Given the overwhelming evidence that man created God, how do believers continue to rationalize belief?

Question

Please don't give me the standard religious responses citing the Bible or other religious texts, instead, think hard and try to come up with a rational, non-religious answer. After all, truth can withstand scrutiny.

Answer 1

All of the evidence that man created God is fake evidence planted by Satan to trick you into not loving Jesus and ending up in hell where Jesus will torture you for all eternity. Don't think about Satan's evidence. Instead of just believe that Jesus loves you unconditionally and love him back. Thinking too much causes Jesus to hate you.

Answer 2

There's no direct evidence to prove or disprove that God exists. How can you refute that God doesn't exist? No one really can provide any "proof" either way. There have been studies on near death experiences that could suggest there is a God and a heaven. A total non-believer is not anymore objective or logical than a believer. Choosing to believe or not to believe has nothing to do with being "rational". It's all what's in your heart.

Answer 3

How can you expect to get a non-religious answer to question you are asking of believers. Think hard and try to come up with a rational answer.

Answer 4

Believers were indoctrinated with the stories as impressionable children. Then they failed to make some rational choices later in life. So, they have adopted a particular life-style choice and any disagreement with that choice is a direct criticism, which they naturally reject.
Belief in a fairy tale into adulthood is a serious character defect.

Answer 5

If man created God, then who created man? Some might say man evolved, but where did the earliest organisms on the planet come from? Was there a point in time when lifeless organic matter spontaneously changed from primeval soup to living organisms? I think the case for a god is rational.

Answer 6

Overwhelming?? I think not. As more physicists study areas of quantum particle behaviors at that level, the more mystified they become, with many saying the only logical alternative is that there must have been, and is now, a Prime Mover who began it all. A Super being capable of controlling space and time, and exquisite design of the way the universe works. Did you know, they have undisputed evidence that the universe is not just expanding, but accelerating! Something that should be impossible, along with Newtonian gravity theories that were THE TRUTH until Einstein came along and upset the apple cart.

Answer 7

The same way that evolutionists rationalise the theory of the creation of earth - big bang theory etc. Carbon dating has been discredited, Darwin's theory was discredited on the basis of the bones being associated with arthritic elderly men and a pig's tooth. Science is theory. Evolution is theory because scientific fact can only prove a theory if the scenario is recreated in a controlled environment.
The 'disclaimer' - if you'd like to call it that - for me as a Christian is the principle of faith - belief without seeing. Scientists have 'faith' that what they rationalise is 'fact'. Man created scientific process and it is also, therefore, fallible. Our postmodernistic era says that we don't need science anymore to tell us what to believe is truth - it's what we 'feel' is truth. Nowadays, you can rationalise believing that aliens created us to mine gold because they couldn't and one day they'll return to pick it and us up... seriously, I met a guy that is convinced of it!
But I'm thankful for people such as yourself who challenge others to really think about things rather than blindly follow teachings. It's because of people such as yourself who ask the questions that I still stand firm in my belief but realise I have to push myself to learn more.

Answer 8

If God is just a creation of man, then why are humans so overwhelmingly interested in God?

One observation that I take as evidence is the fact that atheists like you seem very uncomfortable, where as believers feel fulfilled and satisfied.

I hope you will find the truth someday and be satisfied.

Answer 9

I agree with you that religion made up the judgmental punishing God nonsense.

Still just because someone made up lies about God does not mean he/she can't be real.

Here is what proved it to me.

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don

Answer 10

Because the "overwhelming" evidence isn't so overwhelming, and there is non-biblical evidence of Jesus. One of the most pointed examples is that there are letters from Roman Centurions to their friends and families mentioning Jesus and the odd things he was doing (miracles). There is also evidence from before Jesus but it can be more sketchy, and Jesus is the focal point of what I believe in.