Why do some people not believe in God?

Question

I mean I know there's the people who haven't "found" him , but what about the people who know he exists but still don't believe?

Answer 1

because they are lost and we must pray for them without cease...Amen!

Answer 2

I don't know about God, but I work with a guy named Jesus from Mexico, is that close enough? I believe in him, or at least his work ethic, he works hard and is very religious. Does that count?
How about the law of inverse proportion? Why do some people "believe" in God? I mean I know there are the people who have "found" Him. But what about the people who know he doesn't exist but still believe?

Answer 3

There is truth in several of the answers you have already received . . .

religious choice is a freedom

some people have never been exposed

some people who have been exposed to many
teachings are still questioning what they've learned

some people once believed because that is what
they were taught as a young child, but as they grew
& learned more about the many cultures of the world
- how similar, & yet how different they all are - their
belief changed from one of blind faith based on un-
proved things, to one that encompasses their own
spirituality through the wonders of nature, peace &
meditation to attain a place of calm

Christianity is one of many religions across the globe - not the only religion. All religions have many more similiarities among themselves than they do differences - yet so many wars are fought & people killed because of those relatively little differences. How can a just God condone this? Its like the Crusades all over again. Read history. Mankind keeps repeating the same pattern, over & over.

Yes a man named Jesus was born of Joseph & Mary & lived his life in Nazareth & was crucified.

No, he did not write a word of the bible. What most people see in today's bible is a sewn together quilt of some of the writings of early believers - but, not all writings. Again, research the missing books of the bible to get the whole story of how life was during those early years.

Remember, 2000 years from today someone may read what I'm writing here. Some words will have different meanings then than they do now. Plus, the language might have to be translated, so there are just 2 of the possibilities of how what I wrote now could be different than how it will be interpreted.

I'm sure the people who wrote what we now call the books of the bible wrote them in the language of the day & with an eye on the ruling government of the day so they could get the writing out to the public eye. Again, read your history to find out what the world was like then.

If people read the bible, the koran, or any other book that is holy in their religion & decide to believe in it, it is their right. Just as it is my right to read about the history of all the various religions & reach my own opinion & belief.

I truly wish humankind would learn this lesson & stop trying to make all peoples believe in one god, worship one way, live their life under only one government, invade countries that don't conform to this pattern - regardless of their culture & history - & try to make them conform.

We're all unique individuals. Accept it. Live in peace with it. Stop making war & learn to enjoy peace. If we don't, I hope I don't live to see where this will all end.

Answer 4

There is no person who "knows he exists but still doesn't believe". The people, myself included, who have chosen to disbelieve in God truly don't think He exists. We view God kinda like children view Santa Clause. You've got your gleeful children believing in Santa by the thousands, with your occasional few who have recognized it early for a very well-planned lie. Eventually, all children are disappointed: Santa Clause isn't real. How do you view the ancient Romans, with their multiple gods? Delusional? Stupid, even? That's kind of how some atheists view Christianity. You're an atheist to all of the Roman gods, and we're an atheist to yours.

No offense meant, of course. I understand that every one has different beliefs--I just want you to understand that as well.

Answer 5

"One by one the generation that refused to be bound by the Pope, and refused to be bound by the church, decided in an ecstasy of freedom that they would not be bound by anything, not by the Bible, not by conscience, not by God Himself. From believing too much that never did have to be believed, they took to believing so little that for countless thousands human existence and the world itself no longer seemed to make any sense. Poets began talking about the `wasteland,' with ghostly lives,' as Stephen Spender put it, `moving among fragmentary ruins which have lost their significance.' Nothingness became a subject of conversation, nihilism a motive, frustration and despair a theme for novelists and dramatists, and the `edge of the abyss' as much of a nautical term among the intelligentsia as it was for explorers in the days of Columbus!" (Paul Scherer, The World God Sent, Harper & Row, 1965, p. 11).


We live in a world of post-modernism.. people like the idea of knowing all that is. They don't want the idea that there is something far greater then they (in both character and power).

Answer 6

Your question makes no sense. Those who think a god exists - and, specifically, your god, think he exists.

However:


Nobody can prove any gods, much less a specific god, exist; many people will tell you their god exists but no others, but will never be able to prove it, even if they think so. Some will threaten you with eternal pain or promise eternal joy to get you to believe in their god; these are all stories, created for people who were scared long before we understood the universe. Now we have no more reason for these superstitions.

How terrible the bible in particular is:
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/
http://www.evilbible.com/

What's the origin of the Jesus stories?
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa5.htm
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/origen048.html
http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/jesus.html

How silly and horrible religion in general is:
http://godisimaginary.com/
http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/

The alternative:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/
http://www.infidels.org/
http://www.positiveatheism.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Universalism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_humanism

Answer 7

Some people have a problem with God as he's presented. The idea that if Hitler or Stalin had accepted God and therefore they automatically went to heaven just because that's what the rules say is not very encouraging.

Answer 8

Why are you asking this question? Do you know how many times a day it is asked? Did you do a search to see if this question had been asked before?

God isn't hiding - so how can someone find him? Was he behind the bard? In the bushes? Down a manhole? How did you find God? Was he hiding in your underpants drawer?

Why do you think people need to find God? Why are people not permitted, in your mind, to believe what they will? Are they harming you in any way if they don't believe in God?

Are you getting tired of my questions? Do you wish I would stop? Do you yet see the inane-ness of your question?

Blessed Be!!!!

Answer 9

There are lots of people who believe in lots of different things. There is no one way to believe in God, just as there is no one single type of person.

What one person experiences as a deep, spiritual belief may not look like belief or faith to another person.

That which you call 'God' may appear to be a childish delusion to another. That which someone else calls 'God' may appear to you to be theism, or animism, or a whole different deity altogether.

Who is right? Who is wrong? We all must answer our own hearts.

(btw: if your first impulse is to answer the 'who is right?' question with a Bible verse then I probably won't take anything you say seriously)

Answer 10

People who know he exists, but still don't believe?

What are you smoking, kid?

People do not believe in god simply because there's no evidence for any gods. It's exactly the same reason that you don't believe that there's a polka-dotted chimpanzee dancing on your head. If that sounds facetious, you need to put more thought into the question, because that is, in fact, exactly the reason that people do not believe.
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Tuberoot, the preaching of the gospel IS nonsense. Were it not, you wouldn't have to resort to that "marching to the orders of the devil" crap. Learn to behave like an adult when you're out in public places, kid.

Answer 11

If you are talking about the Christian god (which I assume), then it is because he is totally lame, bro. That particular god may be real, but if so, it is a weak god. Very childlike and immature. Given to temper-tantrums and explosive violence. In that god's world, everything revolves around it, like my two-year old. If I am going to worship some diety, I want an older, wiser and more mature god. This business of "believe in me or DIE" is lame, dude.