Does anybody have a hard time beleiving in god or the bible, tell me why?

Question

I have a hard time beleiving in god, those who have a hard time beleiveing why dont you beleive.

Answer 1

I have a hard time because there's so little substantial evidence in support of either's veracity. The Bible seems little different from any other thousands-year-old quasi-historical text, its historical accuracy akin to books like The Iliad. Much archaeological, geological, astronomical, mathematical, and biological information directly contradicts the Bible, and there are even internal contradictions within the Bible itself.

Most importantly, there simply isn't enough corroboration (Egyptian records, for example, which are normally meticulous, fail to mention any period when Jews were significantly enslaved there; and there are no non-Christian accounts of Jesus' life that aren't specifically based on Christian ones) for any of the Bible's claims, which is especially disastrous because of how monstrously extraordinary many of those claims are. If the Bible was simply stating everyday things, those claims might be dubious until they were corroborated, but at least they wouldn't seem outright absurd. For example, if I told you that yesterday, I wore a sock on only my left foot, you might doubt me to an extent until the evidence confirmed it, but you wouldn't consider it an extreme stretch. On the other hand, if I told you that yesterday, my sock caught on fire and the voice of God spoke to me from, you'd have much more reason to be completely skeptical about my claims until I could definitively prove them. In the same way, the extraordinary nature of the Bible's claims naturally, and rightly, cause us to doubt them extraordinarily until extraordinary evidence can substantiate them--not just indirect, flimsy pseudo-evidence like Jesus' face appearing on pieces of pieces of toast.

As for God, there simply isn't any evidence for such a being. It's the same as Santa Claus; in the lieu of real confirmation, it is natural and right to doubt.

Answer 2

First, you have to define the term "God." The problem with most
theists is that this term is a moving target.

In addition, because there is no evidence either for or against the
existence of God, you cannot use deductive logic (a+b=c; therefore c-b=a). You can only reach a conclusion by inductive reasoning using the balance of evidence (90% of A is also B; C is B, so the chances are 90% that C is also A).

So to begin with, I will assert (and others may shoot this down) that the only RELEVANT definition of God states that he intervenes to circumvent natural laws.

If God circumvents natural laws, then it is impossible to understand natural laws. All scientific findings would have to include the stipulation, "it is also possible that these results are an act of God, a miracle, thereby making our research meaningless."

However, since we have been able to expand our knowledge of natural laws (evidenced by every appliance in your kitchen), the scientific method works in this discovery. And the likely conclusion is that God, at least the intervening kind, does not exist.

Additionally, if God is defined as all loving, all powerful, and all knowing, then it is impossible to explain suffering. Either God is not all loving (he acts sadistically), not all powerful (he cannot prevent suffering), or not all knowing (he created suffering by mistake because he didn't know the consequences of his actions).

If God is less than these and/or does not intervene in our existence, then he is either non-existent or irrelevant. The classic Bertrand Russell argument is that I cannot prove that a china teapot is orbiting the sun between the earth's orbit and Mars. But while I cannot prove this is not true, the evidence against it is compelling.

The evidence against God is equally compelling, and while it is not possible to prove beyond any doubt, it makes enormously more sense to live your life as if there were no God.

It is more compelling to me that humans have invented God (a) to help people deal with the pain and fear associated with death and loss, and (b) to reflect the thoughts of the ruling powers in a particular time. Because humans are always looking for reasons, when none were found, it was the natural inclination to declare the cause to be "God" (or gods). As the faith grew, miracles (coincidences) and laws were ascribed to this Divinity, and an orthodoxy grew up around it.

Now it seems unhelpful to believe in such superstition. The only matters that aid in our ongoing well-being are work, location, health, sustenance, and pure, blind luck.

So no, I don't believe God exists. And you know what? It's okay if others do believe God exists.

Answer 3

God isn't evil, he's merciful and form. God delivers a existence time to discover him. He forgives you for each and all of the blunders you have made all you should do is ask him in prayer. God does no longer reason conflict and affliction, that's all man made, god won't be able to take peoples freewill far off from them for this reason the worldwide is a wicked place. reason why actual everyone seems to be punished endlessly is with the help of the fact they have regected god their total existence and committed to an entire life of sin and wickedness without repent. God needs you to repent against the organic urges he created you with so which you will conquer, and be with him in heaven. study the bible and you will understand God, no person right here or everywhere can permit you recognize extra effective.

Answer 4

i do not have a hard time beleiving in god. i do not believe in the bible bacause in my eyes god does not contradict god. there are to many contradictions in the bible. there are over 2,000 contradictions in the bible. with in the same chapters. when you have a book that is wrong and shows to many contradictions and god is perfect that will make one question the existence of god. i read the quran and i became a muslim. have yet to find a contradiction in the quran. but i hope that answer is clear enough for you.

Answer 5

Middle eastern bronze age goat herders got together around camp fires at night and told stories, playing to scare each other off.God was one of the central fictional character.
These stories became the base of a large collection of fairy tales, a selection of which in known as "The Bible".
Interesting work of fiction. Nothing to believe in though....

Answer 6

I had a hard time figuring it out for a while but some one helped me put all my thoughts into a simple explanation. God is not a religion of any sort. It is merely a name for something greater then ourselves. It is idiotic to think we appeared out of thin air but equally as stupid to think that we owe something so much greater then ourselves anything in return such as praise, sacrifice, or the precious time we have left as conscience human beings.

Answer 7

Christianity is a bastardization of other mythology and Eastern teachings that is quite older than the bible we know today.

Take this passage of Lao-tzu:

The Tao is like a well:
Used but never used up.
It is like the eternal void:
Filled with infinite possibilities.

It is hidden but always present.
I don’t know who gave birth to it.
It is older than God.

I can take this idea and change it in to anything I want like making the Tao into the name of God and calling him Alpha and Omega. There have been books written about this subject but a child turned into a man that have been indoctrinated in a certain way of thinking his mind can not be changed no matter who much evidence you present to him. He will call them lies.

Answer 8

i'm not real sure on this. i was raised in church and i am saved but sometimes i can't help but think that maybe its a big money maker. everywhere you look somebody is trying to make money off of God. why is that? why can't people just share God with others for free. there are so many people in the world who do not know him and its really sad. God should be known by all and should not have to cost anything to know.

Answer 9

The belief in "god" seems to be ubiquitous through the ages.

We know, for example, that the ancient Egyptians believed in their gods so fervently that they built massive structures like the Great Pyramid -- still today one of the largest and most enduring human constructions ever created. Despite that fervor, however, we know with complete certainty today that the Egyptian gods were imaginary. We don't build pyramids anymore and we do not mummify our leaders.

More recently we know that tens of millions of Romans worshiped Zeus and his friends, and to them they built magnificent temples. The ruins of these temples are popular tourist attractions even today. Yet we know with complete certainty that these gods were imaginary because no one worships Zeus any more.

Much more recently, we know that the Aztec civilization believed in their gods so intensely that they constructed huge temples and pyramids. In addition, Aztecs were so zealous that they were sacrificing hundreds of human beings to their gods as recently as the 16th century. Despite the intensity, however, we know today that these gods were completely imaginary. The Aztecs were insane to be murdering people for their gods. Killing a person has no effect on rainfall or anything else. We all know that. If the Aztec gods were real, we would still be offering sacrifices to them.

Today's "God" is just as imaginary as were these historical gods. The fact that millions of people worship a god is meaningless.

The "God" and the "Jesus" that Christians worship today are actually amalgams formed out of ancient pagan gods. The idea of a "virgin birth", "burial in a rock tomb", "resurrection after 3 days" and "eating of body and drinking of blood" had nothing to do with Jesus. All of the rituals in Christianity are completely man-made. Christianity is a snow ball that rolled over a dozen pagan religions. As the snowball grew, it freely attached pagan rituals in order to be more palatable to converts. You can find accounts like these in popular literature:

"The vestiges of pagan religion in Christian symbology are undeniable. Egyptian sun disks became the halos of Catholic saints. Pictograms of Isis nursing her miraculously conceived son Horus became the blueprint for our modern images of the Virgin Mary nursing Baby Jesus. And virtually all the elements of the Catholic ritual - the miter, the altar, the doxology, and communion, the act of "God-eating" - were taken directly from earlier pagan mystery religions."

"Nothing in Christianity is original. The pre-Christian God Mithras - called the Son of God and the Light of the World - was born on December 25, died, was buried in a rock tomb, and then resurrected in three days. By the way, December 25 is also the birthday or Osiris, Adonis, and Dionysus. The newborn Krishna was presented with gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Even Christianity's weekly holy day was stolen from the pagans."
It is extremely hard for a Christian believer to process this data, but nonetheless it is true.

Answer 10

I find it difficult to believe in God and the Bible because so much of what has been taught to me from the Bible turned out to be in contradiction to my actual life experiences.