Why do unbelievers spend the majority of their lives asking questions about a God they do not believe in?

Question

I think skeptics are searching for something they are afraid to find.

Christians -- What do you think?

Here is a question from an unbeliever.
"I am an atheist, but why does God send his children to burn in hell for eternity?"

wait a second.. back up.. read that question again, it's lacking total common sense.

Answer 1

I think that as long as man is around there will be questions, whether there is a God or not

Human Nature is what I call it
We are all just genuinely curious by nature, and that was the down fall of humans to sin

plus I also feel they want a deeper knowledge on why we hold on so tight to our beliefs

Answer 2

As Psalm 139 says, we are fearfully, wonderfully made. The wonder is our rationality and freedom, and our potential to live forever with the Creator who loves us passionately. The fear is that if we reject our Creator, we continue to live forever, but in a dark world of eternal isolation and regret.

Free rational creatures, both God's friends and his enemies, are working to understand how we came to be alive in this world. Believers have made progress by weighing the evidence of revelation; unbelievers do not have this vital source of knowledge. Some continue to seek God, but they wrestle with incomplete knowledge of revelatory texts they don't understand. As evident in many questions and answers we see in R & S, many give up in frustration, angry at God over their own wrong inferences.

But Jesus said, "Seek and you will find." Unbelievers who ask sincere questions are seeking God, and believers owe them thoughtful and sincere answers.

Answer 3

majority of the time? 2-3 hours a week when i finish in the garden, the tv's no good and i'm too bored and tired to read a book. i also like watching my cats play, they run around, ambush each other and one of the funniest things is when they jump up in the air , escaping from an imaginary threat. some people like to watch those dumb home video programmes where people fall off walls and into rivers, i personally don't, but some people like to see others doing dumb stuff or potentially injuring themselves. can you see the parallel, theists do and say some real dumb stuff and it's very entertaining. sometimes i'm so incredulous at the things they say. and of course the creationists have to be answered always, like they say, for evil to win only requires the good to remain silent.

Answer 4

Skeptics ask questions. It's part of the nature of skeptics. As for me, I don't bother asking questions about Christianity; I've already learned all I need to know to understand it's just a mythology that has not yet faded into the dusty tomes of history with all the others.

Answer 5

I think most people ask those type of questions, because it is a substitute for the real statement they are making:

The question you noted is really saying, "This is one of the reasons I don't believe in God".

Yes its a bit ironic, I'll grant you. But people come to their beliefs for different reasons. There are emotional and logical pillars that people build on. This atheist questioner has at least this one emotional pillar noted above holding up his beliefs. He doesn't like these actions ascribed to God.

Answer 6

I can understand a few questions here and there, but some, mind you, some, seem obsessed.......and they complain about Christians trying to convert. Atheists I know in the outside world are nothing like this. They state their opinion, and on we go to some other topic.

Answer 7

In that case I think you are wrong.

I ask questions to challenge people or to find out information. I wouldn't care about people's religious beliefs if it was kept personal, but unfortunately christians feel the need to tell everyone to think like them or burn, and religion affects everyone, whether they want it to or not.

Dionannan: Do you read your answers before you submit them? If I believed in god, I wouldn't be an atheist. Therefore saying atheists "can't escape their belief in God" is a contradiction. Like saying that christians just can't believe in God.

Answer 8

Because a majority of their lives will be filled with people trying to convert them or "teach them how to be good (christians, jews, muslims, etc.)"... When asking those questions, those are the doubts that they have and want answered in order to possibly CONSIDER your religion

Answer 9

They are just trying to understand the other side of the story so they can make informed decisions and come to a conclusion that seems the most reasonable and logical.

Answer 10

I think an Atheist forum would be too boring
for them! He He

They need some purpose in life - busy trying
to reason about all the ways it is incorrect to
worship God. Delusional.