What will it take to make people believe?

Question

What do you believe in?
On what basis do you base your beliefs?
Do you think science can really give you the answers for progression?

Interested responses only please, thanks

Answer 1

You cannot make people believe anything,God has given people freewill to believe whatever they like.He does not force people to do anything, He gives them freedom of choice.
I belive in The Almighty God, The One True God,The creator of the whole universe,The author of Life,The Saviour and The only Lord God,The Lord Jesus Christ.
The only Basis of my belief is the Living Word of God, and the evidence of His presence in my life.He fulfils His word and promises as written in His word in my life.I have peace , joy ,rest and God's own rightousness.I am satisfied with the gift of God to mankind,our Saviour Jesus Christ.("And without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness;God was manifested in the flesh,justified in the spirit, seen of angels,preach among the gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory")1Tim3:16.This is the summary of my faith.
Science has no part in it. It was (science) originated by man, and God created man with wisdom,knowledge, and intelligence.That was how science was born, God gave man power for progression,science can do anything,but when it comes to contesting power with God It fails.
Thanks.

Answer 2

First of all belief relies on something of the unknown. I believe in this, but I don't have proof. So if you want people to believe then guess what you have to show proof. Not proof that some of the things are true but proof that all of it is true. In other words show me God. This is what I don't understand about many religions. While there is lots of talk of God, only a few people in each religion have ever seen God. And none of them have been alive for over 2 thousand years. (Except for the Mormons, which I think are a cult). When the Egyptians were making slaves of the Jews, God spoke to Moses, so why when the Nazis were making slaves off all those people didn't God come speak to someone and say, deliver my word. Or even when the Romans were taking over the world. Why didn't God smite them, since they claimed to be doing it in his name. You can not tell me in this age of horror and terror, that God is just sitting back and watching. While right now we can't answer everything with science at least we can See results, we can measure success.

Answer 3

I don't think you or anybody should be pushing religion into peoples faces if they are not interested!!

I personally am atheist and everynow and then we get BAC's coming to our house and preaching the word of the lord and telling us its the only way to be saved!!

Science holds the key to everything - its based on human learnings that have been passed down from teacher to student so on and so forth for generations. And every year we learn something more that enlightens us to our beginings.

The Bible is merely a tool that was used to put the fear of GOD into the world at a time when people didn't know any better!! Unfortunately as with all stories, myths and legends they tend to be misunderstood and exagerated through time!

Believe in yourself and your fellow man!! Put your faith in science!!

GOD I'm preaching NOW!!

Answer 4

I'm a pagan... I believe in the earth goddess, mother of all things.
I was brought up a Catholic but never managed to believe all this b...s...t. Then I was an atheist for years, not believing in anything.
Then one day, I stumbled across paganism, took an interest and found out that it was just putting a name on my personal beliefs. Before, when asked, I'd tell people I believed in nature, the sun and the moon, life. That's exactly what paganism is all about, respecting nature and life. And since I am grateful to the goddess for her beautiful gifts, my life is a lot nicer.
That's why I keep believing.

Answer 5

The problem with believing in what feels right is that it may not be true - just because you believe or disbelieve doesn't make sometihing true or not true - somethng is either true or it is not - there is a huge moral and ethical dilemma in relativism in that, to risk an old cliche, one could argue that if the Nazis believed that what they did was right and good, then it was right and good - I don't think too many people believe that -
I am not a Christian but I think that Jesus said 'you can tell them by their fruits' - I think this means you can tell the value/goodness/truth or whatever of things by the impact they have in the world and in peoples lives -
I also think that wisdom or whatever is contextual - right and good in one place and not in another - for example : many hands make light work but too many cooks spoil the broth -
I don't think therre needs to be a conflict in explaining the nature of the universe through science and believing in a creator -
Religious fervour can be a bit off-putting --- bye bye

Answer 6

I don't believe in any form of religion as I see it as organised superstition, something we should have been able to overcome at this stage. I'm sure the roots of religion had to do with control, but are we not sufficiently evolved not to have a morality based on fear, how about rational respect for life and each other? I think science may eventually answer all our questions (unless we destroy ourselves first...), quite honestly despite all the mistakes and setbacks, it provides more answers than religion which has no answers and is based on blind faith. On the other hand if concrete proof had to surface, proving the existence of God, I'd happily admit I'm wrong...not holding my breath though...

Answer 7

I wonder about that too... What will it take to make people believe in God? We are living in a time when you can drive down the street sit at a red light and be shot. Babys being raped and murdered. Elderly people being robbed, beaten. Fears of new diseases, chicken flu, west nile virus etc.

The threat of terrorism and wars everywhere. Famine. Weather changes, earthquakes, tornados, flooding, etc......

Read the bible people! The time we are living in was predicted long long ago. God is trying to wake people up! The signs are all in place.
The gas prices are rising and the economy is on the brink of collapse.
This world wont last forever and the fools who have said there is no God will face him.

Answer 8

Read about these guys on Wikipedia:

Snorri Sturluson (a viking from about 1,000 years ago)
As an historian and mythographer, Snorri is remarkable for proposing the theory (in the Prose Edda) that mythological gods begin as human war leaders and kings whose funereal sites develop cults (see euhemerism). As people call upon the dead war leader as they go to battle, or the dead king as they face tribal hardship, they begin to venerate the figure. Eventually, the king or warrior is remembered only as a god. He also proposed that as tribes defeat others, they explain their victory by proposing that their own gods were in battle with the gods of the others.

Compare this with Christianity.


Euhemerus
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Euhemerus (Ευημερος) (flourished around 316 BCE) was a Greek mythographer at the court of Cassander, the king of Macedonia. Euhemerus' birthplace is disputed, with Messana in Sicily or Messene in the Peloponnese as the most probable locations, while others champion Chios, or Tegea.
He is chiefly known for a rationalizing method of interpretation, known as Euhemerism, that treats mythological accounts as a reflection of actual historical events shaped by retelling and traditional mores. In the skeptic philosophical tradition of the Cyrenaics, Euhemerism forged a new method of interpretation for the contemporary religious beliefs. The reputation of Euhemerus was that he believed that much of Greek mythology could be interpreted as natural events given supernatural characteristics. It has been compared, specifically by David Friedrich Strauss, with many 19th century German rationalists, such as Johann Gottfried Eichhorn and Heinrich Paulus, in their interpretations of the Judeo-Christian Scriptures. Euhemerus's rationalizing, skeptical method, which reduces religion to what we would now call anthropology or sociology, has seemed like the forerunner of those sciences. Sigmund Freud, in Civilization and Its Discontents and The Future of an Illusion, makes religion into a kind of hopeful mirage seen by pre-scientific pre-psychoanalytic humankind. The reader should be aware, therefore, that "euhemerism"-- lowercase "e"-- is not praise, when used by contemporary comparative religious scholars. Even Freud, rebuked by Jules Romain and other friends, worried that he-- too much the humanist-- had failed to understand the spiritual experience. "Euhemerism" is sometimes used to mean naive reductionisms by modern secular thinkers, who mis-understand religious people and behavior by attributing to them only those motives (economic, psychological, utilitarian) which the secular thinkers comprehend.

Answer 9

Believe what?
I take it you want everyone to believe in your beliefs?
I believe people should choose for themselves and not be forced/bullied.
Science probably can't do any better than religion, but it can perhaps make us face facts.
I'm an almost spiritual, non-religious, iffy character.
I used to swallow a kind of Christianity, but I had a break down that killed that for me. I now believe in beauty as a clue to the meaning of it all.

Answer 10

I base my beliefs (and non-beliefs) on what can be quantified and analyzed. Science is not perfect, but science has done more to explain the universe than any religion (unless one lets science become a religion itself; then the purpose has been defeated).