Are religious people insecure?

Question

after all they rely on an unseen god

Answer 1

Yes, very much so.

Answer 2

Maybe, but it's a fair bet that they were insecure before they became religious. But such are the promises, bribes and prizes in religion, they feel happy to glorify a myth until they die because they then think they'll get a reward. Oh yes, an unseen reward from the unseen and unheard god.

Answer 3

We are all insecure, having offended God's absolute goodness and being justly under the condemnation of a holy and righteous God -
but those who put their trust in and rely upon Jesus Christ for their justification will find security in God's promise of mercy and grace which cannot fail.

If you are in mortal danger and you shut your eyes, my friend, that does not give you true security nor in any way change your mortal danger.

God is not seen by those whose eyes are shut.

Answer 4

Why would tremble from knowledge?

Science and God

A long-time biochemist at New York’s Columbia University, Erwin Chargaff, once said that “natural science is not an instrument to investigate the unfathomable; [nor is] its job to decide on the existence or nonexistence of God.” Is that true?

Well, Albert Einstein, the best-known scientific theorist of this century, was led to speak of “a spirit [that] is manifest in the laws of the Universe—a spirit vastly superior to that of man.” And more recently Fred Hoyle, the brilliant British astronomer, was reportedly converted from disbelief to belief in the existence of a creative power when he calculated that it was mathematically impossible for life to appear in the universe by chance.

These examples illustrate to some extent the truth of the Bible’s statement: “His [God’s] invisible qualities are clearly seen from the world’s creation onward, because they are perceived by the things made.” (Romans 1:20) However, Chargaff was correct insofar as there are limits to what science can teach us about God. Neither Einstein nor Hoyle was able to discern from science more than the fact that an organizing God must exist. We have to go to the Bible to learn who that God is and what his purposes are. All such knowledge is truth beyond the reach of science.

Science and the Future

Also, science cannot foresee the future. It cannot even foresee the results of its own discoveries. When DDT was developed, for example, it was hoped that this new weapon would forever solve the problem of insect pests. It would provide protection for plants and keep in check those insects that spread diseases such as malaria. However, the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said that this “blessing for mankind . . . an undreamed-of achievement for chemistry” later became “a rather questionable blessing. . . . DDT’s victory march through Germany is over.” And not only in Germany but also in many other countries where its use has been banned. Science failed to foresee the negative effects it would have on other forms of life, including man.

Remember, too, Alfred Nobel, after whom the Nobel peace prize is named. He was a man of peace, yet he invented dynamite. Why? He wrote to a friend: “I should like to invent a substance or machine with such terrible power of mass destruction that war would thereby be made impossible for ever.” Two world wars since Nobel’s death have proved that his invention failed to have the effect he hoped for.

Albert Einstein also hoped that the development of the atom bomb, based largely upon his theories, would eliminate forever the danger of war. Yet bitter wars are still being fought, and civilization finds itself sitting on a nuclear powder keg, terrified that someone will light the fuse. Shortly before he died, Einstein is reported to have said: “If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.”

Answer 5

Religion can be a crutch for some people, and in that way then yes, certain people choose religion as a form of security, a framework which will help them to make choices and decisions in their life which they may feel unable to make alone. For others though, religion simply offers the emotional strength of Faith.

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Answer 6

That is the reason religious people are secure, because they know they can rely on God. Even though they cannot see Him. God is like the wind, you cannot see that neither, but you can feel its presence.

Answer 7

not insecure at all..

We live by faith not by what we see. 2nd Cor. 5:7

Be brave and strong and trust in the LORD. Psalm 27:14

read the scriptures and you too can be secure.
psalm 32.8
1 John 5:20
John 7:17
Proverbs 3:5-6
John 16:13
Isaiah 42:16
James 1:5
1 Cor 2:14-15

Answer 8

Well of course yes, we all are in fact. I don't understand why this question would be important. When you trust in God you are saying you are not all that is and you haven't got all the answers. So why would you not be insecure?

Answer 9

They feel, that (unseen god) is their security. I don't get it personally, but then I've always been more of a "show me" person.

Answer 10

surely the fact that they have faith in something unseen makes them more secure than anyone who has to put faith in what can be tested

it takes a lot more to trust in something that cant be seen or proven, than to simply believe what scientists tell us.

Answer 11

I am more secure in relying on an un seen ,but to me well known God , than an atheist is in nothingness.