convincing a religious person there is NO god, or convincing an athiest there IS a god, to me they seem equally difficult, although, if there was the slightest bit of proof then i don't think there would be many if any athiests.
2007-06-09 04:49:25 · 30 answers · asked by Ste B 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think it would be harder to convince a person who believes in God that there isn't one. There are so many reasons to convince someone that God does exist. Look around there are so many signs that God is present.
2007-06-09 05:04:12 · answer #1 · answered by on-point 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm. Tricky one, this. Because I have always believed there must be a creator God (since I was old enough to look up into the night sky and conclude it didn't get there by accident) and because I have experienced God in my life, then hell would freeze over before I changed my view.
Although I have never been an atheist, I know of one spectacularly intelligent and widely published atheist who became a Christian. Clive Staples Lewis (C S Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia to mention just one book) grew up as an atheist. After taking a First in English Language and Literature in 1923, having already obtained Firsts in Classical Honour Moderations and Literae Humaniores (whatever they are), he then became a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford (England). So, the guy wasn't stupid and could string a few sentences together (lol).
At the age of 32, he "gave in, and admitted that God was God... perhaps the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England". Read C S Lewis on Faith and rejoice!
So, to answer your question, if an atheist like C S Lewis could change his mind (or was it God, changing his mind for him?) and believe in God, then I must conclude that it would be harder to convince a religious person there was no God than it would be to convince an atheist there is a God.
2007-06-09 13:01:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We shouldn't be surprised that large numbers of people don't believe in God.
The apostle Peter said at 2 Peter 3:3, 4 "For you know this first, that in the last days there will come ridiculers with their ridicule, proceeding according to their own desires and saying: “Where is this promised presence of his? Why, from the day our forefathers fell asleep [in death], all things are continuing exactly as from creation’s beginning."
Atheists maybe don't realise it, but each time they scoff at the idea of a God, they fulfill Peter's words.
Many atheists have become believers in God after an honest-hearted study of the Bible. There are no atheists on a plane before crashing.
2007-06-09 12:07:55 · answer #3 · answered by Iron Serpent 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You have to have some illogical thinking to believe (which is me), but you have to be completely logical to not believe. So, I think it would be harder to convince the non believers as you could never logically prove in God's existence. If you are already open to "illogical" ideas, you probably could be convinced more easily....just guessing here. I know for me that I've seen enough "proof" to believe there is something more powerful and meaningful going on here...and so, I believe and doubt that I would ever not believe.
Peace, Love, and Blessings
Greenwood
2007-06-09 11:56:28 · answer #4 · answered by Greenwood 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is no god, there never was, and never will be unless Blair and Bush get elected as gods by the right wing religious lunatics which run America and Britain and even then this is just the same as the Roman emperors that became gods a load of trash.
2007-06-09 13:54:10 · answer #5 · answered by Stephen P 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's an equally difficult thing to convince either side of anything. Just let it go and live life.
2007-06-09 12:52:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
religious people believe there is a god, atheists believe there is no god. Both are an article of faith. If there was proof one way or another then we wouldn't be having this discussion.
2007-06-09 13:50:58 · answer #7 · answered by potos64 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The more important a thing is, the harderr it is to prove.
eg I can PROVE that two plus two make four
I can PROVE that my wife and I have had sex....we have two children BUT I cannot PROVE that I love her (which I do, passionately...after 38 years of marriage)
Neither Atheism nor the existence of God can be proved.
To prove the non-existence you would need to know everything about everythimng (or God just may be where you are ignorant)
To prove there is a God, He would have to be within the confines of human understanding and, therefore (by very definition NOT God)
It is impossible to say "It IS certain". but when you have experienced something you can say "I AM certain"
I say that about my wife's love....and about God.
2007-06-09 12:08:08 · answer #8 · answered by alan h 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Your ignorance is showing. The proof of God is everywhere. On judgment day when you and all the other atheist and agnostics stand before God and try to cop the plea that you just didn't know He is real, He will say to you, "You have no excuse, for the proof of Me is everywhere". That day is coming much sooner than you think.
Every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that He is God.
2007-06-09 12:05:04 · answer #9 · answered by Sweet Suzy 777! 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
When we are all in the dark it doesn't make much difference if you are blind or not.
By your own confession you are the very category that you describe, implacable in your views.
Yet God hasn't had that much difficulty in convincing some Atheists of His existence and saving grace.
And He didn't need to prove it either.
2007-06-09 12:27:44 · answer #10 · answered by Jake M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋