Please help me on my previous question, no one will give me a straight answer.?

Question

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070715062323AAmvjxv&r=w
I don't want answers that base off of famous speakers of god that lecture but never prove. A valid website, anything?

Well I guess sticking with atheism is all i can do. I have a very open mind to these things, but there's a fine line between that and gullible, and alot of you seem to believe just because you think you have to no matter what or will go to hell.

Answer 1

You requested a straight answer. This one hopes that what is provided here for you by one who is reporting what this one has found and experienced in this one's own life, will prove to be the straight answer you are seeking.

The myth of Santa Claus, like that of the Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, the Sandman, etc., etc., etc., seems to be good and honest examples of how individuals and socieities want to believe in a "goodness' in the world that is outside of themselves and will, without effort on their part, solve or remove some of what they perceive as the evils and misfortunes of life.

The belief in god or the gods is no less of a myth regardless of how it is promoted and/or taught.

Orginally, religion was the "explanation" of how things came into existence, who mankind was and mankind's postion of relationship to all of existence in the grander scheme of things and how things would evolve/resolve themselves in the end, particularly in regards to death.
Religion was the "science" of its day during a time when humankind had no science, no methodology or disciplines capable of finding the real answers to the questions that were arising in the mind of primitive humanity.

Rather then some "pie in the sky" theological outlook, a better answer for what happens to all things as they change throughout life and eventually appear to die can be observed by any and every individual during his or her lifetime.

Life is a "cycle" of birth, death and re-birth.

In such, all things in the cosmos are made of second generation star material (ie., the same naturally occurring elements one learns about in a high school chemistry class). This means and demonstrates that all thing that exist are related, one by their composition and, by their interdependence upon all else that is for existance.
All that exist is in a constant state of flux or change. This is seen in the seasons, in the growth of plants and animals, volcanic eruptions,the erosion of rocks, etc., throughout the cosmos and even in our own thoughts, which change from moment to moment.
The mathematics of Chaos teach us that order tends to descend into chaos and chaos tends to move into order, a cyclical movement, a ballet of constant change.
As ordered things, such as humans, plants, rocks, stars, etc., move or descend into disorder, they break apart, disolve and give back to the universe the elements of which they are made.
Those elements move back towards order of one form another. The minerals go back to the soil. The soil feed the plants and small insects and other creatures and so become those beings. Those creatures often become food and thereby part of other creatures, etc. What was once a flower is now part of a cow. What was once a human, is now trnsformed through this process into a tree, or an animal, or eventually and possibly, into another human. This is one aspect of "reincarnation", where nothing dies, it is only transofrmed.

What, though becomes of that part of each one which is that one's essence, one's true self, that irreducable "something" that truly defines one?
One school of thought says that it may reincarnate back into a life form similar to that which it left or into a higher form if it was well trained and prepared for the journey. This is the ideal taught by Tibetan Buddhism.
Zen Buddhism might well provide another answer, which is "Mu', meaning "non- being", that which has no existence can not end, as it never existed. What does not exist can not change.

One and each, must and does make choices in that one's life. One makes choices based uopn one's view of reality, which can be either subjective (i.e., biased, distorted) or objective (i.e., seeing what is for and how it is).
With each one's choices comes the responsibilities and consequences of the same in accordance with one's actions and re-actions to life. Such is the nature of Karma.

One may choose to believe what that one wishes to believe, whether that be the teachings of the Buddha, YHWH, Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Allah Subhann wa Tal'ala, Krishna, the Easter Bunny , Santa Calus, etc., etc., etc. and with which one is most comfortable as long as the belief in the same does no harm to the one who belives and to those who do not..
What appears to matter most is that one live a moral life of mindfulness, conscious awareness, kindness, compassion and empathy to one's self and to all of existance, doing as little harm as possible.

May it all be well with you.

Answer 2

The fact of the matter is, there IS no straight answer. All you're going to get is peoples' opinions. Some believe in God because of "faith." Others have made informed opinions based on facts and evidence. And there are some who have a combination of the two.

I can tell you why *I* believe in God, but all it's going to be is an opinion.

Here are some sites to start with, and at the end, I'll put a list of books that helped me, that may help you, or others:
http://debate.org.uk/topics/history/bib-qur/bibarch.htm
http://www.trueorigin.org/ (Some of these articles are about a "young earth", but those can easily be disregarded. The rest are fascinating.)
http://www.apologetics.com/default.jsp?bodycontent=/articles/historical_apologetics/habermas-nt.html
http://www.christiananswers.net/archaeology/home.html
http://www.biblehistory.net/
http://www.evidenceforchristianity.org/efc/default.nsf/Article/1B926074A2C7814D88256FF800513A3D?OpenDocument
http://www.ccel.org/contrib/exec_outlines/ca/ca_04.htm
http://www.godandscience.org/ (My personal favorite)
http://www.rationalchristianity.net/historical_evid.html
http://www.pleaseconvinceme.com/

And some books:
Anything by Lee Strobel...I enjoyed Case for Christ (which got me digging into other books), and I'm reading Case for a Creator right now, which has ALSO gotten me digging into other books
Evidence That Demands a Verdict by Josh McDowell
Darwin's Black Box by Michael Behe (It's caused a lot of dissent in the scientific community, but it's still a compelling argument. It can also get a person digging into more.)
Books by John P Ashton M.D., Ralph Muncaster, or William Lane Craig are good sources as well. And one can always perform a search on amazon.com for apologetics:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/104-8647646-1592746?initialSearch=1&url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=apologetics

But the fact of the matter is, not one of these things will do a single bit of good if a person isn't already open to the possibility of there being a God. If the only "proof" of God's existence that one would accept is God Himself coming down and saying, "Here I am, worship Me!" then no amount of apologetics or archaeological evidence or historical evidence will be enough.

Answer 3

Just in case you missed it:

Because I believe it is more likely that:
1) the universe is orderly (a presupposition without which it would be impossible to do science) due to order imposed on it by a logical and consistent being than it is that unconscious, unintelligent matter could be self-organizing;
2) I received my consciousness from a being that had some to give because it itself was conscious than from unconscious matter (furthermore, if my consciousness is only illusory, then there has to be something that is perceiving this illusion. How could it be the matter itself if the matter doesn't have any consciousness?);
3) I received my intelligence in a similar manner (on the other hand, if my intelligence is merely the byproduct of chemical reactions, then how could I rely on it when I have no idea whether the perception of reality that the chemical reactions give me really correspond to that reality?);
4) my free will, my sense of beauty, and my sense of morality seem real because they are real and not just illusory. Note that I'm not saying that atheists cannot believe in these things, but rather that I have to see an explanation of how they can be logically consistent with an atheistic outlook.

Answer 4

I believe that belief in God is personal. We all have personal reasons that we believe in God that wouldn't be the same for other people. For example, some of us have come through really hard times and God helped us through. God means different things to different people. I guess, if you really are wanting to know the answer and aren't just trying to stir things up, you would have to ask yourself why you don't believe in God? What is it that has blocked that possibility out for you. In the end, you can't change people's belief by asking this question. And, you yourself, will either continue not to believe in God, or you will continue to try to find Him.

Answer 5

I actually thought you got a lot of straight answers -- you just did not get the answer you wanted. You already answered your own question before you even asked it. But if you want to know why I believe in God, it is because at a time when I did not, in my early twenties, I was seriously depressed and confused about my future. Someone told me to pray -- just close your eyes, with all of your heart in it, turn to God and ask for guidance. I thought she was nuts, but I was desperate and did it anyway. I did not give Him/Her a name, but I did open up and asked with all of my heart and soul for help and guidance. I cannot begin to express what happened at that moment, but I will do my best. I experienced a Presence flooding my entire being like nothing I had ever experienced in my life. There was a fulfillment within me that could only be described as the purest sense of completion and love. Since then, I have connected to what I believe is a Universal Consciousness, and I believe that "God" is this Consciousness, where, as we evolve as human beings, our telepathic abilities become prevalent, and we are able to tap into and become One with this Consciousness. This, I believe, is why Jesus told us we are everything He already is. This, I believe, is the basis behind the philosophical tenets of the Taoist religion. Those who see an old man with a beard are trying to draw their God down to the physical, but the whole point with God is that it is what lies BEYOND the physical that makes Him what He is, and we cannot, therefore, visualize His being. He is something we must think and feel and sense and, when we are most fortunate, hear. We cannot taste or touch Him physically (other than through His works through others). But to reach the point of being able to sense His Presence, we must be willing to let go of our skepticism and truly reach out for our own confirmation.

This, I believe, you will not be able to do, as it appears your goal is to prove the opposite. I wish you good fortune in a journey that will obviously be bereft of something very special.

Take care of you.

Answer 6

I think I might have a solution to your search. Perhaps you need to ask a former atheist for their reason for believing with the proof you are looking for. Lee Strobel is a former atheist who became a Christian. He wrote a series a books that document his search for answers as to why Christians believe what they do. I've read one of his books and was taught quite a bit. He has a website that has video clips of some of what you are looking for. His books, The Case For Christ, The Case For Faith, and The Case For a Creator are in the bookstores. I hope this helps you.
http://www.leestrobel.com/

Answer 7

Why do I believe in God? Because that's what feels right to me. Why don't you? Because it doesn't feel right to you. What other answer do you want? I'm not going to prove to anyone that my god exists, and I don't want you to prove to me that he doesn't. To do so would be to try to prove that purple is the prettiest color. I cannot convince anyone of anything that they don't want to believe.

Please realize, however, that not all Christians are the same. I personally believe in evolution and the big bang, and I find string theory fascinating. You can't group us all together just to try to make us look backward and silly. We have a wide variety of beliefs.

Finally, please consider: do you really even want to be convinced? I don't mind that you have a different set of beliefs than I. You really can't bring a person around. Religion is between you and your mind and your heart. There is no answer.

Answer 8

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 regarding Jesus.

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

Answer 9

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Answer 10

The question to which you link was not a question but a demand. And you are still making demands.

How many hairs grow from your head? how do you inhale; which muscles do you activate first to begin that breath? (assuming you knew how to activate them in the first place). Some part of you knows the answers to these questions.

"Proof" for one might be another's interpretation of bias fulfillment.