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Mike is a five year old kid that believes in Santa.
His mom thinks that believing in Santa is absurd and annoying, so she decides to tell her boy that Santa is just a fairy tale. Mike don't believe what mommy says and refuses to give up his belief in Santa.
Question:
Is Mike's belief in Santa his choice or is it because of his feelings and conscience influenced by external and internal factors causing him to believe?
(A) Mike one day sat on his bed and decided(chose) to believe in Santa and therefore believing in Santa.
(B) Mike had been exposed to the idea of Santa existing and deluded by disguised people dressing as Santa thus stimulating Mike's conscience of automatically believing in Santa. Mike did not choose to believe in Santa but rather started to believe as a matter of process.
NOTE: Please answer (A) or (B) and explain why you chose that answer as opposed to the other one.
2007-11-23 14:23:43 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Christians believe that people choose not to believe in God.
I say people do not choose to believe or not believe.
Therefore I used Santa as a comparison to God.
If you answer (B) then you agree that believing in God is not a choice.
2007-11-23 14:25:21 · update #1
Please answer (A) or (B).
Don't give me lousy comments please.
2007-11-23 14:29:41 · update #2
So long as a person is a child its mostly (B) via hearsay, with a sprinkling of (A)...
When they're adult, and capable of adult level thought processes, it's (A) tested by (B) thru the scientific method.
If (A) never comes while using the scientific method for unbiased confirmations, then adulthood has never come either.
Children (B) is dominant, in Adults (A) is dominant (in this world), each confirmed by the other or else it's inherently uncertain.
God bless.
2007-11-23 14:57:34 · answer #1 · answered by Gravitar or not... 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I notice this question is aimed at Christians.Therefore this
question is aimed at me because I am a Christian and have
been for over thirty years. I will try to be as brief as I can but I
must begin with a quotation from The Bible (KJV). In the
book of Proverbs chapter 22 and verse 6 is written these
words "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he
is old, he will not depart from it"
Next thing is ,I need to ask is mommy a Christian? Another
question that would raise is this. Does her walk match her
talk? If mommy is a Christian then she needs to claim this
piece of scripture that I just quoted and get stuck in to training
her child up in the way he should go. If Mike is still believing
in the santa fairytale at aged fifteen years then mommy would
have a serious problem on her hands. But, for Mike at age
five years it is not a really serious problem and I think he will
probably grow out of it.
2007-11-23 15:46:20 · answer #2 · answered by Dougie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If Mike's mom would have been forth coming with little Mike from the git go and told him the TRUTH about Santa, which she obviously knew, otherwise she wouldn't think that Mike's belief in Santa was absurd and annoying, then Mike would not be in this little dilemma at all.
Let's here it for all the parents out there who actually tell their children the TRUTH!!!
2007-11-23 15:38:25 · answer #3 · answered by cbmultiplechoice 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mike is incapable of understanding who Santa is, by himself, so cannot choose A. I choose B.
Is the process the correct one? Antony Flew, the renowned former atheist, just wrote a book "There is a God".
2007-11-23 14:35:00 · answer #4 · answered by zeal4him 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not a Christian, but had to say that this makes sense. It's B.
When I told my daughter there was no Santa, she didn't believe me. "There is a Santa", where her words.
However, when I stopped believing in God, "then what do we believe now?", where her words.
She's smarter than the average bear. I'm glad I told her the truth... about BOTH fantastic men with beards.
2007-11-23 14:35:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
everybody has freewill.we choose what we want to believe,and what we dont.if the idea of faith in god doesnt appeal to you,you make that decision for yourself.nobody can force you to do anything you dont want to.jesus never forced himself on anybody.the religious people who preach at you all the time,try to ignore them.[us]they[we] have gone about the whole thing in a wrong way.we've been very harsh and unfair in how we represent jesus.the truly loving christians[and i believe they do exist]they wont preach at you and put you down.they'll present jesus to you in a respectful,polite manner.
as for what you choose to believe,you make that choice.nobody can force anything upon you.we all have freewill.we decide what we want to believe in.its always up to us to make that decision.nobody makes it for us.
2007-11-23 15:15:45 · answer #6 · answered by Miss yavatar girl 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What does choosing whether or not to believe in God relate to the fact that God exists? God doesn't exist based on what we think. It's based on who He is.
2007-11-23 14:34:38 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Don't compare the two. Nothing compares to God. I would say that it doesn't matter how or what gets you to believe in God and teaches you to lead a good, righteous life, with etenal life in heaven as the reward.
2007-11-23 14:34:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
not so interesting, many a 5 year old has more of a concept of what is real and make believe rather than your nonsense
2007-11-23 14:31:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Santa and believing in God are two different things, you can't clump them together.
2007-11-23 14:27:46 · answer #10 · answered by Ode to the Damned® ÆA NR 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋