2006-09-21 08:02:12 · 32 answers · asked by mathewthere 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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?
2006-09-23 23:45:11 · answer #1 · answered by toon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know why most people do, but I can state why I know GOD exists. I was 8 years old, and my mom had to work. My parents were divorced. I was coming home from skating and couldn't get into my house. Mind you that I had no religion introduced to me at this time. Anyway, I was scared. It was late and cold. I said if GOD really does exist, he will unlock this door. Well, it didn't happen. What did happen was that the window to the kitchen broke. The glass completly fell out of the window. I was able to get in. GOD was the only one I could turn to as both a child and now as an adult. There are many other things that has happened to me sense then, but that was the first time I actually knew there was truely GOD.....
2006-09-21 08:56:45 · answer #2 · answered by cookie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All people are born with inane psychic senses. From a few minutes after birth--when they convert from a mass of cells into a person--until a few years of age, people are psychically aware. However, at such a young age, there is no intelligence to make sense of any "sixth sense" sensations and/or communications.
When intelligence starts to develop is when children are taught things about religion, society, and culture. The thoughts presented to them are usually socially-acceptable beliefs, the majority of which are Judeo-Christian. Often what will happen is, a person who is raised as a Christian will "know that God exists" because they can subconsciously remember feeling a force beyond physical description.
2006-09-21 08:19:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason others say they KNOW god does not exist. You weight the evidence and then you take a "leap of faith" (that is you make a decision whether or not it He is there). Surprisely those who decide he is not there and stop looking never find him, find nothing, and are confident in their belief. Those who decide he is there, are meet by him, get to talk to him, experience him, and enjoy his presence. And so are confident in their belief. How do they know - first hand experience.
2006-09-21 08:08:36 · answer #4 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Faith experiences are very powerful. In some cases, they can be life-changing. Something that emotionally potent seems very much like proof of a loving god's existence to the one who feels it.
2006-09-21 08:06:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Too many ignore the difference between knowledge (based in objectively demonstrable fact) and belief (what people THINK they know).
Most folks don't dare admit that their beliefs are BELIEFS and not knowledge.
The question of God defies all factual analysis and should be recognized as such.
(Damn, I wish YA had an italics feature: I hate using caps for emphasis.)
2006-09-21 08:08:57 · answer #6 · answered by x 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Because that's what they were taught to say.
And if they correctly said they think or imagine God exists, it would validate atheism and non-belief, or other beliefs.
And, we couldn't have that.
Response to claim about evidence:
There is no credible evidence whatsoever to support the bible myths or God belief. Anyone who makes such a claim only demonstrates his ignorance and the lack of foundation for his beliefs.
2006-09-21 08:06:03 · answer #7 · answered by Left the building 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It is based on faith, not knowledge. It's the faith inside that
something bigger than all of us is out there, and has us in mind.
That we are part of some cosmic plan.
That we have meaning.
That deep inside the human heart, a presence is felt,
connecting us to an infinite strand of being of which we are a
transient part.
That is what is to know God.....
2006-09-21 08:06:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
When they say they "know" something, it just means that they've been fully convinced it is true. However, most have a hard time saying what convinced them, because religions rely heavily on emotional arguments, not reason.
Emotions are convincing because humans have been emotional for far longer than they have been rational.
2006-09-21 08:05:36 · answer #9 · answered by nondescript 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure" - Clarence Darrow
Many blindly follow religious leaders, parents, teachers, etc. I believe in God, but I do not presume such upon others.
2006-09-21 08:38:50 · answer #10 · answered by joie de vivre 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋