Why do you believe in God?

Question

Where and what did you hear about your "God" - what evidence caused you to accept that this god was any more real than other gods that are and have been believed in throughout the many millennia of human exisitance. What has caused you to accept one set of ancient writings over another? Specifically, why have you chosen to put your faith in the religion you have chosen.

Those who have already answered this are telling 'what' they believe. My question is 'WHY' they believe. Why you have chosen one belief system over another when there are so many to chose from.

Answer 1

Personally I cannot imagine being gullible and stupid enough to belive in a fairytale. But some people seem to need the intellectual crutch.

Answer 2

I choose to serve Jesus Christ because He changed my life. Before I got saved I was an alcoholic, drug dealer and user, I had sex outside of marriage, depressed, selfish..... (well you get the point) When I gave my life to Jesus Christ I no longer had the desire to do those things...literally. I mean I couldn't stop drinking or doing drugs or any of that but the instant that I said Jesus if you are real then you have to change me and He did. Now over the past 3 years He has healed my mind of depression, healed my body of ovarian cysts and asthma. I have seen marriages come back together through Jesus Christ. Plus there have be specific things that I have prayed for and He has answered them. Not only that, but I have a personal relationship with my God. I believe the Bible is the true word of God and I live my life by it alone.

Answer 3

Thank you for a great question.
When I was in my early thirties with a young family we began going to church (the thing to do, right?) . I had gone to church through my childhood and young adulthood - I valued it and went there when things were rough but I would not say that my life was greatly changed.
I had begun to have uncomfortable questions - such as: is my life about just working, raising a family, having a beer and some fun on the weekends, and die? (Sorry for the bluntness). I had no answer to that.
But God did not let me struggle with those questions long. The church we went to was fillled with genuinely loving people, I heard spontaneous prayers prayed for other people and for God's grace, and the Pastor taught about God and week after week I agreed with what he said, and my heart and life changed.
Some people accept in a moment but God worked in me and came to me over a few months. The pieces fit together.
I no longer had questions about my life, I had a peace and assurance each day that God was living in me and I knew I was living my life in his care and love. The changed life comes when a heart and mind become open to the truth through the Holy Spirit, and the words of Scripture become alive and filled with revelation.

I have been a Christian for 17 years, and each day Jesus is fresh in my heart and I have countless times when I know it was the Lord who cared for me through a situation (which he promises to do through faith), and prayer has been answered daily, as well as learning through the Bible and others who believe have taught me. There is " a peace beyond all understanding". Those things are the evidence, but I would not need them... I know God is real because he lives in my heart and spirit. There is nothing in this life I have come to know or in the words of scripture that is untrue.
Christ paid the price for my failures that I could not pay... and has given me an abundant life and the assured promise of eternal life.
If you are seeking - he will never fail to meet you when you ask him to, and invite him to. He will not come where he is not invited.

If you are led to - perhaps read the Gospel of John or "the Purpose Driven Life" by Rick Warren, which beautifully answers almose every question you are raising.

God Bless You.

Answer 4

When I was a teeny weeny little child, I knew that God existed. Noone told me. I just knew it. And I talked to Him alot...He was my "invisible" Friend. As I grew older, I wanted more clarification of Him. I wanted to know more about Him. This invisible Friend of mine. Because as invisible as He was, I knew He was more real than anything else in my life. I got into different religions and paths, but none really dealt with what I wanted to truly understand about God, and myself. And the world around me. Now I've found something that is, to me, totally complete...dosn't hold anything back, is straightforward and totally honest with no gaps or holes or compromising or pandering to my material desires. I believe there is a God, He's believed in in so many different ways, and it's all the same God. We're all different, and we all believe differently, according to where we're at and how much we can digest and accept. And, because I exist, God exists.

Answer 5

Because i have faith. I have seen many miracles unfold right in front of my eyes, i know there is no other way. Jesus christ lived. Every other religion was made up by the people who chose not to follow him. He died so that i could live(and you to of course) and no matter how much some may hate him he still gave his life for them and loves them wwith all of his heart no matter what they have done. All he asks is that we follow and spread his word. Faith is something you can't necessarily describe without ever have experienced it. And those who chose to mock me ornot believe it, one day everyone will know the truth, that jesus christ died so that we would not have to... and that he is the only true God. Those people wil make their own choices and they will affect how they spend eternity. In heaven with God, who loves you, or in hell with satan who does anything he possibly can to harm you or make anything but happy. O and the pain is reall,y bad too. ya know its supposed to be fire (hoptter than anything else we'v ever come in contact her on earth. Hard choice? i don't think so.

Answer 6

i love God and i believe because all the truth is in the Bible, plus if u look in the Book of Revelation there are all ready somethings that already happened before the end of the world comes to an end. But that's not wat i only believe.I know and feel that he is their in Heaven looking down at us. Plus when my mom was little, she was laying down on the ground looking up in the sky and she felt that there was something up there (by the way, she was born deaf). So one day she went to church and she found out that it was God, that is wat she felt. also, do u think people just appear? i don't. do u think science made us? if it did, won't some people still be made today out of nowhere from science. Now how do u explain how miracles happen? like i saw on telavision, this little girl got hit by a car and all kinds of people rushed out to help her, they put her on the ground and formed a circle around the little girl, held hands and pray. this women looked at the little girl and saw the little girls dint in her head went back to normal and the little girl woke up,because it wasn't time for her to go (die),she woke up. Do u think that came from science? i think not. Or this one time there was this women with a bad heart and she was fixing to die, then when some church people came by they started praying together. then she felt something strange had happened, she told the doc.'s that she felt better then before, so the doc.'s looked at her heart again and it was like new, before her heart was very bad like a 30% and then now it is a 100%. Now that didn't come from science did it? absolutly not. and there lots of other stories too about miracles happening. how do u explain those? i know, by God. Now wat do u believe? science made us or did God make us? i believe God did. Just look at the Bible, read It. Go to church. and then hopefuly u will see.

Answer 7

For me, I had just left an abusive relationship and my life was on the line. My husband had a gun out and was going to shoot me. I ran...and got on a plane to San Fran. On the plane I was shaking uncontrollably and looked out the window...we were above the clouds...the beauty of what I was looking at just flooded me until nothing else was there...peace filled me. I heard myself say, "God, if you're really there...I put my life in Your hands. I've failed miserably at everything...I can't do it anymore." And then I finally started crying. The sobs came from deep inside me, all the repressed fear, hurt, pain came flooding out. And then I heard a gentle whisper in my head..."I've always had you...you've never been out of my sight...I even saw you when you tied your first shoelace." And then it was like a liquid warmth filled me. I thought I would melt into oblivion. It was like I had given Him my mess, and He would give me His help. And He did.

When I got off the plane it was as though everyone went out of their way to help me. I found a place to live, a job, and found that I was right across the street from a christian community. After I got settled I heard the gentle voice again. He said, "I want you to meet My Son." So I went into a meeting at the christian center and heard about Jesus. I learned about the Gift God offers through Him. And having experienced God first hand I had no trouble receiving what His Son had to Give, and what He had to Say. So, it didn't begin with a Book for me, it began with an encounter. The Book came later.

Answer 8

I kept an open mind I searched for answers I studied many different ways and found believeing in God to feel best in my heart. I do not follow for the gift of heaven I do not follow out of fear of hell I do not follow because of what others may say. I follow because it feels right to me and makes me the person I can be proud of.

Answer 9

I believe in God because He God created me, He is the reason why i see each day of my life, God is the Creator of the whole universe and everything it, He sent is only begotten Son Jesus Christ to die on the cross to cleanse me from all unrighteousness that I will have enternal Life.

Answer 10

Because the universe exists in a manner that is perfect for us to observe it. Because of that, there is an implied meaning to the universe. With meaning, there is intelligence. With intelligence, there is god.
I do not subscribe to texts written by man, because as man is, they are flawed. They prescribe a level of morality and laws that are subjective.
I believe in god as a concept, and as an expression to describe the intelligent universe.