2006-08-09 07:02:04 · 37 answers · asked by Tom H 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't!
There is no evidence of such a being.
2006-08-09 07:08:05 · answer #1 · answered by Randy 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The moon, the stars, life on earth, sunrises, mountain ranges, etc. There's a lot wrong with the world, but how one can view these things, and not see design, purpose, intelligence, and beauty is beyond me. My conscience tells me that there is a God. Providence-- (many would try to explain things away as coincidence), God speaking to my heart (go ahead and explain it away as hallucination, if you want). Answers to prayer-- my own, and others. Divine intervention in the lives of others. The lives of godly people I have known. I did not quote the Bible, but creation, and conscience are specifically mentioned as proofs that everyone has received some innate knowledge of God.
2006-08-09 07:36:13 · answer #2 · answered by tom d 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Flavius Josephus was a Jew born some time around 30 AD (near the date of Jesus' death according to the Gospels). He was a Jewish military leader who later became a historian for the Romans. He might be considered a Jewish apologist. In any case, Josephus wrote extensively, and is probably the best source we have for historical events in 1st-century Palestine. The bias of his reporting is debated, but what is of interest here is the two references in Josephus to Jesus. The main citation is from Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews 18:3.3, popularly called the Testimonium Flavium. It says in part: "Now, there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works--a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews, and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ; Pilate...condemned him to the cross...and the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day." We know that after Christians took over the Roman empire through the conversion of Emperor Constantine, various forgeries and alterations (sometimes called "interpolations") were made in documents. The Testimonium Flavium is widely thought to have been one of those interpolations.
2006-08-09 07:08:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was younger, I knew God, but I didn't really and truly know WHY I knew Him. Then my parents got divorced due to my father's drinking and drug addiction. I couldn't understand why God had put me there. That is, until I met one very close friend who was going through the exact same thing that I went through so many years ago. I was so blessed to be able to help her! I realized that I would not be happy if my parents were still together, and would probably not care very much about God, since my dad didn't. My dad would never pay child support, and my mom didn't have a very good job. But God was there. He brought my mom an amazing job that pays more than any job she could have gotten - and she works half time, so she can spend the rest of her time raising me. Then, our house, which we were renting, had to be sold. We couldn't buy it. I couldn't believe that God was taking me so far from my friends. Then, one of our friends offered to rent out his million dollar house with an ocean view. We now live closer to our family, her job, and our church. Of course, I knew no one. So I went on this trip with a youth group I barely knew....and now i have several friends who love God just as much as I do! This is my testimony....and I don't know if it helps at all, but it kind of shows why I believe. Because when I believe, amazing things happen in my life.
2006-08-09 07:07:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To think that all life and the entire universe that we know of, came into existence by itself, just does not add up in my mind. Contrary to popular belief in the atheist community, science, and scientists have not proven that evolution is an absolute truth. The chances of trillions upon trillions upon trillions of chance happenings (the distance of earth from sun, the tilt of the earth's axis, gravity, earth has everything we need etc... etc..) is a mathmatical impossibility. We do not assume that cities and neighborhoods pop up by themselves. Yet somehow, atheist find is reasonable to come to the conclusion that something as complex as life came about without a designer. You can look at our bodies as well. How could an unthinking, unreasoning force, put our bodies together the way that they are made? You are suggesting that a power that does not have the ability to think could put everything in us exactly where it needs to be, and harmonize with everything else in our body? Without even being able to think this through or reason it out? Forgive me for saying, that has got to be the most ridiculous idea that I have ever heard of.
2006-08-09 07:17:17 · answer #5 · answered by Daniel L 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe in God because of personal life experience and only God can work out what was impossible. I hope and pray that God Himself will reveal Himself unto you in a miraculous way that you will no for yourself beyond a shadow of doubt that God exist. Even atheist life have been converted, such as Larry Darby who fought against Roy Moore the case of the Ten Commandment in Alabama.
I pray that God will reveal Himself unto you then you will doubt no more. You then will have the answer to your own question. No doubt about it. You need your own personal experiment then you will have your own testimony! WOW, a visitation for God Himself, that is my pray. I believe that you are sincere and just want to know.
Be Blessed
2006-08-09 07:33:54 · answer #6 · answered by asia391 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because I believe in Evolution.
But not the evolution that ignores the LAWS of Thermodynamics and Statistics. Information theory demands that DNA (a language that assumes information) can only work if information is placed into it. But that can only be done by a Being capable of manipulating spacetime itself. There's a name for such a Being: God.
2006-08-09 07:09:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in God because I believe I see evidence of God around me. Besides, it is better to believe in a godhead b/c if you do and it doesn't exist. It's no loss. You won't know b/c death will be it. If there is a godhead and you die then you're in trouble when you find yourself in an afterlife you didn't believe in. You'd have to answer to the godhead then. You have more to gain by believeing in a godhead and since if there isn't one it's no loss and if there is one then you made the right choice by believing.
2006-08-09 07:09:00 · answer #8 · answered by kinspirit01 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As long as I can remember, I felt a presence. Most of all, it was out in nature. Much later when I started studying the bible and learning the character of God, I recognized that presence as Him.
2006-08-09 07:06:25 · answer #9 · answered by christian_lady_2001 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ok here is my way If there isn't a god when you die there wouldn't be any problems with you believing or not believing in God, if there is a God he will be mad that you didn't believe in him so it is easier to just say you believe in god, so in death if there is a god there wouldn't be a problem if there isn't a god there still wouldn't be a problem because nobody cares
2006-08-09 07:06:58 · answer #10 · answered by Dum Spiro Spero 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Besides the obvious, I know in a way that non believers can never understand. I pity them for that. They will never know the feeling of joy as the spirit of God fills them them and bears testimony to them of the truthfulness of God and the divinity of Jesus Christ. They can only feel the hollowness of contempt for their creator.
2006-08-09 07:15:46 · answer #11 · answered by oldman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋