Why do religious people assume that they are correct about god, jesus, and the bible?

Question

A lot of religious people on answers, answer religious questions about jesus, the bible, god, etc. as if they knew what they were stating was a total fact. Most of those people act as if they absolutely knew those things were true. Just as I would say that 2 plus 2 equals 4 because I know for a fact that it is true. I understand you people being religious, but why do you have to think that your religious beliefs are absolutely factual? Can't you just accept that they are beliefs, and have not been proven? That is part of the problem, you all assume that everything you have been taught is correct. Anyway, any explanations?

I don't assume that I am correct about god, jesus, and that bible. I don't really know the actual answers about our existance. I also don't explain things about religion as if they were facts like most religious people do. When all of the people answering this question say that He tells us this, or its because jesus said this, or the bible says this and that happened, they are all assuming that all of those things are facts. Thats nonsense. Non of them know whether those statements are factual or not. That is what I am talking about. Believe what you want, but don't assume your belief is factual in any way.

Answer 1

Hi,
It's all due to "faith". Blind faith is Strong thing, and these people are so afraid of going to hell that they won't dare to consider another way.

i have read many historical papers. There were Wise men 2000 years ago who lived where Jesus was supposed to have lived. There was no record of Jesus.
Anyone who saw Zeitgeist will know that Jesus did not exist. Jesus, as with dozens of religious figure heads from many religions, actually means "the Sun God" as people worshiped the sun (as good) and the darkness was the evil. He was, as all the other figure heads were, born on the 25th Dec. (No coincidence that they ALL were born at this time?) This is a time where the sun sat the lowest in the sky. It was a time of depression due to crops failing. The sun sits low for 3 days then is resurrected..etc, etc! Show this documentary to a Christian and you know what they'll say!! (Cos they are right!!??!?!)...It was sent to test them!! They won't even believe fact over their own cult's faith!! I pity them!!

Answer 2

They assume that they are correct because of their religious beliefs and their churches not because of God. They attribute every tragedy to the fact that it was meant to happen. They pray for miracles, money, cars etc. What they don't admit is how mankind has deliberately altered the bible down the centuries to fit their structures and lifestyles not the ones of God.
If Jesus were to appear today and tell them how wrong they were, all of these religious groups would turn and attack him. Religion is nothing more than fanaticism. Every Christian, Muslim, Jew or whatever has a reason why they are better than the average man.
I have encountered many churches that hold out collection plates saying, "Give to God, give to Jesus." Since when did Jesus start driving the Cadillac Escalade?
Here's an example of how people of religion are true to God. The moment someone starts banning religion and killing off followers, you'll see how fast these so called faithful dump their religion and God to stay alive.
People of religion have to feel they are right to put themselves above the rest of us and to the right hand of God. I'd really like to see some die-hard moron Christian tell God, "You have it all wrong, this is how it's done and if you don't do it I'm taking over."

Answer 3

Keep in mind that by nature people *want* to be right. Belief is a strong force for real believers and for them to believe in something they need for it to be correct. This would seem (in most cases) to solidify ideas into reality and thereby fact.

The good book is often taught as fact and/or is written stating it is fact. It makes for a remarkably circular and solid system.

Some call it brainwashing. :-P

I believe the better question might be - if your belief is founded on or based in FACT - then, in detail, without going on tangents and while citing solid and absolute sources of accurate information ** WHY is your religion the right one, why is your book the correct one? Asking them why they hold their bible as true is obsurd - yet asking why theirs is *THE RIGHT ONE* isn't a much more difficult and to the point question. People have many BS responses to that but they don't know their own religion or their own bible well enough for it to hold up in an intelligent conversation - they certainly won't have real factual information about anyone elses.

Oops. That makes it look a bit like a filter! You pass people through the question and filter them into 2 groups. One of zealots, fanatics, blindly ignorant and another group of the quiet ones who just want to believe what's been drilled into their heads and be happy with life & move on.

Good, can we drop the loud-mouthed ignorant bullshitter crowd off a cliff?

I guess that's why we leave it to scholars and we'll never really have a final word on it.

Oh and for that DougLawrence guy, or whoeever - (the atypically ignorant catholic) - I love how they call on science to make sense of one of the most complex issues mankind can deal with AND he already knows the answer - except I can flat out say he's full-o'****. I'd offer detail but it would likely fall on deaf ears and that would be 2 more pages in an already long-winded post.

Answer 4

Those of us who state it as fact do so on the belief that the Bible is the actual word of God. If it is the word of God (it is the best selling book of all time) and millions have believed it for over 2000 years, then what it says is true. If it is true, then you can say things as fact. The trick is determining which parts of the Bible are absolute truth, which are history, and which are men's opinions (such as the book of Job). We can trust that every word of Jesus is truth.

Answer 5

Through my own experienced : I should not ask some unanswered question, like trinity for example; I should trust with no doubt.
Doubt about Jesus is God, is a real SIN.
What can you do with it??? Just take it, period!
Run away ??? It's a SIN, so it's up to each person.
Does it answer yr Question?

Proof??
Jesus is God will only be proven after this world is blown up completely. (resurrection day), and people (Christians only)will meet Jesus in heaven. There is no heaven or hell at the moment yet, no body there yet until that day.

Meanwhile, FAITH, is what Christians have to have.

"You'll see it, when you belief it"
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Sure, most people act as if they absolutely know those things were true; The word ACT , is very important.
They may still in doubt,they may still searching, learning, but they act ....as if . That's normal for common people.
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Answer 6

No matter what a person believes, they are going to believe in it 100% when it comes to faith. So, they will think they are right. To a Christian, for example, it is fact that Jesus was cricified and on the 3rd day he rose again. It is fact to a Christian that Jesus was the Son of God and there is the Holy Trinity, Father Son and Holy Spirit. Now, if you are Buddhist, Islam, Athiest, whatever that doesn't make the Christian wrong, and I guess it doesn't make you wrong either. In our own eyes, what we believe is the truth, and when it comes to faith if you truly believe it, you treat it as fact. I absolutly know that my faith in Jesus is real. I know for a fact I have been saved. I know for a fact that the Bible is the word of God. My brother who is an Athiest, knows for a fact that there is no one true God. I think I'm right, he thinks he is. but, if I'm wrong, who cares. What happens if he's wrong?

Answer 7

Subjective experience of the spirit of the religion, not the facts. Facts basically speak only to the intellect. If you proved all the events in the Bible were not indeed factual, most Christians would still believe. Why? Because they have experienced the transformative power of the words both in their individual spiritual and community life. They have felt informed, empowered and inspired to align themselves with, whether you believe in it yourself or not, honorable, noble, meaningful, valuable, and effective teachings. What is wrong with that?

Answer 8

Why do atheists assume they are correct about God, Jesus, and the bible?

Why does anyone assume they are correct about anything? Could it be because they've looked into it, thought about it and decided that they believed it was true? Maybe? Is there some other way of holding opinions other than believing your opinions to be correct that I am unaware of?

Answer 9

Here's what you ought to do:

Begin by working backwards in time from the present day, all the way back to creation.

Verify every known dogma of the Christian faith by correlating the scriptures and church documents with the actual history.

Once you get back to the time of Christ, correlate all of the known world history with the Gospels.

Moving further back in time, search the old testament scriptures for every prophecy relating to Jesus Christ. Verify those prophecies against the Gospel accounts and the actual history.

Make a list of every major event that is included in the old testament of the bible and correlate as many of them as you can with the actual history and the archeological evidence.

Finally, list all of the creation events and processes mentioned in the book of Genesis, and then see if modern day science has any better explanation of how everything happened to come into existence.

If you managed to successfully do all that, you would emerge as an authentic bible believing Christian ... and if you did an especially thorough job, you wouldn't settle for being anything less than Catholic.

Answer 10

Some people criticize faith as being irrational, and see faith as ignorance of reality: a strong belief in something with no evidence. In this view, belief should be restricted to what is directly supportable by logic or scientific evidence. Some say that belief in scientific evidence is based on faith in positivism.
The end result is that religion plys on the people who need it ... organizations offer answers to the unanswerable and the promise of an afterlife full of joy and wonderment ... all they ask in retuern is a little faith ... and ten percent of your monthly income.