Lets face it, whether you believe in God or not, you were "designed" to believe in something even if that "something" is nothing. You imply by your computer usage that you "believe" your computer will not explode and kill you , even though you cannot be 100% sure. Your either expressing faith in the computer itself or the man who made it. Now if you believe in God that would be reason enough for using the computer and doing the things you do.
2006-10-07 01:49:51 · 11 answers · asked by icyhott4urmind 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Taking a position 'to believe' , itself, presupposes the inability to verify, or experiences. Every individual has to consciously choose what to believe and what not ! Most people tend to believe not because of inability to verify/experience, but due to lack of involvement in life ! Only a person who is prepared to live fully, will judiciously decide whether there is a possibility to experience /verify and then choose to believe !
2006-10-07 01:54:56 · answer #1 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I understand what you are saying. I believe in God. For me that is the easiest choice and the obvious one and the best one. I do not have faith is this computer like I have faith in God. I have faith in a lot of things, like that my child will be safe at school ( ha!) or that my husband will not cheat on me. But, my faith in those things is absolutely nothing compared to my faith in God.
2006-10-07 01:56:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it would be easier to believe in nothing. That means that there is NO kind of responsibility in this life, so it doesn't matter what you do or don't do. The thought that there may be nothing after we die doesn't frighten me at all. It doesn't even frighten me that in a hundred years, no one will know who I was.
I've faced my mortality. It doesn't bother me anymore.
However, what DOES frighten me, is that there is a distinct possibility that there IS some kind of afterlife, and there IS a God.
It's like the Steve Taylor song, "Harder to Believe Than Not To."
I agree with that premise completely.
2006-10-07 02:16:29 · answer #3 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can observe my computer. If I want to, I can talk to the people who built it. My trust is based on experience and reason.
Even if I don't believe in God, I believe in something. I believe in what I can observe, and in what reasoned analysis tells me about what I observe. Believing anything else would be intellectual suicide -- for example, to believe in some supernatural beings and events simply because someone says they are real, when I have no experience of them whatsoever.
What's real is beautiful and far more complex than any imagined mythology.
2006-10-07 02:13:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it takes a cynical, jaded person to believe in "nothing." But in reality, I don't think there is anyone who beleives in "nothing." As for whether it is easy to beleive in God rather than "nothing," the history of the human race and of their civilizations answer in a resounding "YES." Everyone is born th some notion that there is a God or Supreme Being responsible for everything. It takes undiscriminating secularism and materialism to knock that simple child-like faith out of us - to the terrible diminishment of our humanity. For me, to beleive and have faith in God is a big part of what it means to be human - made in the image of God.
2006-10-07 02:22:04 · answer #5 · answered by Phoebhart 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is easier for me to believe in God. "Nothing" couldn't do the awesome things that I've seen God do in my life and others. For instance, the peace that He gives me everyday. Joy in my spirit on days when I just feel terrible. God is my everything. You should read the book of John in the Bible. It speaks alot to unbelief in the story of Nicodemus.
I pray that you will believe in God and His son Jesus Christ. Your life will not be without trials, but you will have peace of knowing that you are not alone.
2006-10-07 02:08:24 · answer #6 · answered by paultara97 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your fears and insecurities can be most easily mollified by subscribing to delusional superstitionism (god concepts) than by being honest and saying........... In as much as I was not around to see how everything came into being (and neither were you),I say, "I don't know ..... YET!" To assume that some god, my less than intellectual ancestors made up, instantaneously farted the universe into being, is absurd
2006-10-07 03:10:24 · answer #7 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's much easier to believe in a supreme, human-like creator. You would think that 4 billion plus simpletons could not be wrong.
2006-10-07 01:58:57 · answer #8 · answered by TarKettle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no one has ever seen the wind but everyone has seen the effects of the wind so no one doubts the wind exists. thus it is with GOD. all see the glories in the Heavens and on the earth and yet no one has seen GOD yet through HIS wondrous works we know HE exists although like the wind HE can not be seen
2006-10-07 02:12:51 · answer #9 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i guess that it would be easier to worship nothing, but its not the right thing to do!!!!!
you should worship god nomatter how easy or hard!
2006-10-07 04:23:58 · answer #10 · answered by Cora 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋