Does god exist: my opinion?

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Does god exist: my opinion?

After studying God’s existence and the reasons why people think that god does or doesn’t exist I have come to the conclusion that I am unsure about his existence. I feel there are some reasons that justify god’s existence and other things that don’t. I therefore class myself as an agnostic.

There are several reasons why I believe that God exists. One idea I have is that because there is so much in the world that is bad I believe there must be something to balance this that is completely good. I believe that God is this. I also think that is each and very person is unique then everyone’s life must have a meaning or a purpose and it is God who had given us this. There are many things in life that no matter how hard we try we can not explain. If God exists he provides an answer and explanation to all of these mysteries. This also links in with the idea that life is so complex and diverse many people including myself find it hard to get our heads around the fact the world and everything in is the result of an accident or freak of nature. The fact that the Big Bang just occurred and everything formed is quite a difficult idea to comprehend.

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Some theories that I feel back up my ideas are Thomas Aquinas’ cosmological argument. He states that something can not come from nothing. His argument also says that every effect must have a cause. This makes sense to me and I feel it is a good point.  William Palley also came up with a clever idea that if you came across a watch in the street, having never seen one you would assume that someone had put it together as all of its workings were very complex and it couldn’t have come together by chance. William then likened this idea ...

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