This is a comment I hear from many Christians. They tell me that it takes faith, and some even say it takes more faith, not believe in God. If I understand correctly, you people are arguing that it takes faith to no believe in something you have never seen or cannot prove exists. So let me ask you this Christians. Would it be correct to say that the reason I deny the existence of Goblins, Gremlins, Trolls, Big Foot, Santa Clause, Unicorns, Vampires, The Loch Ness monster, and Harry Potter is because I am faithful????
2007-09-08 15:43:10 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You're faithful that you don't believe a certain something or a certain person.
2007-09-08 15:46:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 6⤋
It is very true that it takes faith to be an athiest. A lot of faith. But think, what are you putting your faith IN exactly? We Christians believe that there is something greater than us, something that put us here that we can rely on. Athiests, on the other hand, are basically putting all their faith in themselves and their unsupported belief that the world just magically appeared and there is nothing after this life. What do you have to lose being a Christian? If God is real (He is!!), then the Christians will go to Heaven and athiests won't, and if there isn't a God, then the Christians and Athiests will end up in the same place, wherever that is. So why not be a Christian? Athiests definitley have faith, but it is faith in a very dangerous thing: ourselves and the belief that there is nothing more than this. Also, you are wrong when you say there is no evidence. There is TONS of evidence that you would know about if you had looked into it at all. First of all, the Bible. And all the prophecies that came true. How do you suppose that can be explained if there is no God? Also, the Ark. You know, Noah's Ark? Did you know several decades ago, it was discovered? Scientists dug up remains of the ark, which just so happened to be the same size and same kind of wood as it was in the Bible. Also, it seems that everytime a scientist tries to defy the Bible and God, only a couple years later, the scientist turns out to be wrong and evidence is found. Think about this: The Bible always knows things that are discovered hundreds of years later. For example, in the Bible, it mentioned the Earth being round. Keep in mind, at this time the Earth was thought to be flat. The Bible is the only historic document that shows this fact to be known wayyyy before it was discovered. There's alot more I could go into, but I think you get my point.
2016-05-20 00:16:11 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a couple of people have pointed out, when you define "faith" a certain way, you can make anything require faith. That simply reduces the word to being virtually meaningless. It's kind of like saying atheism is a religion....it reduces religion to a meaningless term and is useless for the sake of any relevant discussion. This trick is also used with the term "theory". Some people throw the term around so much as to render it completely useless, whereas many people understand what a significance it is to have something be termed a scientific theory. Using terms in the manner that some do during the course of discussion adds nothing relevant to any discussion, which is generally all those people have to add in the first place.
2007-09-09 11:56:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Presumably, it is the burden of the believers in the existence of a deity to provide the proof. Nonexistence can not be proven, thus atheism is not a matter of faith, but rather a deduction reached following study or thought processes while theism is the acceptance of conclusions of others.
2007-09-08 16:38:46 · answer #4 · answered by Lynci 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not necessarily. However, as someone with a science degree, I find it amazing how many atheists *do* put their faith in things which have *decidedly* not been proven, such as evolution, carbon dating, the big bang, and similar theories. It takes a great deal of unfounded faith to attempt to convince someone that *their* faith is wrong by offering something as tenuous as evolution as "proof", for example.
Jim, http://www.life-after-harry-potter.com
2007-09-09 05:58:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well...it's 'cause since Christians have so much faith, for someone not to have faith is completly foreign...like how I only really speak English, and somone comes up to me and speaks Japanese or something..I have no clue on what they're saying...same basic principles...and the only way it would require faith is if faith equals belief...therefore we all have faith that our parents love us, or that our gf/bf/or whatever loves us and is faithful to us...etc....so, I guess they're right on that note...but to have faith there is no God...not so much...because it means having a lack of faith...
2007-09-08 15:54:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's simple. You are putting faith in your idea that there is no God. If you weren't, you would go to the trouble of calling yourself an Atheist. You have faith that you are right. And you trusted in your idea that you are right enough to ask a question, and make statements about it.
If you can see that faith = trust, then you know that whatever you trust in, no matter how mundane, you are having faith in it. As a mountain climber has faith that his rope won't break, that's faith.
2007-09-08 15:51:38 · answer #7 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You aren't scared of them any more little boy. To me it takes a lot more faith to not believe as if you are wrong, whoops. Where my faith is in love and eternal life. If I'm wrong I'll never know.
Did you know you don't have to believe before you come to Jesus? I didn't.
2007-09-12 02:11:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you are right. It takes great faith not to believe in God also. That's why some people call atheism a religion.
2007-09-08 15:51:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You cannot prove that these things do not exist. Therefore you have faith that they do not. In your own way you are being faithful.
Hbr 11:6 But without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
2007-09-08 15:52:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. It takes BRAINS and an education to be an atheist, not faith. It takes the ability to reason and read, to be an atheist. It takes insecurity, ignorance, and being brain washed as a child to be a supernaturalistic fundamentalist christian, muslim or any other spooky religion that believe is sky daddies.
2007-09-08 15:51:32 · answer #11 · answered by April 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋