Why do we "have to acknowledge the possibility that a "God" exists"?

Question

People used to believe that when the gods were angry there was thunder and lighting.

Through the progress of time we have now learned that a better explanation is when there is a certain amount of moisture in the air, certain temperature, etc. that given certain meterological conditions there is a storm.

This same scientific progress has and does happen with practically everything that the human race has attributed to a God.

Why should we acknowledge the possibility of a "God" existing. God didn't make the human race out of dust and clay. God didn't get angry and cause thunder.

What are your thoughts?

Answer 1

I don't think a person has to acknowledge the possibility. Otherwise, they would also have to acknowledge the possibility that there isn't a God... and I'm sure they are not willing to do that. I don't understand how people can try to lay such standards on people because of differences and not see that, in order for the standard to hold any water at all, they would have to hold themselves to it as well.

And thunder is not God getting angry... that's just gas.

Answer 2

My thinking is that some day - not in your lifetime or mine, I have no doubt - but most certainly some day, the people of that future time will read about their ancestors, and about a long period in the history of humanity during which a very very large percentage of the human population believed in the existence of a mysterious invisible superbeing, to whom they attributed virtually everything that they could not so far explain.
An exceptionally long, harsh winter - a particularly devastating tsunami - a national disasaster of some sort - it was caused by a pissed off God who didn't like something that we were doing, and was punishing us harshly - the guilty, the innocent, the young, the old, the helpless, didn't matter. God was mad so God was gonna let rip on everybody
They will also read, and shake their heads in wonder, about how humanity divided itself up into separate groups,, who all basically believed in this same all-powerful God, but believed that THEY were "worshiping" God in the way he approved, and all the other groups were dead wrong.
The people of that future time will read, and smile, and their jaws will drop when they get to the parts where people did some of the most horrendous things to the planet, and to one another, in the name of this Mighty Invisible Being
Yes, they will grin, and shake their heads in disbelief, and throw up their hands in bewilderment, sigh with pity, and even roll around holding their sides with uncontrollable laughter at the ways their ancestors behaved, the things they actually believed, and the nonsensical rituals they engaged in all in the name of this Being, whom nobody had ever seen, ever heard utter a single word, or even knew precisely what this being was. Why did they believe the way they did? Because when they were young everybody around them told them they had to, or some day they would spend eternity, writhing in the most inconceivable agony.
The children of the future will be sitting in their classrooms, reading the history of the past and they'll be lost in puzzlement at all of this, and I have no doubt, sweating with relief that they were so lucky not to have been born in a time when people still believed in such a colossal superstition.

Answer 3

I agree. Just like fire was perceived as "magic" it is now taken for granted due to its scientific understanding. Conventional duality does not work in our world anymore-everything is not black and white. On the whole, we acknowledge it because there is a demand for it. Albeit, the demand is larger than the concern of aliens, but if there is an interest out there-it gets pondered. The more alraming prepostion is why? I think God and its questions are a derivative of psychology. People have an inate sense of a need for importance and order. A higher power has evolved through many stages to satisy this psychosis. Spirituality is healthy for a sound mental state, but religion has taken it a step too many. It should be something as intimate as lovemaking, kept only to indoor, private settings.

Answer 4

We have to acknowledge the possibility that god exists, simply because there is as little evidence to prove that he doesnt exist, as there is to prove that he does - that is, on both counts: none.

The most prudent position to take is to neither deny or state that there is a god.

An agnostic person has no onus to provide reasons for their position. Both atheists and religious believers do.

San Francisco = god exists
Buffalo = god doesnt
We can imagine two teams, San Francisco and Buffalo, each competing in a grid-iron event. If I asked you who will win, and you said "Buffalo", then it would be reasonable for me to ask further questions to determine the basis of your prediction. If your religious friend said "San Francisco", then, equally, it would be reasonable for me to ask for some reason or proof.

If you asked me and I said "look, mate.... I just don't know", then there is no further justification, evidence, or proof that you could reasonably ask of me. If you can think of a fair question, then I am wrong... but, I am confident that I am not.

As someone who simply has no position, due to lack of evidence about the existence or not of a god, I don't need to provide any justification at all!!!!

I know that is not identical to what you are asking, but it answers your question nicely. You don't have to acknowledge the possibility as such, but you are out on a limb just as much if you state categorically that there is no god, as you are if you said with false confidence that there is!!!!

Hope you enjoyed my answer... hope you all have had a great day.

take it easy.
Jeremy

Answer 5

Hello my friend to be honest, I do not have belief in any Religion because there where Men who basiclly tampered into Religion ever since time started, and you may think it started since Darwin, but it is your World. My friend you do not need to believe that A Supreme Being exists, but you need to remember these three things:
The Supreme Being: All-Powerful, All-Loving, All-Knowing.

Before I finish, I would like to ask you a question;

Would the after-life be better off, for a Human who believed in A Supreme Being, but then found out that when Humans die they just resurrects, or if a Human that did not have a belief in A Supreme Being and then found out in His after-life that there is A Supreme Being, so then He had to go to Hell instead of Heaven?

!Bless And Peace To The Benevolent Ones!

!JFK!

Answer 6

There is a world of difference between evolution and ADAPTATION. We only have hard evidence of adaptation. That's all that can actually be proved. Evolution is an UNPROVEN THEORY. Period. Think about it. Thousands of species, and NO proven evolution. Not once. Not ever.
But somehow, it has become the state religion, even though the fossil record shows that below a certain layer, there is nothing, and the next layer up has pretty much everything jumbled together. See? No millions of years of evolution--it all appeared at the same time! Go dig and see for yourself!

Why would anyone go to such lengths to promote so much misinformation? It's ALWAYS all about the money. Think about what would be different--and what would not be sold--if everyone accepted the reality of GOD, and didn't go after their own little piece of politically correct, 'self-defined' happiness. Divide and conquer.
I'm not going to say who is doing it. The smoking guns are there for you to figure it out, if you WANT to. QUIT BEING SHEEPLE, and ask yourself who benefits from devisiveness, contention and confusion.
AND NOW, THE TRUTH--
"...But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse,deceiving and being deceived." (II Tim. 3:12)
"...there [will] be mockers in the last time (our present day), who [will] walk after their own ungodly lusts." (Jude 1:18)

"...if they speak not according to this Word it is because there is no light in them".(Isa.8:19)

Answer 7

Actually lightning comes from when our planet is balancing a charge separation that comes from passing through the sun's varying electic field strengths in an elliptical orbit. Same thing with tornadoes and hurricanes. When the sun is highly active we get a whole lot more of all of the above.

Of course the official explanation still does not acknowledge this, but we can see from sprites and elves that the energy for lightning comes from way above the storm itself into the ionosphere.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/Bigpappadiaz/sprites__elves.jpg

This is why we sometimes get "bolts from the blue" on sunny days when conditions for lightning clearly did not exist.

Ever seen the Valles Marineris on Mars? It's only the largest lightning scar in our solar system:
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/Bigpappadiaz/marsglobe_viking.jpg

Answer 8

My thoughts are that you absolutely do not have to acknowledge the possibility that a "God" exists. If He is not in your heart, thats because you are of a different father. I know it will offend some, but the truth is that we are not all of the same Father. It is written that in the end times the spirit of Elijah will come to turn the hearts of the children to their fathers. Thats plural. So, no - you do not have to acknowledge Him at all. The beauty of it is that you have a clear choice. Nobody has the right to take that from you. God sure doesn't want to take it from you - He's the one who gave it to you in the first place.

Answer 9

I would rephrase it and say that we have to acknowledge that we can't rule out the existence of a God.

I have to acknowledge that, no matter how much I believe that there is no God, I could be wrong because we just don't know.

However, since this God would have come into being or simply always existed without the intervention of a creator, we also have to acknowledge that, clearly, God is not necessary.

Answer 10

Which God do you have acknowledge the possibility of? Any argument which says you have acknowlege the possibility of the Judeo Christian God, also means you have to acknowledge the possibility that the Easter Bunny exists, that Baal exists, that Thor and Zeus exist and that the Flying Spaghetti Monster exists.

Now what?