can mankind's belief in God have any bearing whatsoever on His existence?

Question

and please dont be so credulous as to say 'science disproves Gods existence' since science would have been engineered by God.

Answer 1

This is also like saying that if we refuse to believe in the grass it will vanish. For me personally belief in God does not have a bearing on his existence. Science does not disprove God's existence so much as define the rules under which things happen. Scientifically many things once attributed to God can be explained as natural occurences but this also does not negate the existence of God. Many relationships have been postulated over the centuries between various objects. Some have been proven, others disproved, and some are still unknown. With all of this those things still exist so proving or disproving, belief or non-belief, do not have a bearing on existence.

We can create beings out of our imagination and endow them with abilities and virtues. They eventualy fall by the wayside as we advance. The ability to sustain tends to suggest reality as opposed to fantasy.

Answer 2

While I agree with most of the people who say God exists whether we believe in him or not, I would like to view this question from a different angle and answer it in new light (just for fun).

What makes a god a god?

The difference between Zeus from the time of the Greek Empire to now is that before he was a god and now he is a myth. When people truly believed in him, he and the other Olympian gods were the reason the sun rose in the morning and the moon fell at night (as well as everything occurring in between). If there was a flood, it was because a certain god was angered by mankind. They "existed" because mankind believed in them. When the Greek Empire ceased to rule, and as time passed, the gods became myths.

If we, as mankind, cease to believe in God, God no longer "exists". God won't be who to blame when something bad happens, just as God won't be who to worship to when something good happens. Sure, God, whatever God is, will always be doing what God does not matter what happens on our little Earth, but to mankind he won't exist. We will have found out ways to make sense of everything, and God will be that funny little phase people went through for the first two or three thousand years of civilization. Unless God decides to kick us in the butts for being cocky little creations, of course.

And "just because", if you want to get really twisted, couldn't it be that to be a god or a God, to exist in reality, there must be people (or something with freewill) to name you as their god or God?

I don't know, I think it's a really interesting question to consider. Good job!

PS, I'm so glad you included that little point of science = no God...I mean really, what part of that makes sense?

Answer 3

that is a very good question my philosophical friend. they say that think good things and they happen, and bad things come around ten fold. if to many people think bad about God, does he disappear?
but again, science was engineered by God, then people were engineered by God, then the independent mind was engineered by God, then i think he would have seen what was to happen.

but no i think that God will live on no matter how many people do not believe in him.

remember the quote:
"i would rather live my whole life thinking their is a God, to find out their isn't, that to live my whole life thinking there is not a God, and to find out their is."


forever, chelsea<3

Answer 4

The only thing that has any bearing whatsoever on God's existence is God. He exists whether people believe in him or not - just as I exist whether people believe in me or not. God exists because God believes he exists and I exist because I believe I exist. Does anyone believe me? Pax - C

Answer 5

I see what you are saying, and yes, the belief of something makes it so.
But what comes first the chicken or the egg.
Does one believe in God because God exists, or does God exists because one believes.
I believe in God, know God exists, and believe that the belief in God, makes the belief real.

Answer 6

If god exists, not even man's existence matters, is dependent, or is proof of it. If you don't have any children, their existence does not validate or prove your own. Maybe god is a being who doesn't even who we exist, but still governs our universe somehow on a different level or dimension. Perhaps we each, individually, and unknowingly are gods to separate universes and beings in other planes of existence. Subconsciously governing them when we dream at night. And they to others when they dream. Maybe that's how "god" exists, but not as a single being as religion states, but a network of spirits connected in this way.

Answer 7

If references to science play no causal role in God's actual existence, as you've pointed out, then neither do people's beliefs in general.

Answer 8

This is a question asked since the beginning of philosophy: Plato said that all things had a perfect counterpart in the world of ideas. If you think there is a perfect version of something then you believe in a world above our world, which we can't see if we're not enlightened.

If humans believe in better things, the reference in our mind is, obviously, God.

Answer 9

When one believe in God she or he become a good man. Why? Because everything that bible said is good. So it’s up to you now if you believe in God. Just tell you something, lies can save you but truth can make you feel good.

Answer 10

No. God's existence is independent of man's belief. (Even of man's existence, for that matter.)