2006-06-28 10:02:02 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I don't know how you cant believe in god when you see it everyday....
2006-06-28 10:36:57 · answer #1 · answered by Rada2017 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since before recorded history, people have struggled to make sense of their world. When the could not, the ambiguity caused them stress. So, in order to explain what they could not understand, they created a deity or deities.
- Before we understood the motions of the stars and planets, people used god stories to explain why the sun rises every day and planets follow predictable paths in the sky.
- Fast-forward a few thousand years and we have people unable to comprehend the complexity of the universe, and so, rather than accepting that for now some things are unknowable, they do what cavemen did: explain it away as god. "Intelligent design" is no more advanced a belief than our caveman ancestors thinking that thunder and lightning was an angry deity. Both are intellecutally bankrupt beliefs.
2006-06-28 17:17:14 · answer #2 · answered by Dr. Doom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It makes them feel safer to think there is something bigger that can carry the world through a disaster. It also gives people hope when a loved one is dying, sick, or has died. God is someone to talk/pray to, and he won't tell anyone what you say. I personally don't believe in God, but i think this is why some people do.
2006-06-28 17:11:21 · answer #3 · answered by Bunny Slippers 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People believe in God because he is real. He will never die. Maybe because he done things in there life. He has done something for everybody in the world. The bible says that he is real and I believe it.
2006-06-28 17:11:13 · answer #4 · answered by Faithhhh,[♥] 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Comfort, for somethign to believe in, to hope that is a greater purpose in life, to hope that after we die it isn't ust a waste of our time sittingi n the ground and that there is something else
I am not saying I necessarily believe all or any of that, I'm simply answering the question
2006-06-28 17:11:56 · answer #5 · answered by SKully 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the Bible doesn't have any other supreme beings in it to believe or trust in.
2006-06-28 17:17:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What else is there? God is all!
2006-06-28 17:20:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they don't want to be responsible for themselves, so they live by rules made by "god"
2006-06-28 17:05:50 · answer #8 · answered by Preykill 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
religion is to explain the unexplainable
2006-06-28 17:05:05 · answer #9 · answered by palm_of_buddha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because he is real! he LOVES us and... has a sense of humor!
2006-06-28 17:05:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋