Believers, agree or disagree: Even if god is not real, you just don't want to know that?

Question

@ Mulereiner #: Proof? Do tell. Seriously -- do tell us about it. Waiting.

@ auntb93: Lemme get this straight -- worshipping what ain't there is not a complete waste of time and gray matter?

@ professor x: Disagree. If god exists, than that is easily the single most important fact ever and I jolly well DO want to know it. That's precisely why I insist on evidence of god's existence. So whaddayou got?

Answer 1

I know He is... doesn't matter what anyone else thinks.

Answer 2

I would be very disappointed to learn that, but if it were true then I would want to know. However, it isn't true and the weight of evidence shows that it is far more likely that a supernatural being who exists outside of time and space is responsible for the matter in this universe and the life on this planet than the alternative, that something came from nothing and that complex highly organized life forms that are far more intricate than anything designed by humans arose from random chance.

Here's a link if you want to examine different arguments for the existence of God.

http://www.apologetics.com/default.jsp?bodycontent=/articles/theistic_apologetics/kreeft-arguments.html

Intro on page:

Twenty Arguments For The Existence Of God
Peter Kreeft & Ronald K. Tacelli

In this section you will find arguments of many different kinds for the existence of God. And we make to you, the reader, an initial appeal. We realize that many people, both believers and nonbelievers, doubt that God's existence can be demonstrated or even argued about. You may be one of them. You may in fact have a fairly settled view that it cannot be argued about. But no one can reasonably doubt that attention to these arguments has its place in any book on apologetics. For very many have believed that such arguments are possible, and that some of them actually work.

Answer 3

It seems telling that most people are either unable to or refuse to even understand and reply accordingly to your question.

If I were a believer, I would want to know the truth, just as a nonbeliever I'd gladly accept any tangible evidence of the existence of a deity.

Answer 4

You know, when you're first deciding these things, the most important thing is the truth.

But when you have decided, and have woven your belief or nonbelief into your selfhood over the years, there comes a point where you are so entwined with it, that you couldn't tear it out without doing serious damage to who you are.

Elderly atheists don't want to know if God is real, and elderly believers don't what to know if God isn't real. That's my experience, anyway.

Answer 5

Wow. Good question. I'm a Roman Catholic Christian and I'd like to think that I'm not simply espousing blind faith. So, I'm going to think some more about your question.

Btw, you can do the same, too, you know: Agree or disagree: Even if God EXISTS, you just don't want to know that.

Let's all think about it, shall we?

-- edit --

I still haven't got any evidence to show you, sister. Like I said, I'm still thinking about it. But I'm in no hurry. I don't make decisions like that on a whim.

If God exists and He doesn't understand me dallying about your question, maybe He's not God after all, and none of us have to worry.

In any case, while I live this life the best I can (I think), I have a lifetime to think about your question. Carl Sagan once wrote: Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. If I can't find evidence for His existence (or non-existence) in this lifetime, I don't see why I should make up my mind about it in a hurry. There's so much wisdom in this world, and I'd like to think I'm the appreciative kind. Peace, and thank you for asking your question.

Answer 6

This is a fairly asked inquiry of ones honesty...
(Great question -Star)

For some, it's time to bury your head a little deeper in the sand and once again cry...

"... No, no, no... it isn't true. I'm open and honest to all reality. Honest, I am!"

For others, it may be the best step ever taken into a life-long honest investigation into reality.

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To Professor X... I've already taken up the challenge to accept faith; it didn't work out to well. Faith asks for unreasonable concessions of logic and its expectations are beyond my ability to trick, fool, lie or confuse myself.

I am unable to surrender the priceless territory of leading my life by the process of intellectual reasoning only for the return of merely pacifying my emotional desires and fears.
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Answer 7

If every god and goddess I worship turns out to be nothing but a metaphor, a fiction, I will not have lost a thing. In fact, I suspect this is the case, from some "logical" "objective" point of view. But so what? I have the value of the metaphor to represent the things I need, the virtues and the strengths.

Answer 8

Mulereiner # Put your money where your mouth is. I am agnostic. I dont claim to know the truth one way or the other but since your so smart and claim to have proof why not share with the rest of the class?

Isnt it a sin to lie?

Answer 9

It doesn't matter to me if people don't believe me when I say I know God is real..I know He is..I have spent enough time with Him to know,when you take time from yourself and look for Him He makes Himself real to you..To many things have happened this past 2 months and I could look back and see how things changed because He moved my mountains for me. Faith is not just a word in my life,,it is real..Without faith it is impossible to please God..

Answer 10

God shows Himself to us if we believe. So actually I doubt if you can prove God does not exist. But I know God can speak to your heart of who He is.

Answer 11

I'm not seeking God
But myself