Belief in God?

Question

Why do some believe in God. I fully respect your right to, but can you tell me why? Do you believe because you were raised to? Or do you believe because you really do from your heart? This has puzzled me for a lifetime. I don't and I don't understand why some do, but I'm not going to sit here and be disrespectful either. I come to this section to try to understand why there is this belief.

Answer 1

I believe because He brings me peace. I remember sitting at my window at night when I was suppose to be in bed (6 yrs old at the time) because my Mom is a paranoid schizophrenia, so I would talk to Him when I was alone. I could not talk to my mom, she was heavily medicated at that time of my life until I turned 10-11. He would comfort me. I have been challenged throughout my life and He has yet to fail me.

Answer 2

I was raised to believe in a different god than I do now. Though my personal experience it showed to me that the first god was either powerless or non-existent, and throughout all my life I was given signs and evidence that other gods exist and take much more interest in people. So now I believe in the gods that came to my help when i asked, that took interest in my life, that are here, real and manifest themselves all the time. Nobody anywhere in my vicinity shared this faith with me for years. Only now I'm starting to meet the people of similar belief.
I came to this belief more or less completely by my self, on my own accord - so I guess it could not be more from the heart.

Answer 3

When you look at all things in nature, do you ever wonder how it was created? Do you know what gives life to a child? What gave you life?

When you ask these questions, doesn't it become obvious to you that there must be some intelligence behind all this universal phenomena?

Who or what is doing it?

Science still can't answer these questions. However you were born thanks to some kind of will. A conscious something knew how to make it happen and continues to do it a million times a day. That's not to mention the constant order of our solar system or the composition of oxygen necessary for you to breath and be a happy wifey.

If none of these things are evidence enough for you of at least "something" intelligent being responsible for it, regardless of whether you call it "God" or whatever, then I'd say that you must know what it is... since as you say, you don't believe in any kind of supreme intelligence or "God".

Answer 4

At first, I do follow Christianity because I was raised that way. But I was just a 3 yrs old then, so what would I understand right.

But as life goes on, I got several miracles that happened to me and I do believe in my heart that God made them for me. It's not because my prayers are answered many times already, or I saw God in flesh, or somethings like that. Put it like this, whenever I hear mass, I get to listen to the Word of God in the Gospel. And after doing so, there are many times that what I hear reflects the situation I have in my life. I believe that God's plan to help me in one way. I also don't think that myriad of times that happening is just a plain coincedence in my life.
Don't worry if you're confused right now, I bet many people are so too. Just give a try believing in Him, and just have faith in Him. In won't happen so fast, it won't do in a slow way either. But it will when the right time comes.

Answer 5

To me it makes the most sense

Most people grew up with it but I was lucky enough to go to a school that really explored the issues.

Basically it said and you have to answer the following questions

why are we here?
how did we get here?
is their purpose to life? and if so what is it?
what happens when we die?

and ultimately... why is it a part of being human to ask these questions?
etc. etc.

Now then you study various religions and we got to see the differences the solutions that were offered to us, philosophy of having a higher being, or not.

The thing with atheism is that it says that the only reason we exist on earth is to reproduce. Now I don't agree with this, I think that we have a deeper purpose to life then simply having children. We question we ask we further society, we have morals, we don't consider rape a good way of producing children, we strive to further humanity why? We feel people who have died around us, etc. etc.

The solution atheism offers is cold and clinical so I disagree with it.

Then there is the comfort issue, its a wonderful feeling knowing that I'm being looked after and knowing God is up there striving for me to win, helping me through the bad times, telling me that I am not alone when i feel that I am. I am one of God's children, and he will never forget that.

Then logically a lot of things that are said in the bible actually do have scientific evidence to back them up, such as the first sons dying, Heron killing all first borns, the parting of the red sea, Moses, the slaves of Egypt, the tribes of Israel, Abraham, Jesus.

All of those bible stories really did happen,

>> now whether you interpret that as God or not, then that's up to you.

Then the fact that science is incredibly fallible, many people have been diagonosed with diseases or problems like 'you'll never be able to walk again' only to prove science wrong... this happens quite regulary so it just proves that science is very fallible indeed.

Plus the fact that science only tells us HOW things happen, while religion tells us WHY things happen.

With all of this evidence this proves that there is something that happens, and its not just scientific... now to me Christianity makes more sense then all the other religions.

This is why I believe

Answer 6

If you look at the world around you you can see that there is alot of design. If you look at a painting how do you know that the painter exists? The painting is enough evidence that the painter exists. Even the computer you are using right now how do know that there was builder? You know because the machine is right in front of you. These items are axiomatic.
Now if you look at creation there must be a creator. You don't need faith to believe that, you just need a set of eyes and a brain that works.

Answer 7

I was raised in a home where religion, God and Spirituality were never mentioned. We never went to church and I knew nothing about religion really.
I had some tough teenage years and felt very much like something was missing in my life. Then I met some friends who were passionate about God. This led me to investigate God, so I read some of the new testament, talked to people about their personal experiences with God and searched my heart.
I still was not ready to give myself over to anything, but when my life hit bottom, I knew I had to admit that I did believe there was a God. I asked Him to be with me, and I confessed that I had sinned and didn't deserve the sacrifice that Jesus made, but that I was grateful for it.
I felt more hope in that moment then ever before, and although I have "walked" away from God at times, He has always been there for me when I am ready to accept His grace and love.
I have had personal experiences when praising God, where I "felt" Him and it is the most glorious feeling ever, it is like the greatest feeling of joy times 10.
I believe that it is about a personal relationship with God, and I feel like He has provided me with enough proof since I allowed myself to experience Him, that I could never again deny that there is a God.

Answer 8

I was raised as a christian myself and i have had plenty of opportunities to doubt God's existence at some point i actually did.....but now from the bottom of my heart i believe he exists, why i believe has no one particular reason, i actually find that my believe in him grows everytime, so it would be hard for me to pinpoint that this is it.

However, i think its the unexplainable peace,calm and constant joy in my heart at all times and the feeling that i have found ground like my feet are actually standing on something that makes me know that he is there because i never felt this way without him.

Answer 9

I read so much in the Bible. I applied the concepts of faith and they worked. I asked God to help me understand the Bible some years back and it has been granted. This fulfilled the promise God made for those who seek for His word with all their hearts. So, why should I not believe Him?
Again, the first three chapters of Romans really showed why some people behaved the way they were behaving. I can also apply God's principles to my life by His grace in Christ.

Answer 10

I believe in God because back in the day I wasn't a very nice guy, and eventually that led me to the darkest time I've ever experienced in my life. I was trapped in depression, fear, despair and loneliness for nearly two years. Finally though I met a Christan counselor, and he told me about Jesus Christ. Long story short, I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior, began to read the bible he gave me, and things began to get better.
Well, many years have passed since then, and although I'm certainly not perfect, and sometimes I still struggle with my old demons. I know its because of Jesus and the great people at my church that I'm still alive today.
That's why I believe, Jesus literally, and figuratively saved me!

Answer 11

Jesus said something that made sense to me because I experienced it:
John 6:44
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

i remember denying it from my youth. I think that Christians had a thrill witnessing to me, because they could see that I was being called. I felt that I was being called to. But somehow I resisted until I was 24. But that's another story.

God gets people to respond to him. And everyone doesn't feel that way because God does not choose everybody, he never has. I could pull scriptures from the Old and New Testaments to show that God only picks certain people to come to him.

That's why I believe in God, because he let me know that he was there, and I was ready to go his way.