If God created men to choose whether or not to believe in Him, doesn't that necessitate that God give us the ability to know Him? Objectively speaking. I believe that asking enough questions will lead to faith. But I certainly will not put anyone down who does not agree, I would just like your thoughts?
2007-05-03 20:50:52 · 30 answers · asked by Lover of God 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, the ability to be sentient proves there is a God. Logic and order and reason have to have a designer in order to give the insructions or ability to reason. By the way, circular logic isn't necessarily bad if the circle leads you back to your source of origin - your Creator. And also, yes, if God created us to choose whether or not to believe in Him that does mean He gave us the ability to know Him! He's not sadistic. He didn't ask us to know Him only so that He could torture us in the end for all eternity if we chose wrong. He designed us to what to know Him because He wanted us to desire to seek Him out. And in finding Him, we would find out that He is a God of Great Love and He created us only for the sake of Loving us!
2007-05-03 21:21:17 · answer #1 · answered by Teresa L 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think that you are right. BUT here is something that I have both believed and have been taught: You cannot come to God without Him drawing you to Him. So that's it isn't it? That God draws certain people to Him, causing them to want to know Him.
Espeically here onYahoo!Answers we can see that illustrated, where people that really want to know God ask certain kinds of questions, and those that don't want to know Him ask their own certain kinds of questions.
Desire is present in those that are being led. I remember being that way myself when I really got serious about God. The way I asked people questions changed, and I was severely disappointed if I didn't get the answer I thought was right.
Do you remember that too? Where if you asked someone about God and the answer you got back was one that displayed a lack of knowledge? You didn't even know why you knew the answer was wrong, but somehow you knew?
I remember not ever asking certain people even one more question on the subject because I wanted what I was feeling to have a ring of truth to it. And not all the answers that I was getting were convincing. But somehow the answers that were accurate-- even though I really didn't know what the answer was, felt true to me.
I think that you are right about the questions that lead to faith. IF the questions are led by the Holy Spirit, and the answers are also led by the same Spirit, it will lead to faith. Otherwise, you have the blind leading the blind, and somewhere along the line someone begins to dig their heals in and refuses to go further.
2007-05-04 04:52:50 · answer #2 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem with this proof is this.
We can all take what evidence we can scrape togeather and decide for our selfs if there is a divine force or no.
The problem is what one person sees as proof, another doesn't.
For example, just because humans can speak and write and create technologies to do things for us is not proof, to me, that we are the favored species of god. For some religions it is. So there is no way I could put my heart into any of those religions.
god giving an ability to know him (as you put it) also gives the ability to discredit and form other ideas, and infact religions. It's up for interpertation. And if there is a creator, they knew this would be an aspect of the human mind, so I think one should rest easy that people have the ability to be spiritually at peace- and if there is a god, this ability has to come with their blessing.
2007-05-04 04:26:57 · answer #3 · answered by Hit me with it 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The way to approach God is not through some sort of mental obstacle course of question and answer. The only thing that questioning leads to is a mental idol of whom you believe God to be. The idea that God can be known comes out of pride in one's intellect. God is revealed to a surrendering and humble heart through grace. Christ was crucified because the church during His time had constructed an image of how they thought the Messiah should be and Christ didn't fit their image. By conceptualizing God we close ourselves to the reality of God.
2007-05-04 04:29:49 · answer #4 · answered by Jason 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we are not born knowing god, the very idea of religion is programmed into us from a very young age. you believe in your god as you were conditioned to. would you still have the same beliefs if you were born into a muslim or a jewish family? highly unlikely, just like you'd have no beliefs if you were not born into a civilized form of society. anything unexplained relies on faith to exist otherwise religion would collapse
2007-05-04 04:18:02 · answer #5 · answered by eccie83 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An invalid argument, as many above me have pointed out. You could use exactly the same argument to 'prove' that we came from evolution rather than a deity (evolution gives us reason, reason tells us evolution is true, therefore evolution is true). Invalid logic, sorry.
2007-05-04 04:18:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are giving attributes to a being and then when you act the like those attributes you have proved that he exists? How do you know he gave you any abilities at all?
You have an ego that insists that there is a god that has given you an ego so that means there is a god?
Or is it that you have a god that insists that there is an ego that has given you a god so that means there is an ego?
2007-05-04 04:08:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
No, Your question does not follow a single line of logic. It is circular reasoning.
You are saying, God created men with free will, so that proves he exists.
The reverse is that God exists so he created men with free will.
Neither one proves the other.
Later edit: I think it is funny that most of the people on here that believe in God seem to agree with your logic. Whatever their reason for believing in God is, they should still see that your argument is invalid.
And quoting the bible does not prove an existence in God!!!
2007-05-04 03:56:17 · answer #8 · answered by allforasia 5 · 4⤊ 3⤋
we have freewill to study about him, and thats very dangerous if you think youre clever enough. but the most important thing is to know what is His will, what must people do. That's what He have left us, knowing his Will not finding proof that He exist, He don't need an attorney to defend His existence.
2007-05-04 04:17:53 · answer #9 · answered by theSeed 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What a clever argument:
1) I can imagine a god
2) That god I imagine would obviously give me the mental ability to be aware of him
3) Therefore the god I have imagined really exists
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2007-05-04 03:57:57 · answer #10 · answered by abetterfate 7 · 7⤊ 2⤋