Brunny wrote:
I actually remember the day I stopped believing in God. It was the same day I was told that spiderman and superman don't exist. I spent the whole day pondering what was real and what wasn't. I gave up believing in God and Santa Claus on the same day and for the same reasons. I was 7 years old.
I also became an atheist at around seven years old too.
However.. there is a problem with the question you are asking..
What does it mean.. ?
Does it mean..
Do you believe in the existence of a supernatural entity..?
Or does it mean..
Do you believe in the words spoken by the prophets.. ?
“So he said to them: "O senseless ones and slow in heart to believe on all the things the prophets spoke!” - Luke 4:25
To ask the first question.. is down to human error.. since the idea of God.. is not defined as being a super-natural being.. in the Bible.
The Bible consistently speaks of a knowledge of God.. not a belief that God exists.
This is a wide-spead human error.. so wide-spead that both Christianity.. and atheism.. are founded on it.
However.. it is an error.. and there is no evidence to support it.. whatsoever... none.
In the most simple terms..
Believing in God means..
Believing in the truths that the Bible teaches.. not the myths.. which are symbolic accounts.. (that are also true.. once understood correctly).
It is naive to read these symbolic stories literally.
To answer the question..
Do you believe in God.. ?
Just ask yourself..
Do you believe in this.. ?
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"All things, therefore, that you want men to do to you, you also must likewise do to them; this, in fact, is what the Law and the Prophets mean."
Jesus - Matthew 7:12
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It really is that simple..
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"My words are easy to understand and easy to perform.
Yet no man under heaven either knows or practices them.
My words have ancient beginnings.
My actions are disciplined.
Because men do not understand they have no knowledge of me.
Those that know me are few.
Those that abuse me are honoured.
Therefore the Sage wears rough clothing...
And holds the Jewel in his Heart."
Lao Tzu
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Atheism is not founded on disbelief of Christian beliefs, if you're an Atheist you disbelieve in
Gods/Deities/Higher powers therefore that doesn't make very much sense for you to imply that Atheism is founded on the disbelief/misinterpretation of the Christian bible, especially considering Atheism long predates Christianity. And regardless of what you feel the bible is actually saying the majority of Christians believe God is some intelligent omnipotent male in the sky which is something I don't believe.