Do you believe in God because of a lack of answers?

Question

Honest question, not making fun.

I was wondering if there are any Christians that believe in God because of there being so much that is unknown? i.e. the universe, prehistoric times, etc.

Why do you feel that Christianity has the answers to these questions?

Joseph S.

I'm agnostic buddy. I believe in a creator. I believe because of a lack of answers. I just don't believe in the Bible. Nice assumption that I was an atheist though. Way to look like a dick.

Answer 1

yes partly true, i don't have all the answers & imprefect like you. i happen to realize that 20+ yrs ago, so i call upon a savior & Jesus came my rescue. i am still work in progress & like if you spend time with brillant person (ie.God) its rub off on you, you become a bit more knowlegable in having answers. hope u find God (trinity) too & peace, man

Answer 2

Is that a reason not to believe in God? Because a person doesn't believe God answers prayers? But He does. I always have an answer from God to my prayers. It may not always be what I want to happen or it may not always seem like I'm getting an answer, but it all boils down to what God wants. One example: 3 years ago, if you had asked me to consider the possibility of becoming a nun, I would've laughed at the thought. Now I have grown in my prayer life and in the desire to become a nun. How can you explain my desire to become a nun, when I'd never even met one before? I wanted marriage, but now I don't. Like I said, it all boils down to what God wants. And He is leading me down the path of nunhood.

I'm not Christian because of a fear of the unknown. I'm Christian because I have the faith that God exists, and I have had answers to my prayers.

That being said, you should not test God. Saying things along the lines of "if you do this for me, I'll believe." God can answer prayers like that, and He has. There was an email circulating about an atheist teacher who tested his Christian students every year by dropping a piece of chalk to the floor and saying that if there really was a god, he should prove it by not letting the chalk break when it fell to the ground. One year, a Christian student challenged the teacher, and prayed that night that the chalk wouldn't break. The next day, the teacher tried it again, and it rolled out of his hand and rolled to the floor, unbroken. Testing God is not a good thing, but if you do, you'll find that you either won't get an answer, or you won't get the answer you are looking for. Prayer is the way to go. not just asking for proof but believing it's possible. For if you don't trust when you pray, chances are, you won't find the answer you are wanting.

Answer 3

People who are indocrinated into a set of beliefs from a very early age find it hard to break free.

Many have doubt and concerns about their beliefs but few would ever own up to it. If I witnessed jesus tommorrow, and several others did as well, so I couldn't pass if off as my imagination, I would pick up a bible and spend the rest of my life trying to become the best person I can be. Why? Because my place in heaven is at stake.

Yet so many so called Christian break every rule in the 10 commandents, even murder.

So do people truly believe - or are they just saying they do? When I was a child I believed in God, sort of, but I had many many doubts. I was hedging my bets. I wanted people to know that I believed in God and yet I was so unsure myself.

Answer 4

I am not a christian, but I believe in God because it makes sense.

A watch requires a creator. But the whole universe with all it complex laws of physics does not? Where do these laws come from? If you say they always existed, then for you that is your Absolute Truth - the source of everything, an impersonal equation.

I prefer to accept the personal aspect of the Absolute Truth, from whom all the impersonal energies come. That is because the personal or spiritual energy is superior to the impersonal energy - this we can understand by practical experience.

Answer 5

I believe in God.
Why?
...I just do.
...it's that little funny feeling that there is Something... it's more than wanting to believe.
I don't think it can be explained or reasoned. I just do.

...there was however a time, when I had managed to believe so truly that I prayed for something and it happened. I didn't want the lottery or anything, I prayed for strength to overcome adversity and it happened and I knew there was Something.

Sorry I can't explain.

But to your answer, my belief is not based on the unknown or sense of weakness. I just do. It feels right.

Answer 6

I believe in God because of the questions he has answered for me. I believe in God because he answers my prayers. I have not once asked for a need to be met that has gone unanswered. Granted it may not have come in the form I expected. But God does all things in his own time. Mine is not to question but to accept the beauty of the dawning of another day, to inhale the fragrance of the rose as it unfolds it's petals straining towrd the light which god has made. I delight in the perfection of a newborn baby whose eys seem to hold the memory of some wonderous place not long left. I believe therefore it is so....to me. To each his own.

Answer 7

I am not a right wing christian,however I believe
in the Master,I have experienced the master,we
as a species are still evolving,answers will come
as we do unless the Master wills otherwise,be not
like the Babylonians and others of this planet who
sought to know the Master by building tall piles of
rocks and sacrificing humans to the master so
that the master would favor them,all is vanity.Amen

Answer 8

I believe in God because He is our creator. I live by faith and not by sight.

John 21:25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.

Answer 9

Not so much a lack of answers, me thinks, but total ignorance of the answers available. Christianity has the answers in the same way arrival of babies is answered by the delivery by the stork.

Answer 10

The Bible has never been proven flase and has been proven true many times. There is no such thing as pre-historic times. The universe is maybe 6-10 thoiusand years old.