A Believer's Thoughts on Faith

[Mister Agenda]

the last statement leads to what ive been meaning to ask the members.  for any who feel these questions are applicable and are willing to answer them:

1)what do you believe about God?
2)in short description, on what information did you base this conclusion?
3)and in what ways have you tested the information to make your conclusion final?

1) When taking God as real for the sake of argument, I'm talking about whatever version of God the other person is proposing.
2) The statements of those who claim God is real.
3) I don't have a final conclusion about the nature of God, except 'insufficent evidence to justify belief so probably imaginary' applies to all the ones I've heard of. In some cases the proposed version of God has contradictory attributes or did things that didn't happen, so a conclusion of 'definitely does not exist' is justified, barring 'last Thursdayism'. For example, the version of the God of Abraham that created the universe in six literal days, the earth before the sun, and flooded the whole earth to above the mountaintops, and stopped the sun in the sky twice, doesn't exist because that contradicts the abundant evidence that those events didn't occur as described in the Old Testament. Deists usually make minimalist claims about God that don't rule that version out, so the most you can say is that there isn't sufficient evidence to justify believing in that one.