What makes you so sure there is no God?

Question

...And please do not tell me because you can't see Him.

Ok, please, I don't want you guys to ask me why I believe, but I would like to know why you don't believe. I know why I believe in God, but I want to know what makes you so sure that God does not exist. What if you die today and then you actually find out "Oh my goodness, there is a God." But then it's going to be too late. Do you really think this life is it and it's not going to go on? That the only reason we are here is to grow up, go to school, work, have a family and die? Is that it?? That our purpose in life is to do all these things and then end up underground? And please don't ask me things like "Well, why don't you then believe in the Easter Bunny, you can't see him either." Come on people....I was just always wondering what make atheists so sure that there is no God.

And think about this. I know that many people will say, "Well, there is so much suffering in the world, where is God then. If there would be God, He would not let this happen."
Let me tell you this: If we would truly believe God and obey His commands, none of this would happen, but since we have free will and decide to control our own lives, this is the result: wars, rapes, murders, starvation, poverty, lies, envy, betrayal, .....the list goes on and on.

Answer 1

I know as an absolute fact that God exists.

Answer 2

I was going to be glib but I will not as i know from my own questions how annoying that is when you ask what to you is a sensible question.
I see poverty, i see war and pestilence; I see people dying in the name of religion. I witness the attrocities of 9/11 and others; equally I witnessed two major powers invading another country simply because they did not like how it was run. I see the rich getting richer and the poor poorer. There are people who go to bed hungry; i see children having to work to support their family. I see disease that kills all it touches. I see preventative medicines not being made avialable to those that need it most but can least afford it. And all of this affects everyone belivers and non believers as well. The good die young whilst serial murderers live to a great age, where is the good, where is the justice, where is the compassion? Mostly I see many unhappy people trudging their way thorugh life that for them has no real meaning. I do not belive you have to feel pain to truely appreciate the glory of your god. I don't believe that a god would want you to choose to die for any cause. If there was a god I would not see as much negativity as is quite clear to us all. If there was a spirit that was all seeing and good then why do we live as we do? I will recant all of this and devote the rest of my life to a god if in the next few weeks one of the things I have mentioned ceases to be true. It will not happen - there are no gods

Answer 3

AMEN! i know people in america and every where else think there is no god. but there is. if they don't want to believe then it's there lost. The Bible is REAL. everything in theBible is coming true. so if people don't believe in God then oh well. For the people that don't believe in God here is somthing this is how close of Heaven you'll ever get. and for the people that do believe in God this is how close we will get to Hell. so there for the people that don't believe in God is there way of life sure it's sad.. but still that's life... why would some person want to believe that this was just a accident? i'm not judeing i'm just agreeingwith the people that do believe in God. it's the way people chose to be. Yeah sure it gets me mad when they say He is not real but again like i say it's there mistake. i just can't understand why people think that the world "was" just here and we "were" apes... uh.. ok... then how did we become humans? through time? how to you have proof that we were apes? there is none! people have been searching ever since no anwers have been found now have they? nope! there still looking. so let me get this straight... we were a piece of "goo" and then we turned into a fish? then we slowy went into a ape? what? how can that be? please if you "think" you know the awsner feel free to tell so. it's amazing how people think they know everything. i have seen them try. but anyway it's life some people are going to follow so are not. that's life.

Answer 4

My dog told me that he doesn't exist. He said I only believed in the myth to make myself feel more important (one of god's children) and to explain the things in the world I'm to lazy to look into. He went on to ask why my god would have given me vestigial traits like a "tail bone" and an appendix. Was he just using up excess materials? Was he too lazy to start the design from scratch and kept referring back to previous plans?

Finally, he asked if god made humans in his image was god really a good person as humans are the most evil self absorbed species on the planet.

Answer 5

I'm not sure that there is/are no G(g)od(s). I believe that there is an extremely small likelihood of existence for the traditional Judeo-Christian interpretation of God for three main reasons:
1) There is no significant evidence to suggest that he exists.
2) His existence would violate several fundamental physical laws, most notably Conservation of Energy.
3) His portrayed traits seem to be contradictory: benevolent but wrathful, omnipotent but displaying human-like behavior, etc.

Answer 6

Rather than pondering the existence of some omnipotent being, I think the question we should be asking is are there entities out there who would seem god-like from the vantage point of a human?

If extraterrestrial life exists, I see this as a possibility.

Answer 7

In as much as I was not around to see how everything came into being (and neither were you),I say, "I don't know ..... YET!" To assume that some god, my less than intellectual ancestors made up, instantaneously farted the universe into being, is absurd

Answer 8

bible says their are two temples of God.
i could be 1 and the light in which there is no darkness is the other. it is real it exists and it is a feeling of intense peace. That place will last aslong as the planet does. but the mortal bodies of the Gods die eventually as King Soloman says.

so praise God He is good enough that i stand up for His existance and i used to be a big doubter. I though He was a Don but the Light became real to Me one night in Winnipeg.

Answer 9

Same thing that (probably) makes you so sure there is a God. Upbringing, belief, whatever.

Answer 10

what would you learn if you never suffered. If there were no suffering would you believe then? God is proved by the world we live in.

Answer 11

I am sure there is a God. Atheists and Naturalists are just tomorrow's believers.