If someone purposely and insistently denies the existance of God, does God still influence or affect that persons life?
2006-10-31 12:58:28 · 25 answers · asked by Paley Pale 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
You will undoubtedly get a lot of answers from different perspectives. There is no right or wrong answer, but hopefully you will get many different thoughts about this. I believe in a higher power or supreme being, whom I chose to call God, but I also believe this creator (or creative force) cannot be fully comprehended by any individual or defined completely by any one religion. The creator of my understanding cares about all, believers and non-believers alike.
I believe God deliberately gave humans free will--or allowed for free will to be exercised. As such, we may choose to believe or not believe. We may choose to have a relationship with this guiding force or not. I believe that God loves all, as is, unconditionally, regardless of belief or lack thereof. And while I believe that God can still influence or affect a person's life, I also think God accepts the free will we have.
2006-10-31 13:11:43 · answer #1 · answered by sdewolfeburns 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
God cannot affect non-believers, but the people who do believe in God can affect and influence a non-believer. For example, a majority of well intentioned believers can pass laws that the non-believer must live with. The stem cell research issue is just such an issue, even though the stem cell can never grow to a fully developed being.
2006-10-31 13:13:17 · answer #2 · answered by Skepticalist 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Non-believers will always deny it, unless God creates another Jesus in this lifetime, other than that? The non-believers will always deny any influence pertaining to God. So as far as the question goes? No, the non-believers will tell you that God has no affect in their life, not even by influence.
2006-10-31 13:08:36 · answer #3 · answered by Smahteepanties 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
God is all and therefore it is believed he is the cause and affect for everything and everyone. It is also said he loves the sinner, not to imply that an Atheist is a sinner, but if he is a non-believer and strikes another for his belief he will reach in to change that problem, not only to help the believer but to show the sinner as it were that he is an aggressor and it he would believe in God and stop his aggressions, and anger and denial, he may be forgiven and join the flock. The reverse is of this is perdition.
2006-10-31 13:59:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Do you live on Earth, which provides you with food and water? On a planet that is the perfect distance from a star for Life to exist on it. And do you live in a Universe, which the solar system you live in is in the perfect place of the Milky Way galaxy the provides you the ability to observe where you are not erased by gamma radiation or by star dust in that Galaxy? Are you in a galaxy that is not colliding with another galaxy out of some 750 billion galaxies? Then I would say Yes!
Does God influence and affect non-believers?
And in your mind you still call him GOD. I say YES, he Loves you no matter what You believe about his existance. For you see only that which is in front of you but God sees with his heart of all.
(1Jo 4:8) He that loves not knows not God; for God is love.
(1Jo 4:16) And we have known and believed the love that God has to us. God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.
2006-10-31 14:07:26 · answer #5 · answered by Michael JENKINS 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If you do not believe then you would not believe that affects your life.
You can denie that the earth is round and once that it is proven that the earth is a round planet, you still can denie it just that you are not listing to the proof.
With God there is no proof only faith. One has faith.
someone with no faith will say there is no God.
2006-10-31 13:09:42 · answer #6 · answered by Wicked 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think of in basic terms gay human beings and a few fervently professional-gay rights have self belief that there is a "gay gene". Many biologists and psychologists agree that that's a mix of "hormonal, environmental, and organic and organic" reasons which paintings on a point we nonetheless don't understand. The APA had homosexuality listed as a psychological ailment till 1974 because of this acvitivist psychologist controlled to alter it. i'm no longer suggesting that's a psychological ailment in spite of the incontrovertible fact that that's no longer fullyyt organic and organic. I remember a s tudy that LeVay did in 1991, they did in corpses of gay and at the instant men additionally with at the instant and lesbian women persons. The gay men had ideas systems that resemble that of at the instant women persons and with lesbians their ideas resemble at the instant men exceedingly interior the are which controls allure (anterior hypothalamus). Why would somebody pick to be gay? What form of guy would desire yet another guy to have anal intercourse with him till he did no longer desire it? Reparative therapy does not paintings. do no longer you recognize the founders of an ex-gay company ran away at the same time? additionally, lots of those ex-gay counselors sexually assaulted their sufferers. Sexual orientation no remember if that's genetic or no longer, would be unable to get replaced.
2016-10-03 03:52:22 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Regardless of if you believe in God or not, according to the Bible, he still loves you. He may be upset that you choose to deny Him, but being upset does not mean he doesn't love you. "And God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten son" God is just waiting for these people to accept Jesus into their hearts and accept him as their lord and savior. That's all it requires to set all right with God. Some do, some don't. God gave us free will and lets us do with it what we want. Even angels don't have free will. We are God's most beloved creation.
2006-10-31 13:03:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Still an influence
2006-10-31 13:00:54 · answer #9 · answered by George K 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Plain answer: YES...
this answer will be defined according to individuals beliefs, religion, conception of God, and level of fanaticism...
you have to think, that we all share the same universe, and any true-universal law is equally shared by all.
i believe in God, and I believe that faith is something that cant be learned, it is something to be felt...
if God, tough us to love each other, and forgive, if he have given all of us this world, if he gave us free will...how could He not influence and affect non-believers the same.
i believe in the laws of Karma, and they certainly apply to everyone... cause there is no way to avoid reactions over your past and present (good and bad) actions.
2006-10-31 15:41:00 · answer #10 · answered by anna 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋