If billions of peoples believe in a religion/god does that make it true?
2006-06-23 07:02:23 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Belief doesn't make something true. That is just faith.
2006-06-23 07:06:05 · answer #1 · answered by jboatright57 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God is true because he is objective. God is eternal, God stands outside of space and time. That is why objective, eternal truth exists. If every human being didn't believe in God, he would still exist. However, Many Billions knows he exists because they have understood, grasped, and known eternal truth.
2006-06-23 14:08:19 · answer #2 · answered by enigma21 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Truth cannot be falsified because people believe its false. Something that is true, is true regardless of an entity's ability to discern that truth.
If everyone believes the earth is flat, it does not mean it has to be flat.
If everyone believes evolution is true, it does not mean it has to be true.
This follows the fallacy of argument from consensus.
2006-06-23 14:07:02 · answer #3 · answered by Brad 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is, IS. Your belief ..... or the lack thereof, will not change it.
Try this:
Hypothesize that I am able to convince anyone who hears my voice that whatever I say is the truth and anyone who hears my voice believes what I say without the tiniest doubt. Further hypothesize that anyone who hears my voice hears it speaking their mother tongue, not matter what language that is.
Now suppose I get on a worldwide hookup with audio and visual media so that everyone on earth who can hear at all now hears my voice speaking to them in their native language.
I then tell them the following:
Tomorrow morning at dawn your local time the sun will rise in the west. I want everyone who hears my voice to go outside before dawn their local time and face the rising sun in the nude.
Remember, they all hear me, they all understand me and they all believe what I say without a shred of doubt. So everyone goes outside before dawn and faces west, nude.
Which set of cheeks do you think is gonna feel the sun's heat first?
Contrariwise, suppose that no matter what I say, nobody on earth believes me. They hear me, they understand me, but they do NOT believe what I say. And they will do the opposite of what I say just to disprove it. And I say:
Tomorrow morning the sun will rise in the east. Stay indoors or it will burn you.
So tomorrow morning where's everyone gonna be? Outside watching for the sun to rise in the west, that's where. And where do you suppose the sun will rise? Disbelief in something will NOT uncreate it. Truth is truth no matter WHAT you believe, no matter who speaks it, no matter if none accept it.
Truth stands of itself. The smart ones figure it out and go with the flow. The rest merely drift until they are dashed upon the rocks.
2006-06-23 14:16:02 · answer #4 · answered by Granny Annie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not true because people believe in it. People believe in it because it is true. Religion that is
2006-06-23 14:07:19 · answer #5 · answered by Swordsman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are several Religions in the world, while some may contain some truths only one Faith contains the whole Truth and that is the Faith in Christ our Lord.
2006-06-23 14:06:45 · answer #6 · answered by MrCool1978 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you really believe we have been outside our cage called Earth? Then you might as well believe in God.
2006-06-23 14:07:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if billions of people thought you were a dog would that make it true?
2006-06-23 14:07:36 · answer #8 · answered by flutterflie04 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, - it would be flat to them, and we shouldn't tell them they are wrong.
(Spoken like a true modern-day Politically Correct idiot)
2006-06-23 14:07:19 · answer #9 · answered by MK6 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you mean the earth ISNT flat ??? Hell, you`ll be telling me Armstrong walked on the moon next.
2006-06-23 14:11:27 · answer #10 · answered by greengunge 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋