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| What Does it Mean to "Believe in G‑d"?
By Manis Friedman
The statement, "I believe there is a G-d" is meaningless. Faith is not the ability to imagine that which does not exist. Faith is finding relevance in that which is transcendent | |
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| Where Is G‑d?
By Tzvi Freeman
The other day I realized that I hadn't seen G-d in quite a while--probably not since childhood... Where did I misplace him? | |
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| Does Everyone Believe in G‑d?
By Aron Moss
"Believe in yourself. There's nothing you can't do, if you put your mind to it. " Nothing you can't do? Sounds pretty divine. A pity it's not true... | |
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| What Do I Do If I Don't Believe?
By Aron Moss
If your faith in G-d is not enough to get you out of bed in the morning, what about G-d's faith in
you? | |
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| How Do I Know That I Really Believe?
Maybe G‑d is just a comforting thought?
By Tzvi Freeman
I realize that I don’t like this idea of one day not being here anymore. Perhaps G‑d and the eternity of life are just constructs of our mind to protect itself from that which it can’t handle? | |
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| What do Agnostics Believe?
By Tzvi Freeman
"Only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair can the soul's habitation be safely built." Who said that? Does anyone believe that? | |
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| Is G‑d an Agnostic?
By Tzvi Freeman
I think G-d is also agnostic. He sits there perpetually wondering whether He exists or does not exist. Out of His questioning, a whole world is generated--with beings like us that go around asking, "Is this for real, or what?" | |
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| What Does G-d Need Us For?
By Aron Moss
If G-d is perfect, why did He create us? A perfect being isn't missing anything, so why would He need us? | |
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| Is G-d an It, an I, or Nothing?
Or: G-d's Sticky Fingerprints
By Tzvi Freeman
What's the difference between No-thingness with a capital N and vanilla nothing with a lower case n? What makes one Nothing G-d and the other just nothing? | |
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| Proof of G-d's Existence
By Aron Moss
I feel that I cannot observe a religion if I am not certain that it is true. Is there a proof that could give me a 100% certainty that G-d exists and gave the Torah to the Jewish people? | |
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| Getting Personal With G-d
By Tzvi Freeman
A personal G-d? It would be nice to think I could have a personal relationship with G-d, or that I matter in some way to Him. But I'm a rational person. | |
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| Did G-d Create Evil?
By Aron Moss
Here's the paradox: Goodness exists because G-d desired it; evil exists because G-d doesn't want it... | |
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| Hasn't Belief in G-d caused as much Evil as Good?
By Tzvi Freeman
We have one G-d. So do they. We pray to Him three times a day, they do five. So what was the point of this one G-d idea? So that people could get blown up for eating pizza? | |
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| What's So Terrible about Idolatry?
By Tzvi Freeman
I don't mean massive temples with human sacrifices. What about a civilized idolater, in the privacy of his own home? What's so terrible? | |
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| If G-d Knows Best, What's the Point of Prayer?
By Tzvi Freeman
Think of prayer as G-d talking to Himself -- through you | |
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| Can a Sinner Pray to G-d?
By Tzvi Freeman
Even at the time you are committing the worst crime, your soul screams inside like a captive woman, remaining faithful to her Beloved Above. And now you want to take away from her that last opportunity to scream out loud for help? | |
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| I Feel Like a Hypocrite!
By Aron Moss
I feel like a liar saying the prayers. How can I exclaim, "love G-d with all your heart" when I don't really feel that way? | |
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| Why Do Things Go Wrong?
By Tzvi Freeman
Adam wasn't supposed to eat from that tree. Cain and Abel were supposed to
talk things out. Everyone was supposed to get along. That was Plan A | |
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| When People Suffer, Is It G-d's Fault?
By Aron Moss
We cannot accept the cowardly theology that G-d is not responsible -- that anything that happens in the world that doesn't mesh with our idea of His goodness is just an amoral and indifferent act of nature... | |
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| Was the Holocaust a Punishment from G‑d?
By Tzvi Freeman
Why can we say that biblical tragedies were punishments, yet contemporary ones are "the mysterious way of G-d"? Have today's rabbis changed their perception of G-d to fit what's politically correct? | |
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