For people who beleive in God , Whats your reason to beleive in him?

Question

I want to know the logical ,scientific , philosphical or any other valid reasons of why people beleive in God ? This question isnt for atheists.

Answer 1

If you see sunlight, you feel sunlight, you are warmed by sunlight, why would you believe otherwise?

Answer 2

it's interesting that you say "valid" reasons. of course, no reasons are valid; all arguments are futile; only personal experience counts, and then only to the person who has had the experience.

my personal experience:

i was raised as an atheist, it was great. thought i was the world's cleverest person; that xtians were a bunch of delusional freakos.

i'm a highly educated person, with a liberal arts background, well read, a big academic achiever - i used to think that meant something, of course.

then one day i read this book called "purpose-driven life". i thought it was drivel, and offensive drivel at that. i mean, i was reading Das Kapital and Freud at that time of my life. by that stage, i vaguely believed that maybe there was a god. sort of as an angry joke, i said what was really a prayer: "god, if you exist, and you are the god that this book is describing, you better tell me, because no WAY can i believe this shizzle".

a couple months later i picked up the book again, having barely thought about it. i read it a bit. realised it all suddenly made sense.

i was horrified. i didn't want to be a xtian!!!! how EMBARRASSING! but suddenly I felt naked. it was as if God was right there, in the room, looking into my heart. I felt like i was in the middle of a flame, with all the bad things within me bubbling to the surface. i couldn't run anymore. i had to face my demons because god was reaching out to me, and i couldn't ignore him.

it was the most shattering experience of my life. the guilt for the hurt and pain i've caused in the lives of others, and my rage against the evil of the world, all rushed at me at once. i know now that this was god showing me his fury against the evil that humans commit against each other. i understood that only his justice is worth seeking. we can't judge each other; only god knows the truth.

a few days later, i was able to say out loud that i was god's daughter. it was impossible not to cry while i said it - out of relief, out of regret for time wasted. i started apologising to people i'd hurt. i started to reach out in love and trust, although i was afraid.

i've been a xtian for 18 months now. still going. it's still weird. he's still with me. my life has made a 180 turn; everything is different, and i am growing every day, even if it hurts.

that's my experience. that's why i believe.

Answer 3

This is my logic for believing, I had nobody else to turn to at one point in my life, I hit rock bottom. Someone asked me if I read the Bible, I said I have tried, but couldn't understand it. They told me in my prayers to ask the Holy Spirit for some guidance when I read. Within a couple of months I was reading and understanding it on my own, it turned my life around, it brought me closer to God and to my family. The coolest part of God is people think they need to change before they have a personal relationship with him, but once you start getting closer, he changes you. He wants us to come to him whether we are good or bad. I see him doing works out here, with all the questions people post. He knows what answers we need I am living proof of that. I also believe like life and death, he knows when we are ready to handle letting him into our lives. Because....He's been with us the whole time, everyone has a different path to him.

Answer 4

The Church of Humanity is about every single human being connecting or reconnecting with the Ultimate Source in the universe--a recharging of the spirit and finding a true connection with that ultimate One Source of Love, Power, and Intelligence that is eternal, infinite and omnipresent.

Although it has been the source of endless pain, suffering, and strife throughout time, the formation of religion satisfies a fundamental human drive to make sense of the world. Traditional religion drives distances between "GOD" the exalted, almighty, and unreachable and the subservient "children" or members of a mindless "flock". It at bests--and at worst, portray human beings as insects in comparison to the power of the divine.

The Church of Humanity believes there must be a core set of standards of moral behavior based on what it is to be a human being. The Church of Humanity seeks to emphasize the concept of unity on many levels, unifying all people, their collective efforts, their goals, their philosophies and more. The Church of Humanity celebrates the fact that every human being is a part of the Universe, and as such, every human being has a vested interest in making the world a better place to live, through the pursuit of enlightenment through rationality, knowledge, and truth.

Since you are questioning the "why's", please go to the Church Of Humanity website for a more fulfilling, enlightening, and empowering connection.

Answer 5

My personal experience of God in my life is the primary reason I believe in Him! He has done so much in my life and in the lives of my friends and family; that I cannot envision life without Him!

If I think and reflect upon life and existence, upon the universe and all that is in it, I cannot come to any reasonable and logical explanation and conclusion for their existence other than the existence of Creator God!

There are many different theories for the existence of the universe, including, especially evolution; however evolution does not have *any* answers for how it all came into being in the first place! There would have to have been a first cause - something greater than the greatest human mind - to have created something out of nothing, in order to that something to evolve into something else! That "something" would have to be greater than all that exists in order for all to *actually* *exist*, including the existence of the greatest human minds!

Answer 6

I have asked myself this question quite a few times. And, actually I am an educated person and quite open minded. I wish there was some scientific reason for why I believe in God. I guess that my belief in God is not a matter of my mind but a matter of my heart. Despite every avenue I try to take that would give me proof that there is not a God, I can't get past the very presence of Him in my life. . .I honestly believe that I have experienced His presence, His power and His love in my own life. . . .so once again it all comes down to faith, I wish there was more than that, but there is not.

Answer 7

God has made himself known at different times in my life, when my mom drew her last breath I had a vision and such a feeling of peace, past understanding & I miss her but have never been sad, I know where she is. I have asked & received, only God could fullfill those requests. And there are more, I love to spend some time alone every day in my apt & talk to Him. I Feel He is listening~

Answer 8

OK, I'll take a stab at this.

I believe in God for a number of reasons.

1. While evolution is certainly taking place around us, I believe that we were created by intelligent design. Human beings are the only species currently within the realm of our knowledge to possess reason. (I did NOT say "intelligence") With my reason, I conclude that we were created by a creator, and our creator's desire to interface with us led to the Bible and to the coming of Jesus Christ.

2. The Bible is the best-selling book in the world, of all time. If the story of God is, in fact, a hoax, it is the greatest and longest-lasting hoax in the history of the world. No other fallible story has ever lasted over time such as the story of God and Jesus Christ.

3. The Bible (the Word of God) is consistent with the way that I strive to live, the way I feel, and the things that I observe about the human condition.

4. Pascal's Wager seems to dictate that it makes sense to believe in God, even if I have doubts.

None of these are going to convince you. I'm not trying to convince you to believe in God. But I took a stab at answering your question. Those are some of the reasons I'm able to articulate as to why I believe in God. Thanks for asking.

Answer 9

You have everything you need to detect the presence of God, just like billions of other people that already have. If you do not see, it may be that you do not wish to.

Belief in God is not necessary for "salvation." The only salvation available for everyone from suffering is inner peace. You can prove this to yourself by finding inner peace, regardless of your beliefs. The key to this is accepting this world AS IF there is no other. Otherwise, your existence is meaningless, and THAT belief is an insult to yourself and the force within you.

Answer 10

To those out there who believe in God, we know why. We feel his presence, the peace that our faith brings us, the satisfaction of knowing that our reward is in Heaven. To those that say we never made it past third grade, or we have mental illnesses, they have no understanding of how much we as Christians wish them the best in life, we pray for them that God will touch their hearts and bring them unto himself. Logically, the Bible has never contradicted itself. The historical information in the Bible has been proven over and over. Scientifically, the world have been proven to not be as old as scientists once believed and they are constantly changing their hypothesis. God is the same yesterday today and forever. No change.

Answer 11

To add a dissonant note to the blahblahblah.

Having experienced 'reality shifts,' from an early age, I was forced into examining the relationship between the human capacity for 'different' states of consciousness and our experience of reality.

What I have learned over many years of philosophical and theological research is that the multi-dimensional field in which we are embedded is responsive to consciousness - when one is certain and unconflicted. It is this that 'believers' personify as deity because they have experienced one of these moments of connectedness - which they interpret as a conversion experience - and/or a perceived miraculous "turn of events" in which physical reality changes to their benefit. Not wanting to understand HOW it happened, their ego becomes attached to the experience as indicative of some 'special' relationship with an imagined personified deity.

Every adept who has inadvertently spawned a religion - through offering a way of mastering the relationship between being and reality - has intuitively observed this cause and effect relationship mankind has with the material existence. Science is too primitive at present to explain how our massive thinking brain as evolved enough to actually manifest changes in reality through shifts in consciousness. It obviously is an intersection between psychology and physics (with philosophy's contribution regarding the relationship of perception to reality another critical component) but science is too primitive at present to totally understand it and explain it.

However, the world's great religious traditions (at the level we term mysticism) have taught methods for mastering this complex cause and effect relationship between mind/matter, being/reality for the greater good. But, unless you "compare notes" between them it is not easily accessible.