Where do you think the need to believe in a God or the like comes from?

Answer 1

God

Answer 2

First, there is only ONE God, not "the like comes from". Should you doubt the existence of God, pick a nice clear night and look upward. That should keep you busy for a while. When we realize that we are finite, then our need to know a Higher Being is manifested. As a suggestion, read any book by Billy Graham and/or Max Lucado. I am very certain that your that your question will be answered, plus much, much more. God bless. The Patriarch.

Answer 3

Before there was education, people believed in several gods because it was the only way they could explain how the world worked. They couldn't understand the science behind the sun, behind life, and so on and so forth. So, they created gods. Then, suddenly, there was only one God. I don't believe in any god, but I think a lot of people need to believe because they have to believe in a such thing as love and goodness. They have to believe there's something better.

Answer 4

I think it was way before written history, when mankind needed to explain certain natural phenomena that they couldn't comprehend (e.g. lightning, the seasons, birth and death, etc.). So they believed that higher beings were responsible for this. The reason God or gods assume the form of humans is because it relates better to our understanding. The Greek gods, for example, are in the image of humans, but they represent the forces of nature.
All of the religions today portray their God as a spiritual being because our society has turned away from the material (secular) aspects of worship.

Answer 5

If you notice that since early times, early men had some form of worship depicted in the cave paintings. The natural occurences that they could not understand, were treated as signs from a Great Being. Even early civilisations also bore evidences that some form of worshipping were in place then. So this need is probably genetic by the time it comes to this era.

Then there are people who used this to their advantage, by being false leaders, or being leaders of new faiths, etc just to get rich or to have power over people. These are the dangers that one face nowadays. Not just evryday natural and mystical occurences.

Answer 6

The primate social instinct. Our social adaptations allow for a society different than other primate societies. We're more like chimps. Apes have a different social view. They have a single lead male who is the only one allowed to mate. We might have a genetic memory of this kind of arrangment within our beings. The echo of this memory may whisper to us that there is a Big Man in charge of all of us.
It's actually a bit more complex than that. I believe that man, and all matter, has a spiritual nature. As sentient beings, our anscestors were able to recognize this. They had an understanding that death was not the end. They began to care for their dead and passed down stories about their deceased cheifs and heros. Over the course of many generations these stories of veneration of Anscestors became tales of beings who were more than mortal.

Answer 7

First, the need to believe and to seek God comes from God Himself, we have a designer, someone who not only made YOU but the person through which the world was created [see John first chapter] the second member of The Godhead took your place at death, "FOR GOD so loved the world [put your name there instead of world] that is you will be-live in Him you will not perish... God so loves you and "IF" you love Him keep His commandments including the fourth which says keep the Sabbath Holy which is from sundown friday until sundown saturday, God bless, free Bible lessons at www.itiswritten.com hay write me [e-mail] God bless

Answer 8

Within ourselves. Think of this first. We create things after some model of something else. Essentially, we just don't come up with things on our own. We see a family, and then create one. We see flight, such as a bird or an eagle, and we create and airplane. We see earth as home for the human family, and we create a house for our own family. We create things after things that already exist. God already exists. We create the need to believe in Him because of this. Read Genesis.

Answer 9

God Himself. The Bible says that to each one has been given a measure of faith and that creation itself proves there is a god. I think in the end it is easier to believe there is a god because we will never be able to understand everything and it makes sense that there is someone bigger than us finite human beings. I have learned over and over that without God there is no hope.

Answer 10

It comes from the innate knowledge in every man that He has a Creator, that there is someone greater than himself that he needs to fellowship with. Every person is born knowing that God exists. Unfortunately, many spend their lives trying to ignore this obvious truth. Creation itself declares the glory of God (Romans 1:27).