2007-10-21 04:09:32 · 8 answers · asked by IMMORTALITY 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
To believe means "to hold as true" and is always involved in a movement toward an end (or goal).
I find that I want to know and have a fellowship with my Creator. So I need to seek God. To order to seek Him, I have "to hold as true" that He exists. Therefore, my belief in God is an act of the intellect.
It doesn't mean I'm convinced that God exists and never doubt but it does mean that for however long I hold to my hope of finding God, I will believe in God.
2007-10-21 04:36:42 · answer #1 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because humans are vulnerable and weak without the dependence and belief upon the fact that there is a greater higher being above us whom is watching over us, a creator.
It keeps us motivated and having a purpose for integrity, morals, and virtue.
Making us have self-worth and a sense of beauty within all creation and made particle.
It is the only answer for all the questions that explains the fact that there is a greater, perfect, creator designing us.
and the world.
It quinches our thirst for answers of how life, universe, living organisms came about and fullfiling those curiosity.
We feel loved, individually difference, and beyond interesting.
It keeps us sane, alive, and a purpose to live for.
2007-10-21 14:04:19 · answer #2 · answered by Sally Park 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A PhD in Philosophy, and all these years of teaching and research, and still, i do not know many things. Through what i had gathered as knowledge, I came to know that how much is that I do not know. And there is only one thing that I know for sure, that I can never in many lives (even if I get them) know even a fraction of what is known as knowledge.
Turning to Indian Philosophy, I am just a small boy, who plays with broken shells at a sea shore, who claims to know the sea.
How can I not believe in God? I will go to my ruin, if I do nnot believe in a Super natural, you may call it God, I may call it the Ultimate reality, and what ever it is, I have to.
2007-10-21 11:42:19 · answer #3 · answered by Dr. Girishkumar TS 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because I am convinced He exists. He has given me the faith which I need to believe in Him. I have seen proof, and have been touched by His grace. Until you experience this yourself, you cannot know...
Our only hope is that someday you will too.
(Let us remember also that the very fact of believing does not make the fact of existing; rather it is the fact of existing that makes the fact of believing!)
2007-10-21 12:14:12 · answer #4 · answered by Daewen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes but I call him the Ultimate Reality.
2007-10-21 22:32:11 · answer #5 · answered by Freddy F 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no and coming to this conclusion was an enervating ordeal.
2007-10-21 11:19:34 · answer #6 · answered by Pansy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't, and for a number of reasons.
2007-10-21 12:36:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't.
2007-10-21 11:44:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋