okay, just wondering, what makes a person want to believe that there's no God?

Question

Where da gold at? (DelFuego), why are you such an angry person? you are offended because you want to be offended. this is only a simple question. and if I put it the wrong way, then just answer the question.

Answer 1

It's not that I want to believe that there's no God. All the religions of the world just seem to be expressions of mankind's weakness. They all seem like fantasies dreamed up by men to control other men. I think that we are a blip, nothing intended on our being here.

Edit: And so all the of the religions are out of the picture. Is there a God, I don't think so, but I don't know. Why would there need to be a God? Why couldn't the matter that comprises the universe be eternal? We say it needs a cause because everything, in our puny lives, has causes.

Answer 2

The Old Testament makes me want to believe that one doesn't exist. I don't give much thought to wondering whether others do, or don't, or wishing one way or the other.

But if the OT God exists, I see that one as something about as silly, evil, and unGodly as a creature could be.

Answer 3

People have lost their ability to believe in anything they can;t verify. And since the topic of Christ has always been under scrutiny the find it easier to simply stamp it as an impossibility. Neither side knows the truth my friend, so if you believe , continue to believe, and don't let your faith be wavered by someone who's doctrine could be just as true, or false as yours.


Or and the people correlating myth and folklore on this page are really making me sick.

Answer 4

I have heard it said in the forum over and over that they do not want to be accountable to anyone, God or no God.

They don't like rules. I live by the rules, not because I fear God but because I just don't want to break the rules. I am comfortable living that way.

Once they accept that there is no God, they keep their head in the sand so that they will not see any evidence that there is a God.

grace2u

Answer 5

It's the nature of sin in all of us. It became natural for us to rebel against God. I am saying that we have a nature that is hateful to God:
Romans 8:7
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

The counter to that nature is God's Spirit. If you have the desire to come to God, then you have that same counter measure that God provides.

I for one remember that for years, decades, God was guiding me to Him. I felt His presence for decades before I finally trusted Him. And when I finally trusted Him, He let me know that it was Him all along.

So when you see that someone here or anywhere else can only speak bad of God, recognize that you too have that same nature in you. The Christian life is full of reasons to resist that nature. So pride is not ours to boast in. We are subject to the desires of the flesh which is against God. But as we look to Jesus, we can have an Advocate with the Father, and become more of what He wants us to be, and less of what our nature would have us being.

Peace. ( :

Answer 6

Wanting has nothing to do with it. Look at it this way - Do you want to believe Cinderella had a pumpkin turn into a carriage to take her to the ball? Do you want to believe that Pinocchio turned into a real boy? There's no difference between believing those things are true and believing in bible god. It's a story with no real verifiable evidence when you really look at it.

Answer 7

What I "want" to believe is irrelevant. What is relevant is what would compel me to believe something. There is no evidence or testimony that is even close to credible enough to compel me to believe in a magical invisible man in the sky who created everything and constantly intervenes in the affairs of humanity. Therefore, I do not.

Answer 8

I don't care, one way or the other. As a scientist, I simply go where the evidence leads. But there is no evidence that any sort of god exists, and a fair amount that none does. See:

Answer 9

The same thing that makes a person want their faith in their Beliefs to be accepted as proof of their Belief's validity.

Answer 10

I don't want to believe or disbelieve anything. That there is no god or anything else. I simply have seen no evidence to support the claims by the faithful that there is a god.