U think there is no GOD?

Question

If there is no GOD then why do people have morals. why do we try to be goood people when we at the end of this life there is nothing else for us, Why do we follow laws and work so hard every day just for what?, u know why?, BECAUSE THERE IS A GOD, whether u like it or not.

For those of you who think that u dont need GOD to be good, at the end of your life, all that being "good" doesnt pay off but if u are good with GOD by urside then ur ending up somewhere where everything is just perfect

If you think im the one loosing 5 points just for asking and u gaining 2 for answering, when comes to your judgement you will be be the loosing 80 years of your life, probably more but i doubt it

For those of you not getting the point here. I tell you that GOD is not the one that makes the MORALS here, he gives that to you to choose. If you believe there is no GOD then why do you live your life at your gullest and then at the end loose it all?

Answer 1

Yes, there most definitely is a God! And I feel sorry for those who will never know Him.

What I really don't understand is why so many people bash God when they are so ill-educated when it comes to Him and His works.

Answer 2

Right, so you're saying that the only reason I work hard and try to be a good person is because deep down inside I know there is a God? Then tell me, why would I bother working hard and being moral when apparantly I'm going straight to hell anyway for not believing in god?

I have never believed in god or followed any religion and as much as you "know" there is a god, I "know" there isn't any. I am moral, work hard and follow laws because it increases the quality of my own life and the lives of other people around me (society) and if I work to improve this world, my children will have a better quality of life too. It has nothing to do with god, it's about our desire to survive and live a good life.

Answer 3

I try to be a good person because I think it makes the world that I live in a better place. For me, and for everyone else in it.

If the only way a person can be moral is because they have a God, then I support them entirely in having one. But I don't have to have a God to make good decisions, be kind to others, follow the law and work.

There is an error in your logic, unless you assume that everyone who doesn't follow laws or work hard doesn't believe in God. And it just doesn't seem to be born out by the facts. Many people who say they believe in God are antagonistic, or lazy, or bad people and many of them commit crimes.

I'm always amazed at how many "believers" still do terrible things. If I truly believed that my immortal soul was in jeopardy, I would be doing everything in my power to perfect my soul. Yet, people who believe that they have souls and need to get their souls into heaven, don't take their moral responsibilities (often, not always) nearly as seriously as I do.

Answer 4

Morals developped from certain understandings between people. Before society, there is no need for any kind of restriction or law between men. You go out and do your own thing, and if someone gets in the way, you can kill him. It doesn't affect your life.

People came together for convenience. It's safer in a group due to the numbers, and certain tasks can only be accomplished with many hands. However, to gain these advantages, certain freedoms must be sacrificed. Among those sacrificed are many relating to other people, like being able to steal their food or kill them for their food etc. This is because they don't want to have to worry about such things happening to them. Without security, the society breaks down.

After a while, these rules became very intuitive and were taught to young before they could think anything else. Thus, the origin of conscience and morals.

Answer 5

You think you're moral ONLY because a deity tells you that one thing is right and another is wrong and you should only do what's right? What, if you didn't have to answer to a supernatural authority, you'd be knocking over 7-11's and cheating on your taxes and your spouse and your homework? I'd hate to be that way, personally. I don't hang my morality on a myth. My decency isn't contingent upon the declarations of a Bronze Age superstition.

Why do I do what I do? What's the point?

Let's see... the point......

The point is to raise my son to be happy, healthy and wise. The point is learning and contributing and enjoying. The point is harmony and ideals and equality. The point is making the most of what you've got and recognizing what you don't. The point is living for good and living for bad and living for it all. The point is that I'm sentient and sapient and so is everyone else and we all deserve to be treated as such.

SAYING there is a God whether we like it or not doesn't make it so. My "liking" the concept of God or disliking it has nothing to do with whether or not it exists. The truth is that "god" is a empty, meaningless term with no basis in reality and should be treated as such. You don't have to like it, you don't have to dislike it, you don't have to have any feelings about it whatsoever. One doesn't have to feel a certain way about reality for it to be so.

Answer 6

I have morals because of empathy. I can look at things from another person's perspective and see how stealing from, hurting or otherwise wronging them would make them feel. This is an ability that develops in childhood, it has nothing to do with god. We follow laws because we go to jail if we don't. We work hard for benefit in the time we have here. People work hard and are good for the sake of being good in the time we have. And there is no proof that there is or isn't a god.

Answer 7

Let's be rhetorial for a second...if your parents never allowed you to hear the word "god", and prevented you from gaining any knowledge of religion and its practices, would you believe in him? No, you wouldn't. A human has to be taught about things of that nature.

Morals are not a human instinct, but a learned one. They are an abstract notion, imposed on the populace in order to maintain a semblence of control. Primitive tribes who practice cannibalism believe that they're moral. It's all what a particular society dictates.

Morals, laws, and ethics were all handed to the people by men, not god. Some of the smartest humans in the tribe discovered things that were detrimental to humans and life as they knew it, i.e. eating pork that wasn't stored properly, killing other tribesman, sleeping with another's mate, etc. They then went, and using the superstitions of the masses, claimed that their "higher power" gave them these laws to live by. When they realized that the tribe was listening to what these men said, the "messengers" would create more laws, again claiming them to be from "god". The masses didn't know any better, lacking any type of knowledge as to how the world really worked, and started worshipping the god figure given to them by their priests. Remember, god didn't create science, rather a lack of science created gods.

It has absolutely nothing to do with the existence of a god...yours or anyone elses.

EDIT: You tossed in a caveat or two after I answered...

The reasons that many intelligent beings obey laws and "morals" in this day and age has nothing to do with the fear of an angry god or eternal torment. In some cases, its simply respect for one's fellow human being, and in others it has more to do with not wanting to sit in jail. The benefit of being good in my life has no bearing on an afterlife. Hopefully, people will remember me for the way I treated them, and the things I've done. That's what life after death is really about.

Answer 8

Do you realize how big of a gap there is in your logic? Do you really think that morals can only come from a God? Do you only behave "morally" because you think you'lll be rewarded in heaven if you do, and punished in hell if you don't? If so, then you have the morals of a child. You never learned to take responsibility for your own actions.

I am fully convinced that there is no afterlife. There is no heaven, no hell. But I feel fully responsible for my actions, and I feel compassion for all humanity, indeed, for all life on this planet. I am moral, I am ethical, and I am that way because I choose to be that way.

Answer 9

what a rediculous statement
the more primative the people are the more morals the tend to have
i have not seen people more polite ,and with more morals than the people i met and lived with far from civilisation and christianity or anything else.

the closer you get to the cities the less the morals become
if anything religion has killed of a lot of morals since the responsibility goes to God
this has been my personal experience with African and Central American primative people
compared to people from the city and religious ones
dont quote God as a moral maker to me ,it is in practise the other way round ,religions are responsible for more death ,torture,theft,than anything else

Mexico is a very religious country and they have crimes that dont exist in the jungle or Europe
and The North Americans want to kill people on the other side of the world in the name of their god
rediculous examples of morals.
And to top it all the Christian deity that everybody follows called Allah or Jehova ,wAS NOT EVEN A gOD ,BUT AN aNUNAKI WHO CREATED THE ADAMS RACE TO STEAL GOLD FOR THEM

Answer 10

"morals" are a product of social evolution. different societies have different definitions of what is moral and tho morality may be enforced by the invoking of a wrathful deity should the rules be broken, the rules themselves are designed to keep groups of contentious humans under control.

just so ya know. there are lots of very ethical people who perform kindnesses and live beautiful lives without any coercive hell threats or promised rewards from a deity. some people are good people because that's just how they are.

Answer 11

There are people who follow moral rules and do good deeds to suck up to god so he'll let them into heaven. Then there are people who are moral and do good deeds out of love for others. Surviving is a natural instinct. That's why we work hard and try to avoid chaos by following laws, it's a way of surviving. Wanting our descendants to survive and have a good life is a natural instinct too. You see animals do the same, just in different ways.

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