Why is it so hard to believe in the possibility of God?

Question

If your knowledgeable and open minded then you would not claim God doesn't exist or call it mythology when it hasn't been proven false. Belief in God isn't the same as belief in myth or superstition or the Bible. I mean God as creator of everything. I have studied biology as well as physics. I see it as possible God created everything. This includes history which is cause and effect. God gave us the illusion of a free will and the concept of heaven and hell, religion and morality to steer our behavior. Just think what the world would be like if everyone believed in cause and effect. There would be no progress. Everyone would just do what they needed to survive and would not feel responsible for their actions. People would even giveup on living. God, right now, is the only explanation. When you have nothing else, the only explanation no matter how crazy, is the most possible. I think not believing in God is very close minded, but maybe God just made you that way.

I am thoroughly amazed at all the knee jerk reactions I've been getting. I guess they are closeminded because they ARE equating God with the bible and superstition. If God is not the only explanation then name one scientific exlanation for the Big Bang.

and time. Cause and effect. If your smart enough to know what that is.

Answer 1

I don't NOT believe in God, but I'm not 100% sure either. I certainly don't think the Bible specifically is the answer - that's rather insulated of you, don't you think?

Answer 2

And, if you were open minded and knowledgable, you wouldnt go calling Jesus Christ the TRUTH without being able to prove it either.

So whats your point?

You have not done an in depth study of physics. Had you, you'd realize that the universe looks exactly as we would expect it to WITHOUT a creator. Way to butcher Occhams Razor as well...

Love how you end it with a thinly veiled insult as well. Then again, maybe God made you to be a self-righteous jerkoff.

Answer 3

Sure, it's possible that some god exists, just like it's possible that goblins, dragons or pixies exist even though we have absolutely no evidence for their existence.

You're arguing that all people are essentially immoral without the threat of an all-knowing all-powerful monster - it's a very dim view of humanity as a whole.

And what's with "god is the only explanation"? You made a few leaps of faith there.

Answer 4

All other gods and such beliefs that have passed into time are now considered fake and only myths. Likewise some beliefs that still exist are considered fake by you.

So... with 99% being myths, what are the ACTUAL and REALISTIC chances that yours is any different... The odds are not exactly in it's favor.

Answer 5

why would anyone want to live one's life according to Mithraic law because there's a POSSIBILITY that Zoroaster rides his golden chariot across the sky each day?

speaking of Mithra, he also had 12 disciples!

Call it what they will, the story of the mystical child, born without the intervention of an earthly father is a classic example of the Oedipal complex, in which the boy child competes with the father for mother's love. In virtually all these stories, the mother is without sin, incorruptible, as evidenced by her 'virginity' at the boy child's birth, i.e., she cannot have had sex with (god) the father because he is dependent on the mother(earth) and wants all her attention, for which the father is seen to compete.

The magical child is almost invariably put to death at an early age, at which time he becomes one with the father. This is the metaphorical release from the oedipal complex, complete with homoerotic piercing - gouging of eyes, crowning with thorns, nails, spears, etc. - typical of adolescent fantasies. Of course, the 'son of god' is preternaturally wise, charismatic, a prophet. Witness the Christian story of Jesus debating the rabbis at the temple, symbolic of the bar mitzvah, ‘today I am a man!’ This is the part where the father gets to beam with pride – and the mother gets to worry that her child has gone ‘missing.’ ("Who is my mother? Where is my mother?" Well, she ain't allowed to study the Torah along with the men!)

In temperate climates, holidays celebrating the harvest and the winter solstice can be seen to represent the tribe's (and later, the culture's) ability to persist through the coming season of scarce resources. Note that winter holidays elevate the practice of giving, i.e., sharing the harvest, which is necessary to survival of the tribe through the winter. Think of Dickens' Scrooge, for example, as a reminder that banding together for celebration and sharing is how the species survives (the three ghosts, dwelling in the unconscious, or sleeping mind each stress sharing - love, charity, and the passing on of possessions after death, or the three norns, the three fates, the three witches, rhine maidens, whatever...).

In the Spring, of course, there's the veneration of symbols of rebirth - the newborn lamb ('the lamb of god'), the bunny, the egg, baskets made of fresh, pliant branches. This is the
season wherein the magical child dies and is reborn. Again, in Oedipal terms, his childhood is put to death, and he re-emerges as the New Man, now mature and re-united with the father, with whom he is no longer in competition for mother-love. And his marriage (to Eve, the first woman – his first woman, the first ‘virgin’), takes place in June, of course, near the summer solstice, just as the season of growth - raising the family as well as the livestock, sharing crop maintenance, etc. - begins. (only to be repeated in the winter with the birth of the magical child’s magical child – married in June, a father in December… hmmm – what was going on at the spring equinox, I wonder…. let’s see, three months later and it certainly begins to look like they’ve got to be married, no?)

Happy holidays. LOL

Answer 6

I believe in God, just not the biblical. Like some one said, god is just the laws that hold the universe together.
I think the idea of God CAN can be explained if found in other dimensions ---- according to string theory.

Answer 7

well i have studied mathematics and
i think that you are close minded and learned nothing during your studies of biology and physics

how dare you to make such a blunt statement that not believeing in god is close minded.

If i was your professor i would want all the degrees I gave to you back.

but maybe god made you that way.

Answer 8

Hello also there is much proof in the bible itself it was written over a 1500 year period by 44 authors and it does not disagree with itself and 30% of it is Prophecy plus the changed lives but the main reason folks choose not to believe is then they would have to BE-LIVE, that is they would have to do something about there lives and turn them over to Jesus Christ, and believing is not enough by the way satan believes in God and tembles if you say you BE-LIVE then your actively doing something about it, God bless.

Answer 9

You are assuming that only the christian deity would exist when there are thousands of named deities world-wide. Who says it is your rendition that may exist? There is no empirical proof for or against deities and myself, I acknowledge none as real entities until that time; and even then, acknowledgment does not mean I would worship.

Answer 10

It is actually easier to believe in God then to take the responsibility of your life into your own hands.