in the God of the Bible. Is it because you know He exists but find His way too constraining? Or is it because you find it hard to believe in something you can't see? Or something else?
2007-01-02 07:42:49 · 20 answers · asked by gtahvfaith 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-01-02 07:45:01 · answer #1 · answered by Chris M 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I don't believe it for many reasons. I don't find it constraining at all. I don't drink, somke, do drugs, have sex unmarried, ect. I am also a History major and have studied many religions. I also feel embarassed that in a modern world that most people do believe in some for of god. The problem is people are afaid of lots of things. Dying, their job, daily problems. Church is a social place to hang out as well. Great community. I don't need any of these things. I am fine in knowing that I am going to die and cease to exist. That's ok for me. Another thing is people try to give the human race a purpose. Nobody can deal with the fact that we may just be here. We sprang forth through evolution and here we are. Lets make the best of it, but ultimatly we are not that special. But to answer your question, I sat years in church and had lots of Christian friends, for me it was simply I studied the evidence, saw it to be bullshit, and have moved on.
2007-01-02 08:41:34 · answer #2 · answered by fifimsp1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I will take it one step further: it is not difficult to believe, nor are his supposed ways too constraining. any child can believe in something that isn't there. santa claus, for example. belief in the extraordinary is very simple! and his constrained ways are easy because he gives every christian a way out, wherein they can confess and apologize for sins commited and get to heaven, no matter what. it is proving those beliefs that is too difficult. no zealot for god can prove anything about his/her beliefs. try approaching god from the idea that he doesn't exist. assume nothing about him. then take one step at a time and find proof for him. these proofs cannot contain things he is supposed to have said because if you believe he said them then you are assuming he's real before your final proof. i can say that i am god, that doesn't mean it's true. i can say that santa claus told me in a dream that he is real, again... not necessarily true (nor necessarily false! mind you). but i know that santa is imagined and i know that zeus is imagined, even as much as i know god of the bible is imagined. take anything that you know is real. anything tangible, relateable, identifyable (yes, even air and wind the invisible things that christians like to equate god with). now how do you know they are real? because someone told you they are? or because you see, touch, feel, witness them? you see even the invisible air turn visible when condensation on a car window occurs. where did the water come from? thin air. logically speaking you cannot start with the assumption, then use the assumption to prove the assumption to be true.
in all what i am saying is that religious people believe in god because it is easier than trying to figure out this world for themselves.
2007-01-02 08:15:42 · answer #3 · answered by Shawn M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I find a perfect god inconcievable. If I had to choose, I'd pick Satan. He's much more human and I feel that I could really connect with him. God just seems like such a distant figure for one we're supposed to love with all our hearts. Also, the bible doesn't make sense and god rules with an iron fist of fear.
I believe in many things I can't see. All of which don't present dominance over another, but instead co-exist with everything else in balance.
2007-01-02 07:47:55 · answer #4 · answered by Ghost Wolf 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's not that complicated. Suppose I told you I'm 900 years old. From what you know about life, you would be well within your rights to be skeptical of such a claim. In fact, you'd probably require some substantial evidence. But is it because you haven't seen me? No; it's because of the nature of the claim - which defies all your accumulated knowledge and experience.
To some of us the idea the cruel, vain, and insecure tyrant described in the Bible by primitive scribes could be the creator of the universe is even more preposterous then my claim to longevity. And we, like you, are simply in need of some evidence. By the way, in the thousands of years we've been asking for it, not a single piece of evidence has been offered.
2007-01-02 08:02:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Those who believe in an almighty God generally do not analyze their concept of time, because God is assumed to be independent of time. To give credit to an all-powerful, omnipotent creator we must factor in the element of time. If this world has always existed, there would be no need for creation. Therefor it must not have existed for a period of time before creation, and thus a sequence of time is required. Since the creator -- let's say God -- necessarily abides by the laws of time, he, too, must be subject to change, even if the only change he has ever gone through has been creating this one world. And that is fine. An omnipresent and permanent God cannot change, so it's better to have an impermanent God who can answer prayers and change the weather. But as long as God's actions are an assemblage of beginnings and ends, he is impermanent, in other words subect to uncertainty and unreliable." (Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse)
It's illogical that a creator god, like many people believe in, could ever exist.
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2007-01-02 07:50:20 · answer #6 · answered by vinslave 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Is it because you know He exists"
This is a stupid conclusion. Think about this for a second.
If I don't believe he exists, then why would I *know* he exists? That doesn't follow... you're using the antecedent of the argument as an argument. Next.
"Or is it because you find it hard to believe in something you can't see?"
I heard a quote somewhere, and I'm paraphrasing...
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike."
I don't believe in the God of the Bible for 2 reasons.
1. There's no evidence to support his existence. None.
2. If he actually DID exist, most Christians would wish that he didn't.
2007-01-02 07:49:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Why do Christians keep assuming that Atheists believe but are just too afraid? Are you just completely insane or is it that you don't own a dictionary?
No, an Atheist doesn't think any god exists. Period. Thats it thats all. And thats a hell of alot better than living your life in terror that if you do something that your god doesn't like, you're going to burn for eternity.
2007-01-02 07:50:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Why is it you don't believe in Santa Claus, Amen Ra, Zeus, Thor, the Easter Bunny, or any other imaginary thing?
Take that reason and apply it to your god. The bible is but a book written by man, for the ultimate sake of controlling man.
2007-01-02 07:50:39 · answer #9 · answered by umwut? 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I find much of the Bible to be abhorrent from a moral standard and no evidence for the concept of a god.
2007-01-02 07:51:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Forget it, it's all mythology. God of the Bible is one of many God's humans have. I believe they are all made up. The Bible is made up. Science gives us real answers, even if we don't have them all, it is much more reliable and believable because it doesn't assert anything without evidence. Science contradicting the Bible is the nail in the coffin.
2007-01-02 07:46:57 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋