If God wanted us to believe in him/her/it, why did he/she/it give us (some of us) reason?

Answer 1

According to Hebrew scripture, God, or "I AM", created man in His image. We are a triune being, as He is. God created the angelic hosts to worship Him. He wanted to create an intelligent creature that would choose to worship Him of his own free will. It's like you having a robot that tells you it loves you, or having children which can have an emotional relationship with you and tell you they love you. Keep in mind, that the children will also often get angry with you and tell you they hate you as well. They can and often do turn from your instruction and decide that they, in their ultimate wisdom, know more than you. They may even decide that you are not really their parent at all and may dis-own you.

Funny though. Even though the kids may turn away and disobey, you still love them. No matter how mad you get, you still love them and wish they would turn back and run into your arms and love you back. I guess God made us more like Himself than we could have ever guessed.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, in our contemporary Western society, we think that faith and reason are diametrically opposed. As a young person, I fell into this trap as well, thinking that since the
Bible had obvious errors in it, there was no way to believe in it without giving up reason. Therefore, there was no way for me to have faith.

I then came across a book called The Bible, the Quran, and Science by Dr. Maurice Bucaille. This French doctor from a Catholic background undertook to find out if there were inaccuracies scientifically speaking in both texts. What he found was, that despite the many errors in our current Bible, the Quran was not only free of errors, but actually had scientific material therein which was not proved to be true in some cases until quite recently.

It dawned on me that this false faith/religion dicotomy did not really exist. One could have faith and reason, as a Muslim. I then found that, instead of discouraging scientific inquiry about the universe, the Quran encourages it because it in fact leads to the realization that all this world is a marvelous creation of the One True God.

God does not want us to blindly follow dogmas, because that does not lead us to a deep connection with him. The more we use our reason the deeper our faith can grow, if it is a faith that is true.

Answer 3

He gave reason so we could determine whats right and whats wrong. This is a test. Everyday, you make sins. YOU make those sins. The Devil is just reminding you, just whispering in your ear some sins to do. Hes just influencing you. But on Judgment Day, the Devil will just say that he didn't do anything wrong. Did he force you to do it? No. Did he hold your hand and help you complete the sin? No. It was your choice. You had the choice to do it or not. You have to make the best of this life. You must be grateful. The richest man in this world could be unhappy, buying endless amounts of diamonds and gold. What is another few diamond rings going to do? The poorest man could be the best believer, the most grateful. You should be grateful from Allah a deep breath of fresh air is given to you. What did you do to deserve a fresh breath of air? Tell me? How does the world twist and twirl without Allah controlling it? How does that flower bloom and blossom? Hmm? Does it do it by itself? Tell me. Did the big bang put down gravity on earth? There is a master. The master of all creations. The most magnificent and most gracious: Allah. Allah has no creator, no brother no son. Allah IS the creator. I have no doubt in my mind of his existence. His existence is spread all around you. If you were as dumb and arrogant as to think there is no God controlling something as simple as your heartbeat at this very moment, your heart would stop, and you'd have a heartattack. Its that easy to die. You have to live this life for all its for. If you aren't grateful for what you have, you never will be. There's always a reason to be happy.

Answer 4

All happenings are bound by cause and effect relationship.
There should be a primary cause behind creation .
At present it is not very clear to .Research is going on from eternity and seems to be followed in years to come .
It is difficult for man to understand infinity and its manifestations around . Being something in the middle of reference scale , man fail to understand objects which are too small or too big . For example ,you may consider the world of high energy particles in atom or array of stars in cosmos . There is some primary cause behind all these as they are today or as they will be tomorrow . Everything is changing with time . This makes thing further complex . Governing principles are still remain to be fully explored . The primary cause is a neutral truth and is not affected by our belief or disbelief . All these are philosophical truth at present yet to be tested by scientific reasoning .

Answer 5

Oh boy. Your question (which is no question at all, but a false argument, critical thinking/logic and reason 101) is so disjointed that I can't even flip it. So let me reword it for you, here goes:

You are saying that (paraphrase): reasonable people don't believe in God.

And the answer is: reasonable people do believe in God.

Oh brother-

Answer 6

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Answer 7

He did. To a few.

Answer 8

Guess we are not worthy.

Answer 9

Because he's fake

Answer 10

Because its called "FAITH"