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"Which God? Just about everybody has their own version."

The one the evidence points to as being real.

"Do you really just get to pick and choose?"

Only you can decide what you choose to believe. But that's not to say that the evidence won't point you in a particular direction. You have to decide whether you want to follow the evidence or choose your own way. One path leads to reconciliation with the creator. The other paths .... do not.

"I am convinced the Moslem GOD is about as evil as it gets but one billion people seem to follow that one?"

I agree with you about Islam being evil. Deciding what you will believe is not a decision you can or should make based on group think, regardless of how many people follow Islam or Christianity or Judaism or Hindo or Ozzy Osborne.

"How do you decide when the criteria of choice is faith?"

Faith shouldn't be the only criteria. Truth should probably be the number one criteria. Evidence should be a criteria as well.

You are convinced the Moslem God is evil. Why? What criteria? Because your heart tells you that killing innocent women and children and terrorizing people is wrong. That's truth. I don't know if you or I can write a scientific discourse that proves it's wrong, but in your heart you know what is true.

There is evidence for the God of Judaism and Christianity. "Evidence that demands a verdict, I and II" are two good reference books that plows into the evidence.

"When you have automaticly thrown out reason from your decision?"

Heaven forbid! Don't throw out reason. The God of heaven invites you, "Come let us reason together, though your sins are like scarlett, they shall be white as snow". Reason should guide you there. God's existence in light of the evidence I've seen is the only logical conclusion. Perhaps you haven't seen as much evidence as I've seen. Perhaps you didn't go looking for it. I don't know.

"Just go with the one your parents taught you?"

Nobody, including your parents can decide your beliefs for you. You alone have that responsibility. My parents were an aid. I could see the happiness and peace that radiated from them relative to other people. That was a major factor in my wanting a relationship with their God. But ultimately it was on the evidence I saw that I relized that God is. A combination of truth unparalleled in any other religion, detailed prophecies fulfilled, testimonies of miracles on a scale not seen by other religions, and one on one interaction with God. Learning to listen for His voice, seeing prayers answered, and seeing prayers go unanswered often to learn the reason why later, and sometimes seeing answers that were so direct and so fast to the questions that I asked, that the only reasonable explanation was that I had been heard and answered directly.

"If among all the Gods presented to us do we have any that are consistant with scientific discoverys or that actually predicted them?"

Depends on what you mean by scientific discoveries. I believe the Christian God has a pretty good track record, that ranges from information about the Cosmos, to social sciences, to a confluence of prophecies about the end of the age that appear to be converging at the current and near future.

"If there is a God why should he care about us at all? We'd be to Him like Bacteria are to us. Small, numerous and easily ignored."

I don't have an answer for that other than that it is a testament to God's greatness that He does care about us and about us as individuals. Yes, you would think that a God that could create the Cosmos in all of it's glory wouldn't be mindful of man. Why? You might as well ask why is there anything at all? I don't know. I'm just glad that He is and does care.