why do u believe in god, or why dont?

Question

why do u believe in god, or why u do not

Answer 1

I don't believe in God because I've never seen any sufficient evidence or heard a convincing argument for the existence of such a powerful and grandiose being. I used to believe in God when I was a kid, but that was basically just what my family told me to believe before I was interested in arguments and evidence. Once I was old enough to think for myself, the whole concept of God stopped making sense to me.

Answer 2

Yes, I believe, but the the best way for me to answer is to explain why I do not believe in the "Big Bang". Look around you at a table, chair, pen,etc. They are all comprised of atoms. Man has fabricated them in their current state, but the base material was already there. From whence did the base material come? Even if you believe that in the beginning there was only one atomic particle which somehow split into two or more, you must ask where did that one particle come from. Could it have suddenly appeared from nothing? Can nothing create something? The term creatio ex nihilo, which means creation from nothing, can only be explained by a belief in God. The first cause argument basically says that everything that begins to exist has a cause. The universe began at some point to exist, therefore the universe must have a cause. There can be no other acceptable logic.
It follows that evolution cannot be correct because we have never seen evidence of an evolving species. We have seen adaption, but that in no way backs up evolution. Eli

Answer 3

I'm a deistic agnostic. I do not believe there can exist evidence for or against an omni-X being that supposedly transcends all the physical universe.

Having said that, I see no evidence for or against a creator God and choose to accept that there might have been. The rest of my belief structure centers around secular humanism and natural realism so I don't believe in a personal God because I see no reason to do so. On the other hand, no empirical evidence can exist about what came "before" the origin of the universe and so I choose to believe in a creator god.

Answer 4

This is a very good question. One to ponder. Belief many times is based on our five senses. Many people believe because we are taught something and don't question it.
I believe in God for many reasons. First of all, based on my education and experience, I choose to believe in God.
The other reason is the desire to understand who I am and where I came from, and how the world was created.
Not believing comes with a price of less than believing.
I would rather believe and take the possibility of eternal life than take a negative concept and have nothing to hope for.
Another reason is because there have been many more intelligent men and women over the history of the planet who have believed and the documented information claiming the reality. I certainly can't see it not being so at this time.
My last point is that since I surrendered to belief, I have experienced things that prove to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is life after death. So there are too many things that indicate to my brain that believing is beneficial if not anything other than the (feeling / thought) of not being alone and hope for life after death.
Rev. TomCat

Answer 5

Personally, I believe that their might be some sort of god somewhere out there, however I doubt he even knows we exist.
The only reason I think there might even be a god is because we can only explain the big bang up to .000000001 seconds after it started (mathematically). Every single religion that says they, or any of their 'prophets' have talked to god is in my opinion, a joke, a farce, a lie.

Humans tend to lean towards god to explain the unexplainable, and we created him out of fear.

However, I definitely believe in facts such as evolution, the big bang theory, and there is no way in hell god just spontaneously
'made' the earth in a week, a month, a year, or whatever the hell else people think.

Answer 6

my reason for trusting that God does exist is based on my background in science which is heavy on the nature and behavior of chemistry and physics.

I have also read the works of many respected men and women in the world as well as read their biographies.

I'm surprised that many researchers do not present a complete picture of the data they get: In fact they offer the data that supports their position that they started to study. I'm not so inclined to supress the truth that way.

I have also read the work (in discover magazine (3 years back maybe) on the explaination of big bang. The man who wrote the paper is an idiot, and yes, I would call him that to his face.

I have also tried to understand the nature person and works of what we call god. There is something very interesting about the nature of the world, and the way god deals with it.

If jesus was god, and if what jesus said is true, then he accepts you as you are, though every man, woman and child is a sinner deserving of death and destruction in hell.

god, the one in the bible allows us to live our life, and he stays out of it, hense the man saying his sister died. If god kept her alive, then he was imposing his will over nature in this case. Just as you ask if we believe and why, that is your right while your here.

One wrote, if this is all there is, i want my money back. Well that person cant buy the air he breathes and he wants his money back. He has nothing to offer that was not given to him.

God wants people that want to know him. you can find every possible belief out there and that does not validate the faith exercised.

people who have a relationship with God, behave like God would have them behave. That is not to say they are great people all the time, they aren't. They are only forgiven.

my absolute trust in the existance of God is based on science, (without God there is no creation, no life.) based on the fact that what I read and understand from the bible is not acceptable to man to write. The bible says in man is no good thing, we are reprobate.

yes, Jesus loved us and died that we might be reconsiled to God through him that we might have eternal life. That is love

the world laughs at the love of God, but not forever

Answer 7

I think the preponderance of the evidence favors belief in God. There are too many things that we more likely acquired them from a higher being that also has them than from a naturalistic universe in which they would otherwise be absent. For example, we can sense no intelligence nor consciousness in matter itself, yet we possess both. While we can't rule out that we always possessed them or that we acquired them from a naturalistic universe that has neither, is it not a more believable scenario that we obtained them from a being that can give both because it has both itself? The same could be argued, perhaps to a lesser extent, for free will and our senses of beauty and morality (although one could argue that both are merely illusory, I would think it more likely that they seem real because they are).

Answer 8

Hi Trogdor. Those who fear and believe God do not have a choice, God has drawn them to Him. God explains this in John 6:44:

“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

Answer 9

I believe in something. That something has some fairly specific characteristics that could, in some people's eyes, define the word "God" for them. But to date, I've not met anyone who has actually defined their notion of "God" in a manner consistent with my perceptions of the underlying reality of the issue. They could, but so far they haven't. I guess _I_ could state it as yet another "God" definition, but for what purpose? What I perceive is the fundamental essence of reality, and that can have no name and no human-like characteristics whatsoever. It certainly demands no worship or sacrifice, and it neither condemns nor blesses. In essence, the reality I perceive is that we determine our heavens and our hells, and we alone determine to what we choose to bow - if anything at all. The world around us is illusion, we ourselves are illusions - nowhere in the entire littany of beings posited by humans as "God" or "a god" throughout the entire course of known human history have I glimpsed any recognition of that which is so readily apparent to me - except in Bhuddist texts, and even then - if you can understand this - even then, not there, either.

So do I believe in "God"/"a god"? I honestly can't answer the question, except to say that I have no -active- belief in any deities as defined by mankind.

Answer 10

I believe in God because I feel His love and presence within and around me everyday. I've seen His miracles and seen my prayers answered too many times in my life. I look at the beautiful creation around me and at my two beautiful children everyday and think, how can anyone NOT believe in Him?! He is very real to me.