to believe do we need to know what and where God is
2007-08-12 03:04:51 · 12 answers · asked by gasp 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No.
2007-08-12 03:10:57 · answer #1 · answered by Freedspirit 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The what and the where is not important when it comes to wanting or needing to believe. Does god need to be defined? He believes so and so do I. From my understanding the bible, disciples, profits are here to define the presents of god, Jesus, and the holy ghost. With that being said you must understand that by giving us the power to make choices that he had to know that we would look and question the presence of them. Question, were you ever told of the easter bunny, ghost, tooth fairy, cupid, boogieman, even santa clause? at some point we believed in at least one of those stories and we believed it, until what happen? Dinosaurs are another of the mystories of life that we doubt yet we believe, but why? Is it because we never read about them in the bible or that we don't see them today that we doubted. But we believe because we see the remains of them, or is it? We believe what we choose to believe. Monks believe that they can heal themselves just by thinking, others believe they need medication in order to be healed. In order for us to reach our peak we must believe in something, rather it is ourselves, a symbol, a statue, a religion, we must believe. So for us to believe is different than what we need to be defined.
We look for things to be defined because we don't want to choose the wrong path such as cults and other scams, so question. How do you know whats right and wrong? you question it.But what if the infomation was wrong to start, would the answer be wrong as well.Think about it, we need our lover to be defined untill we are comfortable. Are they kind, understanding, loving, honest; for some they believe that they are with out question it is because it is, for others it must be defined.
2007-08-13 16:35:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not necessarily but it certainly isn't a secret. God deals in truth and light and abundance and disclosure; unlike the ''other side" who deal in darkness, veiled motives, hidden facts, withholding, and the like.
God says 4 times in three of the gospels in the New Testament that "there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, nothing covered that will not be brought to light or made known".(not an exact quote) I believe that IF you seek the Lord regarding answers for what is important to your individual life, he is happy to open up what seems to be hidden to you. I believe most of our covenant promises come to us by our "asking and receiving or seeking and finding" according to the word, and not just falling on us like ripe cherries off the tree. Our relationship with God and the operation of our covenant is due to our participating WITH God moment by moment; day by day; situation by situation. I personally like the definitions and the whats and wheres, but when I first "believed", it was NOT because I had all the answers. It was because I knew I DIDN'T have the answers for life and that I was a sinner and needed a Savior. Great question.
2007-08-12 03:21:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I think so. A real God would be obvious. There would be no doubt. And since this God was real to all, faith would not be required to believe. God would be a fact.
People should have a choice in whether to praise it as God. But no one (not even atheists) questions it's existence or greatness.
2007-08-12 03:35:00 · answer #4 · answered by Equinoxical ™ 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God is spiritual being who created mankind .Nobody have seen him and never be seen by anyone of his creation. He is so powerful and the mightest of all spiritual being. God is in heaven and watching us all over the world. He teaches good deeds which are stated on his words through the bible which was written by the prophets and apostles. His prophets were annointed by God to write his on the bible.
If you read the bible and have faith in God you will come to understand the bible and know him very much . If you have faith in God you can feel him that He is within you, His oly spirit is in you and will guide to the right path in living
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2007-08-12 03:22:56 · answer #5 · answered by Jesus M 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God can not be defined, only experienced. Mere words can not contain the language of Spirit.
2007-08-12 03:10:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Bible says that "faith comes by HEARING and HEARING by the Word of God."
So...yes...God, who He is and what He has done, need to be defined so that we have a OBJECT of our faith. Faith in faith is not biblical faith. Biblical faith calls on us to take God at His WORD, and we find that WORD in the Bible.
How can you believe that which you have not heard, the bible says.
God tells us who He is, and that He saw our condition of helplessness and took it upon Himself to pay the price we could NOT afford to pay.
That is LOVE and that is God.
Have YOU trusted in the sufficiency of what Christ did for YOU on the Cross?
2007-08-12 03:40:14 · answer #7 · answered by goinupru 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The less definition the better.
The Bible defines it, and if you study the Bible you will find their god has severe emotional problems.
So if you need to believe, don't define it.
2007-08-12 03:11:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
A very good question. I don't know.
2007-08-12 03:09:48 · answer #9 · answered by Sick Puppy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes (you cannot believe in something that you have no knowledge of).
2007-08-12 03:11:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋