Believers- Why do you accept and follow God? Why do you think others choose to reject Him?
Nonbelievers- If you were once a believer, why did you accept and follow God then, and what made you reject Him? If you never believed, why not? Why do you think others choose to accept and follow God?
Undecided- Where you ever a believer or nonbeliever? If so or not, what made you choose the middle ground? Why do you think others choose to either accept or reject God?
2006-09-09 11:51:57 · 30 answers · asked by ICUD 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am not Christian, but I am not a nonbeliever. I do believe in God. I just do not follow the God of Christianity. I was raised in a mostly Christan household, Catholic to be exact. I did not reject God, I rejected the teachings of the church. They did not make sense to me.
As far as others following Christianity, I have no pre-conceived notions as to why. It is their personal path for them to honor.
Blessings )O(
2006-09-09 11:57:40 · answer #1 · answered by Epona Willow 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that we reject things that we can not see... The bible is a story that was made a long time ago and threw out the years has changed so much that personally i don't know what to believe so there for i find my self a non believer. I believe at one point there was a man named Jesus that many people looked up to because he wasn't afraid to speak his mind. But i find it hard to believe that a man died for our sins.
To many sins are being made these days to really matter.
I am a believer of another life but what that will bring me i don't really know.
2006-09-09 11:56:55 · answer #2 · answered by Mellisa C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Undecided and nonbeliever! I believe that there is something there, but not that God created the earth and everything else. But I also think that religion is a state of mind, we (mankind) have made religion up to try and answer the unanswerable questions.
2006-09-09 11:55:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
UGH. I never REJECTED god(s). Have you rejected Santa Claus or do you just disbelieve that he exists?
I was a Southern Baptist from the time i was old enough to know what it was about until i was around 18 years old. I just believed, i think, because i was born into the cult. For me to disbelieve would have disappointed those around me. I now disbelieve that the God of the Bible exists upon thorough examination and reading the Bible cover to cover. I disbelieve any god(s) exist because there is no evidence ..it's that simple.
2006-09-09 12:00:34 · answer #4 · answered by AiW 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The sky is deep, the sky is dark
The light of stars is so damn stark.
When I look up, I fill with fear
If all we have is what lies here.
This lonely world, this troubled place
Then cold dead stars and empty space.
Well, I see no reason to persevere
No reason to laugh or shed a tear.
No reason to sleep or ever to wake
No promises to keep, and none to make.
And so at night I still raise my eyes
To study the clear but mysterious skies
That arch above us as cold as stone.
Are you there, God? Are we alone?
The Book of Counted Sorrows
2006-09-09 11:57:31 · answer #5 · answered by Michael 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Believer:
Firrst, I believe that there is a god. I don't know how science can explain how mere subatomic particles (electrons, protons, neutrons) can be just made into a being that thinks, acts, and makes choices that don't just rely on a binary circut (true or false [1 or 0] makes deecisions).
Second, many people refuse to believe in god because they are unconsiounsly unable to accept the fact that there is someone better, someone more perfect than them.
2006-09-09 11:57:05 · answer #6 · answered by Phillip G 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I was raised as a christian. In my teens, I learned to think properly (rationality, critical thought). Once that happened, those insidious, delusional beliefs just evaporated... poof.
I think that people who choose to accept and follow god have just never learned to think properly. If they applied rationality and critical thought to their beliefs, they (the beliefs) would vanish. The only logical conclusion, then, is that they are either disinclined or incapable of rationality and critical thought.
"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion." ~ Robert M. Pirsig
2006-09-09 12:23:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never believed in god, because there is no reason why I should. As simple as that. If they want me to believe, let them prove to me first that there is something to believe, and that it does really make any difference to believe. Otherwise, I'm okay as I am. And for those who say I don't have any proof god DOESN'T exist, my answer is you're right, only that I'm not trying to make you believe in anything. If you want to keep on believing in god, be my guests, but don't expect me to join you.
Why do others believe? I guess it's because they need answers to the fundamental questions of where we come from and where we go to. I need those answers, too, but I don't think religions give them. I need an answer that is backed up with proof. And I'd rather keep on looking than settle for an answer that is not convincing at all, not for me anyway...
2006-09-09 12:02:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I've never been religious - I was told the stories but I can't ever remember seriously believing them. The more I learned about how the world really is, as revealed by science, the more obvious it became that all religious beliefs are inventions of the human mind.
2006-09-09 12:05:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I had made a mess of my life, and knew i needed a different way to live. I started putting the Bible to the test....applying Biblical principles to my life and saw that they worked. I kept drawing closer to Christ and the closer I got the more blessed my life became, even through the hard times I could see God's hand at work. For 20 years now I've followed Jesus Christ, and wouldn't trade this life for any other.
2006-09-09 11:58:24 · answer #10 · answered by SETFREEBYJESUS 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋