all of creation (or nature) seems to make it obvious that at least SOMETHING totally PLANNED OUT happened.
2006-10-02 06:56:25 · 33 answers · asked by Danielle C 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The book of Romans deals with and explains this very question.
Yes, all are born with an inate knowledge of a creator (God). Once they have rejected this knowledge, God "gives them over" to their own thoughts and desires.
Far enough down the road later, these same people will have convinced themselves that there is no creator and everyone who believes it is the crazy mixed up person rather than themselves.
It is very sad, but it is written that this is how it happens and why it has happpened.
2006-10-02 07:00:27 · answer #1 · answered by cindy 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You are only limited by your own imagination. Just because you cannot think of a good explanation for how we got here, you invent a magician called god to do the whole thing for you. You do not beleive that a real life magician can saw someone in half, there is a logical explanation, it is an illusion, so why do you not accept that it could be possible that the world may give the illusion of being designed, when infact the real truth that all you see is the product of billions of years of natural selection is a much more satisfying answer. The earth is wonderful, and no less wonderful for being the product of evolution. Surely it is enough to look at a garden and appreciate its beauty without trying to imagine that there are fairies at the bottom of it.
2006-10-02 08:52:26 · answer #2 · answered by blah de blah de blah... 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the opposite of what you said....it's obvious that nature exists and through random processes of natural law, that can't be created of destroyed, chaos and random chance over billions of years led to what we see today.
This is an age old psychological trick the human mind plays on itself. People think everything has a beginning and an end, a start and a finish. Movies start and finish, trips start and finish, books start and finish so matter and energy start and finish.
The universe and natural law are eternal! Energy doesn't have a beginning or an end, it merely transforms itself into other forms of energy or matter. THAT is God. If you want to see God, go out tonight and look around you in any direction you choose- you will see yourself standing right in the middle of IT.
God is not a person, God is not a designer; God is the ground of our being, God is the universe.
2006-10-02 07:09:35 · answer #3 · answered by ideogenetic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can create various things in a lab. I do a lot of planning beforehand. Does that make me a god?
Even if there is a god, which I could believe, religion is clearly man made. There are so many versions. The odds of picking the "true" religion (if there even is one) are negligible. So, most (if not all) believe in a lie.
Basing a religion on faith is simply a means to blindly ignore common sense. The simplest answer is that there is no god and that life in the universe simply happened. It is a rare and wonderful oddity.
2006-10-02 06:57:47 · answer #4 · answered by Plasmapuppy 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It is said that there is a part of our brain which is predisposed to having a religious belief. Creation is simply crying out that there is a divine design behind it all and it seems utterly crazy to suppose that it all happened simply by chance and developed in such a scientific, beautiful, excellent and orderly way. How can people believe that man doesn't have a soul when he responds so readily to the loveliness around him and when he is capable of love? One clear indication that professed atheists are uncomfortable with their stance is that they so frequently find it necessary to mock those who do believe. When I feel indifference to something, I simply leave it alone!
2006-10-02 07:05:17 · answer #5 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I'm sorry. Deep in my gut I know that there is no god. I have tried to believe, I'd love to think that there was some beautiful afterlife waiting for me, or that there was some kind of supreme being to make everything ok. But it is just not so. And no amount of hoping or praying or even blind faith is going to make god true.
2006-10-02 07:01:44 · answer #6 · answered by ♥Mira♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a question. Do people actually believe that they believe there is a God? What do people actually believe, and does it depend on how you ask the question?
If you don't ask the question, and just let us live our lives...we seem to believe that this world is the real one. We generally live our daily lives in a common-sense and scientific approach, not a magical approach. God and Santa Claus are magical, and we feel good believing in them, but...
What we say we believe when you really press the issue, may not be what we really believe that we believe.
2006-10-02 07:12:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only those people that do not wish to obey God's will. There is no doubt that God, is real and the creator of all thing. And that all mankind was created in the image of God. Mankind Just does not want to accept that there is something out there greater then mankind is.
2006-10-02 07:02:34 · answer #8 · answered by kilroymaster 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By logical reasoning there must be something that transcend beyond us and that escape our meager reasoning process. In Judaism it is mentioned of The Transcendent one or "Ein Sof".
Having said this I also believes that the Supreme Being that is presented by organized religions to their flocks is not the real one but a reflexion of our highs and lows mind sets. As Darwin's said:The god of the crocodile is another crocodile".
2006-10-02 07:09:55 · answer #9 · answered by danshalom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you believe in God then you would believe in the story of Noah and the flood. The bible explains to put it in simple terms, just like when Noah was preaching about the flood, the prophecy of the flood didn't make any sense to people so they didn't believe Noah. They even made fun of him. So now God doesn't make sense to the unbelievers now they make fun of you. Just keep trying you may fail to convince people. But it wont be your fault that they all will parish.
2006-10-02 07:08:54 · answer #10 · answered by Tommiecat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋