What is the main reason for you believing that there is a god?
Serious question. Is there one specific event or thing that has happened to yourself to make you believe there is a god?
Do people who haven't read the bible or don't count themselves as religious believe in there being a god?
2006-09-20 00:24:10 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
believing in god is one thing, and affiliating/practicing a religion is another! many people believe in all three...some in just one of them and others in non of them.
for every creation, there is a creater! the universe is not a chaotic space of emptiness...otherwise, scientist would not be able to practice, place physics laws and understand the universe.
something must have created all this. by saying "all this" i mean the universe or universes. however, our own planet is just a small tiny insignificant accident that took take place due to certain and specific characteristics.
people believe in what they wanna believe in! regardless of ethnicity, religious affiliation or education. to this day, many still believe in evil eye and they take it soo seriously to the degree of paranoia in which it restricts and destroy their relationships with others over stupid stuff. for instance, i know a couple who when they got married and were about to move their new furnisher into their new apartment...they asked the movers to move the furnisher in the middle of the night so non of the neighbors could see it!!!! can you believe that?
anyways, humans always needed spiritual guidance and the belief of the after life. this goes back to thousands of years if not 100s of thousands of years...god know how back in time. think of yourself as a young child and try to imagine if you had no parents to guide you, take care of you, and punish you! same goes to adult humans.
2006-09-20 00:41:39 · answer #1 · answered by Mo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think believing in God and being religious are two different things. One can believe in God but at the same time may not be religious i.e. pray etc.
I have often asked myself the question that what if there was no God and its all man made but the answers come pouring in when i look around me. The sky the earth the insects the flowers the happiness the hurt everything around us has a creator and that creator can only be God, Almighty.
Its more convincing to believe in God than otherwise coz how else could you explain this universe being there. Surely it just didnt just pop out of thin air. There is a divine force that created it and we personify that force as God.
Now when it comes to religion, it teaches us about good and bad things. Simple human values regardless of any religion widely accept the same good and bad things with only minor differences. The question arises from this is that whether we will be judged by God for our goods and bads. Yes this is a tricky one to answer coz no body can physically proove it besides religious scripts.
Many people make fun of God and people who believe in it and its sad coz we are denying the one who created us. Science may keep on giving us proof after proof of how this universe came into existance but can it proove that it came out of nothing?
2006-09-20 00:34:54 · answer #2 · answered by Fez 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are so many things that happens to a person at one point or another that makes you believe that God indeed exists. Maybe you may not come across a particular miracle that makes you believe that God exists. Instead you may come across many incidents that makes you believe that God dosen't exist, like when you pray to God for something and you dont get it, you ask yourself why this happens so? Does God not exist?
But in due cource we find that had we got those things that we WANTED we may not be where we are now.
I think that man as of yet has not realised the difference between the things that we want and what we NEED.
Most of the times the things we need may not be those that we want.
But in the end God does exist and He does help you and we just have to look at the long term results to realise that.
Hey you dont want to not believe in Him and die and then find out that He exists and then go to hell for that? Do you? No......
I am a believer. So should you be.
2006-09-20 00:38:46 · answer #3 · answered by kevin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have live through my 75 yrs as a free thinker allthough my wife and my late mother were ancestor worshipers. Being a Chinese, we were brought up to believe that there are many gods - god of the kitchen, god of prosperity, etc. Devils or spirit also must be feared and worship.
To me I believe these were created to instill a kind of supernatural believe so that people will live by the norms of a God or Devil fearing individual. Though I do not truly believe in these worshiping I do not condon them becasue they serve a purpose to making people abide by the God or spiritual laws which they believe.
The only thing that make me believe that there may be SOMEONE up there is that so many things in this world that are so intricate that even science find it hard to explain. From the munite atoms to the multitude of different life forms to plants life, minerals. SOMEONE must have put everything in place for a purpose. The whole world must live in a balance, one thing depending on the other to form a equilibrum.
So I take comfort that when I die, I go back to form the thing that make this earth - dust - atom and live on in that form without taking or adding anything extra in its original state.
If that SOMEONE is named God by the different religion, so be it. Then you can say I believe there maybe a God afterall!
2006-09-20 03:18:49 · answer #4 · answered by chee k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. I believe in God because I was raised like this and as I go on in life, I start to realize that there must be a superior force out there for the this troubled world to keep surviving.
2. No special events but I know a lot of people who have been cured or saved because of their prayer.
3. These people might believe in other religions or might just be 'free' as they call themselves...
2006-09-20 00:27:32 · answer #5 · answered by Rodiak 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Knowing the existence of God is not something easy. I mean, I could be confused like you, I never saw God, and I didn't see Jesus die on the cross for me. But, when I see the earth, the sky, the sea, the stars, and when I feel the wind, I'm fully convinced without a shadow of a doubt there's a God who made them. It's a mystery that human beings can't understand.
When I look at my life, I know if there wasn't a God who loves me so much I wouldn't be alive today. I've experience God, and I would be foolish to doubt the existence. One of my experience I want to share with you:
My group of prayer in Haiti called "Fraternity" once went to a mission, and one night it was so hot they couldn't sleep in the house, so they slept on the roof. While they were sleeping it started to rain, and only where they slept on the roof wasn't wet, the rain didn't wet them, although it was pouring.
I'd like to know if you believe there's a God or not.
God bless you!
2006-09-20 00:44:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quote adam_r:
"there is no god and all religious people will learn of this when they die"
lol, think about that one adam
I have believed in God since a young age, I don't think there is any scientific reason why, it is something that I have always believed or suspected.
DNA consists of 4 pyridine bases and thousands or millions of amino acids joined together in an exact way, the chances of them randomly joining together in an exact sequence by chance capapbe of self replicating is 1 in 10^70 - 1 in 10^95
one estimate of the number of atoms in the universe is 10^78 and only a small fraction of this will be on planets capaple of supporting life.
If I am wrong about the existence of God, I WON'T know about it when I die.
2006-09-20 00:44:54 · answer #7 · answered by angle_of_deat_69 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was raised in the Presbyterian Church and as a child always found it very boring. I think I was 16 when I noticed what I had been taught my whole life hit home with me. My heart was different. I KNEW without question that not only is there a true God, but He cares intimately about me. There's a hymn that says "You ask me how I know He lives...He lives within my heart!" That says it well. You don't WONDER anymore whether you are going to live eternally. You KNOW it. I am 48 now :) I have seen for 32 years how involved God is in my life. I don't know how unbelievers cope!
2006-09-20 00:30:48 · answer #8 · answered by Cc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had a demon for 14 from 7 to 21, the result of Spiritualist healing. I had a number of psychic abilities, but grew more and more afraid I was losing my mind. I would have been diagonsed as psychotic and schizophrenia. I was exorcised in 1978 and baptised in The Holy Spirit. Since then everything in my life goes right. Things I cannot control fall into place for me. Disasters turn into victories. God exists and He loves me. And I'm not special, He does the same for everyone who trusts him and is loyal to him.
2006-09-20 01:33:11 · answer #9 · answered by waycyber 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in God simply because that was my up bringing. However, I am not a church going christian. I do not fully believe all the writings. Weren't the writing done by man? How do we know he didn't misinterpert, due to language barriers, or simply because the person translating wasn't educated. One word could change the whole event. For one to believe isn't he taking into account that some of it isn't true?
2006-09-20 00:29:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋