2007-08-11 13:24:11 · 22 answers · asked by montipez 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is just a question.....if you believe or not....I don't care.....it just a question
2007-08-11 13:37:33 · update #1
....I not trying to get one to believe in God.....people can believe in whatever they want...but let add this...I don't believe in people being shot in the head in front of walgreens or little girls being raped and murdered in their homes....but just because I don't believe in murder doesn't mean it doesn't exist
2007-08-11 14:26:11 · update #2
They don't believe because science can't prove something that is felt, comforting to the heart and mind,life changing, etc.etc.
2007-08-11 13:32:49 · answer #1 · answered by mad dawg 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am very seriously skeptical about the existence of God and the authority of the Bible. I have no need for quick easy answers to the ultimate questions. So I'm a skeptic. The God of Abraham seems man made and very small and even comical. Reality is far too complex and magnificent to take the Bible seriously as divine. Prophecies won't come true. Jesus won't return. Miracles and angels are not real. The world goes on and the future will arrive. We will genetically engineer lifeforms, discover more about the universe and live longer. The Rapture, Second Coming and the New Jerusalem won't happen because it is a myth. The world is older than Adam and will be around long after Jesus is a distant memory.
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2007-08-11 20:38:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't believe in God because of God's description as told by followers and of course The Holy Bible.
Followers state that God is all powerful and can do anything. Okay, can God create a cubed sphere? A sphere is completely round, no corners. A cube has eight corners.
Followers state that God is all knowing. Okay, then God must have known that when he created the Garden of Eden, that Satan would creep in and cause the downfall of man and now punishes people with eternal flames because of something He knew was going to happen and that He helped create. How can this be when God is supposedly " all good" and " all merciful".
I could go on and on.....
2007-08-11 21:07:48 · answer #3 · answered by Starstuff58 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had a world where everybody said,
'We don't know?'
The fact is that you're surrounded by God and you don't see God,
Because you KNOW ABOUT God.
The final barrier to the vision of God is your God concept.
You miss God because you think you know.
The highest knowledge of God is to know God as unknowable.
All revelations, however divine, are never any more than a finger pointing at the moon.
As we say in the East, 'When the sage points to the moon,
All the idiot sees is the finger'.
By Anthony De Mello
Love & Blessings
Milly
2007-08-11 20:45:58 · answer #4 · answered by milly_1963 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evolution isn't anything to hold onto anymore, (U.S News & World Report, December 4th, 1995, "We are finding that humans have very, very shallow genetic roots which go back very recently to one ancestor. That indicates there was an origin in a specific location on the globe, and then it spread out from there." There are many facts to refute evolution, so what is there to believe in? The goodness of man? That's so sad, people are filthy, bad by nature only doing things for self, yet we have a conscience, where did that come from?What makes us say yes and no to our inner thoughts? To say there isn't a God is to deny a creator, to deny a creator is actually ridiculous. Someone makes a car, a chair, although we will never meet that maker(odds are), there is a creator, we take that by faith. When we sit in a chair we BELIEVE it will hold us up. We use those principles daily, those principles roll over into respective belief systems. Throughout world history there is evidence of a higher power or a creator. People have a natural desire to find out where they came from. Atheism is a blatant denial of a Creator, a martyr for the human race's quest for eternal life, here it is folks-eternal life. Just as people are dying for your "faith or lack of" to say what you believe and for their countrymen and country, daily, Jesus died for your sins, for you, to save you from eternal punishment. Here's how I look at it, if there turns out there is no God(which I know there's not, science is showing more and more that there is a creator (Intelligent design). I pray for your souls because when that faithful day arrives and Jesus is in the skies, daunted, scared and alone.
2007-08-11 21:02:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
What makes you think God does exist? I don't question your beliefs in the sense that I outright ask, "What makes you think there's a God?" almost condescending you. I don't believe in the same beliefs as you, but I certainly don't disrespect them in the sense I feel I've just been disrespected by you. You believe what you believe and I believe what I believe - why does it matter why or why not?
I'm sure if you search through Yahoo!ANSWERS you'll find this exact question posted about 12 times already, just today. :)
2007-08-11 20:28:52 · answer #6 · answered by Alley S. 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
What makes you think that God has to exist? The answer is, we do not know either way (whether or not you say that you know in order to stress your blind faith). The general and most plausible answer is that he does not exist, in that we have no actual proof that we can ascribe to a single God and assume that any given religion specifically defines him.
2007-08-11 20:29:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
the same reason we don't believe that Santa Claus or the Keebler Elves exist.
if you believe that God exists, i must assume that you also believe in the Keebler Elves.
and those Rice Krispy guys.
2007-08-11 21:44:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Aside from the fact that religious books are full of holes, contradictions, and outright absurdities? And aside from the fact that no one has ever provided any real proof to back up their claims of God?
Gee... I don't know why I don't believe.
2007-08-11 20:29:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
The fact that there's no evidence to suggest that he does. Why do you believe he does exist?
2007-08-11 20:37:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋