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Whether God Exists
There is something up what? It is universal force which controls earth water related to each other and you name it God or nature. What is God? Different religions has different opinions.
No body has seen God it is just imaginary figure. Different religion has different definition of God Latin word Deus means God. Religious belief has nothing to do with actual existence of God. Vedanta Brahma conditioned by Maya is God Creator of empirical world, Living, or nonliving objects which come into existence live & play on the stage called earth like waves emerge & dissolves at the end of ocean. Saivism conceived Siva as supreme God. Rudra=howler as personification of destructive powers as in storm & lighting. Nyaya-Omitted God because he is beyond & above the phenomenal world. Charvaka does not believe in spiritual values, but content with pleasure wealth Causality world is an effect composed of matter, earth, water light air, atoms of all matters are eternal. Man wanted cause for it & he gave name God. Who combines the atom is inferred. Mandukya - Upnisad says God is creator, destroyer & controller. Veda says God is creator, controller & destroyer but Veda is inferred from existence of God, it is circular argument. Yog Sutra - God neither creates the universe nor rules it. He does not punish or reward the action of man. Judism, Christianity Islam has belief in one God. Yogdarsana Does not regard moksa as state of union with God. In yog system God has no place in transcendental world. Jainism vaishnavism Budhism does not believe in God. Nyaya Veisesika, Sankhya Yog Schools - atoms, space, time, mind, souls, cells, are uncreated, eternal & contain no mention of God. Later Nyaya introduced God but not as creator but just as pot needs potter, God is needed to make world.
Mimansa rejects God & hold world is self existent has neither beginning nor end so it does not require creator.
Islam - Muslims means submission. Faith involves unconditional submission to the will of God. Who is known to muslims as Allah-an Arabic word meaning God faith was revealed to the prophet Mohammed by God whose words were letter collected into Islamic holy book Quran. They believe in final judgment day followed by an after life no heaven, no hell-They take spiritual guidance from Quran.
Jainas supernatural power is power of omniscience has nothing to do with creation Arhat cant create universe. Jainas are atheist have no creator God but have magnificent temples installed idols of granite or marble seated or standing erect in deep-meditation Jainas pray &
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