You have to grow up some time.
2007-03-07 08:10:30 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think this tells us much more about your mental and spiritual development than anything else. For many kids come to believe that God is on the same level as Santa Claus. Yet Santa is only about 140 years old, a flea-bite in the human time span, and the product of American commercial drive. But he wreaks havoc with teenagers and later. Yet wherever you go in the world the belief in a creator God or gods and an afterlife have been the formative belief in hundreds of cultures continents and oceans apart going back tens of thousands of years. Of course people in Western culture will say that these people were "primitive" because they did not have a "scientific" culture.
The irony is that in universities one finds the strongest group of atheists amongst professors of literature. When one gets to know the real scientists, those who study the basic forces that make the universe and matter work, the physicists and astronomers, one finds the proportion of sceptics far lower. And this is because they know that appearances are delusory, that 'solid' matter when investigated disappears into a strange mass of energetic forces and mysterious particles. The greatest of them, Albert Einstein, said that "God does not play dice with the Universe". He saw clearly that the Universe was not chaos but the result of a logically thought-out process, and from that logic he was not afraid to declare that there must be a thinker, a creative spirit behind it.
2007-03-07 08:38:26 · answer #1 · answered by porphyry 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jehovah God would never lie to us. 2 Tim 3:16-17 All scripture is inspired of God. Man can't do anything for us !!! I'm 6 foot 5 and 35 years old and I don't believe in fairy tales. But we all came from Adam and Eve and that can all be traced back through DNA.
I have witnesses the power of Gods word in my life. I'm a walking example of that. And people that knew me before I started studying the Bible recognize the great changes I have made because of applying bible principles in my life. I'm married going on 11 years and have a Son on the way and life is beautiful :O)
2007-03-07 16:20:29 · answer #2 · answered by Jason W 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You need to lay off the drugs and try living in the real world for awhile. If you truly want to know about God, then quit thinking you already know all you need to know and dismiss the possibility there is a God. Find a good Christian church (I would suggest Catholic Church ) and study what they believe. Then and only then could you make an informed decision about what true FAITH is all about. "The truth will set you free
"These men falsify the oracles of God, and prove themselves evil interpreters of the good Word of revelation. They also overthrow the faith of many, by drawing them away, under a pretence of [superior] knowledge, from Him who rounded and adorned the universe; as if, forsooth, they had something more excellent and sublime to reveal, than that God who created the heaven and the earth, and all things that are therein. By means of specious and plausible words, they cunningly allure the simple-minded to inquire into their system; but they nevertheless clumsily destroy them, while they initiate them into their blasphemous and impious opinions respecting the Demiurge; and these simple ones are unable, even in such a matter, to distinguish falsehood from truth." St. Irenaeus ("Against All Heresies," c. 180 A.D.)
2007-03-07 16:18:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you believe in science over religion the I think you are also right. Everyone has a differant definition for God and it does not have to be the typical "fairy tale" definition. There has to be somthing, no matter how small, that is guiding this world in some way. As bad as things may seem, it would be complete chaos if there was absolutly nothing.
2007-03-07 16:16:14 · answer #4 · answered by ILikeCake2 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I often wonder how many atheists just don't want to believe because deep down they know acknowledging God kind of puts a damper on pursuing selfish desires. Some of the greatest legal minds in history have come out in favour of believing the resurrection of Jesus to be a reliable account that would stand up in court. here ae a few names Hugo Grotius, Sir Lionel Luckhood, Simon Greenleaf, Wendel R. Byrd, Lord Caldecote(Lord Chief Justice of England), Sir Edward Clarke,John Singleton Copely, Lord Darling a former chief justice in England, J.N.D. Anderson, Irwin H. Linton, Donovan Campbell Jr, then there was Sir Robert Anderson former head of Scotland Yard knighted by Quenn Victoria for his utmost skill in exposing the mazes of falsehood and discovering truth and separating it from error.
2007-03-07 16:16:44 · answer #5 · answered by Edward J 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
So you are saying that people who believe in God are only believing something that you know is a fairy tale based on evidence that supersedes the evidence for the life, death, and resurrection of Christ?
Please, inform us....
2007-03-07 16:15:46 · answer #6 · answered by Cheryl Durham, Ph.D. 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Why do you feel believing in God is a fairy tale? I do agree that we have many "gods" who are fairy tales so you're right in that sense.
2007-03-07 16:17:45 · answer #7 · answered by Ruthinia 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Deep down I know that one day I will meet with the Almighty God. I have grown up since commiting my life to God. And I can only grow up, spiritually, with my Father God.
2007-03-07 16:15:01 · answer #8 · answered by Cookie_Monster_UK 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, but God is NOT a fairy tale. Repent now while you still can and accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. God Bless
2007-03-07 16:14:26 · answer #9 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Why is it this question keeps being asked, yet it is not the people who believe in God that keep parading around on here as spongebob, nick nolte, a dressed up hamburger, various other cartoon characters... and I could go on...
2007-03-07 16:16:34 · answer #10 · answered by 1sweet lady 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋