Official Debate #1: Existence of God

Official Debate #1
Existence of God
Does the existence of God essentially matter?

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Please consider the above question carefully; in your argument, you may make assumptions either side of the religious beliefs spectrum - I'm not asking whether you believe God exists or not, rather to consider whether it matters if God does or doesn't exist.

NOTE: I am not asking whether God is real or not!


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I'll start off slow. I think yes. People naturally need something to believe in and we have researched this and proven that we look up to an higher power then ourselves. Society in general would be even in more chaos if we didn't believe in a God/religion in general. Society in a base to live there lives off of but not all but a lot need to.

In my opinion, yes, the existence of God, or any 'higher being' does matter.

It may not have mattered all those years ago when we were supposedly less developed as human beings, but as time went by, and ideologies and theories shaped our nations, continents and the world as a whole, religion has become an important aspect in life. This is, unfortunately, whether you like it or not. Some countries are still governed by religious beliefs, whereas some have changed to democracies, and in some few cases, communism.

I digress, however. If people have a notion of a God to believe in, then for them, it feels like they have a means to an end. Most people, that are religious, will say they are on this Earth to do their duty for their God. Others will speak of money, cars and a family. However, these two separate kinds of people live in the same societies. Therefore, each is affected by the other. We as human beings have learnt (for the most part) to be tolerant. Most of us will not expect a man to be fired from his workplace for believing in a God. Just as it is vice verse.

The existence of a God DOES matter, but only to the person or people who believe in it. Other people are affected by the notion of there being a God too, but to a lesser extent. Tolerance and acceptance are the main values that are needed for a society to work, and if people can't be tolerant or accepting of another's view, then society will disintegrate.

Therefore, it is important to acknowledge beliefs of others that there is a God. Which is why the existence of God DOES essentially matter.

This is actually a great question in which I do believ it does, I think it would relief many people if they were to find out there is a god, most people would rather know that someone,something, has made this world and didnt just appear on "accident".

To be honest, I do not think it honestly matters. If the world was created by a giant lizard man who farted and created the Big Bang, would it matter? It just means the world was created in that way. However the world might've been created, or what ways people believe it was created, does not change the fact that: It was created, and it's the way it is.

BUT, that's in only one sense. In the other sense, does it matter if God exists as a figure of hope? Yes. The belief in God and Jesus gives people strength, it gives them motivation. You can say whatever you want about religion, but religion gives strength in people that would otherwise have been harder to achieve. Religion is empowering to many people, and gives them hope when there's none to be found. In desperate times, people will believe and understand that Jesus and/or God is watching over them, helping them get through the hardships of daily life. Whether or not anyone likes it, religion has, and always will, have a HUGE impact on humanity as a whole.

To be honest, I do not think it honestly matters. If the world was created by a giant lizard man who farted and created the Big Bang, would it matter? It just means the world was created in that way. However the world might've been created, or what ways people believe it was created, does not change the fact that: It was created, and it's the way it is.

BUT, that's in only one sense. In the other sense, does it matter if God exists as a figure of hope? Yes. The belief in God and Jesus gives people strength, it gives them motivation. You can say whatever you want about religion, but religion gives strength in people that would otherwise have been harder to achieve. Religion is empowering to many people, and gives them hope when there's none to be found. In desperate times, people will believe and understand that Jesus and/or God is watching over them, helping them get through the hardships of daily life. Whether or not anyone likes it, religion has, and always will, have a HUGE impact on humanity as a whole.

I see what your saying but as I stated it above, I believe t would relief many people if they knew there was a god.

I see what your saying but as I stated it above, I believe t would relief many people if they knew there was a god.

Yeah I see what you mean as well. If somehow God was proven to be 100% real, like if he were to come down to Earth, and prove that he was undeniably God, and promise that it's all true, there would be worldwide relief.

I see what your saying but as I stated it above, I believe t would relief many people if they knew there was a god.

Yeah I see what you mean as well. If somehow God was proven to be 100% real, like if he were to come down to Earth, and prove that he was undeniably God, and promise that it's all true, there would be worldwide relief.

I wouldn't say relief but the exact opposite. When people find out that God is 100% real, people and nations alike will try to somehow harness the power or gain its trust by someway. Everyone will be trying to grasp this unbelievable essence of the unknown.

I see what your saying but as I stated it above, I believe t would relief many people if they knew there was a god.

Yeah I see what you mean as well. If somehow God was proven to be 100% real, like if he were to come down to Earth, and prove that he was undeniably God, and promise that it's all true, there would be worldwide relief.

I don't think that at this point in time it would be a relief for people to know whether or not God is real. Reason being that now the human race is so, I don't know how to put it. The human race is now so despicable and dishonest, that they would try and be as 'good' as possible to somehow try and manipulate the holy and unknown power that has come down to earth, for his/her reasons.

This would, in my opinion, eventually turn angels into devils and would cause more harm than actual good. Because when God is proven to be real (not implying that God is real or imaginative) there would also be evil. Because we have heaven and hell. So, no at this point in time, I don't believe it would be a relief to people. Tho it might be to some.

On the other hand if it were to be a few decades ago, when people still were at a level of trying to understand things, it would have had more of a good impact, and would have been more of a relief to people. Reason being that God would have been an example. People would follow the all knowing. The would have had so tutor to teach the about good and bad, and would explain them how to use things to better their lives.

Then again, we would have the problem that people would fear this all knowing being, this powerful being. They would come into resistance. That would also be a negative side to it.

There kind of is more cons than pro's to this. But that is just my opinion that I sat thinking of in the past 20 - 40 mins. I might have flaws here and there. So yeah that's kind of my opinion on that.

I don't think that at this point in time it would be a relief for people to know whether or not God is real. Reason being that now the human race is so, I don't know how to put it. The human race is now so despicable and dishonest, that they would try and be as 'good' as possible to somehow try and manipulate the holy and unknown power that has come down to earth, for his/her reasons.

This would, in my opinion, eventually turn angels into devils and would cause more harm than actual good. Because when God is proven to be real (not implying that God is real or imaginative) there would also be evil. Because we have heaven and hell. So, no at this point in time, I don't believe it would be a relief to people. Tho it might be to some.

On the other hand if it were to be a few decades ago, when people still were at a level of trying to understand things, it would have had more of a good impact, and would have been more of a relief to people. Reason being that God would have been an example. People would follow the all knowing. The would have had so tutor to teach the about good and bad, and would explain them how to use things to better their lives.

Then again, we would have the problem that people would fear this all knowing being, this powerful being. They would come into resistance. That would also be a negative side to it.

There kind of is more cons than pro's to this. But that is just my opinion that I sat thinking of in the past 20 - 40 mins. I might have flaws here and there. So yeah that's kind of my opinion on that.

I don't think that the human race would be that despicable, and I don't think they would they lie to God. Besides, God is all knowing. Why would you lie to something that can send you to hell, knowing that it has the ability to read what you think?