Why does the mind naturally want to doubt the existence of God?

Question

There is always a nagging feeling in the back of people's minds calling them away from God. Believers dismiss this as the devil trying to tempt them away from God. However, isn't this more like the mind seeking equilibrium and balance? The mind knows that this makes no sense and cannot be true and so it seeks to right itself. Our minds have righted themselves of many things in our years, fairies, goblins, dragons, santa claus, elves, honest politicians...... is this not just our minds attempt to convince us to see the truth?

Answer 1

Because our minds are naturally blinded by sin and selfishness unless God grants us grace.

Answer 2

Our minds are not used to the exercise of Faith due to worldly ways and personal defeat.We learn about all these things all our life like fairies,goblins,dragons,Santa Claus, so when we hear that a God could exist we shrug Him off because nothing invisible exists.We lose Faith easily as humans because of the wide demand here for reality from a scientific view.We've trained our minds from birth to only see what other humans see and believe instead of Faith.We've evolved into beings with no other beliefs except what we physically come across here on Earth.We've forgotten a big part of life....DREAMING AND IMAGINATION AND THE SPIRITUAL and how important they are while developing into an aware adult.We are only human so we doubt what our eyes can't see on Earth.We hold doubt because without doubt of His existance we would constantly battle with our humanity.Our thoughts and emotions would get twisted up until we were in a constant state of fear from an Allknowing Presence such as God.

Answer 3

Because, God is soo big, most of us cannot even imagine his greatness. But Believe is much more working than not believing. There is much more to it, so, sometimes, its easier not to believe than to believe and work at it. Before I believed, I always knew there was a greater creator, but I choose not to care since I didnt want to change.

Another reason could be, that the enemy (satan) does not want us to believe, and the Mind, is the only thing he has to work with, sometimes even after seeing the great words of God we still doubt and that the enemy making us doubt.

Answer 4

Because it really doesn't make any sense. Having been raised as a Lutheran, I feel that the church pounds guilt into us by making us believe that if we doubt God or don't have faith at all, that we will burn in hell. But really, hell? Come on. That's just how they keep you from voicing your real opinions of religion. How can there be a place where people are tormented for eternity? Just as much, how can there be a place where everything is perfect and love is all around? How can people of the christian faith be so arrogant as to believe that they are correct in their beliefs? I know I got off track, but damn. It's annoying.

Answer 5

It seems to me like you're just scrapping whatever you have left to try to disprove God's Word and God Himself.
Why don't you just give up and admit that there is no real honest reason to not follow God, that there's not logical, scientifical explanation to how the world was created besides it being created by God!
The mind always wants to doubt everything, but in faith we get rid of these doubts.
My friend, you have it all backwards. The truth is, everyone knows they need God, some of them accept it while others run.
I hope you make the right choice.

Answer 6

I think there is part of the mind that really really wants there to be some big father figure in the sky who will pick us up and wipe our tears when we fall flat on our faces . . .
But there is another part that is skeptical and wants proof for what we believe and knows that when you believe with no proof you are opening yourself up to be tricked . . .

I guess whether someone believes in god or not just depends on which side of the mind is stronger than the other.

Answer 7

It is because in our immature state, we tend to believe only what can be empirically proven, through touch, sight, smell, taste, etc.. But, there comes a time when we realize that there are realities outside of our empirical senses. It is interesting you use the term "mind" instead of brain. A brain can be empirically known, through sight and touch. The mind is beyond the empirical realm. Can you weigh a mind? Can you see a thought? So, if you accept the concept of a mind, then accepting that which is not experienced through our senses is not that great of a leap. I tend to think the opposite in that the mind draws us to our creator, yet, because we refuse through our will to accept such inklings, we repress that idea.

Answer 8

I think you have it backwards, my friend. The mind, the heart, the soul naturally wants to worship something. God created us with a desire to worship. That's why people feel a "void" when they don't believe and keep searching for man made things to fill this void. They are consistently disappointed until they find the truth in Christ.

Love & peace through the Holy Spirit...

Answer 9

I don't know, but an interesting theory =) Do you think this is intuition? Like animals know when there's danger, maybe we have an innate sense when things are not true. Maybe this sense has been dulled by generations of actively supressing it.

Or maybe I'm talking out of my @ss =)

Answer 10

I actually kinda thought there was a natural desire to believe in a higher power - it fills the gaps of knowledge. It is comforting in the face of the unknown. Seems to me like it takes more effort to disbelieve, that we have to question ourselves to get to not believing in God.

So, your attempt to discredit Christians seems a bit bassackward to me.