I think we "think" God listens when he helps us through certain things which we had been asking Him through prayer.

For me, I was 18 and had a speech problem. I fell very ill and gave in to asking with "all my heart" in prayer to God for help. He had never seemed to help me before with this problem and I had a very unusual high-school career. I did not want to struggle with the same thing going into college!

So I asked God and truly believed that he would help. I got what I asked for and God helped me to change my speech so that I sounded more like a normal person. The problem was that my speech problem was only a result of a more serious mental disease that I never knew existed until after I failed out at college. Thanks God! I still can't figure out why God is so mean to me. You would think that he knew this was going to happen!

God aswered your prayer. Pray carefully next time make no mistakes.
But you did not know about your illness... Never noticed anything till you were 18 ?

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Did a god create humans ? There are so many stories it is hard to tell the thrut. Facts are huminity has it's common background and a common future. Now lets behave more and plunder the Holy Scriptures and Temples to find a last bit of Believe, Hope & Love for Each Other.

In fact this is a great question of which nobody has an answer and maybe we are in a dream. God is a question and a solution too and I find God' s existence totally inexplicable. Our logic will fail and so will rational mind to comprehend the nature of God. Maybe we have to be a God to understand the nature of God.

Maybe we have to be a great devotee to understand God' s nature and to find our answer to the question of why God created humans.

In fact it is a very big question. We do not know whether there is a purpose beyond the creation of the universe. In fact speaking from a scientific perspective there is no purpose at all and there is no predetermination.

We have no clue to the existence of God other than what wee have read about God in our books of theology or mythology

The explanation about God' s existence cannot be proved yet we can disprove it either. In fact no scientists can claim to know about the exact position of the universe

sorry if this disrespects you reading the bible and all, but in norse mythology, its believed that humans were created to worship gods. i guess that being loved by perfect people (angels) was not nearly as challenging or self fulfilling as god would have liked, and decided that humans would be a better choice.

To be MORE empowered to choose and achieve MORE objectives is to have MORE options, and MORE capabilities..

{FREEDOM} = {BEING ALIVE} = {HAVING options and capabilities} = { being empowered}

MORE FREEDOM = { MORE options, and MORE capabilities}={MORE LIFE}

{having no options and no capabilities} = {totally un-empowered} = {total lack of freedom}={DEAD}

SEEK LIFE, GIVE LIFE..

If we seek each others FREEDOM/LIFE/EMPOWERMENT the we will EACH have MORE FREEDOM/LIFE/EMPOWERMENT than if we had done otherwise..

This is the foundation of the logic and reasoning of how to determine and to realize(discover new) laws/rules/regulations/systems which are RIGHT...

LOGOS


You are not entitled to “your” opinion, you are entitled to “an opinion”

You are entitled to fail or succeed according to the TRUTH/LIES in your mind..

You are entitled to seek truth, act according to it, and fail or succeed in accomplishing your objectives..

Your ability to realize truth is dependent on “the rightness of your conception of reality”

Reasoning is not to “decide” for yourselves what is TRUE, it is to “distinguish” what is KNOWN from what is UNKNOWN..

The essence of LOGIC/LOGOS/TRUTH is “Contrary Objectives CANNOT be accomplished”

“A House that stands against itself, cannot stand”

“If the words of reasoning conclude that you abandon all reasoning, let the first to be abandoned be the reasoning of those words.” - Marc Rose.

there is one flaw with your comment. you assume that we have free will. if there is a god that is omniseeing, omnipotent and good-willed, then why should he risk the fate of humanity in its own corrupt hands?