why do people believe in god or why dont they?

Question

i am just wonder why or why not u beleive in god

i know a lot about this subject b/c i struggled for years to find what i believe

do someof u believe b/c thats what u were tought to believe???

Answer 1

There's no evidence that any of the thousands of gods exist. Atheists just believe in ONE LESS god than Christians do. Not a big deal.

Answer 2

I don't believe in a god because I invest in reason. I trust what I can know for sure and build from there. There is no evidence that supports the existence of a god that I've found, and I've looked, a lot. All I've found are reasonable theories to deny an existence (not disprove one, anythings possible). In my opinion, the best case against a god that doesn't have a reasonable reply from religious types is that of the infinite regress. The infinite regress is when you ask "What made the universe?" Then someone says, "God must have created it." If you continue down that road, you'll be asking who created god? Then who create that? And on and on forever. For some reason people think ending with god makes sense, but it doesn't. Adding a god creation theory just adds another unfounded step that just prolongs the answer that would eventually have to come, which is that something had to come to exist from nothingness. Instead of prolonging that with the evidence-lacking god theory, why not just say that the universe just existed. After all, the universe is the only thing with solid evidence to support its existence.

Answer 3

People believe for a number of reasons: They are raised to believe in the religion of their parents. Everyone in their society tells them that their religion and God are true. Some people think the bible is a source of factual information. Some people claim to "feel" the presence of God. Some people claim to see or hear God. Some people actually do think about the existence of God with logic and reasoning and come to the conclusion that God does exist. Some people think, "The world had to come from somewhere." and so they jump to the conclusion that God and the whole associated religion are all real.

Reasons why some people don't believe: The whole idea of God and religion seems like a bunch of made up fantasy. Physical evidence that people have discovered (science) contradict religious claims about God. They don't believe that the Bible is factual. Some people think seriously about the existence of God with logic and reasoning and come to the conclusion that God doesn't exist. Some people say, "The world had to come from somewhere" but they just accept that they don't know where it came from rather than jumping to the conclusion that God and religion are real.

Answer 4

i dont know if i believe that God does exist.
People put their faith in something for a sense of security because people cannot grasp the concept that after we die, that is it. We have no more conscience, no more entity.
Orrr on the other hand, God may exist because how else was this work created? but if God did create it, where did god come from?
or is this world just another step in all life?

Answer 5

Well, Honey, I'll tell you a few of the reasons *I* believe. I was so discouraged with life and my inability to be able to continue attending college and get a degree, since I had had to drop out once for over a year and wasn't going to be able go back for my Junior year without dropping out again for a year or more. I came to the point of thinking that if there was a God, He didn't care about me. Some people who I was sure were "good Christians" did things which made me wonder what a "good Christian" even was! Finally, I decided that I couldn't find enough proof that God existed or that if He did, that He actually cared about me! Then, after I had served in the U. S. Army for two years and returned to college for my third year, I was beginning to get back in the routines of being a civilian again. The Spring quarter of my Junior year I met a nice young woman who was seriously seeking after the truth of God and we soon fell in love with each other. I began attending church again and to study the Bible again and before the year was out we were married! Shortly after this, I decided that, yes, there was "a god" who was "the God" of the universe and that He loved me so much that He had sent His one and only Son to die for my sins, and would have done so, even if I had been the only person in the world! I became a Christian, was water baptized for the first time, at age 25, joined a church and became very active in church matters. A few years later, in the privacy of my own home, alone, I received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit and came to have an even closer relationship with God and with Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.

A few years later, I had a very serious automobile accident which should not have happened, and which, having happened, I should not have survived! I am firmly convinced that God saved my life, even though my car was "totalled" and I had to spend several days in the hospital as a result of that accident. However, I did not have any significant lasting injuries from that accident! I subsequently had a minor incident where I got battery acid in my eyes and prayed to God to heal them as I made my way down the hill from where I had been working under my pick-up truck. My wife washed my eyes out with water; but I never went to the ER because of it. A few days later I looked at the long-sleeved shirt I had been wearing when I got the acid in my eyes and the shirt had numerous little holes which the acid had eaten into it!

Since that time, I have seen many healings and many instances of people getting saved in churches, homes and elsewhere and have even had the privelege of praying with a few people and leadinding them to the Lord. I have both witnessed and experienced various gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Looking back over my life before I met Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior, I can see various times and situations where the Lord was watching over me and working for my good before I even actually had a personal relaationship with Him. I also came to understand that in the church where I had grown up, the pastor had not preached very strongly from the Holy Scriptures and had never mentioned, except maybe in passing, the blood sacrifice of my Savior upon the Cross of Calvary and, without the shedding of blood, there is no salvation!

I pray that all, including you, Honey, will come to a saving knowledge of God and His One and Only Son, my personal Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! God bless you!

If you want to know more about my life as a Christian, please feel free to send me an e-mail! I extend this same invitation to anyone who is interested!

Answer 6

A commonality of all gods, each and every single one, is that they are an authority figure. Like a father to a young child they demand obediance and promise punishment. Some people need that on into adulthood because they can't, or won't, stand on their own two feet and know for themselves what is right and wrong. They need to be told and threatened with hell.

Answer 7

Those that do not believe choose to do so because of lack of evidence.
Belief in a higher power takes faith. Our belief systems start as children. Typically what our parents believe is what we believe.
My belief system and years of study is: Sharing spirutual love/ fellowship is the only way back to father.

a good site http://thebridgeseries.tripod.com

Answer 8

Some are foolish & some aren't, the whole creation testifies to God only the pridefull & the foolish can't see it. A humble & contrite heart God will not turn away. Amen!!!!!!!!

Answer 9

I believe that the universe could not have appeared from nothingness... so I believe there is a god.

you can call such people Agnostics.

Answer 10

God of Abraham communicates with me through the Bible.