Why or why not?
2007-05-29 04:53:25 · 41 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I have to say no. I think it takes logic. I am an atheist, and I don't believe in God. It is due to my lack of faith, rather than due to faith. I use logic and eduication to prove to me that there is no God.
2007-05-29 04:57:25 · answer #1 · answered by country_girl 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
It would take faith to believe there is no God, because there is no way to prove or disprove the existence of God. Those who claim otherwise are not being honest. Atheist have looked at the world and decided that they don't believe there is a God because the idea does not make sense to them. They have faith that the odds are so against it that there is no God. People of faith on the other hand look at the world and believe that a higher power must have created everything. Some believe that this higher power used the Big Bang, Evoultion and other processes to make this happen. Others find that this conflicts with their religous scriptures and reject these scientific ideas based on faith. Whatever your view faith is required as some point.
2007-05-29 05:05:01 · answer #2 · answered by New Dog Owner 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, just foolishness.
Without faith it is impossible to please God. Scripture goes on to say that the devil believes and trembles! If atheists had faith they would believe in God.
The big problem for decades has been no working definition for the Biblical words faith and belief. Webster's definitions of faith and belief are mostly worthless.
Belief is simply any idea or concept one is willing or might consider acting upon. It is a mental function.
Faith could be called heart belief. Among other things, faith is a spiritual sense which allows one to see what others cannot believe. Faith is also the power which brings ones hopes into existence. For want of a better word, it operates by intuition. The only dictionary synonym that matches Biblical faith is trust. Yet even trust does not come close to describing what faith really is.
Does it take faith to believe in no God? No. It just takes unbelief. One has considered a concept in their mind and rejected it. It is however the hardness of ones heart that leads to the mental rejection of God; and a hard heart cannot produce faith, know what it is or what it feels like.
2007-05-29 23:41:55 · answer #3 · answered by Tommy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it takes a lot of faith to believe that there is no God.
2007-05-29 10:44:38 · answer #4 · answered by Ulrika 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A little, but only because Mankind doesn't have the knowledge base available in the entire universe.
In reality, the fact that there is a complete lack of evidence is good enough for most Atheists, so it is more of an educated guess rather than faith.
Many Christians claim that it does take allot of faith, but they are forgetting that their bible states that Faith comes from God, so if faith is required to believe that there is no God, then God is the one providing it, and actively damning people to hell. That contradicts the theory of a Loving God.
2007-05-29 04:57:09 · answer #5 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Well, a belief is a kind of faith. Since you cannot prove or disprove the existance of the Spirit it is a matter of faith. Yes, it takes faith to lack belief in 'God'. Even if the concepts of gods and goddesses are made by man, it doesn't prove, without room for doubt, that matters of the Spirit are all false.
2007-05-29 05:01:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
This question only exists because of how you have constructed it. It is not "belief in no God." It is "not believing in God." Absence of belief does not constitute belief in something else. Without a belief to have faith in, there can be no faith. You can't have faith in a non-belief/non-assertion. It doesn't make logical sense. It would be like having faith that you don't have three arms.
2007-05-29 05:02:44 · answer #7 · answered by Lao Pu 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No belief or faith is required in this instance, it's simply a matter of not sharing the beliefs of those who claim that there is a God.
"I believe in no God" is a simple statement of fact, it is not a statement of belief/faith but a statement of an absence of belief/faith.
It is subtly different to saying "I believe there is no God" that statement would require a belief/faith in there being no God.
2007-05-29 05:01:52 · answer #8 · answered by CHEESUS GROYST 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. It takes faith in reason and evidence and logic and proof. Some people can not accept the idea of god on faith alone.
2007-05-29 04:58:07 · answer #9 · answered by Alan 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes,
Science has not proven that we are just a big accident, as a matter of fact, the mathematical chance that we just spontaneously came into existence with no help from a Creator are so huge that it takes more faith to NOT believe in God than TO believe in God.
Peace!
2007-05-29 04:59:05 · answer #10 · answered by C 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋