2006-07-26 02:03:49 · 15 answers · asked by ★japanese lady★ 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Because sometimes the "self" fails us......
and we need something else of greater strength to rely upon.
2006-07-26 02:08:45 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question appears to be intellectual at a glance, but after further consideration, it doesn't really make any sense. To try to make sense of the question, I'll interpret what I think it means: If you believe that you can accomplish something yourself, why do you need God to help you do it? First, I would say, belief alone that one can accomplish something is not enough to accomplish it. When I was five years old, I told my grandmother that if we were ever on a plane that was about to crash and there was only one parachute that I would give it to her because I could just jump out and land on my feet. Because I had jumped off the neighbor's roof and a tree house that was about 16 feet high without being injured, I truly believed 100% for sure I could jump from a plane with no parachute and land uninjured. My point is, perhaps people believe in God because they realize they can't do it all themselves. Believing you can't do it all yourself is not not "believ[ing] in yourself" in the sense that you have low self-esteem or that you have no ambitition. It's being realistic and mature - as I became later when I realized that jumping out of an airplane would probably kill me and would certainly injure me.
2006-07-26 09:16:21 · answer #2 · answered by kevinb49 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No matter how much people beleive in themselves, they must realize that the world is not just about them. Individual people have very little control of the events that happen around them. I think that reality is why most people beleive in God. I think it comforts them to beleive in an all-powerful arbitrator of justice and life, that someone more influential than they are is looking out for them. Personally, I don't need that reassurance or comfort and prefer to beleive in what is perceptible.
2006-07-26 12:53:21 · answer #3 · answered by Subconsciousless 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are not God to believe that much in ourselves that's why God exist because he knows better than us.
Our ability as human beings is not enough taht's why we need God..
2006-07-26 09:32:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in me. I am me without god.
2006-07-26 09:07:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You believe in God first (the reason of your existence and the giver of your potentials that you believe in) Then you believe in your self...
2006-07-26 09:09:52 · answer #6 · answered by Diablous 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because I am nothing without God and He is the basis of who I am.
2006-07-26 09:15:43 · answer #7 · answered by P P 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because God is within ourselves only.
2006-07-26 09:08:59 · answer #8 · answered by lahirisoumitra 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i believe god is the energy that made human evelution
2006-07-26 09:08:17 · answer #9 · answered by jedi kilo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because who would you be without god?
2006-07-26 09:06:17 · answer #10 · answered by lucy_goose 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋