Both have just as much proof to their names and just as much...I guess for lack of a better word "anti-proof", why is God so much easier to believe in than ghost are? I ask people why they don't believe in ghost and they usually answer "Because I've never seen one." ,but how many of you have seen God?
Just wondering what youre stance is on either and the reasoning.
2006-09-01 17:12:15 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Don't take this wrong, I'm a believer in God ,but I don't think the bibleis entirely God's handiwork so I kind of dismiss most of it. Good moral=good people=good in general. treat others the way you'd like to be treated and I think that's pretty much enough.
2006-09-01 17:19:59 · update #1
Please don't take offense. I don't mean to judge your beliefs or anything like that. I'm genuinely curious.
2006-09-01 17:28:26 · update #2
The whole universe is filled with design. The physical laws of the universe are perfectly designed. Life is perfectly designed. Life does not come from dead chemicals even after billions of years no more than a small snail can come from the same sized nail just by laying it on the floor and seeing if it will come alive after billions of years. Wherever you find design you must have a designer. That's just logical and common sense. Who could design a universe. You can call that entity anything you want. Call it a ghost if you want. I call it God. Only a God could design a universe like ours.
The big bang theory says that the big bang is the start of the universe(the beginning of the 4 dimensions, 3 dimensions of space and one dimension of time). About 95-100% of scientists believe in the big bang. But the law of cause and effect(which Einstein called the most reliable of all the physical laws of the universe) says that anything that has a beginning needs a cause. Therefore, the universe, according to 95% of the scientists must have a cause. Let's take a look at this cause. The effect is never greater than the cause. If the effect has a certain attribute, the cause must also have that same attribute. You simply can't give what you ain't got. Let's see what attributes this effect(the universe) has. The universe has intelligence, because humans have intelligence. Therefore the cause must have intelligence. The universe has personality because we have personality. Therefore, the cause has personality. The universe has emotions because we have emotions. Therefore, the cause has emotions. The universe has will because because we have will, therefore the cause must have will. Now let's see, the cause has will, intelligence, emotion and personality. That sounds a lot like the christian God to me. You can call it a ghost if you want. I call it God. You might object that the universe didn't have these attributes at its beginning. Where did they come from? Don't tell me they just evolved. Ask any information scientist if information can come from dead chemicals. We have enough info in our genes to fill a stack of books from here to the moon and back 500 times. It didn't just come from dead chemicals. The animals don't have emotion, personality and for the most part, intelligence. They also lack a recognition of a morals. The lion doesn't kill and eat the gazelle and then start feeling guilt about what he did. Where did morals come from? The only answer that makes sense to me is that there's a God up there that created all this and put these attributes in this universe. I believe that God is the Christian God and that is my humble opinion.
2006-09-01 18:18:34 · answer #1 · answered by upsman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question implies there are only two answers to the question of God and Ghosts, and I do not find this to be true.
I don't "belive" in God, or ghosts, because to me, to use the word 'Believe" means to KNOW something to be true. I do not feel this way about either.
I not 'dis-believe' in either either. If never having seen something means it doesn't exist, then there are much more common items that would fit the bill, like the Bahama's.
Oddly enough, I would feel pretty comfortable saying I 'believe' in the Bahama's then either God or Ghosts. Go figure.
That being said, I have no problem believing Ghosts and God might, or might not exist.
2006-09-01 17:37:10 · answer #2 · answered by PtolemyJones 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in neither.
It seems to me that if ghosts really did exist they would outnumber the living by countless thousands to one - many more people must have lived and died by now than currently live. So with every generation the ratio of dead but still wandering around rattling chains and wailing in the night to living must increase enormously.
So how do they all crowd in to the spheres of this world? Where are they all? Where do they live? What do they do all day when they're not playing the living up? And how come I never get to see any, given that at any one time I must be absolutely surrounded by the things?
Spooky, eh? :o)
2006-09-01 17:47:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Emotions in a person's heart are much more believeable than our senses sometimes. God is there, and works in the lives of those that make the efforts for him, with an open heart. As for ghosts, seen a couple, very creepy, we know God is good, ghosts-don't know.
2006-09-01 17:22:01 · answer #4 · answered by Country 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Awesome question. For me it is easier to believe in ghosts. I find it much more comfortable to believe in the essence of our loved ones coming around after living & passing than the image of God whom we have not seen and allows such terrible tragedies. On the other hand maybe the ghosts we think we see are messengers from God.
2006-09-01 17:26:32 · answer #5 · answered by Gina N 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in ghosts. I don't believe in the Christian God but I believe in my Gods. I have seen both. You do pose a great question to the Christians however. How can you really believe in a God that you have never seen and yet not believe in ghosts because you can't see them? So does that mean you don't believe in a billion dollars because you have never seen a billion dollars?
2006-09-01 17:17:50 · answer #6 · answered by Mawyemsekhmet 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a love letter from God (the Bible). I have God's creation to declare Him. I have my soul which corresponds with Him. I also, believe in the Holy Ghost who leads me and reminds me of what God says. So, I believe in God, His Son Jesus, and the Holy Ghost.
God tells us that the human fleshly body is for this earth. Our souls live on. As for ghosts of people, no I don't believe that they are here because the bible tells us that the souls of people who have died leave this earth and are either with Jesus or they are waiting for judgment.
Apparently any apparition that is seen and thought of as a ghost is probably a dream or demons trying to fool us and cause us to worship them as the people that they are trying to imitate.
2006-09-01 17:26:15 · answer #7 · answered by 4HIM- Christians love 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in both. Some people who I know and trust and seen ghosts; as for God, that is my personal belief system.
Edit: I agree with your comments about the bible.
2006-09-01 17:14:59 · answer #8 · answered by suzanne 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because I see the existence of God as logically inevitable. I cannot seem to reach this conclusion for Ghosts.. that is, unless you rebind the word 'ghost' to a definition that exactly matches what most people imply by the word 'god'.
2006-09-01 17:14:46 · answer #9 · answered by Alex 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in ghosts, but I'm not sure about god. I've seen ghosts, I haven't seen god. The one with the most evidence to me wins!
2006-09-01 17:14:05 · answer #10 · answered by i luv teh fishes 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋