It's hard to understand why many people believe something called God created them - yet don't question what created God - or believe that something called God "always was" and then reject the idea that they might have "always been"....How can anyone believe that humans with their Gods are so important when they are such a small piece of the universal puzzle? I find it interesting but somewhat silly.
2006-10-08 15:07:29 · 19 answers · asked by Michael T 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
The believer would simply say, God knows everything, He doesn't have to believe.
Yes, believing is silly when you do not know. Once you start believing, your search for the truth ends.You start using all the logic power in your command merely to reinforce your belief. Therefore belief ends up in deceiving oneself.
However, believing is an effective way for solace and peace, something like sleep.
2006-10-08 15:35:20 · answer #1 · answered by small 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what you mean by God. It seems that you are specifically critiquing the traditional christian perspective.
what if God was the ultimate concern, or the infinite. Some sort of unified wholeness out of which existence has its being. then you don't have to assume a personality or created existence for this god. god simply is.
existence presupposes the idea of non existence. my belief is that it is easier to believe that WE exist than that we don't. But since there is SOME sort of potential non-existence available to everything that exists, god then is the fabric within which existence is possible. the will of god then is, "that we exist as persons in communities of people in relation and harmony with the world"
just my two cents... I don't believe that you have to reject all notions of the infinite and even spirituality just because we should reject superstitious religion. and I am slowly coming to the place where I think that superstitious religion may even have a place... (not for me though!!)
2006-10-08 17:37:54 · answer #2 · answered by dingwallplayer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God believes in us.
It's hard to wrap your brain around the concept of Him always being, without a beginning or end because we're so used to our existence (birth & death). We can't relate to the concept of the infinite. We know that we have not "always been". Even science shows us that. There were creatures that existed long before us. Archaeological evidence proves it. I'm curious what you do believe in? Evolution? Reincarnation? Not sure what you meant by people rejecting the idea that we've "always been" we weren't around with the dinosaurs (that's only in the Flintstones, tee hee). Do you believe in the Big Bang or what created everything? Who caused the Big Bang? Easy to say what you don't believe but can you explain what you do believe in? How do you explain the existence of everything? No first cause? No ultimate good?...
Don't worry, God still believes in you! :)
2006-10-08 15:25:31 · answer #3 · answered by amp 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God believes in me. I believe God did indeed create me. I HAVE questioned what created God..and yes, I believe God "always was", I do not reject the idea that I may have always been here..I may have been (I just don't recall it vividly)..If I am but one teeny, tiney peice of God I must be just as important as the bigger peices of the universal puzzle..one split second..one cell..here am I..that in itself is an amazing hunk in the puzzle!
2006-10-08 19:49:42 · answer #4 · answered by tamara.knsley@sbcglobal.net 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
questioning what created god is absurd.. because being created makes us finite, we are limited into certain aspects. if god is created, then, he is finite, therefore, he is not a god.
same goes with what does god believes in, if god believes in something, he is not omnicient, he is not all-knowing, because believing is when our faculty of reasoning stops. if god believes, he is not a god. what god is, is that, he is all-knowing, he just knows..
humans are the best creation of god, created in his own image and likeness, the care taker of all his creations, and the only rational being that god created. besides, being created in such a way, does that make you less important? i don't think so,
men-women are the most beautiful being that god created on earth.
2006-10-08 15:36:45 · answer #5 · answered by jetlogs 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It comes from the primitive part of our brain. That part of our brain needs to believe that we are special and looked after by an all powerful supreme being. When we evolve to the point where we know we create our reality with our thoughts, then the whole thing starts to look silly.
2006-10-08 15:20:29 · answer #6 · answered by Sweetie Poo 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"What are your motives for no longer believing in a God?" i trust that all the Gods that you would conceive of comprise techniques of adult men. "What claims do you've that God does no longer exist?" Which God are you touching on? basically till now this aspect you take advantage of "a God" indicating that you confer with one among better than one. i assume you've the God of your particular faith in concepts. The God of your faith is defined as behaving a particular way that you would imagine isn't like the Gods of different religions. Why do you reject the Gods of those different religions? Are you following the texts of all religions for which there's a God defined? "what experiances did you struggle through to finish that God does no longer exist?" It develop into no unmarried journey or record of news i will imagine of. for sure the belongings you journey result your judgements and proclamations. If I had grown up some position else or had a diverse existence i'd have rather stated that a God ought to exist. i will't say what issues might want to have necessary to be diverse for that to ensue. properly, wondering back on it, i understand i develop into very fascinated in dinosaurs as a newborn. That activity got here to evolution later. At age 12 i might want to fairly obviously clarify the tremendous photo suitable to evolution. awareness that we are sure to behaviors because of our evolution made me see each and every thing otherwise. i might want to ought to assert that it made me imagine fairly existentially at that age. because it takes position that develop into about the age that i ended going to church.
2016-10-16 04:07:37 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is Love. Love doesn't believe in anything. It just is. So many people insist on imagining God as a person made in our image, who thinks just as we do.
2006-10-08 18:50:40 · answer #8 · answered by Marakey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We can't answer this as humans because we are not divine. God is beyond are understanding. I believe hes always been here, an uncaused cuase if you will. Your last question I don't know what your asking???
2006-10-08 18:11:49 · answer #9 · answered by Overkill 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure
2014-05-23 00:09:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋