There's one thing i absolutely cannot understand, please help.?

Question

Some people out there, some very smart people, say they believe in god and can also understand that different people see god as a different thing. It confounds me that anyone can think this and not follow it through to it's obvious conclusion that the reason the idea of god is so subjective is because it's nothing more than a belief... a personal belief.

God belief is never based on fact or knowlege, it's always based on faith and emotional appeal. How can someone who understands this still believe that this thing exists? Is it their own emotional appeal?

Please, if you are going to show your ignorance by writing these people off as liberals (as if that were a bad thing) or just fling scripture at me (i've heard it all before) don't bother... I'm looking for real answers.

Answer 1

Religion is something that makes people feel better about their ignorance. Because the making of the world is complex and confusing to people, it makes them happy thinking that someONE has given them the answer being that the Bible is written by man. Personally, I'm comfortable in my ignorance and don't need a religion to guide me through life.. when it is time to meet my maker, then so be it.

Answer 2

What your saying is that what you can't see isn't there. I disagree with you, but will not go down your throat like everyone does when I ask a question (>:( DRR!) People have faith in God, and that is something Catholics do not need proof of. We have plently of proof with the Bible, and miracles in themselves. Also, there is a lot of evidence of spirits. If one did not believe in God they would believe that you just die and there would be not spirit or soul. Many people need scientific and logical truth in this matter of God. Science cannot explain everything, and never will. It is not emotional appeal. How can someone who doesn't hold values in God go around everyday knowing that is you die, it is the end. I personally do not know how one can live a happy life knowing that. God is not a thing, just to be clear. The idea of God is a personal belief that has roots and foundations to why it is there. It is more than a personal belief. God is the reason why people die, and live. When people get fustrated that something has not happened as they hoped or prayed for, they have to understand that everthing happens for a reason.

I hope this informed you on what we as Catholics and beliefs hold values in. I hope you can now better understand why we believe. We hope.

Those are my thoughts, not yours, so don't take offense.

Hope I helped :)

Answer 3

I can only answer by saying that I believe in God. I cannot call his existence fact because I cannot prove his existence to you - or even to myself. Yet life has presented me with this belief

It is similar, I suppose, to believing that the universe was created via the 'Big Bang'. We can see that the universe is still expanding and understand it and believe it - yet we cannot as easily explain where the matter originated.

I see and experience things that, to me, came from a force or power that we do not yet fully understand. That power, that force, that being is how I conceive of God. The eternal force from which all things came.

If that's simply my own emotional appeal, then so be it. But I will continue to believe until someone can disprove.

Answer 4

Faith has nothing to do with emotional appeal. Faith gives substance to hope & is the evidence of unseen things. It's also a choice. If you have indeed heard all the scripture before which I sincerely doubt, you have heard this. If those of us who have faith in God are wrong, we have lost nothing, if we are right the non-believers will lose everything. Real Christians truly don't want to see anyone go to hell, neither does God. True, some Christians use the wrong approach when sharing their faith but all of us are not like that.

Answer 5

No, it is clear that what you are looking for is for Christians on here to say that GOD is not really real. That is what You think so it must be right...Right?
You should be intelligent enough to know that everyone of us has a right to our own beliefs. What is "fact" to you is not fact to others.
To me, for instance, God is very real. I have a personal relationship with Him. You are not in a position to say that I do not have one either.
Conclusion; you think what you think and I know what I think.

Answer 6

Belief in anything is the intellectual assent, insofar as possible, to all that one "knows" about a given subject. This body of "knowledge" is both subjective and subject to change at any time, and that is why it is understandable that there would be different beliefs. It does not, however, assert or imply objective truth or falsehood.

Answer 7

If what you are asking for is scientific evidence of God's existence, then you are asking for something no one can give you.
I base my belief in God on the fact that on our plane of existence nothing happens by itself. Something must take place to start a chain of events.
However, scientists now tell us of a place called Singularity where the physical laws don't operate. In other words there is no time and place in Singularity, maybe God lives there.
We human beings are very inquisitive, who knows someday we may find out for sure.

Answer 8

The followers of dogma do not want people to tread the path of rationality. You must have noticed that the flag-bearers of dogma do not support RATIONAL THINKING.

Man’s mind is naturally built to work along channels of logic and faith. To be healthy and productive, the mind needs: Faith in what it is doing, and A logical method with which to process the data.

Take one, or both of those away from a mind, or force feed it illogical data, or lies, or force it to ignore or reject obvious truth consistently, and it will blow a fuse. It will burn out. It will malfunction. Thus, in churches today, most brains are malfunctioning on a regular basis due to the lies and illogic fed to them consistently. Church goers possess burned-out brains. They are defective; incapacitated. And, the Jesus-God doctrine is one of the typical poisons that have damaged them.

Why People
Believe in God

1. Arguments based on good design/natural beauty/perfection/complexity \
of the world or universe. (28.6%)

2. The experience of God in everyday life/a feeling that God is in us. (20.6%)

3. Belief in God is comforting, relieving, consoling, and gives meaning and purpose to life. (10.3%)

4. The Bible says so. (9.8%)

5. Just because/faith/or the need to believe in something. (8.2%)

Why People Think
Other People Believe in God

1. Belief in God is comforting, relieving, consoling, and gives meaning and purpose to life.
(26.3%)

2. Religious people have been raised to believe in God. (22.4%)

3. The experience of God in everyday life/a feeling that God is in us. (16.2%)

4. Just because/faith/or the need to believe in something. (13.0%)

5. People believe because they fear death and the unknown. (9.1%)

Most Christians believe because they have encountered God and have been filled with the Holy Spirit.

God is a result of Human desire, Human needs and Human projection and that explains even
the personal experience of God more rationally than the conclusion that God really exists.

Answer 9

What "looks" stupid that is your shown fact that each and all and sundry which is had to be attentive to God is to be born returned in his spirit. Your conceitedness is surpassed in basic terms via your willful lack of understanding. P.S. anybody who nonetheless believes interior the existence of devil in recent times is emotionally immature and intellectually destructive. you haven't any longer something to be pleased with, baby.

Answer 10

The thing you are confusing here, is that while people view God in different ways, there is only one correct way to view God. Two people can view God very differently, and they can both be wrong, or one can be wrong, and one can be right, but they cannot possibly be both correct. I hope you understand what I am writing, it is hard to explain.