how can we convince people to believe in god?

Answer 1

You can't, not once they're past a certain age and don't just blindly believe whatever adults tell them anymore. Do you think you would have believed in the easter bunny if you hadn't heard about him until you were twenty?

"Don't listen to people who say let people make their own choice"

... I can hardly believe someone just said that. I am truely, truely disgusted by you. I wish there was a hell just so you could burn in it.

Answer 2

Why do we have to convince people of something so man-made? There is no "GOD" , God is a state of mind, a belief. The bible is a book and nothing more. There is actually more proof that aliens exist than there is that a god exists. For every concievable question that I have ever had about the existance of a god, the only answer after much debate was that I just have to "believe" What a crock. This is my opinion: If it feels right to you then go with it...but dont shove it down my throat. I have a strong gag reflex.

Answer 3

How about we have a good old Spanish Inquisition. Worked back then surprized Bush has not started it yet. The Spanish Inquisition was established in 1478 as a court for the detection of heretics, although its true purpose remains somewhat obscure. While most historians point to a combination of political, economic and religious motives, the latter were certainly predominant.
The notorious hatred between Jews and Christians led the inquisitors to believe that their actions actually saved Jews from the hideous fate awaiting them in the underworld; since the Jews were dying at the hands of God's children, their spirits would be pervaded by the wisdom and

knowledge of God's followers, and they would therefore be spared from hell and rise to heaven. Of course, this is unconceivable today, but 13th-century inquisitors who had only received a religious education were guided by blind faith.

The Spanish government and its religious officials proclaimed the need for a pure and unified Spanish-Christian race, forbidding intermarriage between Christians or converts and Jews, which would destroy their ideal of purity of blood (limpieza de sangre). Following this ideal the Jews were either killed or driven out of the country, although when the Spanish Inquisition was finally suppressed in the early 19th century, many thousands of practicing Jews were still living in Spain.

The political justification for the Spanish Inquisition was the existence of a threat to the monarchy. The Spanish Christians (Christianity was the most widespread faith) were outraged at the Jews for a variety of reasons, most of them religious, and saw the Spanish Inquisition as a means of controlling the Jewish population, removing the actual source of the problem.

Finally, in financial terms, 13th-century Spain was not a prosperous land. Continued warfare in Spain and Italy, not to mention the conquest of Granada, had drained the country's resources. Both the monarchy and the government feared a public outcry if such signs of weakness became obvious, especially in view of the increasing wealth and power of the Jewish community, overtly successful, some of whose members enjoyed greater social prominence than Spanish Christians. The government would soon turn to the Spanish Inquisition in search of an instrument capable of restoring the balance; the execution of hundreds of thousands of Jews was at once a form of revenge and a way of acquiring money and possessions at a stroke.

Answer 4

Convince? At best you can only tip the scales. Those that are struggling for answers, need most to hear from you. Changing the mind of someone who isn't listening, just isn't going to happen. How did you come to believe in God? Share that. Try to avoid being "preachy" or holier than thou. Eyes will glaze over and the message you most want to get over will not be heard. Most of all, trust in God.

Answer 5

God has never forced belief on anyone. We are all free moral agents, and can choose whether to believe or not. We can't make someone believe, though we can present some good arguments in favor of His existence; DNA for example.

All languages have to originate with a conscious mind. A mind had to create that language. Scientists agree that our own DNA has its own language. DNA is not just a molecule – it is a coding system with a language & alphabet, and contains a message. Who wrote that code/message? Someone had to. It had to originate from some mind somewhere. But whose?

The only true answer is that a Divine Supreme Intelligence had to write the code/language of DNA.

Simple, really.

Answer 6

Michael B is referencing a faction of the Roman Catholic Church. The Spanish Inquisition was a wicked and evil organization with an agenda of keeping people in a type of religious bondage. They refused to let people read the Bible for themselves saying that only a Priest, or church leader is able to interpret the Bible. Michael B, unfotunately like most Christ rejectors, lump Catholics and Christians into the same category. I personally would not, and do not support intimidation for my faith. A true, Bible believing Christian believes John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

I think an effective way to witness for God is to give your own personal testimony of how your life was changed.

Thanks for the question.

Answer 7

What will happen to God, if 'you' cannot convince people to believe in a God of their own or others' God?

Answer 8

All things that exist can be proven, at least with a degree of certainty - if "god" cannot be proven, then it does not exist. So, the question of "how do we convince people to believe in god" becomes as intellectual as "how to we get people to believe in flying unicorns".

Answer 9

A real Christian wouldn't want to.

Jesus spoke of the Kingdom being like what happened when one was a sower of seeds. The seed fell on fertile soil and grew. It fell on sandy soil, sprouted, then died. It fell on rock and grew not at all. The Word is not for everyone but for those who are the fertile soil (that is, have the spirit of God in their hearts, though not necessarily the knowledge).

He also explained that he spoke in parables so those who "hearing, heard not and seeing, saw not" would not understand the way to salvation. These were the same people who were the sandy soil and the rock, the spirit of God was not in their hearts. But, if he spoke plainly, they would understand that the way to salvation was repentance, confession, and a plea for forgiveness. If they did these things, Jesus would be compelled to save them because he had promised to do so for those who followed the rules. In effect, they would be able to "con" their way to everlasting life. So he spoke in parables because only those with God in their hearts would understand what they needed to do and be saved.

A Christian should only sow the seed. That is we need to let others in on the story and then let the seed grow. Spiritual people may yet have problems understanding. But they will seek that understanding. The others will be like the seed that has fallen in sandy soil. If you end up convincing them, they will place roots in the Kingdom, but earthly temptations will lead them astray quite easily and their spiritual roots will die.

Jesus never tried to convince anyone. He could have done things that would have left no doubts in the mind of anyone just who he was. For example, he could have visited the plagues of Egypt on the Romans, or called for an army of Angels to throw the Romas out of Judea. He did not.

Instead, he spoke his truths, and let the seed fall where it may. He knew not everyone would accept him . But those who did became his flock and he said, "My sheep know my voice, and they follow me.."

Answer 10

"Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased.. "Here I am-it is written about me in the scroll"
"I have come to do your will, O God"
Do not convince people to believe in God,, for the word of God was since the beginning of the world,, so how can they not learn or know God by now. Now look around,, are you hearing good news or how do you see this word of God coming,, he is coming with weapons and missiles,, he is not coming with peace for this world continues trying God....

Answer 11

How can we convince the closed minded? I think most non-believers only believe in what they see. I think if we live a Christian lifestyle we set an example for them & show them what rewards we have other than earthly possessions. And it doesn't hurt to pray for God's intervention in those we love to see His grace.