If there really was a god, don't you think we would all be born with the knowledge of him/her?

Question

and never need religious instruction? And would ther be hundreds of conflicting religions globally?

Answer 1

We all are born with a God shaped void in our lives, unfortunately, many try to fill that void with other things besides God. This never brings true satisfaction. Once you come to know God in a personal way, you realize that everything else is not important.

Answer 2

Do you think you are confusing faith and religion? You need to have faith before any religion will make any bit of sense. How do you know you aren't born with some form of knowledge of God? Maybe there is a different kind of knowledge that you are not tuning in to. After you come to understand that, a good place to get more revelatory knowledge is through a religious tradition.

I agree with you that probably more good would come from being more open and seeing the good in other people's religious traditions. But many people of the world practice their religion and come to understand their being through different practices, different histories. It is hard for people to question their beliefs.

Many people believe that God did give us what we need to know. Many people just have a different interpretation of what it all means -- that is probably a good sign that people are seeking a deeper understanding of their faith. Think of it this way...If God gave everybody the absolute face-to-face encounter, and didn't let us reach out to God, what good would that do us for our growth toward God, or our abilitly to do this collectively as a human race? Also, God as God's self probably can't entirely be understood by us anyway, because we are limited in what we can understand. God's presence can be understood and perceived in the type of knowledge that I referred to above. Many people don't understand this, and refuse to try it out, but those who do are very sure of it.

Answer 3

From what I perceive we have the instructions within us. We are distracted from receiving the instructions by the things of the world and some of those things related to the thinking mind and emotions which have attached themselves to conform to the world around us.

Religion was created by the God, some Humans in their limited undrerstanding have corrupted that religion, with elements that have nothing to do with religion, & much to with self aggrandizement.

The God is Big an Accessible through a myriad of ways. Each individual is an expression of the religion written within that individual self. For example, we all inheirently know that is wrong to indulge in cannabalism. There are no verses that I know of in any of the scriptures from any faith system that tell us not specifically not to indulge in ths manner. The book within us tells us this is wrong. 99.99% of us can attest to this.

There are general and specific instructions within each of our internal books. The general intructions are for us to relate to one another as the Human family. The specific instructions are for our individual development so that we can know what our natural work is, & to make that work our worship.

From what I witness in history, No War is fought for patriotic or religious reasons. Patriotism and religion is busy work for the masses, to distract them from the crux o the mater which is merchantile in nature. Follow the money. Those of great means care not of religion or patriotism as they are like an American Express Card, welcomed everywhere. They do not fight wars they invest in wars, often profiting from the result regardless of which wins.

We are born with the knowledge. The corruption of that knowledge happens continuosly from the time we are born form the people & things around us, partly as aresult of us attempting to assimulate into the world. We forget the knowledge we learned. Think of the people you have known whom have forgotten their 'home training,' it is much like this. They get away from home and forget their training.

The "religions" are not in conflict with one another. The so-called "religious" people are in coflict with themselves and their egos.

EGO!!!!

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G-od
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Answer 4

God knew us before we were born so it stands to reason that a newborn baby is the closest to God that we'll ever be until He calls us home to Him. We are all born with an inborn sense of God. It is worldly influences that change us. Satan is continuously after us to deny God and he uses whatever means at his disposal to do so.

Answer 5

people will tell you that by doing that, god will have stripped us of our freewill. it's of course a ridiculous point however because beliefs cannot be chosen anyway. we believe what we do because those things make sense to us, not because we chose them. you can't choose beliefs.

furthermore, it's so clear that things like genetics and upbringing play a major part (if not the entire part) in our beliefs, and both of these things are things we cannot choose. --- a person born to christian parents has very good odds of being christian, and a person born in a devoutly muslim country has very slim odds of becoming christian. so the question becomes, why would god place certain individuals in the custody of christians, and others in the custody of supposed heathens, knowing full well that this will invariably determine their beliefs?? --- obviously, god is not real.

Answer 6

It seems to me, that if there are any gods out there that give a rat's sphincter about whether or not we know anything about them, they would make what they wanted us to know, known.

It wouldn't be some silly game of expecting blind belief while providing no rational reason to believe. If there are gods out there like that, we're all screwed no matter what we believe, as such gods would be psychotic fools.

Answer 7

We are all born with the desire to seek knowledge of God.

Answer 8

You were born to see but the world has blinded many..you choose to not see..

Answer 9

Religions prove beyond any reasonable doubt there is no "Supreme Being."

As you correctly point out, if any such entity existed, humans would need no book, preacher, priest, imam, rabbi or any other God speaker to instruct others on what God "really means" or "really said."

Answer 10

I believe scientists said our brains our hardwired to believe in God, very recently.