One of the reasons I am AGNOSTIC.?

Question

I would love to find GOD... I really would. But frankly... there is so much I just don't understand about the way he presents himself.

I was reading on here about some miracles that people experienced. People that were having severe problems, called out to God and somehow he performed a miracle for them.

However... for every one of these "feel good" stories I read about, I have also read accounts where people were getting beaten up, attacked etc... all kinds of misfortunes... who called out to God and they "claimed"... that nothing happened. They got beat up etc.... anyway.

Wouldn't it seem that if there was a god, and although I am agnostic I tend to lean that way... that he would be universal in granting things like prayer requests, miracles etc.... I just don't quite understand the concept and the way it plays out.

Thanks... Have a nice day.


D.

Answer 1

Very well said. And although I lean more towards 'no god', it is a question that also always confuses me.

If there is a plane crash, and 11 people survive, I always hear those 11 people thanking God for being saved. Never once do one of these 11 people mention the fact that 491 people died in that same plane crash. According to their logic, God killed those 491 people. There is no other way.

The only God I might be willing to believe in, is a God that obviously doesn't play any role in our daily lives. Else it makes completely no sense.

Answer 2

We all have a strong wish to be in control of as much of our lives as possible. We also have a tendency to want to do it with as little effort as possible. Praying is easier than acting to create a better, healthier, more just society. It lets us feel like we have some control, or are in the care of a benevolent being who has ultimate control. In fact, it perpetuates the status quo.

Things happen. We don't always see the true cause and effect behind them, so we make up stories that suit our needs. If the God story doesn't work for you, then look for other ones that do. It takes a lot more effort to understand biology, physics and human psychology, but they'll provide a much more comprehensive and coherent explanation for why things happen.

Answer 3

You ask great questions & have thoughtful observations. I was reading about an archbishop who was dying write his last column for the people of his area. I thought that possibly his words might speak to some of your "onx". If not, sorry about all the verbage! :-)

Over the course of his illness, Meagher communicated with his flock by means of a column called "Letters from a Rocking Chair." After not being able to write for some months, the archbishop mustered the energy to dictate one last note in early December.

The old rocking chair has been very quiet for the last six or eight weeks. As a matter of fact, to authenticate the title of this column, I am going to have to crawl out of bed here and sit in it for at least a minute or two while I dictate the column over the telephone to my assistant, Katherine....

Way back at the beginning of the cancer, it was suggested to me that perhaps God was allowing me to be sick at this time in order that I might be better able to relate, as Chief Shepherd, to all in our Archdiocese who are not well. I really believe that this is a mission that God has given me, and I am astounded to see how God has been able to use my weakness to touch the hearts of so many people in a positive way.

More recently, I have struggled with the question of whether or not God would grant a miracle and I could be healed. However, I know that God does not usually intervene in our lives in this way. I do believe in physical healing of sickness – I do believe in miracles....

I am about to authenticate this column by moving over to the rocking chair for a few minutes, a task which is now, for me, more easily said than done . . . .

I still pray for a miracle, and, from my understanding in talking to the doctors, it would truly be a miracle if I were to recover now, since I am only receiving palliative care and no other treatment. Who knows what will happen when you have all prayed so hard for me; maybe we all need to believe that God can and does work miracles.

I wish all of you a wonderful Christmas, and, this year, I guess this will be the only Christmas card I will be sending to you.
The letter was signed not with some variation of "Sincerely Yours in Christ," but, simply, "Love."

Answer 4

Thank you for your kindness and honesty. That's a valid point. I use to wonder that myself. It is best to find a good Christian church and ask a pastor some of these things. They'd be more than happy to help you. I will try to do my best though. First, God loves us all equally so He doesn't want us to suffer. He gave us free will so He lets us make our own decisions. Sometimes we bring things upon ourselves with our sin. Satan always tries to harm us and pull us away from God. God does answer our valid prayers, but it may take longer than we'd like. We also have to have faith. He may let us go through hard times to teach us something, to discipline us, or to glorify Himself in the end. We don't always know His plan, but everything is for a reason. I had a lot of really bad things happen to me, but now I understand why. The most devote Christians I know had hard times too. Then they found God or were brought closer to Him. They started to change and that's why they believe in Him so much. I saw Him totally change my drug addict brother's life. I thought if he can change so dramatically, love God no matter what happens, put Him first, and then get his prayers answered, I want God too. I truly hope you get your answer. I will pray for you. God Bless You!

Answer 5

If you ever doubt the existence of God, try and wait around for something on the ground that is a single celled organism. Now explain to me how it evolved into something as complex as a human being, with a nervous system, skin, heart, brain, etc.
When you get bored waiting for this non-event to happen, try and talk with someone who is good at explaining why there must be a God.
If you believe in God and go to church, or worship and you're wrong, what harm is there? If you refuse to believe in God or investigate the possibility that you may be wrong, and you are not forgiven of your sins, that's a pretty bad outcome.

Answer 6

I can prove it......

There is a book.....

The book started from the first page and that first page was written, on the day you took your first breath......

Ever since that day, there have been many pages, and whenever something great happened, there were chapters anew.... Great changes presented new chapters in your life...... You have even watched some "books" come to a close....

But, your book, is unique as a fingerprint.... as significant as the direction in which you have placed your foot..... and it began within you as the breath of life........

Within you, as you lay in slumber, of all the days experience you have attained, there is a page.... You leave it in a place in such a language that even you do not understand why you find yourself there except to sleep..... but, while there, you leave that experience, and write that page.......

It is commonly called dreaming....... But, there is purpose.....

it is the only place where you absolutely communicate with God... where He listens to that language you take for granted.... You may not see Him, but I can tell you He is there......

When your book is finished.... you will turn it in...... and return to that place from where you came before you took your first breath in this place.......

and I can prove it.....

From a dream......



your sister,
Ginger,
((dream interpreter))

Answer 7

Agnosticism is classical defined because the philosophy that God isn't knowable. If alongside with a being as God exist, he's previous human information. human beings are literally unable to understanding even if there's a God. In practice, that's often used to confer with someone who's uncertain or who has opinion of the mission of the life of God. The note "Gnostic" refers to "having knowledge". once you position an "a" in the front of it, that's like the English "un". It reverses the that technique of the note. So an "a-gnostic" is human being who has no knowledge on even if God exist.

Answer 8

Reminds me of a question I saw a few days ago.

"If God doesn't exist, how do you explain the two kids that were found yesterday??"

Answer (quoted from several people): how do you explain why he let them be taken in the first place?

It's kinda like when a soldier comes home that only a few people prayed for vs another soldier not coming home that the entire town got together each night and said multiple prayers for him.

Answer 9

Friend, I am a Christian, & have been one for 37 yrs. Sometimes a Christian question why God does things or mainly not does the thing , but allows the thing to happen, I lost my 1st wife to death in 1989, After 21 yrs of marriage, Yes I aak God why, But then sometimes we have to stop & look at the situation, & really it was not God that caused my wife to be sick, but satan, I am now remarried to a wonderful Christian woman, Since God allowed satan to attack my 1st wife health, that does not mean he will allow that happen to someone else, our minds can not comprehend sometimes the things that God does Or the things he allows to happen. But that still don't make him a unloving God, God has a will in everyones life, & his will is not always the same with each person yet he is not a respect of a person, Like for instance my 1st wife & I, really had little things in common, She liked to shop, I didn't, I am an outdoorsman, she wasn't, I like walking trails & hunting, she like walking the malls, I watch her die for 304 days in ICU, I never thought in all my days I would ever remarry again, & then alone comes my 2nd wife. She was a widow also, we started dating & finally got married 16 months later, Now we have been marrid 15 yrs. She likes to walk trails & even to Hunt deer. Just because we can not comprhend God's plan sometimes, don't think he don' exist, God has a plan for everyone, just as he does for you. Since My 1st wife death & my marriage to mine 2 nd wife, I still through it all Trust God more today then I did before. Remember, Satan does a lots of things & people tries to blame God for it. IF we never have a trial or test to go through, how can we know God can bring us through it.

Answer 10

ahah you know how every year about 80thousand people go to the vatican in hopes to get healed. Yet their has only been 66 reported miracles? That means within the past 150 years this has happened. The thousands that flocked their, only 66 people have been miraculousely healed. Thats a lower percentage than the odds of it just happening by chance in your bedroom playing sega genesis.