Why do people find its necessery to believe in a god?

Question

Simple Question no need for details.

I find it sad that people need to believe in some god to find perpose.

Hey steph i agree people Do have a need to reason. In todays age Science, Psychology, Philosophy gives us reason. They dont explain or clarafy everything but at leased what they say is reasonable.

Hey steph i agree people Do have a need to reason. In todays age Science, Psychology, Philosophy gives us reason. They dont explain or clarafy everything but at leased what they say is reasonable.


Why is it so hard to believe that the earth was created by pure chance? Just flip a coin its completly random like every thing else.

Have you ever seen this god? How do you know he even exists? Its one thing to take god as an idia but people take it literal.

Answer 1

The basic answer, when you boil all the other answers down, is that people find God religions necessary to be able to deny the evil aspects of life.

God religions deny death (you will be reborn in Heaven), injustice (God will judge all finally), ignorance (In the beginning, God created...etc.), and human animal origin (keep reading Genesis).

Unfortunately, religion cannot deny these evils without also denying one good thing: - reason.

Answer 2

Well it all depends on who the person is, how they were raised, and what they truly believe.
I am a basic Catholic. I believe that Jesus died for our sins, and God is up there, and one SHOULD (NOT MUST) repent, and pray and confess if one feels like they need to, and should seek spiritual guidance from a member of the clergy if they feel as if they need it. I take communion, and I'm not saying that I am the best Catholic in the world, because there are things that I just don't agree with, for example I believe in Birth Control and other methods of contraception, and the morning after pill, I agree with gay-marriage because it doesn't effect me so go ahead get married, be in love... I definitely DO NOT believe that if you're trying to find your religious self that it is a one way ticket to Hell, and I believe that there is a Satan, and all the Hell mumbo-jumbo.. But people believe in "a" God because they have an entity that they think or believe that is always there so it's something to turn to no matter what, it's this weird complex that all humans have.
Nice Question.

Answer 3

In a College Social Science Class we discussed this in depth. Human beings have a basic need to reason. In ancient Egypt for instance if there was a plague, then it was because they had done something to anger the gods and were being punished. In Greek Mythology the Trojan war was started over a beautiful woman as plotted by the Gods in a great soap opera like scheme. Even today one of the first steps in a 12 step program is something about turning your life over to a higher power. I am a christian and I do believe in God. But for all anyone know the bible is just some rablings of a crazy person. Today if someone said the heard God's Voice we'd have him committed. Basically it was decided that people need to believe to keep themselves from going nutty.

Answer 4

To answer this question you first have to ask yourself another question: "In the beginning, or thereabouts, why did someone find it necessary to create a god?

Answer: At some point he or she was getting a little pissed off that the strong or smart people were lieing to, cheating, stealing from, raping, torturing and/or murdering (MUCK) the weak or stupid people. Not having access to a nuclear warhead to wipe them all out, he or she then decided to instill the fear in them that there would be ridiculously painful consequences to these actions (from some such being he or she chose to call a god) when they passed on. After a time of moderate decline in the above mentioned atrocities, this same he or she then decided to further reduce the unpleasantries by mentioning that in fact if they didn't participate in any of the MUCK and even helped those that they came across who were stuck in it then they would receive ridiculously pleasureable rewards for their efforts by this god and his growing company of co-gods when they passed on. The MUCK soon declined to what he or she regarded as an acceptable level and life was bearable. In the ensuing ten thousand years since then the MUCK levels have gone up and down as have the perceived omni factors of these perceived gods. Contemporary civilization has modified the concept slightly by allowing that their one true and most omni-ous god does encourage the odd bit of MUCK now and again and that as long as you say you're sorry afterwards there's no danger of incurring the ridiculously painful consequences or missing out on the ridiculously pleasureable rewards.

Hence the answer to your question: FEAR and GREED.

Answer 5

Because the internal search to understand our place in the world is what makes us human. It separates us from all the other animals on the planet. We are the only beings capable of self awareness and do not believe that is only by chance. (What a sad world that would be if it were true?)

That is just it, believing that the earth was created by chance is a belief and it is your belief, not ours. You cannot prove that the earth was created by chance through science, nor can you prove it was created by a god.

I am a firm believer in what science can teach us. It is very good at breaking things down into simpler parts that can be easily understood. It is very good at telling us, Who, What, Where, When and How? But it doesn't answer the single question most want to know, "Why?"

Religion is that outlet people use to find the answer to "Why". And honestly, that is their perogative to have that belief.

Regarding your question of "Have you seen God?" I would say that I have seen proof of his existence in everything I see the light touches. When I look at the hands and fingers of my children as they draw pictures on a piece of paper with a crayon. I marvel at how amazing a hand is to behold. Science may tell me that it is a series of evolutionary processes that over time became the hand that I know see (and that may be correct), but to me it only diminishes the beauty of a hand, and does not enhance it.

Even Darwin himself admitted that as he continued to view the world through science that it lost its wonder to him and dulled his senses.

Answer 6

I do believe in God, not because I feel it necessary, but because I have a hard time believing that the Earth created itself with the splendor it is accidentally. Anyways, the fact that I believe or not believe has no bearing on the truth of God's existence. The fact that I believe doesn't prove God exists, same as, the fact someone else may not believe doesn't prove God does not exist.

Answer 7

Not everyone finds it necessary, and that's ok. I didn't believe until He/She smacked me upside the head (in a loving way) one day and said "Helloooo". When it happens you can't be in denial of it, because it's the most real, honest, loving thing that has ever happened to you.

It is frustrating sometimes because I want everyone to know that feeling but there is nothing I could ever say or do that can make it happen.

Answer 8

People believe in god for various reasons. They don't want to feel like they are abandoned in the universe. People believe in god because they look for a guide something that separates good from Evil, tells them what they should value, gives them morality, and something to take responsibility for what choices they do make.
Without this Idea of God, then there is no such thing as good, evil, morals, values, direction, meaning, nothing to absolve them from their responsibility over the choices they make.
Condemned to being free is scary, for we are brought up thinking that we aren't free and that their are absolutes in life, absolute standards and absolute values which they rely on to get through life. Without god, then there is freedom, and nothing for us human beings to rely on, no rules, values ect, and no one to absolve us of our poor choices. So thus we must make our own choices on our actions, choose for ourselves what is wrong or right, and be completely responsible for what we do choose.

Answer 9

I think most of the people who were brought up that way either can't or don't want to fathom the possibility of reality being other than they've been told and have imagined their whole life ;or maybe they feel safer following the school of thought with the most members.

Answer 10

People are extremely uncomfortable with the idea of death. We hate to believe that this is it so we invent an all comforting answer to life in the form of a god or deity.

Answer 11

I did a lousy job at being my own god so I found a higher power that does it's job of being God sooo wonderfully...no pressure!
I don't know if I need to believe. I think I want to believe...