Does a God exist?

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I don’t think belief has anything to do with it

Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble

Where the god of the bible is concerned, it is faith, not belief the biblical writers decided to require of us.

For without faith it is impossible to please god

I’m not splitting hairs. There is a difference between belief and faith

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Faith involves an element of hope and trust. One of you has a signature that describes why we need faith to be Christians

We use faith to justify god’s absence from our reality

Mere belief could never hold up under the realities of the world we live in. it is faith that allows Christians to ignore the people who were killed in South Carolina, keep believing that an all-powerful god rules the world with justice even though in this world the bad guy often wins. Babies suffering, children dying of cancer, just rulers being assassinated, politicians lining their pockets with money meant to aid the poor, natural disasters destroying the innocent while the PTB sit in safety, etc. faith sweeps it all under the rug so theists can keep trusting the god that no one has seen.