Why must we believe in God or gods or anything supernatural? What is the ultimate value of our faith or belief?
2007-05-23 02:34:52 · 8 answers · asked by Akimbo 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We really can't comprehend things we can't explain as nothing can. We don't know how we got here so 2000-3000 years ago the uneducated came up with gods. Different cultures had different god. The were invented to rule the uneducated to scare them into listening to the leader. So now people just believe in god because it has been handed down time and time again that's why there are so many religions. You think if god is real and this book (the bible) is real then the religions would be kind of the same instead of fighting and trying to kill one another. Also the human mind can't comprehend nothing, try to think of nothing complete emptiness you can't you will always think of something weather it is breathing or blinking. People can't see nothing so they create something.
2007-05-23 02:58:06 · answer #1 · answered by joe d 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When there is a TRUE faith in God, then it provides a standard beyond the touch of FOULABLE man. All men and women eventually disappoint in what they can offer, and ideas that they put forward always fails in the end.
God, who is outside the control of men, has established a set of Good Laws that are contained in 2 and 10 simple to understand passages. You do not need a PH.D. in Law to figure them out.
1) there is but 1 God. Take no other god for yourself
(This keeps these 10 as unamendable by any politician)
2) Make No idols.
(Idols disappoint even worse than a man does)
3) Do not take the Lord God's name in vain.
(Vatican, do you here this?_
4) Remember the Shabbot (Sabboth)
(This is on the 7th day not the 1st day-set by God (see 1))
5) Honor your Mother and Father
6) No Murder
(Jesus said that simply to HATE is an act of murder)
7) No Stealing
(Come on now, you don't like when you get stolen from)
8) No Adultery
(Who likes coming home to find wife/husband in bed with somone else)
9) No Lying
(It may be hard to believe but even a white lie harms- How many children go through the hurt and anger when they learn santa is not realy-- they learn they can't trust no body, not even mom and dad ( see 5)
10) No Coveting what others have
(If you dont covet what someone else has you wont get jellous).
Now really how hard is all that, but if we could change those laws, ( and we have been ) what is the effect?
children become less managable and get into more problems and even become killers.
divorce rate at 70%
Children being born with only 1 parent and then being left unattended so mommy or daddy can party.
No body is secure in their own homes.
No body feels safe to go out of their homes.
...
The power of having a God outside the control of ANY person that has set good laws in place for everyone to follow, it is simply GOOD.
2007-05-23 09:51:32 · answer #2 · answered by Vman 2040 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One importance of believing in God is the belief in moral absolutes. Despite what others claim without belief in God as a foundation their is no moral authority to say mureder or rape are truly wrong. We are left with peoples opinions and a whole range of answers which fail under scrutiny. None of these other answers have the God of the universe as the final authority. I have heard common sense. Who's common sense yours or the person in another country who practises something else. I have heard of an intrinsic agrrement with nature which doesn't expain why then nature violates that agreement when they kill and eat their on as some species does. I hear the law. The llaw changes from time to time and is was a creation of men. Again then how do you account for societies such as the nazi's who made laws where killing jews and others was quite permissable. Add to that we are more than just animals and are subject to higher standards of conduct.
2007-05-23 10:00:02 · answer #3 · answered by Edward J 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is in the believing and knowing that God is the loving Creator and that He holds all things in order that we can feel safe and secure in a cosmos that is so much greater than ourselves and which without a Creator God would simply mystify and frighten us.
God is Who He is with or without our input either by faith or need and cannot be affected by our finite reality in any way; and to know that all of life, all of creation is not accidental but the product of a compassionate and all powerful Father God brings so much meaning and comfort into our lives and gives them a real substance, no offence to Atheists but atheism just cannot do this.
2007-05-23 09:59:56 · answer #4 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe because He really exists and those that don't fight this really do experience Him. Even if I have trouble developing a relationship with God doesn't mean He doesn't exist. After all, just because I've never been to Boise, Idaho doesnt mean it doesn't exist. I trust the testimony of those who have been there.
2007-05-23 09:42:59 · answer #5 · answered by Michael B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Truth.
2007-05-23 09:39:21 · answer #6 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's an innate thing.
2007-05-23 10:24:14 · answer #7 · answered by elelomo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
god do not exists.
god is non sense.
2007-05-23 13:12:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋