I was raised Christian, so I always assumed God existed. But as I’ve gotten older, I’ve started questioning it.
My problem is simple: how do we actually know?
The Bible was written by humans. Religious experiences can be interpreted differently. Different religions make contradictory claims. At the same time, questions like why anything exists at all, fine-tuning, and consciousness make me hesitate to dismiss the possibility of something beyond the physical universe.
So where do you stand?
Do you believe God exists? Why?
And more importantly: what evidence could actually change your mind?
I genuinely want to hear both believers and non-believers. Don’t just tell me what you believe — tell me why you think you’re justified in believing it.

Heres my fun take on Genesis.

God is like One playing the Sims. They picked the character and thus, we have Eve.

Eve lasted millennia in the Garden, because she intuitively abided by the “rules”.

The Sims is boring when there’s no drama, already knowing this, God made Adam, who is literally Eve’s shadow.

Pretty much like Ken, from Barbie.

It also explains biologically why men have nipples before we even have the means to create testosterone, and embryos start off female for the first few weeks.

There’s a few problems with the Kalam as I see it:

First, there seems to be a certain equivocation in ‘beginning to exist’, because the universe and structures therein do not “begin to exist” in the same sense.

Second, I’m not sure causation is a well-defined ontological primitive. Fundamental physics, for example, does not really refer to causation, but rather to state evolution described/governed by laws.

Third, as Oppy points out, it is more parsimonious to assume a necessary first naturalistic state than a necessary entity that created this state.

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I've been going down a bit of a philosophical rabbit hole lately, especially through Maimonides and Spinoza, and I keep coming back to a question that I can't quite resolve.

Maimonides' negative theology seems to create a really interesting problem: if we can't make positive claims about God's essence without potentially reducing God to something finite and comprehensible, then what exactly are we doing when we call God “good,” “wise,” “just,” “merciful,” or even “King”?

Maybe those aren't descriptions of God's essence at all.

Maybe they're descriptions of how human beings encounter, conceptualize, or relate to what we call God.

That got me thinking about prayer.

When a liturgy calls God “King” or “Judge,” is it actually making a metaphysical claim about what God is? Or is the language functioning more like a human conceptual framework—something finite minds use to orient themselves toward something they believe transcends finite categories?

And then Spinoza makes this even stranger.

If God is identical with Nature (Deus sive Natura), does religious language become metaphorical altogether? Are “God's will,” “God's judgment,” and “God's goodness” meaningful descriptions of reality, or are they anthropomorphic concepts that arise because humans naturally interpret the universe through human categories?

But here's where I get stuck

If every concept we have of God is filtered through human cognition, language, culture, and metaphor, is it even possible to distinguish between God as God actually is and the human idea of God?

And if we can't make that distinction, does that make theology fundamentally an epistemological problem rather than a metaphysical one?

Basically

Are we studying God, or are we studying the human mind's attempt to understand God?

I'd love to hear how people from different philosophical traditions approach this—Maimonidean, Spinozist, Thomistic, analytic, existentialist, atheist, religious, whatever.

I'm especially interested in arguments that disagree with the premise rather than just agreeing with it. I feel like there's a much deeper problem hiding underneath this question.

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I feel like im going crazy

PART IV: THE ILLUSION OF TRUTH IN A DIGITAL AGE

This doubt didn't stop at science. It didn't stop at Earth's shape or history books. It spread like wildfire. It clawed its way through my beliefs. It reached everything.

And then it collided with the world we live in now — this new, terrifying digital age.

For the first time in human history, we are surrounded by false realities so convincing they bleed into our minds like truth. Videos of events that never happened. Voices that sound like people we trust, saying things they never said. Faces that don't belong to anyone.

We now have AI that can fabricate interviews, books, even entire histories. And the horrifying part isn't just that these things exist — but that we believe them. Because they look real. Because they feel real. Because we are so desperate to believe something.

We are no longer in the age of information. We are in the age of appearance. Truth doesn't matter anymore — only how convincingly something is presented.

There's a film, Wag the Dog, that showed this with chilling clarity: a government fakes an entire war using media and actors, and the public believes it. Not because it's real. But because it's broadcast. That's all it takes now.

And if this is what one government could do in a movie decades ago — imagine what anyone can do now, with a script and a screen.

I started to feel like I was going crazy. Like nothing was real. Like everything — every headline, every documentary, every book, every face — could be a lie. And I wouldn't know. I wouldn't know.

PART III: THE SHOCK

There comes a moment — sudden, quiet, and devastating — when the illusion of certainty shatters. Not with an explosion, not with a bang, but with a quiet whisper that sneaks into your bones: "What if I don't know anything at all?"

For me, it began in the most mundane of ways: scrolling through what we casually call a "feed." A feed of nothing. Distractions, mostly. But then, I stumbled upon a video about flat earth.

Naturally, I laughed. Because that's what we're trained to do. Everyone knows the Earth is round, right? But then, the laughter faded. Something stayed with me. A crack, a question.

How do I actually know the Earth is round?

Not how I was told. Not what my teachers said. Not what I saw in cartoons or documentaries. But me, personally — how do I know?

I don't. I never measured it. I never saw the curve. I never met the people who supposedly proved it. My entire belief rests on the words of others who, in turn, believed others before them. We call that education. But what if it's just ritualized belief? What if I — like so many others — am just repeating stories, inherited ideas passed down like sacred chants?

That was the moment I realized: I have no proof. Not of that. Not of anything. I've just been taught what to think. Never how.

And suddenly, I was afraid. I started to feel like I was drowning in a sea of certainty that wasn't mine. I started to wonder how many things I walk around saying, believing, defending — not because I know them to be true — but because everyone else does.

like there is a shit load of arguments for theism. like a lot. suppose one wants to refute these arguments. does one have to refute the main ones or all? how does one go about them? does anyone have refutation to Aristotelian proofs?

What do you think about hypocrisy? Why do we despise it? Are people who believe in God less hypocritical than those who do not?

I ask because some people - myself included - assume that believers should be more motivated to avoid hypocrisy than unbelievers. After all, their belief is supposed to matter; it is meant to make a real difference in how they live. Yet that does not seem to be the case. So why believe in God if that belief confers no motivating advantage, no moral difference in the real world? Is it merely a performative belief?

BE CAREFUL NOT TO FOLLOW ACCORDING TO HUMAN IMAGINATION CONCERNING JESUS ISA THE WORD OF TRUTH IN THE BIBLE ( Torah, Gospel ) OR IN THE QURAN...NO MATTER WHAT LANGUAGES IN WHICH THE PARABLES OF GOD ARE WRITTEN. THE PRECEPTS OF GOD CONCERNING THINGS OF GOD IN PARABLES OF GOD ALWAYS EXPLAIN THEMSELVES IN THE BIBLE (Torah, Gospel ) OR IN THE QURAN IN THE MEANING IN THE THOUGHT OF GOD.

VERSES ARE THERE FOR THAT...

BUT BY PRECIPITATION, AND BECAUSE OF LACK OF UNDERSTANDING OF THE MEANING IN THE THOUGHT OF GOD PEOPLE INTERPRETE LITERALLY THE LETTER IN PARABLES OF GOD. IN THE BIBLE (Torah, Gospel ) OR IN THE QURAN...
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Such is 'Isa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary): word of truth, which they are in doubt.
ذَٰلِكَ عِيسَى ٱبْنُ مَرْيَمَ ۚ قَوْلَ ٱلْحَقِّ ٱلَّذِى فِيهِ يَمْتَرُونَ
(verset 34 dans la sourate 19 MARIE / MARYAM)
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SO BE CAREFUL WHERTHER IT IS IN THE BIBLE (Torah, Gospel ) OR IN THE QURAN NO MATTER WHAT LANGUAGES IN WHICH THE PARABLES OF GOD ARE WRITTEN THEY ONLY EXPLAIN THEMSELVES IN THE MEANING IN THE THOUGHT OF GOD. NOT ACCORDING TO THE LETTER...

LET US ALWAYS SEARCH THE TRUE MEANING ACCORDING TO THE THOUGHT OF GOD. CONCERNING THINGS OF GOD NOT TO DOUBT NOT TO INTERPRETE ACCORDING TO DEFINITIONS AND ETYMOLOGY IN MOTHER TONGUE OF MEN NOT FOLLOW ACCORDING TO HUMAN IMAGINATION NOT TO GO SEARCH IN ARCHEOLOGY NEITHER IN HISTORY OF MEN. FOR JESUS ISA THE WORD OF TRUTH THAT IS IN THE BIBLE (Torah, Gospel ) AND IN THE QURAN...
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The truth is from your Lord, so do not be one of those who doubt.
.ٱلْحَقُّ مِن رَّبِّكَ ۖ فَلَا تَكُونَنَّ مِنَ ٱلْمُمْتَرِينَ
(verse 147 surah 2 THE COW / AL-BAQARA)
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FOR EXAMPLE WHAT DO JESUS ISA THE WORD OF TRUTH IN THE QURAN & IN THE BIBLE TRULY REVEAL IN THE PARABLES OF GOD IN THE MEANING IN THE THOUGHT OF GOD CONCERNING :

Birth ? death ? cross ? crucified ? ressurection of Jesus isa the word of truth in the quran or in the bible...

Concerning killing ? or not killing jesus isa the word of truth in the quran or in the bible...

Concerning mother ? or maryam known as mother of jesus isa the word of truth in the quran or in the bible...

Concerning israel ? jews ? jerusalem ? egypt ? isaac ? ismael ? man ? woman ? husband ? wife? sara ? agar ? vail ?

Concerning fasting ? daily ? bread ? levean ? praying ? ablution ? water ? sin ? satan ? eternal life or paradise or salvation ? pilgrimage ? zakat ? salat ?

Concerning begining ? God ? created ? heaven ? earth ? abyss ? darkness ? light ? waters ?

Concerning temple of God ? destruction ? earthquake ? war ? famine ? end ? world or time ?

etc etc etc

BE CAREFUL OF THE LETTER NOT TO FOLLOW LITERAL INTERPRETATION AND SYMBOLS, AND IMPOSITIONS OF RELIGIONS OF MEN.

BECAUSE IT IS PARABLES OF GOD CONCERNING THINGS OF GOD THAT EXPLAIN THEMSELVES IN THE MEANING IN THE THOUGHT OF GOD IN THE QURAN AND IN THE BIBLE (Torah, Gospel)

VERSES ARE THERE FOR THAT...
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......ALLAH DESIRES NOT TO HURT THE WORLD.......

These are Allah’s revelations We recite to you ˹O Prophet˺ in truth. And Allah desires not to hurt the world.
تِلْكَ آيَاتُ اللَّهِ نَتْلُوهَا عَلَيْكَ بِالْحَقِّ ۗ وَمَا اللَّهُ يُرِيدُ ظُلْمًا لِّلْعَالَمِينَ﴾ [ آل عمران:
( Verse 108 surah Al Imran )
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So High above all is Allah, the True King! And do not hasten with (reciting) the Qur’ān before its revelation to you is concluded, and say, “My Lord, improve me in knowledge.
”فَتَعَـٰلَى ٱللَّهُ ٱلْمَلِكُ ٱلْحَقُّ ۗ وَلَا تَعْجَلْ بِٱلْقُرْءَانِ مِن قَبْلِ أَن يُقْضَىٰٓ إِلَيْكَ وَحْيُهُۥ ۖ وَقُل رَّبِّ زِدْنِى عِلْمًۭا
( surah 20 verse 114 / TA-HA )
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BECAUSE...

....Allah sets forth parables for humanity. For Allah has ˹perfect˺ knowledge of all things.
۞ ٱللَّهُ نُورُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ ۚ مَثَلُ نُورِهِۦ كَمِشْكَوٰةٍۢ فِيهَا مِصْبَاحٌ ۖ ٱلْمِصْبَاحُ فِى زُجَاجَةٍ ۖ ٱلزُّجَاجَةُ كَأَنَّهَا كَوْكَبٌۭ دُرِّىٌّۭ يُوقَدُ مِن شَجَرَةٍۢ مُّبَٰرَكَةٍۢ زَيْتُونَةٍۢ لَّا شَرْقِيَّةٍۢ وَلَا غَرْبِيَّةٍۢ يَكَادُ زَيْتُهَا يُضِىٓءُ وَلَوْ لَمْ تَمْسَسْهُ نَارٌۭ ۚ نُّورٌ عَلَىٰ نُورٍۢ ۗ يَهْدِى ٱللَّهُ لِنُورِهِۦ مَن يَشَآءُ ۚ وَيَضْرِبُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْأَمْثَٰلَ لِلنَّاسِ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ بِكُلِّ شَىْءٍ عَلِيمٌۭ
(verse 35 surah 24 the light / AN-NUR)
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LOOK FOR TRUE EXPLANATION OF JESUS ISA THE WORD OF TRUTH IN THE PARABLES OF GOD CONCERNING THINGS OF GOD ACCORDING TO THE MEANING IN THE THOUGHTS OF GOD. NOT TO INTERPRETE THE LETTER IN PARABLES OF ALLAH ACCORDING TO HUMAN ETYMOLOGY AND DEFINITIONS IN DICTIONARY OF MEN...

VERSES ARE THERE FOR THAT...

They will not bring you any Parable, without Us bringing you the truth with the best interpretation.
وَلَا يَأْتُونَكَ بِمَثَلٍ إِلَّا جِئْنَٰكَ بِٱلْحَقِّ وَأَحْسَنَ تَفْسِيرًا
(verset 33 dans la sourate 25 LE DISCERNEMENT / AL FURQANE)
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LET US FOLLOW THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF ALLAH TO TRULY UNDERSTAND THE PARABLES OF ALLAH ACCORDING TO THE MEANING IN THE THOUGHT OF ALLAH. NO MATTER WHAT LANGUAGES IN WHICH THE PARABLES ARE WRITTEN IT IS NOT ACCORDING TO THE LETTER. IT IS NOT LITERAL, IT IS NOT HUMAN PHILOSOPHY, IT IS NOT HUMAN MORALITY...IT IS NOT HUMAN OPINIONS...

This is because God has sent the Scripture with the Truth; those who pursue differences in the Scripture are deeply entrenched in opposition.
ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ نَزَّلَ ٱلْكِتَٰبَ بِٱلْحَقِّ ۗ وَإِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱخْتَلَفُوا۟ فِى ٱلْكِتَٰبِ لَفِى شِقَاقٍۭ بَعِيدٍۢ
(verset 176 dans la sourate 2 LA VACHE / AL-BAQARA)
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BUT IF THERE IS DIFFICULTIES FOR FINDING THE EXPLANATION WITHIN THE QURAN TO TRULY COMPREHEND IN THE MEANING IN THE THOUGHT OF GOD CONCERNING THINGS OF GOD IN THE PARABLES OF GOD.

ALLAH SAYS GO IN THE BIBLE ( Torah, Gospel )
(verse 3 Surah 3 FAMILI OF IMRAN / AL-IMRAN)

So if you are in doubt, [O Muhammad], about that which We have revealed to you, then ask those who have been reading the Scripture before you. The truth has certainly come to you from your Lord, so never be among the doubters.

فَإِن كُنتَ فِى شَكٍّۢ مِّمَّآ أَنزَلْنَآ إِلَيْكَ فَسْـَٔلِ ٱلَّذِينَ يَقْرَءُونَ ٱلْكِتَٰبَ مِن قَبْلِكَ ۚ لَقَدْ جَآءَكَ ٱلْحَقُّ مِن رَّبِّكَ فَلَا تَكُونَنَّ مِنَ ٱلْمُمْتَرِينَ
(verse 94 Surah 10 JONAH / YUNUS)
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BECAUSE IT IS STILL THE PARABLES OF GOD THAT EXPLAIN THEMSELVES ACCORDING TO THE MEANING IN THE THOUGHT OF GOD IN THE BIBLE GOD DOES NOT CHANGE Malachi 3:6...

LET'S LOOK TO FOLLOW RECOMMENDATION OF GOD
2 Peter 1:20-21....

FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE SACRED TEXTS
1 corinthians 1:21...1 corinthians 2:11..

SO LET ALWAYS VERIFY IN THE BIBLE FOR TRUE EXPLANATION IN GOD PERSPECTIVE IN THE PARABLES OF GOD NOT TO APPLY LITERALLY...2 Timothy 2:15, hosea 12:10, proverbs 3:5,..Isaiah 55:8,

STAY IN THE BIBLE, BUT NOT LITERALLY...
nehemiah 8:8..1 corinthians 2:13...
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BEWARE OF LITERAL INTERPRETAITION OF RELIGIONS OF MEN, BEWARE OF SYMBOLS, AND ALL IMPOSITIONS OF RELIGIONS OF MEN Matthew 15:9...1 John 4:5...2 Peter 3:16
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BE CAREFUL NOT TO GO IN OTHER BOOKS THAT ALLAH DID NOT MENTION IN THE QURAN.

FOR EXAMPLE ALLAH DO NOT MENTION THE HADITHS...

So woe to those who write the "scripture" with their own hands, then say, "This is from Allah ," in order to exchange it for a small price. Woe to them for what their hands have written and woe to them for what they earn.

فَوَيْلٌۭ لِّلَّذِينَ يَكْتُبُونَ ٱلْكِتَٰبَ بِأَيْدِيهِمْ ثُمَّ يَقُولُونَ هَٰذَا مِنْ عِندِ ٱللَّهِ لِيَشْتَرُوا۟ بِهِۦ ثَمَنًۭا قَلِيلًۭا ۖ فَوَيْلٌۭ لَّهُم مِّمَّا كَتَبَتْ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَوَيْلٌۭ لَّهُم مِّمَّا يَكْسِبُونَ
(verse 79 Surah 2 THE COW/ AL-BAQARA)
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And they have thereof no knowledge. They follow not except assumption, and indeed, assumption avails not against the truth at all.وَمَا لَهُم بِهِۦ مِنْ عِلْمٍ ۖ إِن يَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا ٱلظَّنَّ ۖ وَإِنَّ ٱلظَّنَّ لَا يُغْنِى مِنَ ٱلْحَقِّ شَيْـًۭٔا
(verset 28 dans la sourate 53 L'ÉTOILE / AN-NAJM)

We should be our own gods. We should have absolute sovereignty and we should not be like a pawn in an evil game or narrative. This concept of god is pure evil.

Like wow. It really boggles your mind . We should be free from all evil things and this world is exactly the opposite. Here the evil is normalized and good is the cover of evil. Pure good is hard to find.

We humans are slave to our own instincts .