Why does humans (most of 'em) want to believe that there is a higher power?

Answer 1

The answer is simply to explain the not-yet explainables.
These not-yet explainable will eventually get explained as science moving toward superiority.

Answer 2

Human beings believe in a higher power as a way to somewhat explain their existence.
By believing in a higher power this gives them comfort that after all the strife in life there will be a reward almost for it.

Answer 3

I look at all the world around me, and wonder how anyone could not believe in a Higher Power. There is a lot I don't understand about creation, but then, its not for me to question. I am just thankful for that wonderful loving God that created me.

Answer 4

People believe in a higher power because they are scared. They think that life has to have "meaning" and that there is a purpose for everything. They can't accept the fact that we truthfully don't know why we exist.

Answer 5

If there is a God, I believe it would have programmed that in to us. But anyone that has lost someone close to them knows the feeling of "what's the point?" A human life span is an insignificant amount of time in the overall scheme of things. But hope is humanities greatest trait. And the desire to believe in a creator is a manifestation of that trait.

Answer 6

for some- there is no question because we have had divine intervention. I've always had my doubts, until I became a mother twice.
It still didn't resonate until I had a car accident.
I really should have died. That was my first intervention, and when it didn't bring me to him, later I had a vision as I was driving to work.
In a glance I saw the face of Jesus as clear as it was looking at me, not straight on, there was a slight slant in his head, as to be looking over and down at me...at ME.
I pass the very place everyday and cannot make it out or find the landmarks that would have given me that vision. I finally stopped trying to make sense of it and attended church.
It has brought me deep insight and I have to learn, educate myself, to believe anything to be true and having help deciphering the bible sure helps!

Answer 7

People are afraid of being alone. So they invent foolish, often wildly contradictory delusional beliefs because they are too weak (in spirit) to accept being alone and make the best of what time we've got. So, they waste their lives on some idiotic pipe dream that no amount of reason or logic, or even solid evidence can disprove in their eyes.

Answer 8

Because we can see the evidences of God all around us: "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things." Romans 1:18-23

Answer 9

Because there is something rather than nothing. There can be no effect without a cause. The reason we yearn for "God" (or if you want to call it happiness or transcendence, w/e), is because we were made for that. Don't simply use reductionist thinking in trying to explain away religious faith, but look deeper into it.

Answer 10

Complete fear of reality We are what we are, however with regard to our making, it is curious that the syncronicity of life is an accident. Most use this as a crutch rather than a question for cause.