A) Isn't the burden of proof on the believer?
B) Is "because God said so" undeniable proof of a higher power?
2007-02-25 03:59:55 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, the burden of proof is on the believer. And they are doing a terrible job presenting their "proof".
2007-02-25 04:02:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋
From what I can tell on Y!A, some people are doing that in retaliation of atheists asking for proof that God exists. Me personally, I have no desire to prove or disprove anything to anyone. I am a believer who does not force my beliefs on anyone, nor do I appreciate nonbelievers forcing their beliefs on me. Respect is the idea here!
2007-02-25 04:03:54 · answer #2 · answered by willie 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I neither ask an atheist to disprove my God nor do I feel compelled to prove Him to an atheist. There is no burden on me to prove Him to anyone. You can not make a blind man see just by talking to him.
2007-02-25 04:04:09 · answer #3 · answered by angel 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because atheists are always asking Christians to prove their god.
"higher power is a problem also"
What is a power?
It is like electricity. It is there, it doesn't have a mind.
It has a nature---it wants to balance positive and negative. Where there is a difference it will try to balance. If you get in between the effort, you will die.
2007-02-25 04:11:24 · answer #4 · answered by chris p 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm not really sure, because generally speaking, atheists don't care if other people believe in god or not. Atheists do not practice evangelism, as a whole. They don't have a NEED to prove that god doesn't exist.
2007-02-25 04:47:05 · answer #5 · answered by Jennie Fabulous 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Christian faith is besieged by doubts from without and within. One function of churches is to regularly reinforce the beliefs, and beat back the questions that any mind would have about obeying rules that make little or no sense just because they allegedly come from some mythological being for reasons that don't make sense either.
2007-02-25 04:09:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
For the same reason atheists ask us to Prove our God. They have their faith. We have ours. I would like to add one more thing however. Christians do not simply believe that their is a God. We KNOW there is because once we have accepted Him, our inner self changes. Unfortunately, we can not transfer that knowledge to others.
2007-02-25 04:04:40 · answer #7 · answered by Poohcat1 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because some atheists are so insistent that there is no God one would naturally conclude they have proof of His non-existence.
2007-02-25 04:09:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The universe is complex and probably required a Creator. But which one? It seems that all cultures throughout human history have recognized the role of a Creator God.
The Creator defined by the North American Native Americans only asked that humans live in harmony with all nature. In exchange, the Creator provided plants and animals for humans to use as food, clothing, shelter, and medicine. Early Native Americans showed their respect and appreciation to the Creator by making small offerings of tobacco.
The Creator God defined by Hebrew scholars, 6000 years ago in the Middle East, was a jealous, and often cruel God. He demanded that humans make sacrifices of animal blood in order to appease Him, and set out Old Testament laws of behavior that often required the stoning-to-death of your neighbor for sins as minor as eating shell fish or working on the Sabbath. These laws remained in effect for over 4000 years until Emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire and commissioned the first Bible from a collection of Hebrew scrolls and stories of Jesus. Religious scholars of today claim that the Old Testament God decided to change his original requirements for animal sacrifice and for stoning-your-neighbor-to-death for disobeying His written laws. This God, rather than having his human scribes re-write the laws on new scrolls, he decided to have His only Son sent to earth to be tortured and murdered.
I believe there is a Creator God. I just believe that his personality is more like the compassionate Creator God of the early Native Americans. If He turns out to be the cruel Middle Eastern God, and He throws me in Hell for thinking He is more loving than He really is, then I’m willing to accept with that fate.
2007-02-25 04:06:23 · answer #9 · answered by Honest Opinion 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We aren't asking atheists to disprove our God.
2007-02-25 04:03:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I dont think this question makes any sense because christians wouldnt ask atheists to disprove their god because atheists dont believe in any god. So the question isnt relevant.
2007-02-25 04:07:14 · answer #11 · answered by joneseq 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋