Why do people beleive in God?

Answer 1

Personally I believe because I had an experience of God, He filled me with His love one day, quite out of the blue really, and it was the most amazing experience of my life. I decided to give my life to Jesus, then I studied Christianity to see if it would live up to it's claims, and it does. That moment when God called me, He cured me of my depression too. He has used me to heal others, and that's certainly not something I could do before! The poeple I have seen healed have been sceptical non-Christians who were also mighty suprised that God did heal them, so it wasn't a case of mind over matter as some may say. Can I also add that I wasn't raised a Christian and had no idea what had happened when I was filled with the Holy Spirit, so no I'm not some stupid woman who has been indoctrinated. All that people believe about mind-control and domination by fear don't apply here as I never went to church. I live in the UK where Christianity is not as big a deal as it is in the USA.

Answer 2

Because they have been told by others that believe that a god exists, however there is no mythical deity at all - no god, no jesus, etc., just cultural belief systems that have nothing to do with higher contexts of reality. People in general are no smarter on this issue than they were in Roman times. It's easier to defer externally to someone else or something outside, than to accept ones own ability and trust oneself to make decisions.

Answer 3

Because science can only explain what has happened within the scope of time so can never explain the creation of time itself. e.g a pea sized matter which resulted in the big bang has to have been somewhere at some stage and that place and time can't be explained. Therefore, there has to be some power capable of defying logic and hence able to act outside the limits of time. Its a pretty watertight argument if you think about it deeply enough!

Answer 4

Because it is in our nature to want to understand our world and to ask fundamental questions about it, such as Who created the world? Who decides what is good? And for many people the existende of a God answers such questions.

It is this very curiosity which has made humankind so successful as a species: many would argue would argue that evolutionary competition has led to our development as a species that believes in concepts such as God.

An alternative, rather circular, answer is the creationist one that people believe in God because God made us that way. You cannot argue rationally against such a claim but I find it rather intellectually, and indeed emotionally, impoverished.

Answer 5

for the same reason people dont believe in god, but how can you define something that is beyond definition and exists as a definition. If you ask yourself how you define God then perhaps you can begin to rationalise the whole of the universe and your life and everybody elses life as a coherent idea, for most of us that is too big a process.if you begin to scratch at the surface of life then the underlying principles will make you amazed and then
it never stops ...

Answer 6

Because the average IQ of homo sapiens is around 100. This is insufficient intellectual horsepower to evaluate the better arguments both for and against the existence of an omniscient/omnipresent, all-powerful being. Ergo, it is much easier just to accept whatever pap your parents hand down to you, regardless of the fact that they too were inculcated with it by their parents when they, themselves were also too young and defenseless to object when they were involuntarily drafted into it, and so on ad infinitum.

Answer 7

Because we need to believe in something other than us is responsible for the way we live our lives and what happens to us. God has power that we can only dream about and hence we have created this superpower that has everything that we don't as humans...and we hope that they will impart some of it to us...and that is why we worship to God.

Answer 8

I think the main reason people believe in god is because they feel that it is a socially responsible thing to do. Human nature causes us to do immoral things that benefit us if we think that we can get away with it. Believing that there is a "policeman" watching us who will punish us if we have done wrong (and reward us if we have done good) should, hopefully, make us, and others, behave in a socially acceptable way. To put it another way "love thy neighbour".

Answer 9

let me answer you with a question?
why do you believe that just because gravity has thus far stopped you from floating off into space, that it will for the rest of your life?
the answer to your question is different for every single person who has faith.
for myself, i believe there is more to any one human than that whch makes up their physical form.
The people i have loved and lost, were more than whatever shells we put into the earth. whatever that lost part is, a soul, human spirit, whatever, i believe goes somewhere, although i am not sure where.
I just cannot conceive of the possibilty that it just ends. it doesn't feel true to me. just as the idea of waking up, floating across my bedroom seems wrong to me.
belief is just that. not an arguement, not just a point of view. just faith.
whatever your is or isnt (this applies to you all), i wish you well.

Answer 10

Belief in any deity is a strong survival strategy embedded in human biology; by acknowledging one's individual lack of power to ensure one's own immortality and by simultaneously shifting one's aspiration to live forever to some other being whose existence is outside of time, one then becomes enabled to recognize one's own mortality, and thereby have a better ability to cope with the often arbitrary vicissitudes of life.