Believing in God and not believing in God is a choice. I want to know, what makes you chose not to believe? And when you say you do not believe, is that 100% disbelief, or do you believe a little? Would it be possible to change your mind?
2007-03-21 11:20:44 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If God wanted to prove himself to be real, he could. He wants us to chose for ourselfs. Thats what faith is all about. Jesus said Blessed is those who believe without seeing. Thats why for those that do believe, he made a promise that we will be rewarded with paradise. Don't you want that? I believe because I know for a fact, with out proof, that he is real. If you have a personal relationship with him, you can honestly feel him. Of course that sounds crazy to you, but it is true.
2007-03-21 11:29:45 · update #1
Luckily I have a sense of humor, because I think it is funny that some of you compare to believing in lime green flying elephants, and invisible pink unicorns to believing in God. Hahahaha! Ok I understand. And to Dave, I feel for you that you have turned away, because the bible says believers hearts will grow cold in the last days. To be so close and not make it is heart breaking. The world has gotten so bad because it is the end times. It is not the Lords fault. This world is the devils, and he is having his way with it. I quess it is so hard for me to understand why people don't believe because I belief 100%. The same way you feel, just opposite. Also why do some of you have to be so hurtful when I am just trying to understand the mind of a atheist?
2007-03-21 11:38:50 · update #2
lostthou, tell me a person you know that has died and come back and said heaven doesn't exsist, and I will tell you mine.
2007-03-21 11:50:04 · update #3
"Believing in God and not believing in God is a choice."
Not exactly. It's not just a switch I can turn on and off. I don't believe in the Christian God. All the research I've done and experiences I've had and evidence I've seen point to the fact that he doesn't exist. I can't just suddenly believe.
"I want to know, what makes you chose not to believe?"
Too many to name, but for starters: Lack of evidence, Bible contradictions, the existence of thousands of other religions, the whole "eternal punishment" thing (totally illogical), the fact that prayer doesn't work, the fact that God supposedly cares more about your religion than the person you are... the list goes on and on and on. It's not one thing in particular; it's many things.
"do you believe a little?"
No. I'm as sure about the Christian God as you are about Allah, or Zeus, or Thor, or Brahma.
"Would it be possible to change your mind?"
Believe, yes -- if you gave me evidence. Worship, no. To get me to do that, you would basically have to convince me that it's fair or reasonable that all my deceased family members and friends who were NOT Christians are supposedly in hell solely because of their choice of religion. And you're not going to convince me that that's fair.
2007-03-21 11:27:28 · answer #1 · answered by . 7 · 8⤊ 0⤋
It is only a "choice" to us the way you "chose" not to believe in Zeus, Poseidon, The Flying Spaghetti Monster or Invisible Unicorns. There really is no good reason to believe in any of these things.
I would say I am as confident that there is no God as I am that there are no Invisible Pink Unicorns (I'm never 100% on anything).
I would always be willing to change my mind with new evidence and experience.
What would allow you to change your mind that there is no God?
2007-03-21 11:27:54 · answer #2 · answered by skeptic 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Among other things, I have been ordained a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church and have been a youth delegate to the Presbyterian national convention. I have attended classes at Virginia Theological Seminary. I have read and studied the scriptures.
It is not the hypocrisy of man that turned me away, it is the actions and inactions of god. It was easy enough to discard as figurative things which were obviously not factual such as Genesis. It was easy enough to overlook the actions of people who called themselves christian. What it was not easy to overlook was god.
Why would a loving god create terrible diseases? Why would he ignore the pleas of his faithful for relief from these diseases? The same questions apply to earthquakes and volcanoes; to hurricanes and tornadoes.
Then there is the question of religious wars. Why does god seem to delight in bloody conflicts in his name? While free will is one thing, god's words in his scriptures too often seem to urge men to fight for their faith.
The worst thing, though, was the idea that an omni-everything god was going to divide up humanity and give some an eternity of worshiping him and others and eternity of torment and that he was going to do this based on what people happened to believe during their infinitesimally brief time on Earth.
Such a god is not a god I wish to worship.
I would prefer to believe that there is no god.
2007-03-21 11:27:48 · answer #3 · answered by Dave P 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i'm a stalwart Atheist, and surely, sure if all of those issues from the Bible easily manifested in some type of tangible data, then sure of direction i might have faith and you'd be shown suitable on your religious perspective. the only concern is that Atheists have what's observed as serious thinking skill which facilitates us to establish fiction from certainty. each little thing interior the Bible is consistent with an historic prophecy that replaced into made up via dissimilar human beings, 1000's of years in the past till now we had scientific concept and based our perspectives on empirical data (a minimum of smart human beings). We already comprehend from the historic checklist that has been taught and researched in each substantial college of observe on earth that each little thing interior the Bible is FICTIONAL. style of like Harry Potter! a large tale, whether it under no circumstances relatively exceeded off! Jesus under no circumstances even existed as a real individual, opposite to the thought of even maximum atheists. This has been shown previous a real looking doubt to all people who researches the data! Christianity is a conglomerate of alternative religions that preceded it, the full 'Jesus' tale is properly 'Horus' from Egyptian mythology. The Bible additionally borrows heavily from Zoroastrianism (an historic Persian faith) Even the be conscious 'Hell' and the full concept comes from Norse mythology. while will Christians relatively show themselves and comprehend that their entire worldview is finished bullshit?!!
2016-10-19 07:09:05 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe in God, even a little bit, and I don't even see it as a choice.
On the other hand, I am open to evidence of God, and I would reconsider in light of some evidence.
I have to say, though, that I don't really see this as a choice. I can't change what I find compelling and what I don't.
2007-03-21 11:34:53 · answer #5 · answered by Let Me Think 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am 99.9999999....% sure that the ultimate divinity of the universe CANNOT possibly be a personified deity. it is too complex, it would not be anything like a 'being' as humans understand it. it has no form, no consciousness, no self-awareness, no separation from the universe, no identity, no personality, it is a force, a power, it is everything and everything is It.
my beliefs evolve, but there's no changing my mind about that, that i can foresee; at least not by an outside individual. i'm open to new theories, beliefs, and insights, but not interested in anyone's dogma or proselytizing.
2007-03-21 11:29:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I choose not to believe for the same reason I choose not to believe in lime-green flying elephants.
If a lime-green flying elephant appeared, I'd believe in them.
It works the same way with gods.
Why do believers find this so baffling?
2007-03-21 11:27:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think the concept of it being a choice is slightly mis understood. you cant really choose what you honestly believe. can you just "decide" not to believe that 1+1=2?
but anyway, 100% disbelief, yes, and no one will make me believe that the biblical god exists the same way no one will ever convince me that squares are round.
2007-03-21 11:26:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a Jewish Bronze age man's fiction book.....
Really the bible doesn't mean anything at all.
What does believing in "God" matter to you when all you're concerned about is if we believe in the Right God and believe exactly as you do?
2007-03-21 11:34:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am working on changing my mind, my mind changes all the time, but not about my belief that the idea of an omnipotent creator being makes no sense... that's already old news to me.
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2007-03-21 11:24:32 · answer #10 · answered by vinslave 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋