Why do some people assume God is the cause when they don't understand or know the cause themselves?

Answer 1

Causality or causation denotes the relationship between one event (called cause) and another event (called effect) which is the consequence (result) of the first.

This suffices in everyday usage, however the philosophical analysis of causality or causation has proved exceedingly difficult. The work of philosophers to understand causality and how best to characterize it extends over millennia. In the western philosophical tradition explicit discussion stretches back at least as far as Aristotle, and the topic remains a staple in contemporary philosophy journals. Though cause and effect are most often held to relate events, other candidates include processes, properties, variables, facts, and states of affairs; which of these comprise the correct causal relata, and how best to characterize the nature of the relationship between them, has as yet no universally accepted answer, and remains under discussion.

One of the classic arguments for the existence of God is known as the "Cosmological argument" or "First cause" argument. It works from the premise that every natural event is the effect of a cause. If this is so, then the events that caused today's events must have had causes themselves, which must have had causes, and so forth. If the chain never ends, then one must uphold the hypothesis of an "actual infinite", which is often regarded as problematic, see Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel. If the chain does end, it must end with a non-natural or supernatural cause at the start of the natural world -- e.g. a creation by God.

Destiny might be considered reverse causality in that a cause is predated by an effect; e.g., "I found a twenty dollar bill on the ground because later I would need it."

Some modern religious movements have postulated along the lines of philosophical idealism that causality is actually reversed from the direction normally presumed, [citation needed] and that causality does not proceed inward, from external random causes toward effects on a perceiving individual, but rather outward, from a perceiving individual's causative mental requests toward responsive external physical effects that only seem to be independent causes. Such thought gives rise to new causality principles such as the doctrine of responsibility assumption, a doctrine in the personal growth field holding that each individual has substantial or total responsibility for the events and circumstances that befall them in their life. While there is little that is notable about the notion that each person has at least some role in shaping their experience, the doctrine of responsibility assumption posits that the individual's mental contribution to his or her own experience is substantially greater than is normally thought. "I must have wanted this" is the type of catchphrase used by adherents of this doctrine when encountering situations, pleasant or unpleasant, to remind them that their own desires and choices led to the present outcome.

The term responsibility assumption thus has a specialized meaning beyond the general concept of taking responsibility for something, and is not to be confused with the general notion of making an assumption that a concept such as "responsibility" exists.

Answer 2

Its called "the blame game" and ever since Adam blamed God for "the woman you gave me", its been the irresponsible, self centered cry of those who don't know Him.

Now you can understand why mankind NEEDS a Savior!

Answer 3

Sometimes people might be looking for someone to blame, if they don't understand the reason it happened, they chalk it up to God as a symbol of things that aren't fully understood by us.........
God is a mystery to us, so in our minds other mysteries belong to Him/Her......

Answer 4

People do not consider the fact god may not hear them or they think they are so important god will stop everything he is doing just to make their life tough. then they can compare themselves to Job and be good again. ah ....

Answer 5

The effects demand a god.

Answer 6

got to blame someone.

Why is a sunny day mother nature but a Hurricane an act of God?

blatant hate for him

Answer 7

Sounds like one of those "god works in mysterious ways" cop outs.

Answer 8

because they dont want to take the time to learn or find a real answer

Answer 9

Because they constantly crave more pleasure!

Answer 10

every thing happens by God's 'll,