Is the leap of faith required to believe in a supernatural deity actually a self deluding lie?

Answer 1

Yes of course it's a lie. The human mind is compelled to believe due to the hard wiring of the brain. we are all fools.

Answer 2

I agree that when faith alone is all the support you have, then anything can seem to be a self delusion.

However, if you were a lawyer trying to prove or disprove the possibility of their being a supernatural (ie. beings or events not explained by current science) then you would have to consult many religeous texts, evidence from humans who feel they have experienced the supernatural and then take the scientific evidence which is unexplained into account. All in all unless there is a huge conspiracy, I think you would come to the logical conclusion that there are black holes, even though we cannot see them, and there is a better than even chance that Jesus did in fact perform acts and miracles that cannot be explained by normal science.

For some of us, faith has no part in our mindset. We have had personal proof. This does not however help people who have not experienced any phenomena or had any proof. I do not consider myself self-deluding, therefore.

Answer 3

If it is a self deluding lie then I have wasted nothing by believing. However, if it is not a self deluding lie and I have mistakenly dismissed it, then I stand to loose a great deal.Furthermore there are too many unexplainable things if you remove a supernatural Deity from the equation.

Answer 4

No, I didn't believe in a living god until I met Him. I wasn't raised in any faith and I live in the UK where it's not rammed down your throat all the time. The few true Christians I did know I felt sorry for, poor deluded people, and I thought the Bible was a fairy tale. None of this stopped God from showing me how much He loved me one day, and healing me of depression. Nobody prayed over me or convinced me intellectually, and the 'leap of faith' was actually a reasoned response to just feeling god's presence out of the blue and realising the mess I was in could only be helped by giving it to God. It was an awesome moment and I had to eat a lot of my words after that. I've studied other faiths but none of them gave me any comfort, hope or peace like knowing Jesus does.

Answer 5

There would be people that would agree with you but ask yourself why humanity always seeks a deity figure of some type throughout history. There has to be more to it then just pure coincidence. There are also mysteries that their source is beyond human comparison (example from math is the number e). I think the leap of faith is more of a self awareness to a higher power.

Answer 6

because of the fact the evolutionary technique can he supported by ability of objective, empirical evidence. theory in deities comes from very own, subjective reviews. that's equivalent to why a detective, decide or jury would not might desire to take the small print of a criminal offense "on faith", regardless of in the event that they weren't there to witness the actual journey. extremely, they study the evidence till they arrive to a end that suits so properly that to no longer settle for it would be ridiculous.

Answer 7

It's not a lie, it's just a leap. As long as you're fine with that and accept it, you're ok.

The self-deluding lie is asserting that there WAS no leap taken, that somehow this conclusion arose from logical reasoning.

It absolutely may be what you believe- it absolutely is not scientific.

Answer 8

it is, but it's not much bigger than all the other self-deluding lies that most people tell themselves daily, atheists included, me included. We humans have a propensity for self delusion. As someone said, humankind can only bear so much reality.

Answer 9

self diluting.
and faith is essentially the lack of truth and hope. therefore, you're pretty much set to believe anything at that point in your life.

Answer 10

The best book to read if you're really interested in this is 'Life of Pi'' by Yann Martell.