How can anyone live without faith?

Question

I would have commited suicide if I didn't have a relationship with God, and I want to know how people live without Him.

Answer 1

Not very well. I wonder why some people even get on this topic of religious & spirituality, only to slam those who know about God and walk with God. The person, who answered this question, only to say those who believe have mental problems, seems very angry, and admits to not following God. So I guess you see, those who do not follow God walk around with anger and seem to attack those who walk in faith. Others, as you read feel God "hates " them. This is another sign of those who are faithless and feeling hurt and empty. Yet others make replies about needing alcohol, this is a way they attempt to fill the void inside of them.Others refer to "thinking" versus believing". You see some are very confused in their thinking. Satan comes to steal one's faith. He comes to deceive. By reading some of the disbelievers answers, many have fallen to Satan's deceit. Hopefully, their lives will lead them to the truth. God is the way, the truth, and the light. It does not matter what antichrists believe. All eyes will see and all ears will hear the truth. Some people can live for quite a while in denial of the truth....but eventually, they will need to face it. I really believe they want to believe and are looking for God.Why else would they get on this topic to answer,
the questions. The interest is there, they are drawn to religous & spirituality questions/topics. They are bitter & angry. They need people of faith to teach them about God. They are looking for beacons of light to lead the way, as they are walking in darkness.

Answer 2

I am sorry that you wanted to commit suicide :(, but there is 1 thing that stops me from ever doing that, and it's my family. My family would be devastated if I ever did that and so I will never do that. While it does help a lot, and you should do whatever makes you happy, you do not really actually need God to keep on living.

I'm not saying you shouldn't believe in God and that you are wrong, but just that God isn't the only reason to keep on living and that is why people can live happy lives without actually believing in a god ^_^.

Answer 3

I a very glad that you have a relationship with God and that you didn't commited suicide. BUT, stop being self-righteous by asking how people live without God, and be grateful that you found him. You are still a sinner just like each individual who does not know God.

Answer 4

Well, everyone lives with some faith and some belief, it just may not be in a god.

For example, when you take the stairs, you expect the stairs to be solid and allow your foot to find traction. When you drive approach a bridge, you expect that bridge to be there while you drive over it. It people didn't believe that, they wouldn't take stairs or drive over bridges.

So, in that regard, it's impossible as RATIONAL human beings to not have some faith and some belief. We all trust in something. We have to do so in order to act upon our decisions, enact out our plans, achieve our dreams.

What you choose to trust in, is of course your own decision. Just remember that not only does everyone live with faith, but anyone who belittles faith belittles his own self a little as well, since he must believe in something himself. You can see it in the way people choose and in their actions. Someone says "I'm going to put this in the mail now" and soon enough they went to put it in the mail. That was an act of faith, planned ahead of time, undertaking with trust in the world, self, and the decision, and saying otherwise is just a waste of breath.

Given that, you might want to delight that you have decided that it is worth trusting in the biggest, fullest, possible faith you can. Maybe that makes you more human than ever, maybe it makes you more real because you understand what we do every day is believe, believe, believe -- in something -- so why not make it something grand, beautiful, and valuable.

Works for me. I wish you well.

Answer 5

This is an interesting perspective to come from, but it's like a caged bird asking those that live in trees how they can live without cages. Your relationship with God is yours, and is unique and special to you. The lines of discipline, of belief and of obedience to your creator create the framework of your life just as surely as the bars on a cage create the comfortable environment of the bird that lives inside. To the free-flying treebird though, the world is bigger and wider, measured in winds and worms and wonders that the caged bird never sees. Many come willingly home to cages as they grow older and perhaps wiser, but for those without faith, faithlessness is wonderful and freeing.

Answer 6

If a person requires faith to live life, he/she doesn't have much of a life.

As a person matures, things that were once important seem less so and things that didn't seem important become more so.

Making a good life doesn't require as much faith as it does a good plan and the will to follow through on it. Faith becomes just another aspect of a full life, not the focus.

Answer 7

Very easily. I don't need to read a work of fiction (Bible) and listen to a paedophile in a white dress (priest) to know how I want to live my life. There is no such thing as God. He's a figment of people's imagination and if you seriously believe that there is some invisible all-knowing, all-seeing entity that controls the universe, then you have mental problems and possibly need medication.

Answer 8

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We enjoy relationship with the fabric of the world, and that is enough for me to fly, and fly, without the need of a relationship with any sort of a personnal god. Why should I commit suicide? Why should you? Fly with us!

Answer 9

Everyone alive believe in something, and everybody have his one hope. To become important, power-full, rich, to be happy, to take care of others, tu feel pleasure, to be appreciated, etc.
The persons who don't have nothing to do live from them memory. They live in the past, and detest the present... for them it is no happiness and no future.
About God, for a lot af people it is just a mental support when life become difficult and they feel powerless, unimportant or lost. So then they turn them face to God, and claim for helm and mercy. So sad, no?

Answer 10

They are born without relaitonship with God...they don't even know if He exists...but in his hearts deepest conrers every man wants to have a relationship with God...that's why they try buddhism n' stuff to find the relationship...