To believers in god, what emotions do you experience when you contemplate the possibility god isn't real?

Question

Pretty simple. I'm just trying to get a lay of the land.

Answer 1

Unfortunately we are taught to fear to question ourselves. It is good that you can.
Personally I need to believe in a so called god otherwise I feel an emptiness, a meaningless purpose to existence.

Answer 2

Are we really here? If we are, then something must have created us. You may not beleive that God who made the bible created us, because you don't want to live by "rules", or you don't want anyone making decisions for you, but we are here. There were some scientists who tried to disprove the whole "creation through bible explanations". They wanted to prove the "big bang" or one of the other theories. When they put all the calculations together, they scientifically concluded that in no way could the absolute complex nature of everything that exhists have come even close to exhisting through any way or means of chance. They determined that only one living cell had so many inconcievably complex functions and characteristics that a per-chance theory would never even come close, with a mathematical calculation that was too large to grasp, even by their scientific calculations. I think we have all wondered what is real and what is not real. We have been created with a brain. And if we were not created, then where did we come from? We know so much, and so little. By the way, isn't it interesting how a molecule or an atom is similar to our own solar system in design? If we could not ask or question, then we would not be made with minds that have that capacity. I know I will wake up, because I know I am not trash.
Someone said that religion is "successful", but nonreligion is successful, too. We all have lots of choices in life, and believing or not believing in most anything is our choice. We can even believe that there is no gravity. Gravity is still here, and so are we. I don't wonder whether God exists, I do wonder how, though. That question will not be answered until a later date. After my lungs cease to function, and I wake up, again.

Answer 3

I'm not so much a believer in the Christian sense (I do have certain "beliefs" however), but I experienced a strange dislocation the other night that might align with this idea .

I sat on my porch late at night as my husband ran our dogs around for their nightly "do's." For some reason, there were no insect sounds, and only one night songbird broke the silence. I live in deep country, so the darkness pervaded everywhere the dim porch lights could not reach. For a moment, I imagined that the porch and yard, my husband and dogs were all there was in the universe, that there was nothing else and we had been taken up like the city in an old Twilight Zone episode where only fog and horror existed outside the boundaries of the cut streets and buildings. It was strange but not horrifying. In fact, it was sort of exhilarating, like suddenly finding oneself on a spaceship in a total other reality.

So for me, the idea that commonly held figures or beliefs are not, in fact, real, is a liberating idea. It opens infinity more readily than being tied to an Earthly idea. I hope I'm not out of line answering this question, but it seemed to resonate with that experience, so I placed my lot in. Cheers!

Answer 4

When I was a little girl my Mom passed away, at that time I couldn't possibly believe that a good and just God would ever do such a thing as talk a Mommy from her daughter. The though became such an anxiety for me, it would literally send me into panic attacks. The fear of not knowing what takes place in the after life litterally made me hypervenilate. But my Mom taught me well and the one thing she enstilled in me was her faith and love in God and his awesome power.

I beleive God understands why we question or doubt his works sometimes but I think that is why He told us "Be not afraid, I go before you always, come follow me and I will give you life." For me, questioning God is what has made my Faith as stronger than ever before.

Answer 5

I believe in God because I want to..because I need to. I have to believe there is a higher power..for sometimes it is the only answer. It is a belief system that sustains me..and gets me through. If somehow it was proven that God did not exist..or there was no higher power..no afterlife..I dont know how I would feel. Lost.

Answer 6

the answer is a question to you...what emotions do you have when you contemplate that there might be a god,and has laid out clearly the path to heaven..and you dirregard the path as a myth?
i lived a very sinfull,drunken/drug addicted life,hateing everything,including a god that is supposed to be all love and peace.it all seemed very pathetic and useless in my life.
god came to me...i wasnt looking..i had given up years ago,that any of it..god/devil,anything like that,...it was all bull@@@@ to me.
i cant explain it...except it was the grace of god.

Answer 7

Now you know why religion is so 'successful'. It puts the fear in people so they don't dare contemplate. It keeps them from completely thinking for themselves. They can't even hypothically answer this question. I've asked this before and I had some very defensive responses but still couldn't get an honest answer.

Answer 8

Kind of like being in a roller coaster that has no return track. But even to believe that God is real doesn't necessarily remove the fear-- unless we know that we will escape the judgment.

Answer 9

If there is no God, then what is there to lose?
Upon death you just die. Is that so bad?
Actually, that's what's going to happen to me even though I believe in God. I will be in the grave until the resurrection. Either way I'm gonna die. It's just that one I won't wake up from--and it's not like I'd know that.

Answer 10

A " lay" of the land? Never heard of it... but whatever it is, it belongs to Jesus! I Never do I contemplate that my Lord doesn't exist! I know Him personally! And as far as emotions, I have no negative emotions to anything regarding my Lord....