If I was to ask you, why do people believe in "GOD"; what would you tell me?

Answer 1

It is a fact proven by psychology that people seek out patterns as a way to understand an incredibly complicated reality. We don't see a person's face in it's entirety, we see shapes and colors. We don't hear the chaotic cacophony of noise surrounding us, we listen for discernable notes and sounds. When we look at clouds, we see the shapes of people and other objects. When we look at a burnt piece of toast, we might see the face of Jesus or a deceased relative. When a drought is broken "miraculously" and we remember a flock of birds moving strangely a week before, we might think the two are related. When we hear an unexplained bump in the night, we can conclude that it had a supernatural origin.

Pattern-recognition is entirely instinctual and necessary to our survival. It allows us to see shapes rather than just parts. We see a microwave without having to see all the curves and angles and parts. We are especially successful because we can find patterns so well; language, math, and the arts all depend on patterns. However, this means we are by nature also predisposed to finding patterns where there is no inherent meaning, in seeing presences and things that aren't there. Shamans and oracles use the patterns they have noted in the natural world to make connections that aren't there. This is the beginning of organized religion.

But before I get too in-depth there, let's look at the relationship between primal fears and instincts and faith. We would expect evolution to grant us a distaste for filth and uncleanliness, since those things bring disease to us. Is it strange, then, for us to equate such dirtyness with the unholy? When we're guilty, we feel the need to wash our hands, because washing our hands makes us feel clean, even though guilt itself has nothing direcly to do with our physical health. When we've committed a truly heinous act, we feel that we could never wash our hands of that blood, to paraphrase someone I'm not sure of. Cleanliness is next to godliness in western/judeo-christian thought, or something like that.

Anyway, those bumps in the night started ideas about ghosts and monsters, which haunt us to this very day. Ideas about Gods came only after conscious, articulated thought, but even though we today have very structured understandings of an abstract God (or Gods), we still treat God as we might instinctively treat something physical, calling it a 'he' or 'lord', or seeking approval, or expecting reward for good service, etc.

So, in conclusion, our faith is instinctive and natural, a byproduct of the pattern-recognition that allowed living creatures to survive in a complex world. To me, this suggests that faith is an entirely physical phenomenon and that there is indeed no God beyond what we project onto the universe.

Answer 2

it rather is hypocritical in the defense force. Homosexuality is often going to take place whilst great numbers of persons of the comparable intercourse spend maximum of their waking hours collectively, and there is not any getting around that. Even people who evaluate themselves without postpone might locate themselves 'turning' below such situations. Homos can and do serve in the defense force for the time of circumstances of draft. If the morale of straight squaddies is honestly plagued by using the presence of gays then some answer needless to say should be got here across to beat this concern, yet 'do no longer ask, do no longer tell' isn't it.

Answer 3

Because life is hard and people need to believe that someone with more power than them is in control. That even tho' all questions are not answered there is somewhere somehow an answer.And that someday they would all be able to understand not only the answers but also the reasons behind lifes hardships.

Answer 4

Because the Bible has so many historical, and scientific things right, and because God has proven himself in so many ways that it would be crazy not to believe.

Plus, if you have a relationship with Him, you can't understand why some people don't believe in God.

Answer 5

First, I find it interesting that people who do not believe in God always have to be so snotty with their answers (this refers to the anti-God people who are answering this question.If you don't believe in Him, why don't you just keep your mouths shut?) To answer your question, I would tell you that it is because of my personal expereinces with God that cause me to believe. I have witnessed miracles in my own life and in the lives of those around me, I have been lucky enough to have SEEN it with my own eyes. If you look for HIm, you will find Him. If you want to doubt, you will doubt.

Answer 6

Please read my words carefully:
If you see footmark in the sand, you'll say that someone passed from here...
If you see a piece of dog sh*t on the ground, you'll say that a dog passed from here...
So what about the enormous universe, the sky, stars, planets, earth and all the beauty in it, doesn't it lead to that someone made it?!!!

Some people say that everything is created by itself after the big-bang... I won't ask you about what caused the big-bang, but I'll ask you a simple question:
If you take all the letters of the alphabet, multiples of them, and you threw them randomly on the floor. Do you expect (by a chance of one in infinity) to get a poem like shakespear's??!!

Can't you see how organized our universe is, the planets, the eco-system on earth, look even in your own body... Can you control your heart-beat? Can you control your breath while you're sleeping? Who stopped your eye-lashes from growing after reaching a certain length? Who told the baby turtles to move towards the sea and not to the earth after they come out of their eggs? Who taught the bird how to make nests?

My friend, think with your heart and brain. If you're still lost, think about the following:

Do you know how to play safe?
Your point:
If there's no God and you do all what you want in life, then nothing will happen to you after life. But if there was God and you were mistaken, then you'll blame yourself FOREVER...

Believer's point:
If there's God and I followed His commands in life, then I'll be in Heaven after life FOREVER. But if there was no God and we're mistaken, then nothing bad will happen to us after life...

Now you know how to play-safe, in case you're not convinced?

Answer 7

I believe in god because when I needed something larger than myself He was there.
I have felt His Love, forgiveness and know He above all truly understands me.

Answer 8

Because they can't accept the fact that after you die nothing happens. They need the comfort and reassurance of god to make them feel better.

Answer 9

in cultures there are always cultural universals (things that every culture has IE: celebration and language) and religion is one of them its just that people who need a hold on reality have faith because they need someone to follow they need someone to guide them because they are to weak to walk their own road so in essence people believe in god cause they are weak

Answer 10

because they need someOne more powerful to bank their hopes on. Life is after all, not the least bit easy ...