Why you Believe in God?

Question

I was listening to those talk radio shows, by force might I add, and a lady said that a good place to bring your children is to church. Then started to go on about how if a child doesn't learn that there is a God at an early age then they won't believe in Him. For me personally, I thought that was a little creepy like your teaching, no, forcing information in your child's head that they can't get away from. Like for example, I used to be Christian and I didn't like it but I was scared to leave the religion because I first learned that if you don't believe in God then you go to hell. I didn't want to go to hell so I followed the religion that I truly didn't believe in. So my question to you isn’t, do believe in God but why?
I had this question up a little while ago but people didn't understand. Ok, this is what I'm trying to ask:

The first thing you learned when you first started believing in God, was it positive or not and is that why you believe in Him today

No bible quote please.

1.The reason I asked for no Bible quotes is because I want you opinion not the bibles.
2.People didn't understand the question so I deleted it but if you did understand the question and I didn't see it then could you please write it again. This is a little inportant to me.

Answer 1

The very first thing that I learned about God was that He loves us all no matter what.

I believe because I have seen evidence of God's existence through personal experience.

Everyone gets a personal experience by God, but not all take it to heart. Many ignore what they are shown--I didn't ignore it, I accepted it.

It's sad that some people have to use an outside source to state why they believe in God. It should come from your heart, not someone else's words.

Answer 2

I believe in God because I feel God's presence. It's a sixth sense that I have. I personally think I am in tune with the spiritual realm more than others just by certain recurring things that have happened over the last few years with no reasonable explanation. I don't worry about what I can see. It's just something I feel. It's hard to grasp to some, but it will never change my belief of a higher power that propelled everything into existence - even before the Big Bang and all that. A force started everything at the very, very beginning of the universe's existence. That force is God.

Now, whether Jesus Christ is the Son of Man and the way into Heaven is another story. I've been raised in the Baptist Church, but I am finding that I have become more spiritual when I step back from all the technicalities of the Bible and just focus on nature and my senses.

Answer 3

Why not belive in God?
Well, if you think Cartesian system like and also studied you can clearly prove God's exsistance. For example, Rene Descartes' book
Discourse on Method from science, philosophical and mathematical ways of proving things. Also, Candide, or Optimism by Voltaire.
If you want even more go study what Sir Isaac Newton have to say and how he proves God's exsistance.

If that is not enough, well have you studied the Quran and the Science within??! talks about: Fossils of ancient humans, Embryology, Astrology, Astronomy, Mathmatics, Even the exsistance of Atoms! The life of an Ants and Bees. Harun Yahya's books and all his works are about this, as proof. The Miracle Of Birth, The Miracle Of Creation In DNA, and many many more. So, don't just ask a question, you must first seek knowledge from your own reseach, but this does not mean listen to people who have little or no knowledge at all about the subject. Also, read and study some works of Dr. Zakir Naik and his debates against others. He knows by memory without even have the books open, he knows what pages, chapters, verses and lines of many books, such as the bible, quran, torha, vedas and many many more he proves that god exist.

Answer 4

I believe in God because of the 'awareness' and experiencing his love in action since I was very young. The bible prophesies the events and the conditions the world will and is going threw. These truths make his existence to me very clear. I have been in several situations, (life and death) that I have actually felt his presence and love with me. The fact that the world and universe we live in is so mass, to be believing that it just got here without any superior being is not the least bit logical to me. Know one can convince me we are a process of of anything but love that God has bestowed on us. The fact that the world has gotten where it is today, was not the plan that God had intended for man in the beginning. Gods plans was for us to live for ever, in a Paradise earth, raising happy families of our own. This is one reason we humans have such a difficult time with the death process. It was never to be apart of genetic makeup until Adam and Even sinned. When I talk to God I get a feeling of a loving superior being caring about me and my needs. I believe in God because I do exist today. :)

Answer 5

Dear Honeyluvs,
You have every right even a responsibility to your soul to make the choice you really want to make. Soak up everybit of information that you can, ponder it, decied what is real to you, live it and toss the rest. Ask inward for the truth to come not outward.
Our world has three beliefs systems of what happens when you die.
1) We decompose, thats it there ain't no more, the end, the void.
2) We have one lifetime to become worthy of god or it is hell from here.
3) Reincarnation, many lifetimes to choose love/father or dominion.
If one is correct you need do nothing short of the repercussions of this life.
If two or three is correct then choosing love/fellowship/joy in all you do here, it will give you a better shot at getting back to father/love.
If in the end #1 is true, what have you gained, a better life here.
If sharing joy with those you love does not entice you, then you need do nothing as you are on you correct path.

What if heaven and hell were exactly the same except for one difference? What ever you invision heaven to be, imagine hell to be the same except for one difference. If you are in heaven you are sharing love/joy/fellowship absoulute bliss in all you do.
If you are in hell everyone will be dominion bent acting without regard to anything but personal pleasure, personal gain, excersing power over others. Everyman for himself in all that is done. Everything else is the same.
Now which path do/will you choose? LOVE or DOMINION
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Answer 6

*Iused to and there was a time I felt loved and important. Love kept me there, then there was a time that fear of hell was the only thing that kept me ther. So I overcoam all that and I am now Wiccan. I beleibe in the goddess and god. I have no fear, i chose this path because I canot be an athiest because I beleive there is a diety, I just do not believe it is the one god of the bibleanymore, I also donot believe we will go to hell. I am more at peace than ever before.*

Answer 7

I believe in God because I know Him and enjoy His presence in my life. I was never coerced or forced into a relationship with God. I was curious about God and it was through Jesus that I learned more about Him. From that knowledge, I developed an intimate relationship with God. My focus is on God and eternal life - not on satan and hell. If I want to know more about the opposition I learn about God...Good is the opposite of evil.
I agree with your statement about children and their first experiences with God. The problem come in when parents think that church is the answer and trust teaching to others just as they do for academic education. When in reality, children need to learn about God just as they learn about life - through parental modeling. God becomes evident by example not talk.

Answer 8

Ok you are asking a question about God, but don't want any Bible quotes... kinda self defeating isn't it..


Well I believe in God because I have seen his mercy and Grace in my life. I have also studied science and history and there are too many things pointing to God. To many holes in the scientific record...

Also Archiologist frequently use the Bible in order to find things they are looking for.

Answer 9

Muslims believe in one, unique, incomparable God, Who has no son nor partner, and that none has the right to be worshipped but Him alone. He is the true God, and every other deity is false. He has the most magnificent names and sublime perfect attributes. No one shares His divinity, nor His attributes. In the Quran, God describes Himself:


Say, “He is God, the One. God, to Whom the creatures turn for their needs. He begets not, nor was He begotten, and there is none like Him.” (Quran, 112:1-4)



Chapter 112 of the Quran written in Arabic calligraphy.

No one has the right to be invoked, supplicated, prayed to, or shown any act of worship, but God alone.

God alone is the Almighty, the Creator, the Sovereign, and the Sustainer of everything in the whole universe. He manages all affairs. He stands in need of none of His creatures, and all His creatures depend on Him for all that they need. He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing, and the All-Knowing. In a perfect manner, His knowledge encompasses all things, the open and the secret, and the public and the private. He knows what has happened, what will happen, and how it will happen. No affair occurs in the whole world except by His will. Whatever He wills is, and whatever He does not will is not and will never be. His will is above the will of all the creatures. He has power over all things, and He is able to do everything. He is the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, and the Most Beneficent. In one of the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad , we are told that God is more merciful to His creatures than a mother to her child.1 God is far removed from injustice and tyranny. He is All-Wise in all of His actions and decrees. If someone wants something from God, he or she can ask God directly without asking anyone else to intercede with God for him or her.

God is not Jesus, and Jesus is not God.2 Even Jesus himself rejected this. God has said in the Quran:

Indeed, they have disbelieved who have said, “God is the Messiah (Jesus), son of Mary.” The Messiah said, “Children of Israel, worship God, my Lord and your Lord. Whoever associates partners in worship with God, then God has forbidden Paradise for him, and his home is the Fire (Hell). For the wrongdoers,3 there will be no helpers.” (Quran, 5:72)

God is not a trinity. God has said in the Quran:

Indeed, they disbelieve who say, “God is the third of three (in a trinity),” when there is no god but one God. If they desist not from what they say, truly, a painful punishment will befall the disbelievers among them. Would they not rather repent to God and ask His forgiveness? For God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. The Messiah (Jesus), son of Mary, was no more than a messenger... (Quran, 5:73-75)

Islam rejects that God rested on the seventh day of the creation, that He wrestled with one of His angels, that He is an envious plotter against mankind, or that He is incarnate in any human being. Islam also rejects the attribution of any human form to God. All of these are considered blasphemous. God is the Exalted. He is far removed from every imperfection. He never becomes weary. He does not become drowsy nor does he sleep.

The Arabic word Allah means God (the one and only true God who created the whole universe). This word Allah is a name for God, which is used by Arabic speakers, both Arab Muslims and Arab Christians. This word cannot be used to designate anything other than the one true God. The Arabic word Allah occurs in the Quran about 2700 times. In Aramaic, a language related closely to Arabic and the language that Jesus habitually spoke,4 God is also referred to as Allah.

Answer 10

I remember going to church and feeling a little strange about the people that seemed to get posessed, and right next to me one woman got the "feeling" and lost all consciousness that I was but a child sitting right next to her and began to beat me with wailing arms. But inside me I believed in Christ, and the cross. Grandma took us to church, she died and the whole family went a bit crazy, most of us still are, but by Gods mercy I have been brought back to the flock, I am with the Lord now, and I intend for it to stay that way.

It was not very positive, but still I did believe.