I don't understand why anyone thinks we have to limit God to the Bible or Koran or anything humans have written. Striking out the existence of God, based on negative writings and human ideas of God, seems very in the face of logic and critical thinking. If you recognize that human beings wrote those things, then put them in their place. God had nothing to do with those human ideas and writings.
My clear feelings on the subject are that God does exist. I don't limit ideas of him by human writings. When I say God or Him, may I make clear that I don't limit God to being one or to being a specific gender. I don't think we have knowledge of the answers to those questions. I go mostly with my experiences of God, from me as an infant, toddler and child, when adults didn't interfere with my concepts and experiences. I was lucky enough that my mother and dad did not try to shape my feelings, experiences, concepts or beliefs about God or the universe or our existence.
I have said before and I will say this again: people either don't feel something up there or they do feel something up there.My grandson Julian, who hasn't had both of his parents in his life off and on for his entire life, he "doesn't feel anything up there"--his words. I have always felt something up there.
On the subject of feeling something. I will give you an example of the kinds of feelings I have, that have nothing to do with God. One night, at 4:30 AM, I sat bolt upright in bed, calling out my daughter's name so loudly, that I woke other people up. I had a horrible feeling that she was in danger. It had been a while since Julian and I had heard from her. She's his mother. We concentrated hard on her calling us. That night she called us. The first thing she did was tell me how she had been in Providence, RI that morning, at 4:30 AM, when a man knocked her down and tried to steal her back pack. She fought him and he left her alone and fled. She was traumatized by the experience. She didn't want to call me to tell me about it. She decided she wouldn't call me. But as the day wore on, she felt a stronger and stronger pull to call Julian and me. Finally she felt she had to pick up the phone and call. She was in a very troubled time of her life and we rarely heard from her. It was difficult for her to phone her mother and son, whom she knew would be worried about her.
Over my life I have had many such experiences of feeling and connection with my children, my siblings, etc. Some people call it woman's intuition or if it's not a woman, there will be a different label for this kind of feeling or connection. Some people call these kinds of things psychic phenomena. I am not here to debate my own experiences. I know lots of people have uncanny experiences and connections like this. I am bringing them up because of my grandson's statement that he doesn't feel anything up there, and then so many people who either share his lack of feeling or people like me who feel the opposite. I recognize that people don't believe or they don't have feelings or experiences of God or gods. I respect people who say that they don't have those experiences, but they understand it doesn't make the experiences of people who do have them, false or imagined.
