As a child they were open-minded enough to believe in fairy tales(such as the bible). As a rational adult they are to close-minded to even consider the idea that there might not be a god. Is it because of fear?
2007-11-15 02:28:46 · 19 answers · asked by carna69 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Please don't tell me the bible is proof.
2007-11-15 02:31:53 · update #1
I didn't like church back when I did believe. The church people were the same everywhere I went. They were some of the most judgemental and hypocritical I've met. That doesn't mean they all were, but a lot were. They lived the same as everyone else, but the fact that they went to church a lot gave them an arrogance of being better than me.
2007-11-15 02:36:02 · update #2
I can't prove that there isn't a god. You can't prove there is.
2007-11-15 02:40:29 · update #3
Cultures all over the world developed their own gods and religions. It is extremely arrogant for christians to say that their god is the right one, and everyone else is wrong.
2007-11-15 02:44:07 · update #4
Everyone else isn't just wrong, but they're going to burn for eternity. That's so harsh guys, lighten up.
I don't see anyone sticking up for the Westboro Baptist Church. They strictly adhere to the bible, word for word.
2007-11-15 02:48:18 · update #5
You don't need to look to an invisible force to find the strength you already have inside you.
2007-11-15 02:50:01 · update #6
Kind of, but it is really about meaning and identity.
When I was examining my faith, I kept going back to my tradition and indoctrination, because I had been taught that my purpose in life was tied to God.
I was told that God created me uniquely and with a purpose. I then spent the next 28 years trying to discover that purpose and God's will for my life. Which caused me to manufacture an emotional, one way relationship. I did this to support my belief that I was special because God made me, and had a purpose for me. It was circular reasoning and terribly hard to get over.
I kept thinking that there had to be a God, because life would be meaningless without one, and there would be no purpose to life. You can see this entrenched belief in many of the questions an answers here in R&S.
Many people are just not willing to open their minds to other possibilities because they believe the result will be a meaningless, purposeless life, and maintaining faith even without any evidence is important for maintaining their sense of ego and purpose.
You can see what I mean in Catholic Crusaders response, where he assumes your life is pitiful therefore meaningless.
2007-11-15 02:31:37 · answer #1 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Ya know, the same could be said for most Atheists.
Then those atheists would say that they looked open-minded at religion, which is more or less false, most atheists that I've met simply looked at it hyper-skeptically and decided it was wrong to believe in a "fairy-tale"
Please understand that belief in the Bible as the Inspired Word of God does not make one close-minded by the actual definition of the word. Rather it gives us insight into truth. We feel the same way about Scripture that most Atheists feel about Science or Richard Dawkins.
2007-11-15 02:35:14 · answer #2 · answered by J.R. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why is it that as a child, and a parent tells them not to touch a stove or they will get burned,but they touch it anyway? Is it because they dont believe thier parents, or they want to see for themselves? After touching the stove and getting burnt are they ever able to say a hot stove won't burn? or is thier mind closed to any other rationalization because they have experienced the truth? The same Goes with faith, once a person has truely experienced salvation and the Holy Spirit working in them, never again can one say there is no God, never again can they say Jesus was fake. They key lies in the experience, Fire burns whether you believe it or not, Poison kills whether you believe it or not, Jesus is the way the truth and the life....whether you believe it or not.
2007-11-15 02:51:48 · answer #3 · answered by mark l 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont get these close minded atheists. I mean as adults they refuse to see the possibility of their being a God and just denounce people who do believe in God. I dont get those close minded atheists...
EDIT: I have to pipe in about the Westboro church...did you just state they follow the bible word for word? seriously? I hate to seem "harsh" but that statement right there proves you did not know the Word or the Christ you so easily dismiss. I mean really think about it.
2007-11-15 02:38:07 · answer #4 · answered by Loosid 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does seem that believers are an elitist group, doesn't it? But the fact is that true Christians are indeed such, as the elect of God (Rom 8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.) And,
Col 3:12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; and
Tit 1:1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and
1Pe 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. ledging of the truth which is after godliness; and
2007-11-15 02:41:24 · answer #5 · answered by joseph8638 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Right, why consider what was already indoctrinated as wrong?
and just to prove it, lets quote the bible...
I had a hard time because of the fear. I didn't even accept it because I couldn't think about it for about ten years. Indoctrination can go deep.
[edit] sorry rev S, but Faith, by definition, means that your mind is closed to evidence. Period.
2007-11-15 02:41:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Once you experience God, and develope a relationship with him, you KNOW. If I met Snow White and the 7 Dwarves, I would believe that that book was truth too.
2007-11-15 02:34:02 · answer #7 · answered by Steve 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a child atheists were open-minded enough to believe in things they couldn't see but now they're so closed minded they won't even consider the possibility of something beyond their comprehension
2007-11-15 02:35:30 · answer #8 · answered by Don 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This question really makes no sense to me.
If someone is a close-minded Christian, don't you think that they already believe that there is a God?
If you are a close-mended Christian and you already know God, then what is there to fear?
2007-11-15 02:46:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
>>>As a rational adult they are to close-minded to even consider the idea that there might not be a god. Is it because of fear?>>>
No, it's because we HAVE considered the idea that there might not be a God -- and then we rejected that idea.
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2007-11-15 02:32:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋