Does belief in God get less sensible as you mature?

Question

Does it just become more and more improbable as you begin to become more worldly and educated?

Answer 1

Yep, it did for me. I find MOST people who have the opposite happen is because they have had a rougher time becoming successful and need something to fall back on.

Answer 2

That is a good question. The more I learn about how to live right in the sight of God and become more educated in world and the views of the world, I have to determine on how I feel on certain issues. My belief and faith in God has not compromised my common sense in the world. They have opened my eyes to react and deal with worldly issues even better. The decision is yours. As long as you have that personally connection with God, you will be able to overcome anything that the world brings.

This separates the world from the children of God. Sometimes, you will understand when you watch the reactions to people to certain things. Talk to your pastor and keep your relationship with God strong.

Answer 3

I think so. I'm 20, and about 10 months away from receiving my Bachelors in Genetics and Evolution (Double major). On the one hand, I'm young enough that dying is something that is still a distant thought, so I don't believe on that account. As to belief for belief's sake, I started out (read: was raised) as a Christian. If college has taught me anything, it's to question your conclusions and how you arrived at them. Once you start doing that, religion, at least, dies a pretty quick death. I'm currently undecided on God, but I'm certain that I don't believe that Jesus was the messiah. But yes, I'd say there is a negative correlation between religion and level of education. It only makes sense. As you learn more about the world, the answer "God did it" becomes less and less viable.

Answer 4

I think there is a normal phase that many young people go through as they grow up and realize the Sunday school version of religion taught to them as a child doesn’t make a lot of sense.

Then as one experiences a bit of life, I believe there is a pull back to the spiritual. This may not occur for all. Some people become too hardened to consider anything by faith. But it does happen for many. I notice it a lot among those my age. It’s like an awakening inside, a yearning of the spirit.

Incidentally, when I was young, older people told me this same thing but I dismissed them. I thought my generation didn’t need God. Sometimes you have to live a little longer to learn some truths.

Answer 5

No I am 59 and my faith is stronger today than it ever was!
I have left the church, I have questioned & I have lived my life on my own terms.
I have read so many belief systems and have come to conculsion that I don't believe in the stories I read because they don't make sense.
What I do know is that I have seen too many things to not believe in a God. I have experienced too much to think that this is it we are nothing but worm food.
There is a reason & a purpose for everything there is no such thing as accidents or coincidence.

Answer 6

"Sensible" probably isn't the best word to use in this context. Beliefs aren't based on logic, they're based on emotion and faith, which can't be explained. I imagine that the older one gets, the less willing one is to take the chance that there's nothing more after death. If so, it's not a sensible or rational decision, it's a belief adopted out of fear or longing for something more.

Answer 7

Some of the most educated people in the history of the world were fervent Christians (i.e Thomas Aquinas, Pope John Paul II, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., etc). Even Einstein, one of the smartest people to have ever walked the earth, believed in God...though perhaps not in the most traditional sense.

Answer 8

Well, if follow God, you shouldn't be getting more worldly...but anyway, the more I read God's word and learn more about Him I realize I'll never know it all and stuff but it doesn't become "improbable".

Answer 9

That's how it happened inside my head. As a kid, under my family's guidance, I believed in God. But by the time I was 12, and started to think deeper and read more, I realized that the concept of God didn't make sense. I am amazed that grown intelligent people believe in God based on faith. I guess their minds work differently than mine.

Answer 10

Belief has nothing to do with maturity. Christians use that disbelief to their advantage, asking Jesus for forgiveness for having doubted. I am aware of many cases (including my own), however, where at a certain point believing in God just becomes illogical, and it depends on your own experiences and mindset.

Answer 11

I suppose if one doesn't want to believe, they will find a way not to. But the more I see, the less I think that our world is a coincidence. The deeper I get into science, the more complexity I realize, and the more I think that there MUST have been a genius behind it. But if you don't want to believe, I can't make you.