Why do Christians have so much faith in their beliefs?

Question

Now this just comes out of curiousity, since i am not
religious. I can guarantee that all the faith christians got comes from two things. Firstly, christians were brought up and
brain washed as christians. Secondly, christians claim
they had some sort of miralce brought upon them as they
prayed to God. The second reason is the more popular reason.
TO ALL CHRISTIANS:
Do you remember that you used to have problems
even before you were a firm believer?( you did not pray back then) Some of your problems were resolved and some not. Right? Now that you are praying some problems are not answered and some are. Right? Now did you need a miracle
back then when you were not praying to have your problem
resolved? Try to think logically; if the only reason why you have faith is due to prayers anwered you might as well stop
praying and compare the problems resolved ratio.
It does not take a rocket scientist to understand this logic.
No offense to all Christians. Just curious.

Answer 1

I am really impressed. You have to be the most arrogant a$$hole I have ever seen on this website. I am not even Chrisitan and your post ranks as one of the most offensive and ignorant to date.

Who the hell do you think you are? What gives you the right to sit in judgement and issue blanket accusations and assumptions that are based on your obviously very narrow views? Is your education and life experience so barren that you can't see past the nose on your face? Is your heart so bereft of the capacity to care and exude compassion that you let your childish crap just spew out like so much vomit?

No offense to Christians? BS!

Grow the hell up.

Answer 2

Faith is required because it cannot be proven 100% true, scientifically, historically, and spiritually. Also faith is important because in its early stages, all the Christians had was faith. They lived the lives of slaves, the impoverished, and the persecuted. When in such a remarkably low social and economic status, faith gives people something that they can cling to, 'own', and lean back on. It gives them hope that their lives will get better.

As for prayer and problems resolved, the willpower and emotional input placed in prayers for specific needs/wants does have an affect. Positive thinking does work and goes a long way.

Answer 3

How can you guarantee that all the faith christians got comes from two things. 1. Upbringing 2. Miracle as they prayed. I will say again - How can you guarantee you know anything about their faith - all christians that is. You seem to have all knowledge and been everywhere at once.

You base your claims on assumption. Do you even know what faith is? It is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. Christians have a testimony that you dont like. Your assumptions are based on your own agenda. You mock with no tangible evidence of your claims.
The logic you are applying here doesn't make sense anyway.
You generalise too much - be more specific and then there will be a point of argument. Ignorance cannot have an argument. It is simply ignorant and its point of view and logic come from ignorance!!!!!!!

Answer 4

First, we aren't brainwashed. We are told things and choose to believe what we want. We have had great miracles happen, and I've seen them. I've seen a girl condemned to a wheelchair at church get prayed for and our pastor took her and made her walk around the church, and she did. Without a problem. That's God for you. And no, I didn't have too many problems. I got saved at 13. I really had no problems. Not any huge ones. And now that I am a Christian I do have more problems, because God gives us trials to test our faith. And it is hard, but it's worth it. It makes me stronger as a person and a Christian. God is amazing. God does help our lives in every way possible.

Answer 5

I was not raised with the beliefs that I have now.

My life was a nightmare before I came to believe and quite frankly since I have put everything in Gods hands my life is wonderful. I don't have any of the problems I used to have, as far as the ratio goes I have more problems solved and way less in the way of problems because of prayer.

I will never stop believing and having faith ever, what God has done for me is miraculous.

Answer 6

The Christian God was very careful to prove Himself when He had the Bible written. He wanted to make sure you would recognize him as a God when he acted. What he did is predict the future. No person on earth, no medium or psychic, can claim the one hundred percent prediction rate of God. God gave names, dates, and places so we can check out history and verify his work. He even gave us the very words someone would say centuries before the fact!

By taking this route, God would not have to appear and prove himself over and over again to new groups of people.

Now if you wanted everyone to know that you, as God, were going to come as a human being, you would explain what you were like so you would be recognized. You would put in the city of your birth, where you grew up, what kinds of deeds you would do, your temperament, your purpose, even how you would die.

God did all that in the Old Testament. It was all in written form four hundred years before Jesus came. The New Testament gospels follow Jesus and point out some of the places where He fulfilled the prophecies.

Let me give you an amazing example of prophecy.

“Daniel 11, written in the 6th century B.C., gives an amazingly thorough account of Alexander’s Grecian kingdom, divided first into four competing factions after his death. It predicts details of the struggle between the Ptolemy and Seleucid empires for a period of 160 years, right down to the advent of the Roman Empire. That is why the skeptics used to claim that the book of Daniel could not have been written before 164 B.C., but now we have proof of a much earlier writing text.

“The prophet Isaiah (44:28) gave the name of a king not yet born and of a kingdom not yet instituted and of an event that would not take place for another 150 years. He predicted that a king named Cyrus would commission the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem. Cyrus did come to the throne in Persia, and in the first year of his reign in 538, he issued a decree that the temple in Jerusalem should be rebuilt. (See 2 Chronicles 36:22-Ezra 1:1-3. This prophecy described in the Bible is confirmed by the discovery of a Babylonian inscription.)

“Daniel actually gave the time when Christ would come into the world and die. Daniel (9:24) predicted that Messiah would be cut off (die) 483 Hebrew years after the issuing of the Persian decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem. Artaxerxes Longimanus issued that decree on March 5, 444 B.C. (Neh. 2:1-8), granting the Jews permission to rebuild Jerusalem’s city walls. This, too, is confirmed by archeological discoveries. Four hundred eighty-three prophetic years (360 days to a year) and seven days later, Jesus was crucified as predicted. How could a prophet accurately predict the date of Messiah’s death hundreds of years before it took place, unless he was the ‘voice’ of God as he claimed?”

Thanks to the Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran, we know with certainty the above prophecies date before the occurrence of actual prophesied events.

He has proven His existence perfectly and wonderfully. The Christian God is the true God.

Answer 7

just as ive thought..to Give you an info abt God.. for us christians.. God is the Supreme Being. our human intellect doesn't match His. so don't compare a human intellect to a god. prayers are left unaswered bec of alot of factors. maybe it's what we are praying for is not for us to have. there will be a better answer to what we are praying for. we didn't just see it because we are too busy focusing on the thing we want most. God, he knows everything... at a more humane level...i just have to ask you if you have been in love? isn't it that when we are in love we want only the best for that person? even if he doesn't see it in your way, sometimes we push a little for him to see us.. our love. but if you haven't been in love(unconditionally) then you wouldn't understand what im saying here.

Answer 8

God has given every man a measure of faith, but to some He has given the gift of faith and when you have that gift you have the faith of God, you can walk on water, when the situation looks impossible ,God makes something happen in your behalf , that is why we have faith in God and Him alone !!!

Answer 9

*My* faith is in God, and Jesus Christ, His Son and my Lord and Savior, *not* in my beliefs!

BTW, I was neither brought up *nor* brain washed" as a Christian! I'm not religious either; I'm just a sinner saved by Grace, AKA a Christian! Christianity is *not* a religion; it is a way of life!

My God, who loves you so much He sent His only Son to die for your sins and mine, bless you, even if you don't (yet) believe in Him!

Answer 10

Christians have to have faith, because they lack knowledge.

When a person KNOWS something, they no longer need to have faith about it, or just "believe" it, which is nothing more than pretending, really.

If I have a million dollars laying out there on my dining room table, I would much rather KNOW that it is there, than just have faith or just believe that it's there.

Can't do anything with that money if you just sit there having faith that it's there, or just believing it's there, but you can if you KNOW it's there, eh?

You can get up, go get it, hand it out to poor people or whatever you like, you can translate knowing into action.

I'll take knowing over faith, any old day.