If I'm an atheists, should I keep telling myself that God exists and God is good until I believe it?

Answer 1

I am a Christian.

No, it is silly to just tell yourself that God exist if you don't believe it your heart can not rejoice long in something that your mind rejects.

I used to have so many doubts, So many that I couldn't really be classified as a Christian. But one day something happened to make me search for the answers I had needed since I was a kid.
I find the answers I needed.

If you are really interested in finding faith in God, go to your local library or bookstore and look for some of these books that I have listed at the address linked below.
http://www.madmaxine.bravehost.com/Library/recomend.html

If you are willing to take the time to look for it you can find tons of evidence that the Christian world view is correct.
Each of these books will bring you closer to faith in Christ if you are open minded, to the evidence.

Answer 2

No, I don't think you would want to do that... but may I please ask you a couple questions to see if you are an atheist?

1. Do you know that when you say "There is no God", that is an absolute statement? To make an absolute statement, you must have absolute knowledge. You have to know everything.

2. Do you know every single thing in the universe?
If you answer "Yes, I know every thought in every person's head, and I know every single thing there is to know", then you know for SURE that God does or does not exist. If you answer "No, I don't actually know EVERYthing in the universe", then you can't make an absolute statement like "God does not exist". You must leave room for the possibility that since you don't know everything, it's possible that you don't know that God actually does exist.

It's possible that you are an agnostic: you don't KNOW that God exists or not. You aren't sure. Is it possible in the knowledge you haven't yet come across, there is ample evidence that God actually does exist?
Thomas Edison said, "We do not know one millionth of one percent of anything".

Answer 3

No, atheists don't believe in God.. or anything for that matter. Telling yourself over and over that "god exists and he is good" won't make you believe it. If you are an atheist, you just don't. If you believe, then you're obviously not an atheist to begin with.

Answer 4

In my opinion, lack of belief is really an attempt by atheists to avoid facing and defending the problems in their atheistic position. You see, if they say they have no position, by saying they lack belief, then their position is not open to attack and examination and they can quietly remain atheists.

The problem for atheists, however, is that atheism is coming under more serious attack by Christians and others who recognize its problems and are exposing them. Without a doubt there are far more people in the world who believe in God (or a god) than don't and more and more Christians are tackling atheism as an untenable position. The majority belief doesn't make it right, but the increase of examination of atheism has made it more difficult for atheists to defend their position. This also explains why atheists seem to becoming more aggressive in their attacks on theism in its different forms. There is an intellectual battle being waged and both defensive and offensive measures are being taken on both sides. In the end, the truth will be known and atheism will become extinct.

Answer 5

if you think so then u are not an atheists and if u believe in god u don't need too re pet telling anything the god will revel it self to u and the god is with every body even if u are an atheists!!!

Answer 6

Never attempt to convince yourself to believe that which you don't believe; it's not only a waste of time, but frustrating as well. On the other hand never let others convince you of the same. It's just as frustrating. When you get frsustrated your guard is down, it gives them a chance to win, meaning the most important thing is to keep your guard up.

Answer 7

You can keep saying that until you wear yourself out but unless you open your heart to God,ask the Lord to forgive you,ask him to come into your life and accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior it doesn't really matter what you say if you refuse to believe and deny yourself of your own salvation.
In the long run you will find that it was better to accept God than to fight God because when you go against God you will always lose.

Answer 8

You are free to maintain the viewpoint of an atherist; but it is not a justification for you to criticize people who believe and worship the One True God.

Answer 9

Belief is that state of the mind by which it assents to propositions, not by reason of their intrinsic evidence, but because of authority.

Though the term is commonly used in ordinary language, as well as in much philosophical writing, to cover a great many states of mind, the quasi-definition advanced is probably the best calculated to differentiate belief from all other forms of mental assent. In framing it, respect is paid to the motive of the assent rather than to its nature; for, since intellectual assent is of its nature simple and indivisible, no differentiae proximae can be assigned by which it could be separated into various species.

As the objects of belief, also, are of a nature similar to those of knowledge, opinion, and doubt, so, again, no criterion of division can be found in them (as in the case of the objects of separate faculties) to distinguish it from other mental states.

St. Thomas Aquinas qualifies his definition of faith with the addition of the note of certainty (Summa, I-II, Q. i,a.4). Though he treats of faith as a theological virtue in the article cited, his words may well be extended to include belief as a purely natural state of the mind. It will thus be seen to cover intellectual assent to truths accepted on authority either human or Divine.

In the former case belief may be designated by the synonym credence; in the latter the more usual term is faith. Often, also, belief is used in the sense of fiducia, or trust; and this especially in Protestant theology as a substitute for faith.

By the definition given above we are enabled to distinguish belief from intelligence, in that the truth of the fact or proposition believed is not seen intuitively; from science or knowledge, since there is no question of resolving it into its first principles; from doubt, because belief is an assent and positive; from opinion and conjecture, in which the assent is not complete.

Answer 10

If you keep telling yourself without searching, there's no point.

Acts 17:27 "...for them to seek God, if they might grope for him and really find him, although, in fact, he is not far off from each one of us."