I'm aetheist - always have been always will be but...I'm curious (this isn't intended to sound judgemental) why do you believe in what ever it is you believe in - in my eyes its unbelievably illogical and out right bizzare how so many people have become brainwashed into believing the most unbelievable things. is it for security, or fear... (please help me understand)
2007-07-11 01:00:21 · 15 answers · asked by James L 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Please don't get angry at me - I'm just confused in my eyes earth is completely pointless - I could die tomorrow and it wouldn't matter, I don't believe in a higher power, and if that makes me the minority then so be it -
2007-07-11 01:11:10 · update #1
We believe because the Holy Spirit of God has enabled us to believe.
The things of God must be Spiritually discerned.....this is why it's like French to the rest of the world (well.....that is, if you don't speak French)......they have not been enabled to believe....and blinded by sin.
2007-07-11 01:03:31 · answer #1 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 2⤊ 5⤋
I can tell that you're trying to be respectful, so I'll give you a respectful answer.
Let me tell you a little bit about me, first. I was an atheist for most of my life, despite being raised in a Christian home. Long story short, I became a skeptic when I was five, and a total atheist when I was thirteen. That was almost fourteen years ago.
Over the following thirteen years, I researched MANY different religions; from Buddhism to Wicca to satanism to Islam, with a little bit of Hinduism, plus some Celtic, Egyptian, Roman, and Greek mythology. I took a comparitive mythology course in high school. I studied religious history. I read the Bible. I wanted to know where this "man-made concept", as I called it, came from.
Fast forward a few years. After all this studying, I started to see that there WAS a Creator. It just slowly dawned on me. I leaned towards a sort of theistic Buddhism with pagan elements for awhile (even after I stopped practicing Wicca, which was when I was twenty-one or so), and then started to see the truth of Christianity. Some elements of it are pretty unbelievable (talking donkeys, worldwide flood, parting of the Red Sea, just to name a few), but other parts just seemed to fall into place. I don't want to go into too much detail, because I don't want to make it seem that I'm preaching, or that I'm trying to convert anyone.
Anyway, long story short (if you can call this short, lol), after discovering that there WAS a man called Jesus, and reading various apologetics' books, I became a Christian nearly nine months ago. It took a lot of study and research though. Basically a lifetime. And even though I'm a Christian, I CONTINUE to search. I refuse to grow stagnant.
It wasn't just "faith" that brought me where I am, because as a former atheist, faith just wasn't enough. It wasn't enough when people told me that God "touched" them. It was painstaking, open-minded research. That's it.
2007-07-11 08:17:45 · answer #2 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First thing you need to get straight is that it certainly isn't brainwashing. The majority of the world believes in some higher power. You are the minority. Secondly- we see evidence all around us. The world itself being the most obvious. I will never believe that this whole world was created by accident. Everything works like clockwork, for every problem there is an answer, everything works is perfect equilibrium. Then there's the human body. Do you think evolution formed the brain which can recall images and smells and experiences? Do you think it somehow created the nose, able to smell? The ears, somehow able to hear? I don't. If that's not intelligent, I don't know what is.
2007-07-11 08:06:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
you dont have follow or believe for any reason you dont understand. If it is logical then you go for, at any point of time in Islam nothing should be accepted the only exception is that you may not understand some points without some background or context otherwise you dont have to follow what not coming to your head.
See the human being born out of a drop of liquid then it grows and so on, the GOD said that why I could not make you again as He made you first time. So how many are dying we all know the only thing we have to believe is that GOD will create us again to answer what we have done in this world.
I am writing some of the scientific facts :
An adult human is made up of nearly a 100 trillion cells.
Our eyes have 125 million cells to distinguish shades of gray in dim light and 7 million cells that give colour in bright light.
Blood vessels (arteries, capillaries and veins) make up a 60,000-mile system in the human body.
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So shall we need to know that someone controlling us, these are only few facts otherwise there are thousands or millions to understand the nature.
So In Islam the only requirement is that you have to believe in One God and believe in all prophets that came to this world and follow what is available as authentic and scientifically proved.
2007-07-11 08:16:34 · answer #4 · answered by Straighttalk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to us religious ppl, it's not rly illogical. ofcourse they're are unexplainable things that prohets do but not everything is based on scientific proof for us to believe. we always wonder, how did everything started, even life? surely there must be a creator to start up the big bang, and the things before the big band and so on. i havent read the article, but scientists has proven that a God exists. the actually 'beginning' is unexplainable to all scientists. thus, there must be a supernatural power who is in our conscience and presence.
i dont think u'll be an aetheist for very long. God is tugging at ur heart to find the answer. i can tell. i agree with TDWICH
2007-07-11 08:11:15 · answer #5 · answered by evanescent_eclipse 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a Buddhist, I "believe" because I've ben able to prove and verify a lot of what is taught through experience in doing it.
And it has taught me some real peace; the frivolous desires have been set aside.
2007-07-11 08:08:15 · answer #6 · answered by guy o 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
James,
When the spirit of GOD speaks to you you will respond. I think he is speaking to you know or you would not have asked this question. What you need to do is start listening to him. Open up your mind and listen, GOD is every where in people, things, life, death, animals, plants, simply everything around you. If you doubt GODS existence, hold a new born baby and ask yourself how did this happen without GODS loving touch.
TDCWH
2007-07-11 08:12:36 · answer #7 · answered by TDCWH 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
We all have to believe in something in order to survive. We must believe in freedom and democracy, in our capacity to learn the truth, in caring for one another, in our own selves...to mention a few. Belief makes sense about life (and death sometimes, and all other realities) to someone who believes. Belief is an assent of the mind, nobody is being forced to believe in any superbeing. My belief in my God makes my world have "sense".
2007-07-11 08:12:58 · answer #8 · answered by iSaGaNi 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When the Holy Spirit showed me I was lost. I went to my pastor's house and got saved. It was then that my eyes was opened for the first time. God believed in me first. God sought me out and brought me out of the depths of this world and saved my soul.
2007-07-11 08:10:20 · answer #9 · answered by iwant_u2_wantme2000 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
My boyfriend says it's a natural emotional reaction (fear) to the sudden realisation of one's size in the universe. That's proably an overgeneralization but it may be true, he's done a lot of research in that area.
2007-07-11 08:04:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Both security and fear
Peace is included with love
Eternal life and heave are mentioned
All that and not beleiving in Jesus!!!>.
2007-07-11 08:04:43 · answer #11 · answered by Zsazsa A 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋