why believe in god?

Question

ok im seeng lots of god related questions lately, and i came to wondering- why do people believe in god? if you do- WHY do you?

personally, i dont. full stop. i dont believe in a creator, where science can back up so much. why trust in a book written by someone serveral hundreds of years ago, which has more than likely become a game of chinese whispers through the years. when was it first suppose to be documented? is there any proof of this?
miracles shmiracles. there's a song by Lou Barlow, called 'Mary', to be this song is much more believeable than the 'Virgin' crap we get fed. (in my opinion)
believe what you want, as long as you dont throw it down my neck like SOME door-to-door knocking people, i dont care what you believe. i just wondered what are your REASONS for it?

to all those saying 'why not?' 'why not let them have it?' im not stopping anyone having it- if you do i am simply wondering WHY you do. it doesnt make a hoot of difference to me, i dont and i have my reasons for not believing. i just wanted to know views on the other side of the spectrum- with me?

ugh and dont keep me in prayers lol. if youre gunna ask for something, ask the tooth fairy to slip me a fifty during the night.

Answer 1

I believe in God cuz i rasied to believe him. So i guess it is hard for me not to believe in God. I look at all the good that has come into my life and the bad stuff i overcame and I believe God helped me and blessed me. I believe that someone had to make the world and God did. Yea science has the big bang theory but i always think how did those things come about then?

I can fully understand why u don't believe in God and that is cool I am not the type to bash people who dont cuz there are a lot of unanswered questions and your beliefs are your beliefs and no one should force u to believe in something u dont believe in. I believe in God but not all the stuff that is in the Bible. But yea that is my reason why i believe in God.

Answer 2

"im seeng lots of god related questions lately"

That doesn't seem unreasonable on a Religion and Spirituality forum.

"where science can back up so much."

Well, actually science makes several assumptions which may or may not be well-founded. Yes, science has worked out rather well over the last 400 years or so, but we can't say what might happen in the next 400 years. For example, science explicitly exludes teleological causes. What's a teleological cause? If I say, "it rains because plants need water," that's an example of invoking a teleological cause.

Have you ever seen those random dot stereogram 3-D pictures? My wife can never see the 3-D image. All she sees are random dots. But many people can see, with a little effort, an image floating above the plane of the picture. What if the universe is like that? What if from some points of view it appears like random particle collisions, while from other points of view it seems to have a structure--something like what Bohm called "the implicate order"?

Many people look at the various sects, denominations and religions spread around the world and see nothing but chaos. Some people think Christian mystics, Hindu mystics and Islamic mystics have little in common besides a label. But what if I see a structure in the randomness? There is no way to convince a person who is firmly committed to randomness that there might be more.

Answer 3

OK. I don't believe in the Catholic God that my family does not do I believe in the hundreds of other gods that mankind currently worships. I look at the whole situation from this perspective. First, since the beginning of civilized cultures in the mesopotamian peninsula or "fertile crescent" written stories of the gods of various cultures began to spread and multiply. Knowing that all of civilization and all of religion can be traced back to early Mesopotamian society the first religion can easily be determined - The religion of the Sumerians.

Knowing the first religion is important to determining whether or not a god or gods do exist. The first religion would not have been subject to multiple interpretations and translations as would the other religions that preceded it have been. So, after becoming familiar with the religion of the Sumerians one must choose whether or not to believe what is told.

Ancient Sumerian religion discusses a group of extreterrestrial beings that came from another planet nearly 500,000 years ago. Eventually, this race settled on Earth somewhere in the Arabian Peninsula near the Persian Gulf. This race of extraterrestrials needed servants to handle daily toils and out of the DNA of early primates and extraterrestrial DNA, created early man. This theory combines both Darwinism with Creationism and fills in a lot of blanks. Obviously there are no sides being taken here. Neither religion nor science is favored.

There is much more to the story that could be told. Just remember, that god or gods are more likely to be something that we could actually see and touch...physical gods. Not that spiritual bull ****. Lastly, we are actually floating in the middle of space and to say that there is no life out there somewhere would be comparable to saying that the earth is flat. I am sure our race is not the only race in the universe. I am also sure that other races may be more or less advanced than ours, perhaps by billions of years.

So, why does NASA spend all of that money looking for life on Mars?...

Or, why did NASA send out the Pioneer 9 satellite with a gold plaque discussing Earth's coordinates in Sanskrit (the first known language) to a nearby galaxy.

Or, what about all of those radio telescopes looking for a sign. I hear they scan 24 million frequencies per second.

Answer 4

I believe in God because I have faith that what I have learned and believe is truth! I don't need scientific proof that God exists, I have the faith that He does. I believe in God because it gives me a purpose for living, because I have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and know, in my heart, with all my being, that there is a God and the Holy Trinity. The existence of God cannot be proven in a laboratory or through the complicated mechanisms of logic. Neither can love, nor beauty, nor happiness, but that does not mean they are not real. Faith is not anti-intellectual. Some of the finest scientists are men and women with a deep faith in God, because they realize that science alone cannot explain where we came from or why we are here. They are convinced that science itself points to an all-wise and all-powerful Creator. As the Bible says, 'The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands' (Psalm 19:1)." Suppose you were walking along a path and you came to a bridge which crossed a deep canyon. You might look at it and believe that it would hold you, and you might even see other people walking across it so you knew it would hold our weight. But so far your "belief" in the bridge is only in your head. When do you really believe the bridge will hold you? You only really believe it when you are willing to commit your life to it and actually walk across it.

It is the same way with Christ. Yes, we can believe that God exists, but God wants us to come to know Him personally. And He has bridged the gap between us by sending His Son to remove the barrier of sin and become that "bridge.

Answer 5

Can we find an explanation of the great universe? Is there any convincing interpretation of the secret of existence? We realize that no family can function properly without a responsible head, that no city can prosperously exist without sound administration, and that no state can survive without a leader of some kind. We also realize that nothing comes into being on its own. Moreover, we observe that the universe exists and functions in the most orderly manner, and that it has survived for hundreds of thousands of years. Can we, then, say that all this is accidental and haphazard? Can we attribute the existence of man and the whole world to mere chance.

In the world then there must be a Great Force in action to keep everything in order. In the beautiful nature there must be a Great Creator who creates the most charming pieces of art and produces everything for a special purpose in life. The deeply enlightened people recognize this creator and call him 'God'. He is not human because no human can create or make another human. He is not an animal nor is He a plant. He is neither an idol nor is He a statue of any kind because none of these things can make itself or create anything else. He is different from all of these things, because He is the maker and keeper of them all. The maker of anything must be different from and greater than the things which he makes.

Scientists, even though they are able to reproduce human and animal life through artificial processes like in-vitro fertilization and cloning, cannot accomplish these feats without the basic elements of human life that consist of genes and cells and other organic properties. Scientists are not able to create these things. Even the processes that are used by scientists to accomplish various procedures originated from a source whose intellect was obviously far greater than those who seek to discover and imitate the creative processes

Man cannot attain to his true humanity and acquire peace of mind unless he realises this aim for which he was created. But how can he do this! God, being merciful and Just, has helped him in many ways. He granted him an originally good nature that is inclined to know and serve its true Lord. He granted him a mind that possesses a moral sense and the ability to reason. He made the whole universe a natural book full of signs that lead a thinking person to God. But to make things more specific, to give him more detailed knowledge of his Lord, and to show him in a more detailed manner how to serve Him, God has been sending down verbal messages through His prophets chosen from among men, ever since the creation of man

Answer 6

Although I take great exception to several things you have said in your question, I will not, nor have I ever been, a Bible puncher. I do believe in a God, as a Catholic, but I also believe in Mother Nature - whether or not they are one, I am not sure. You ask why do I believe. I just do. I do not question your point of view. I believe in Love. I believe in the sanctity of marriage. I believe in the love of a child for the parent. I believe in many things which I will not bore you with. However, the 'virgin' statement you made shows a total ignorance of the facts and if you make such a statement, you should ensure that your facts are correct before doing so. Do you, or did you love your mother. Do you believe in anything. Do you have self respect. Do you have respect for other peoples feelings and beliefs. I fear not and I doubt if you have the courage to apologise for what you said to the many good people who do believe...................

Answer 7

Belief in God is basically an insurance policy bought from a shady, snake oil salesman. Most people go through life practicing a selective spirituality, fooling themselves into thinking that they'll be able to make a case for themselves on judgement day. In the meantime they use religion for political or economic reasons, hoping that the almighty, all knowing God they've created will overlook the unmet payments on their eternal life insurance policy.

Answer 8

Science answers how. How things work. But it knows nothing about the why of things. If science had it's way they would be testing our brains while they're still in our heads. Also I like being around people who live by a code, not a bunch of druggies who steal whatever they can get and have the morals of a toadstool. Don't like religion? Just take the ten commandments. Remember the Nazis? Science with no morality.

Answer 9

Did you exist prior to being born in this life? There is actually quite a bit of evidence that many people did exist prior to this life. I personally know that I did, because of an out of body experience I had. So if we existed before this life, do we exist after this life?
There is an old Tibetan proverb, "If you believe that God created all that you see and know - all that there is - how can you possibly hope to understand and explain Him."

Just look deeply inside yourself and you will see that we are all part of God. And if you don't want to believe or understand, that is fine. You will one day.

Answer 10

Did you ever think that maybe god created science? what do you have to lose by believing? do you believe in yourself? God stands for good, honest things, Like not lying,cheating, stealing, murdering, if we don't teach our children these things you may as well move to iraq or iran or what ever country is causing all the violent acts of terrorism this week. Its the whole point that the values he instills in your BELIEF that helps you adjust and deal with issues that provides a positive outcome. Even if someone murdered your mother you should forgive them, because if you don't you will regret the choices you make and possibly become a murderer also, so in a sense you are just as bad...Forgive them and move on, you don't want that on your conscious, but thats what that person will have to live with on thiers, thats the value and sense of aura that makes me WANT to believe in GOD.