Why is it so hard to believe in God?

Question

If you were walking down the road and saw a watch you of course would believe somone had to have made that. Yet a person is thousands of times more complex, yet we believe that to be and accident.
Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word (Jesus), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Joh 1:2 He was in the beginning with God.
Joh 1:3 All things came into being through Him, and without Him not even one thing came into being that has come into being.
Joh 1:4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.
Joh 1:5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it.
Joh 1:14 And the Word became flesh, and tabernacled among us. And we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and of truth.

Answer 1

Because it really doesn't have anything to do with God. It has everything to do with the heart of the individual. Most people simply do not want a world where there is someone in authority, who makes all the rules, who calls all the shots, and who tells them they shouldn't do the things they are doing. They simply solve the problem by just saying that that God does not exist. Then they can go on doing whatever is pleasing in their eyes. Sadly, by refusing to accept the authoritative nature of God they miss out on experiencing the loving nature of God. And by missing out on the loving nature of God they will some day experience the just nature of God.

Answer 2

The rest of John tell us why. It is not that its that hard to believe, but it is inconvenient or too painful for some. And then there are some fewer who actually think that there is no God.

According to Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologica), there are 5 good reasons and ways in which we can deduce that there is a higher power that we know as God:

(1) Unmoved Mover
(2) Principle of Efficient Cause
(3) Necessity of Existence
(4) Degrees of perfection
(5) Direction of all things towards purpose (grand architect)

Arguments 1, 2, and 5 are based on observation of the natural world, whereas Arguments 3 and 4 are based on rational speculation. In Arguments 1, 2, 4, and 5, Aquinas concludes that only the existence of God can provide a sufficient explanation for the questions raised. In Argument 3, he concludes that God must necessarily exist for his own sake. Thus, Arguments 1, 2, 4, and 5 conclude that God exists because the world requires him as an explanation, and Argument 3 concludes that God could not not exist.

Answer 3

You shoot your own question in the foot if you use the Bible as your best argument. Why does anybody believe in the monster that the Bible claims is god? Insanely jealous, clinically insecure about being worshipped, murderer of old women and children, fickle, capricious, all powerful yet impotent to cure cancer, omnisicient but enraged and surprised when things don't turn out the way He wanted them. I could go on, but I won't . . . you're not interested.

Here's something for you to consider: In every living thing that exists, the evidence is overwhelming that that thing evolved, it wasn't just "put" here. Complex systems EVOLVE from less complex systems. Now, any way you look at it, an omipotent, omniscent, infinitely eternal creator of the universe is onc heck of a complex system. What, did it just wink into existence? That is what makes it hard to believe, because nature tells us this is absurd. So the question is, who or what created god? I am by no means saying that we know anything about the greater mysteries of the universe, I'm just saying that the Bible is the silliest example for proof of god. I would sooner worship the sun, if I just HAD to worship something. After all, the sun is the giver of life, is it not?

Answer 4

You do a lot of quoting from the bible, but it's not the only sacred book. There are literally thousands of sacred books. How was it that you chose THIS sacred text? Never saw any of the others? Aren't you afraid that you may have been incorrect, when you didn't seek out ALL of the sacred literature, before making a choice? Ever think maybe God is only going to accept those who find, and choose, the RIGHT sacred text? Each of those other sacred books, says Theirs is the right one, too! A discussion of evolution/natural selection requires more information than you have, so come back when you're more informed, and we'll talk.

Answer 5

Some people always need proof, the proof is everywhere! The grass, the atoms, the sky, the millions of species etc. and The WORD, God created that, when you look at the females reproductive system it's so complicated, Did you know that everyones Iris (eyes) are unique, God created us in our Unique way. OK I am rambling, but people find it so hard to believe God, because they need proof, or here's the question "WHY?" the the sufferings that happen in our world. Children getting sick from cancer, murder, raped, terrorism. They often tell themselves, that if God exist he wouldn't allow it to happen. BUT it's our fault, we choose to be disobedient, we choose to have sex with carloads of men/women. Bad things happen because of the choices some people make, it's not Gods fault.

Answer 6

If I was walking down the street and saw a watch, I would believe a watch maker made it. If I saw a car, I'd believe a car maker, manufacturer, made it. The watch is not the manufacturer, but the the Son is God, and "all things were made by Him, that were made".

Answer 7

Watchmaker made the watch, OK

What if a little further down the road you saw a car? Did the watchmaker make it?

Your argument supports many gods.

You should know that biology and mechanics are two different things though. Mechanical devices do not posses natural selection or survival of the fittest. Take a class or read a book on it. It is not in the bible, BTW.

Answer 8

Ahhhhh, the watchmaker analogy....must find popup for this...brain hurting....

Here hon, check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmaker_analogy

Of interest to you might be THIS...
Cultural anthropologists challenge the watchmaker argument both as a 1) faulty analogy and also as a 2) mistaken idea about the matching of people, animals, and plants to their natural settings. That is, a man's mother makes the man, not a God. And people, animals, and plants have many biological mistakes in their design. [1]

Furthermore, the anthropologists Richerson and Boyd note that, though one woman may make a watch, the know-how that the watchmaker uses consists of the accumulated learning of many generations of technology workers that managed to make minor improvements on the traditions of prior generations. That is, the cultural evolution in watchmaking from generation to generation demonstrates the very Darwinian accumulation of variations between generations in a population that creationists try to use the watchmaker analogy to disprove. It is not even a case of the watchmaker standing on the shoulders of giants. Developing the art of watchmaking is a case of "midgets standing on the shoulders of a vast pyramid of other midgets."

Answer 9

Why? Because most people need to "see to believe" not all, just some...or most. It's like telling a bunch of people that a walking Yarn Ball passed by in Egypt...and preaching it, and writing a book about it. Just because you say these things, doesn't mean it exist. But at the same time....it can.

Answer 10

John's Prologue - theological reflection of the Johannine community roughly 75 years after Jesus' death. I could write something similar proving the divinity of that watch, if you wish.
The point is that belief shouldn't be blind adherance to scripture, but a responsible surrender in faith to the infinite horizon of God.