Why does it require a "LEAP of FAITH" to Believe in God as the Universe's First Cause?

Question

Scientist cannot prove or disprove the existence of God. Faith is not testable and it cannot be denied. Our finite mind cannot comprehend the infinite things in our universe. There is so much about our Universe we don't know and will not ever know because we are finite. Scientist within the last couple of years had to admit that Pluto was never a planet. Taught since "1930".

The finite mind cannot comprehend the complexities of "Pluto", let alone the great Eternal Universe Of "GOD ALMIGHTY".

The prophet Isaiah declared: "Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way. and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him....God will pardon(forgive).

"For my thoughts are nit your thoughts, neither your ways my ways, says the Lord: For as the Heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55: 6-9.

Answer 1

It requires faith because He is in a realm and state that we cannot see with our extremely limited vision and finite instruments of 'detection' here.
One thing we do know from science is just how little of the available sensory information that we can access.
We know, for instance, that sound waves can become so long or short that nothing on earth can possibly detect them ... likewise light frequency ... etc, etc.

In reality, there is very little we can detect.
Let's face it, we cannot even see the demons or the angels that are all around us here ... let alone the cosmos!!

Only faith in our own intelligence that tells us a God is over ALL of this can be the reasonable conclusion drawn.
Then there are the miracles and sweet whisperings in our lives and hearts.
The miracle of life and all that accompanies it.
Answers to prayer.

These are our only witnesses.
As long as we acknowledge these more covert, subtle phenomena in our lives, we know there is a God of love and mercy who is watching over us, and wants us to live through faith for His own reasons.

Answer 2

its takes a leap of faith to believe god started the universe even though science doesnt know what did start it because it isnt logical. it doesnt follow the laws of physics, thermodynamics, and all other scientific laws. and pluto was only announced as not a planet because the definition of a planet had to be redone. before the definition was pretty much anything spherical in shape that orbited the sun. that is a pretty broad term but for the time it was good enough because there were only nine planets. now we are finding more and more around our solar system that we had to redefine the word "planet". to that i say, so long pluto you will always be missed.

Answer 3

Pluto didn't change, the definition of a planet did. How do you KNOW that god(s) were the First Cause of the Universe? You don't because you weren't there. You believe what you were taught, hence faith.

Anyone who claims to understand the "First Cause" is buying into a logical faqllicy. What caused that? And what caused that? The umoved mover doesn't make any sense. If god always existed then why couldn't the universe have always existed?

Time is infinite, it strecthes forver both ways. Therefore there cannot be a beginning of time, therefore their cannot be a first cause at the beginning of time.

Answer 4

I think it takes a leap of faith because it is so hard for people to believe in what they can't see. When you believe in God then you are saying that you believe in something that no one can physically touch or see. It takes a lot of faith to do that. As you say, scientist can't prove or disprove the idea of a God, but a lot of them (I'm only 16 here so I have a very limited view) seem to try to disprove it. So now you are saying, "Hey, I believe in something that no one can see and no one can touch, AND these guys over here are saying that there is not a God." How many people can actually go against the whole world saying they believe in something that nobody else does?

Answer 5

1) You can't disprove something. It's a logical impossibility. However, that doesn't mean that everything you could possibly imagine is true.

2) Yes we can. We know quite a bit about the universe.

3) We never had a definition of planet before last year. Then we defined it. You seem rather confused as to what this means. Yes, Pluto is easy to comprehend. It's a big ball of rock and ice. What's so hard about that?

4) You don't understand rock and ice, so there must be a god? Talk about logical problems.

Answer 6

The Leap doesn't occur with believing the possibility that a sentient being created this universe. The Leap occurs whe a person rationalizes that because there is a universe, MY god must have created it all with his son Jesus and his bestest buddy the Holy Ghost just as the goat herders wrote it 2000 years ago.

Answer 7

Faith is the SUBSTANCE of things hoped for, the EVIDENCE of things not yet seen, it says in Hebrews in the Bible.

One day many years ago now, I took one small step of faith to Jesus Christ and trusted Him for salvation. Since that time, I have trusted Him with a whole lot more as the years have come and gone. Trusted Him through many difficult times, including the loss of my 12 year old son, due to a tragic accident, amidst other things. I have trusted Him with my whole life, and I can say that He is completely faithful.

Romans chapter 1 v 18-20 says
that man is without excuse whatsoever for not knowing God, because He has shown us His eternal power and divine nature.

Answer 8

So, what you are saying is that if you don't understand everything, make something up to explain it?

If you don't understand everything, and you cannot prove god, you are simply jumping on a bandwagon in lieu of an explanation.

As far as pluto, science did not miscomprehend it; they simply agreed on a definition of the word "planet", and as such, pluto does not fit the current definition. It has nothing to do with people not understanding pluto; rather, as we BETTER understand it, and as we have modified the definition of planet, it is no longer categorized as such.

If you believe the Bible, why? You offered no reasonable explanation other than "I don't understand the universe, so I choose this one god among many". Again, the bandwagon apporach. Do you not deserve better? If your god is all-powerful, don't you think you should have a better reason to follow him than "science doesn't know it all, so I'll follow this old collection of books that everyone else says is true"?

Just one opinion here, but your reasoning doesn't seem any more sound, nay not even as sound, as your use of the English language.

Answer 9

"Scientist cannot prove or disprove the existence of God."

Wrong. As soon as you claim God is a specific God with specific traits that can be observed, science can do tests.

The Christian God should answer prayer. He doesn't. Prayer has been shown repeatedly to hold no correlation with events. If you pray for your sick friend to heal, it works as well as if you dance around the bones of a dead chicken.

"Faith is not testable and it cannot be denied."

Whupps...you're still wrong there.

I was a Christian once. I knew my faith was slipping. I prayed for God to give me faith, but now I have none. Doesn't God give all good things to those who ask? Was my request for faith bad or selfish?

My experience blows holes in your theory.

As for First Cause: if there is an eternal God that creates the Universe, there's no difference between that and a Universe that is self-causing except you just renamed the origin problem from "Universe" to "God" and abstracted it by one step.

Answer 10

You said it yourself and are still to dense to realize the answer.

There is no objective scientific evidence for god. Therefore any conclusions about god are made in FAITH alone.

Therefore to conclude that the universe is created by god IS a leap of faith.

Btw, Your details have nothing to do with the question.