Blessing, and have given thanks for the honor of this spiritual visit by the King, our Lord Jesus Christ on the most Holiest of nights, Christmas Eve.....

I for one, still have a hard time understanding why we get into such topics here. For the most part these discussions turn ugly and become full of more hate and anger than anything else. I'm not saying this thread has of that going on, I'm just saying in general.

I feel that when it comes to faith and the ideas of a higher power, we as people ruin the idea. We as people shut people out or turn a cold shoulder to those that believe as we do. We as people will use the words of our faith to fight against others but at the same time ignore some of the same lessons written in our faith.

Personally, I have love/hate relationship with faith. I have my faith and feel that others should maintain their faith as they see fit. I just don't feel this is exactly the right venue to express such heartfelt and personal views.

In my opinion God does exist. I grew up Catholic, not strict and not going to Catholic schools, but for me its a lifelong learned experience.
When I was active some people used to joke me about how can I curse, drink and chase after women in all the foreign ports and still say I am religious. I told them that God knows we are not perfect and He only wants us to live and learn and to lead overall good lives. God knows we will make mistakes, its what we learn from those mistakes and how it shapes our lives that is most important.
I had a DIVO and MCPO who made snide remarks when I told them I was going to the 0900 church service during our deployment right after 9/11. It was kind of disturbing that a CWO3 and MCPO felt the need to belittle my belief in God, but I realized that its their way of thinking so that's on them.
But I did find it almost amusing that once we deployed right after 9/11, it was our normal deployment schedule, that instead of 30 - 40 people attending service quite often there was over 100 people in attendance. Guess people find God in their own time and needs.
I attend church most every Sunday and Christmas eve and Easter masses. Its hard to explain but I feel good after being in church.
I know a lot of people don't believe in God, but its up to them to believe or not, I will never force anyone to believe in something they don't see the need to believe in.

In my past military experiences I have known what it feels like to loose conscience due to injuries and to awaken by a soft light floating above my body then lead by the light to stand before two beings surrounded by light then told it was not my time but to go back and Teach Love and Show Love or to stay. I choose to return but also choosed not to Teach Love nor Show Love. Ten years later I had a similar and once again received the same message which lead me to start to change my behavior however not fully change, but in the meantime I managed to survive earthquakes, race riots and in my last deployment in 2008 survived a night time motor rocket attack, I saw the rocket motor light coming directly at me, I dove to the left side hit a wall and knew I was about to die, but instead time slowed down the rocket motor turned into a halo which illuminated a being dressed in a all black floating gown it was an Angel dressed in black and just at the rocket was to hit my location it made a sharp vertical turn up and went over my head. I lost conscience but woke up and staggered away, in 2009 I was diagnosed with the side effects of a mild TBI and lost 10 years of memories and knowledge. Then in 2013, while by my two year old grandson was dying from brain cancer I made a joke that we need more people praying for my grandson 5 minutes later I received a a texts from my unit Chaplains Christian and Jewish, then emails from representatives of the Rotary Club who informed me that Muslims in Jalalalabad Afghanistan were praying for my grandson. Days later as my grandson was dying he was visited by all Christians denominations , Catholics, Buddhist, Jehovah Witness, Jews, Muslims, Gays, Lesbians, Straights, all came to pray by his bedside. So to answer you yes There is a God, that Loves all of us and does not discriminate and most importantly I have learned to Show Love and Teach Love.

Yes and Yes. Just because you cannot see him doesn't mean he is not real. You can't see air yet you know it's there.

Is there a God/s? That question has been at the core of human existence from the dawn of self consciousness to now.

i answered this before in another post but always toss my 2 cents in. I agree with some of the other people who posted on this issue.

I believe in God.
I believe God is omnipotent (The Alpha and the Omega).
I believe that God is everything. (God Sees all time as one thing. Good and Evil are both from God)
I do not believe God can be understood by humans as it is beyond our scope of knowledge and will always be.
I believe that Faith is powerful and God does have an effect in every ones lives. Do I understand Why? No.

Why I may not know why of a lot of things, it doesn't stop them from happening.

GOD exists.. Read the Bible. Enough said