do we need a reason to believe or a reason for being?

Answer 1

We as humans have a need to believe in a Higher Power, knowing that we will have a place to go to after we have passed on. It gives all comfort just thinking that there is a place where we go after death. But of course there are question that we have have regarding belief and doubt always sneaks in someway or another....As far as a reason for living we are here for a purpose, but each persons purpose is different. I believe that we have to find our purpose in life. Some call it gifts that we have, it may be that each one of us has. The gifts could be something that each person is really good at..ex. teaching, working with children, the elderly, artistically inclined, talking to others..the gift of gab, the list just continues. That's where the problem comes in, finding your gift...You also need to find direction in life as does everyone else on this planet. I actually believe that once you find your a reason for being that's when happiness settles in and you become awhole person. Accept what is and continue that quest, the answers are there you and everyone else , myself included will be more accepting and happier in life...Good luck on the adventure of a lifetime...

Answer 2

Philosophy teaches that the belief in a Prime Cause is rational and as Hegel said, THe REal is rational and the rational real. If there's a Prime Cause therefore we do have a purpose. We're forced to know this purpose to enjoy the pleasures of eternal joy and not to experience eternal suffering. But it's still your choice if you'll believe. It's your life. The problem is we have many choices and only oe of them is the True Rvelation of The Prime Cause. To sort them out you ust choose a faith with no inconsistencies. That's all.

Answer 3

A reason to believe.

Answer 4

Just to be, most definitely, is a happening the strangest to my mind, a source of all the wonder in the mind. We might indulge in comforts of arbitrary familiarities of our material knowledge and to think comparatively, or competitively, about all things in the world aside ourselves, but the free, vivacious and endless mind never stops wondering about its being in this world. And as if this is not enough, as if one being is not enough of a wonder, the mind also wonders about other things and people who it has a co-existence with.

What would it be like to be and not to be fully a absolutely in the entire existence? If I am what I am then what are the other people, to what proportion I am what I know I am, and to what proportion my being is but the being for the rest of the things that exist alongside me being? Who else live in this house with me? Who? To find out just that would be a reason good enough for me hang around for as long as I could, for eternity if needed.

It is not only to be, but also the way the being happens to be is also the question, and my prime reason to be, to stay, to stand and witness, to believe beyond all the limits of my knowledge into the regions unknown illuminated by faith … a doubtful, inquisitive, curious and wondering mind is the prime reason for everything you could ever name, or call into being through questioning.

Answer 5

"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher." Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) ....

Based on that theory, I doubt either a reason for being or a reason to believe is required, just the thought to reach the conclusions that make for your own contentment are really of much use.

PS - You do not need faith (in a religious sense) to reach contentment ... for those wishing to attempt to say otherwise.

Answer 6

No and No!

When I was 8 years old I prayed to God without anyone ever telling me of God, or seeing a picture of the Image of God, but yet I prayed to Him.

Believing is something that comes from within.

A reason for being is also something that comes from within because is the reason we as people do exactly what we just do.

Answer 7

maybe, if one requires a reason. it is a bit difficult, because reason is opposed to what our religion suggests, that for us to believe, we don't look for reasons, we have faith. faith means believing something we don't see or hear or feel, and it doesn't require actuality. in science, there is always a reason to believe in. both are opposite; and yet, both convinces us to believe one and another. for me, it depends upon believing or being. i believe in something abstract, like love, and yet there are reasons for me to believe that love is present in me. i follow two rules: to see is to believe; what i cannot see, i still believe, given that what i don't see, i feel inside me to be right. if for every single thing there are reasons to believe in, then we won't have such wasted time, discovering the truth, universal or otherwise. =)

Answer 8

No, we dont need a reason for anything. Thinking like this can give you a head ache lol !! :)

Answer 9

i think if you really look at it we all need a reason...or a purpose when we are lacking that we start doubting our need to be here...and doubting the things we believe in...imho

Answer 10

If you don't figure out one then you shouldn't technically be alive... but don't get tricked on the way or become an pain in the neck once you figure it out.