Why does man believe so easily?

Question

Because of the promises?

A better life after the terrestrial life.
To meet again the dear departed.
The eternal salvation.
Paradise.
Virgins of the Allah's paradise (in fact it's mistranslation; Koran promises only white fruits or dry grapes).

By fear?

The pangs of death, the existential anguish.
Hell promised to those who are not good believers.
To face our ignorance: To explain what we do not know by a divine intervention makes possible to calm the anxiety generated by the questions without answers.
In period of distress and misfortune, to believe in something which exceeds us, may bring comfort.

By intellectual idleness (or early indoctrination)?
Conformity within its family or social sphere: "if everyone around me believes in God, so what religion says must be true"
"Ready for use" beliefs, to explain the universe, the life, the man...
To believe makes possible to take our desires for realities.
Incapacity to control our impulses, without a supernatural parapet, without the fear of the divine punishment and of the eternal damnation.
Moral values presented like existing a priori, universal and absolute.

Because he has met God?

Some people claim, that God appeared directly to them and that he illuminated them of his presence. One can call that an apparition, even if the phenomenon is purely interior. Was this apparition God or the Devil? A reality or a hallucination? No one will be able to have the knowledge.

Answer 1

Because a man never lives in the present moment and builds castles in the air! He WANTS to believe in things he like. He wants those situations and things to be everlasting which is again a myth! Now divine intervention can again come in so many ways but we might not accept it again blinded by our so called beliefs! Only the one who has realized that everything exists in his ownself, can get beyond this cycle of going outwards.It is all within, everything NOW.

Answer 2

Allow me to rephrase your question, so that you might see our side:

Why does man not believe just as easily?
Because of the promises?

Of never having to give up any supposed freedoms.
Of never having to face any extreme consequences.
Of never knowing the fate of your beloved.
Of a man-made paradise.
Of not being constrained by any one or any thing, and to be completely inobligated to any person for any reason other than choice.

By fear?

Of the unknown, relying only upon the most base of senses to understand the world around them.
Of a supposedly 'childish' and 'selfish' God who could damn them to Hell for their indecision.
Of actually trying to understand the supernatural.
Of their fellow man, seeming to appear as a fool and ignorant in the eyes of others.
In period of distress and misfortune, to not believe in God ("How could a good and loving God allow such a thing to happen? Since it happened, then there can be no good and loving God"), may bring comfort.

Answer 3

To believe in imaginary things, easy.
To believe in the One True God, not at all.
Yes, let ignorant people learn to find out the truth for the benefit of their own souls and for the progress of all mankind.
Almost all the Sacred Scriptures are now freely and easily accessible at the Gutenberg Project.
Pray for man to stand up independently with their conscious knowledge.

Answer 4

Man does not believe easily. He just says that he does.

Questions and anxiety are quelled by knowledge, not by belief. Distress, misfortune, anguish, and pangs of death are self induced emotions suffered by the uneducated.

There are only those who know, those who don't, and those who don't want to.

Open your mind to all knowledge and live life.

Answer 5

U obviously didnt really read The Quran.
U are an obvious liar.

U want to project an image of a knowledgeable person,
but sadly u only projected the image of a full-blown liar.

HAHAHAHA
I pity on your lonely self life.

Answer 6

Because there is so much that we dont understand. Should we assume only what we know? If we are a part of life, and we know there was life before we were born, then it is natural to wonder what we were before birth, and what we will be after death.

Answer 7

It's probably out of an urge to make sense of the world. People hate admitting, "Nobody knows". They'd rather believe in a made up answer than have none.

Answer 8

You are asking way over my head. Man does not believe easily - we struggle and search for answers and if something makes sense than we claim it because life would be difficult to live if we had no hope.

Answer 9

These answers come through Jesus and the Holy Spirit by God. Read the Bible. You'll learn alot about yourself.

Answer 10

In all cultures, there seems to be a need to worship a superior being, Buddha, Allah, etc. I think it goes deeper than the reasons you cite. I have no idea.