If *GOD* (Jesus Christ)is not real then what causes billions of people over the centuries?

Question

To embrace him like nothing else in life?

If GOD is not there or exsist how do you explain how many people have had drastic miracles in there life, like being healed from a disease, saving a hopeless marraige, finding love hope and truth when they embrace GOD what causes that if not for GOD?

It is what GOD does for a person after they give there life to him that makes him real Do you really think people would seek out GOD and honor him if he did not hear there prayers and answer?
Those who search will find God

THIS IS WHY WE KNOW GOD IS REAL
I love all who love me. Those who search for me will surely find me.
Proverbs 8:17 NLT
Now how can you really dispute that...

Answer 1

They have faith that is why they embrace him.

Answer 2

There are all KINDS of ways to dispute that! I don't even know where to begin.

1. Brainwashing, manipulation, and appealing to the masses need for reassurance and purpose. Thanksfully, many more people are smartening up in modern times.

2. Drastic miracles? If this god were real, why would there even be a need for drastic miracles, why give someone cancer in the first place? For that matter, why just assume god healed someone, because it's an easy answer? We really don't know that much about how the human brain works.....I suspect it's responsible for a lot of "healings" on it's own. Just automatically believing some invisible power just decides to heal someone is just awfully convenient.

3. Give me a break. If you're hearing voices, then I suggest medication, not religion.

WHY is it SO HARD for you to accept that millions don't believe in god at all?? Just accept it, deal with it, and get on with your own life. Stop worrying about what others believe.

And just remember, billions used to believe the earth was flat, billions used to believe it was the centre of the universe, all wrong!

Answer 3

This is actually very easy to dispute.

Gods arose from superstition, and a need to explain natural phenomena.

Christianity came to be as a cultural adaptaion of other faiths (many of the stories in the bible have corollaries to earlier faiths in different regions). It became dominant when the church used fear, and the superstition of the day, to become a political force.

Miracles are rarely, if ever witnessed. Healing occurs within the body...not the spirit. People fix their marriages. The 'love, hope, and truth' have been found by many people, for many reasons that, as often as not, have nothing to do with faith. The feelings of love and joy produced by prayer, are actually endorphines; and they are the same endorphines released by eating chocolate, having sex, and doing heroin.

People continue to believe to this day, simply out of fear, superstition, lack of education, and hope for something more than this. Unfortunately, belief and fact are two very different things. You can believe beyond the shadow of a doubt that you can fly on your own power, but the fact is...you can't. God(s) and the belief in them a crutch for the weak; a tool to comfort those who need reassurance in a world that, frankly, doesn't care about them one way or another.

This only scratches the surface of the reasons we know that gods are not real.

Answer 4

Violence and indoctrination, to answer your first question.

2) Because they wanted to. It's sad that people think only a deity can affect change in their life; it disempowers them to do anything on their own.
3) You're conveniently forgetting all the unanswered prayers, the miracles that did not happen, the many people who have turned away from religion because they are disillusioned with your concept of deity.

Regarding the proverb, guess what, that's called conditional love.

Answer 5

Human beings don't want to believe that there is nothing after death. To believe in a supreme being of any kind is
easier to cope with than the thought of nothing at all. Read
Mark Twain's 'Letters From The Earth". He had some good insights on this subject. 'Miracles' happen all the time and are
not necessarily religious in nature.

Answer 6

Logical fallacy: argument from popularity.

Miracles? These are things which have a low probability of happening, but of course they happen. Not to mention it's your own god that allegedly created disease in the first place.

Then you pretty much say that any god that people believe in must be real. This means that over 2850 gods are real.

http://www.godchecker.com/

You top it off with circular logic.

I'm sorry, your arguments are worthless.

Answer 7

Its called brainwashing!... Billions of people are being duped easily into anything everyday, by a very strong propaganda that has a life of its own once is unleashed!
In the case of religion you don't even need to be logical or make sense... Just invoke god and faith!

Answer 8

Personal experience still allows each of us to choose. Personally I believe God exists, but I also believe he is SOOOOOO busy with "All This" (everything but mankind) that he doesn't have the time to dictate my life down to the letter and to intervene in my short comings or my successes. "God did this for me" is a state of mind that people choose to believe. They believe that God did these great things for them. Do they claim God did this to me when things don't go so great, no they claim the devil did it. My proof that a God/Divine Creator exists is more in the miracles of nature I see around me and not the great things that happen in my life. Great things happen to me WITHOUT a need for me to acknowledge that GOD did it. Bad things happen to me, WITHOUT a need for me to acknowledge it must be the DEVILS fault. God is real to you because YOU choose to make him real to you, however you choose to make him real. Your or anyone elses proof, does not make it proof for all. Its PERSONAL proof and PERSONAL opinion, not infallible proof!! Just a reminder, God sent the plagues...not the devil. I'm sure God is real pleased with all the centuries of people, believers in God, still kill IN HIS NAME! Take a look at David Koresh (sp). He believed what he was doing was indeed in God's name and for his Glory. What would happen if God did (or already has) sent his Son again? We would KILL HIM AGAIN because he would be the ultimate power that would rival all others, and NO ONE would allow that to happen. How many Jesus' have to die before people step outside their narrow-minded box and think "What if...".

Answer 9

Don't you believe in Islam..... I think not.
OK, so how can you explain the number, more than billion, of Muslims around the world or countries as you said, what causes to them if Muhammad (The Islam's Prophet) was such a liar?

Answer 10

I agree with you, it was the fact that He is real that caused them to follow him. And this is not the only reason we know God is real. You see there is no scientific proof that he exists, but there is none that evolution is either.(of course the schools say there is but if you check deeper you will find that there is none). It is FAITH that keeps us following. It is the fact that we BELIEVE beyond doubt that God created us and is our one and only Lord that keeps us going.

Answer 11

There were days about 100 % of the worlds population thought that the world is flat. Well, it simply turned out to be different.