Why do Humans feel the need to believe in God?

Answer 1

Seems like honest people believe in God for the same reason honest people believe in Doom's Day theories: They don't want to be alone. Especially when they die.

Answer 2

There r various reasons 4 humans believe in God. They r:

1) A need 2 explain things tat r hard 2 explain or unexplainable...history has shown tat humans hve attributed strange phenomenons 2 higher beings or supernatural beings...it is the easiest way 2 explain things...

2) To keep the morality of mankind....the fear in the wrath of god will keep morals values in check n supervised...

3) Humans need 2 find solace and comfort 4 their behaviour n sins...thus they believe in god 2 attone their sins and find comfort.

4) The need to belong....humans r not solitary animals...they hve an innate need 2 belong 2 a certain group...thus producing religions.

5) Escape from reality...some believe in god 2 explain n escape the hardship they experience in life...

Hope I answer ur question...I belief in God cos it preachers good 2 all mankind...

Cheers..

Answer 3

It's a natural instinct. You're walking along, minding your own business, and suddenly you're shat upon by a bird. "Why me?" you ask. "What was that for?" Even if you're an atheist and intellectually don't believe in anything but random chance, you still (even if just for fun) look for the "Why?" behind what happened to you. It's just what humans do. So back in the beginning of time when everyone was mucking about in the wilds with their tribes, they talked about "why". Someone came up with the idea that there was someone invisible watching us, orchestrating events Those became stories which were passed along and evolved into religions. It made things easier, having someone to blame, some set of rites so you know what to do when the unexplained happens. Two weeks of rain? Well, we must have to do that ceremony to appease our invisible spiritual whatever. It's a lot easier than sitting around not knowing why it was happening to you. Explanations are comforting. It's a natural human need.

Answer 4

It is not a need to believe, but a need for the truth of the origins and meaning of life, some look to evolution while others ???

Do animals question the meaning or origin of life ?
Why then do we say we are human ?

Answer 5

This is a cut & paste answer about the God Gene theory. Which I'm sure will piss off some people - - but hey! Its just a theory!

The God gene hypothesis states that some human beings bear a gene which gives them a prediposition to episodes interpreted by some as religious revelation. The idea has been postulate and promoted by geneticist Dr. Dean Hamer, the director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the U.S. National Cancer Institute. Hamer has written a book on the subject titled, The God Gene: How Faith is Hardwired into our Genes.

According to this theory, the God gene (Vmat2), is not an encoding for the belief in God itself but a physiological arrangement that produces the sensations associated, by some, with the presence of God or other mystic experiences, or more specifically spirituality as a state of mind.

Simply put, the gene is involved in monoamines, neurotransmitters that have a lot to do with emotional sensitivity. The interpretation is that the monoamines correlates with a personality trait called self-transcendence. Composed of three sub-sets, self-trancendance is composed of "self-forgetfulness" (as in the tendency to become totally absorbed in some activity, such as reading); "transpersonal identification" (a feeling of connectedness to a larger universe); and "mysticism" (an openness to believe things not literally provable, such as ESP). Put them all together, and you come as close as science can to measuring what it feels like to be spiritual. This allows us to have the kind of experience described as religious ecstasy.

What evolutionary advantage this may convey, or what advantageous effect it is a side effect of, are questions that are yet to be fully explored. However, Dr. Hamer has theorized that self-transcendence makes people more optimistic, which makes them healthier and likely to have more children.

Answer 6

Because we feel the need to give our lives meaning. We are animals who have evolved to such a point that the environment no longer dictaces our behavior, but we dictate the environment. With such utter control over our surroundings, we have entirely eliminated natural predators, and as such, our true meaning of life (to survive and reproduce) is no longer really pertinent to our situation. As such, we attempt to ascribe alterior divine meanings to our lives... We feel the need to be special, the need to be elevated above that which we came from and which surrounds us. "God" is an easy way to do that. We need a God who created us in his own image to justify our anthropocentric veiw of the world. "God" gives us the perfect excuse to ascribe a higher meaning to life. Furthermore, the "knowledge" of afterlife and the "knowledge" of a supreme being such as "God" removes responsibility for our actions. Okay, sure those who believe in such things still feel responsible for what they do, but not in the true sense. They are comforted by the "knowledge" that this is only a temporary dwelling, a stop on their way to a more perfect afterlife... they are comforted by the "knowledge" that events precede according to a "divine plan" and that ultimately, the responsibility rests with "God"...

Answer 7

It's the fact that life starting was a series of events that had a 1in3billion chance of happening. even scietists are puzzled and believe that one creator, one...guide...... pulled life into existance, controlled the path of evolution, and made humans in such a glorious image. there must be a god of some sort.

Answer 8

The reason why humans believe in a God is to make their lives better on earth and have better interrelationships with other people.

Answer 9

its not a question of "need".

do you think that the whole world around you is created by chance, as a result of accident, or a chemical reaction?

start looking around you with open eyes. you will find that even the smallest thing has a complete life circle that is being repeated over many million years. look at you body, its functions, its anatomy, can all the millions of veins, parts, nerves came into existance by chance?

first thing is to accept the oneness of God.

Answer 10

To not deal with insecurities and fears within themselves. To avoid the reality that we are just visiting on this rock until humans become extinct or irrelevent on earth.