What makes a person more inclined to believe in God,than others?

Question

We are chosen in Him,so do we really not have much say?
then it says ,everybody is given a chance.
could be confusing,and that is why people dont want to know the bible?
are there confusing things in an athiests view.or is it just simply there is no God.

I think pathfinder has the answer.
good answers.

Answer 1

There's some evidence that monoamine neurotransmitters play a role in religious experience. Specifically, the presence of the VMAT-2 gene is a good predictor of religiosity.

Religion is also a largely a social phenomenon. This can plainly be seen in autistic people and people with Asperger's syndrome. These people lack the neurological ability to process social cues. A majority of them are atheists, agnostics, or otherwise non-religious.

Answer 2

Well the most obvious point is that a person has to want to believe. It's not limited to religious things; god-believers also seem to have a higher faith in the goodness of people, justice and other less tangible concepts.

Non-believers typically (but by no means always) don't want to believe and tend to be less trusting, requiring assertions of trustworthiness and validity to be earned.

I am agnostic, and I tend to require proof before I say I know something, but am willing to entertain that things which I do not know and cannot be proven *may* be true. I don't believe, but I don't summarily disbelieve. I don't automatically trust people but neither do I assume the worst. As far as belief in god goes, I tried for 15 years to be a christian, wanting it to be true. That was more than long enough to search, and so with 15 years of lack of evidence I can safely dismiss the idea that there is a god.

There isn't a cosmic reason why all this is; it's just diversity of people.

Answer 3

- People who just aren't curious about the meaning of life... people who actually *need* a reason.
- People who have been approached by Christians when undergoing a traumatic or stressful period in their lives.
- People who need something to rely on as a pillar of support.
- People who have been brought up by religious parents.
- People who find it easier to explain things away with the Bible and/or God.
- People who want to feel like part of a community.
- People who want to bash certain groups of people with the Bible inaccurately backing up their words/actions.
- People who are reluctant to believe that they (and/or their loved ones) will cease to exist after death.
- People who want to believe that human beings are special and favored, that they're not like animals.
- People who think that others will think better of them for being a Chrisitian.

Those are the people who are more inclined to believe in God (whether sincerely or not). Of course, I probably left out a lot more other reasons.

Answer 4

When a person beg something from God and he really find it then he believe God, don't think that he find it through God or not.

All the time we can beg from God without any charges.

Others can cheat him but God can't.

Answer 5

A person is more likely to believe in God if they have been told about God and dragged to church from a young age. If God is what you have been taught and you are also taught not to question your faith then you usually don't. I believe people will believe in God if their parents do and have involved them in religion.

Answer 6

There is a time to die and a time to forget.
Many come to God when they are crying out for help. I sort of called upon God by myself when I was eight. Can't remember why.

Answer 7

science is have fond that there is a part of the brain that has a spiritual , religious activities some people are more prone to this then others. there has been articles in 'readers digest, an national geographic.

Answer 8

Those of us who believe in God believe, because there is an innate compulsion in us to have an intimate relationship with our maker.

Answer 9

Naivety is the difference. Some people will believe anything.

Answer 10

Superior intelligence.