2006-11-05 08:20:45 · 12 answers · asked by I give you the Glory Father ! 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because they can't bring themselves to believe in God. Faith is something separate from reason, and some of us just don't have faith. There is nothing we can do to change that. If you have it, may God's love be with you, for the rest of us, we'll have to learn to survive without noticing it.
2006-11-05 08:23:33 · answer #1 · answered by tomservo552 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
"The truth is many people see God like they saw their Dad and if their Dad couldn't love them unconditionally, they can't see how God could."
This is not the truth - don't make assumptions like that. How do YOU know how every atheist came to the conclusion of no god? We can't all have had lousy fathers, you know. In fact, at best, this statement borders on pseudo-psychiatry. There is no basis for anyone to make this claim. Oh, wait, I forgot - these are people who think man was made from a lump of clay.
2006-11-05 16:31:52 · answer #2 · answered by ReeRee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whatever gave you the faith that you have in the love of God that you are speaking of here had to come from some kind of sign that you considered sufficient to prove its reality to you. Your own faith didn't pop up out of nowhere, did it? Were you born believing in God? No, you were taught to believe in God and you accepted the signs you saw. Many people weren't taught what you were taught nor have seen that sign, whatever it was for you. Nor have they seen any sign that satisfies their more analytical ways of thinking and understanding. Some people simply require more proof before believing anything. Thomas, for one, for an example from the Bible. I forget, did he get sent to hell for wondering?
Without some sign or indication, some kind of tangible proof that something is real and true, no one ever puts trust or faith in anything, whether you are speaking mathematics, medicine, meteorolgy or anything whatsoever. Those kind of things are required to make sense and be understandable or their assumptions and theories are tossed out or refined until they agree with observation. They cannot be taken on blind unquestioning faith or we would be in a whole big world of hurt. There are sloppy scientists in the world, too, but I wouldn't want them working for NASA if I were going to the moon! Why is the question of the reality of God treated any differently? Why does it not require testing? I know what the Bible says about leaning on one's own understanding, but that's the only way that some people's minds work - they require nuts and bolts common sense observervable tangible logical proof. Is it a sin or a display of arrogant stupidity and vanity, to require proof of the reality of something, anything, even God and his love, before embracing it as truth?
Sign or no sign, life goes on as it does, as we make it, the good, the bad, the in-between, life is the result of our own actions and chance. Lack of any clear sign and a multitude of apparent contradictions in the Bible can only lead a thinking rational person to assume that there is no God watching over us with love. Science requires proof, why doesn't God? From what I've ever seen, God may have created the universe, but he sits back while we run our own lives. Beyond that, he is as much or as little as you think he is.
I won't sit around waiting for the ten points on this one. It's a heart-felt, gut-felt answer, but probably not what you want hear.
2006-11-05 16:29:53 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The truth is many people see God like they saw their Dad and if their Dad couldn't love them unconditionally, they can't see how God could. That old equation God is love is hard to get your intellect around. Man has always looked for a sign. They have one. His name is Jonah.
2006-11-05 16:26:23 · answer #4 · answered by Jessica M 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because they want to find God on THEIR terms, not God's. Plus, humans have the tendency to make things much harder than they need to be. We're pretty dense, don't you think?
2006-11-05 16:29:26 · answer #5 · answered by RobynGee 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Well, you DO have to admit all this godly love story is rather hard to believe, without evidence.
Besides, I'm not interested in THAT love, that expects me to spend my life worshipping him in exchange.
2006-11-05 16:25:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because there is no proof of god, and it's incredibly random to belive in god.
2006-11-05 16:40:49 · answer #7 · answered by viciousparrots 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because the deceiver has created the pursuit and worship of many false gods (greed, lust, hatred, power, allah, etc) to distract and keep people away from the love and mercy of the one true God, and salvation thru His Son, Jesus.
2006-11-05 16:24:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Show me that there is a deity at all, and then we can start discussing whether you've picked the right one or not.
2006-11-05 16:24:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Exactly.
2006-11-05 16:28:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋