So, if this God is so real, why are faith and belief needed?

Answer 1

Faith is NOT belief without proof. That is not faith, that is superstition. You sat in a chair to type your question on a computer. Did you question whether or not that chair would hold you up? No, you never gave it a second thought because "faith" has to do with "trust". In other words, you had faith in the designers of the chair, the materials used to construct it, and the history that it has never broken when you placed your full weight upon it. Faith in God is based on those principles as well.

Yes, we have proof of God. It was provided by God Himself.
http://schnebin.blogspot.com/2007/04/proof-of-god.html

Faith is choosing to believe the evidence as given and not trying to rationalize it away to suit your own position. Hebrews notes the following regarding faith...

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for."
OK, materialists, what is a substance? It is something you can physically hold--it is a reality. The word "hope" is not "I hope my car won't run out of gas." but rather, in the Greek, it means, "I'm running out of gas, but there is a gas station--I now have hope." So faith is the reality of that which gives salvation.

"The evidence of things not seen."
Do you believe in atoms? Have you seen atoms? Why do you believe there are atoms? Because you have evidence. Evidence of things not seen. That doesn't make you a moron. That makes you a chemist and a physicist.

Hebrews 11:6
But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

Answer 2

We need to believe and have faith for our own development. The children of God cannot be spoon-feed grown-ups. A new higher order of being is being developed. It is in believing and faith that we are spiritually awakened, to see the truth beyond the bounds of time, space and causation.

Answer 3

A baby also has faith and belief in their parents. Sometimes they turn out to be not their true parents. Athiests think 'God' will turn out not to be true in the end.

Answer 4

Because God is something for people to seek within themselves. If they have no faith or belief in him, then to that person, God isn't real.

Answer 5

It seems as if you are presuming that--like Tinkerbell's magic--God 'needs' our faith in order to exist. This could be true, if he did not, in fact, exist.

Our faith is not in God as a catalyst for making God 'be'. Faith in God is for our benefit, not his.

My faith is the catalyst for God's promises to manifest in my life. For example, paying my tithes. God says in his word that if I do this, he will open up the windows of heaven and pour me out a blessing. So I tithe, not to reap, but because I want to be obedient. I know this is why I do this because I have continued to tithe during lean times and in abundant. But because I trust God to honor his word, I know when financial blessings show up, it is because of my faith.

A few years ago (I had been tithing about 12 years), God blessed us--completely unexpectedly, and 'out of the blue' (so to speak)--with a $12,000 increase in my husband's salary. It was October. He had already received his raise for the year.

This year (after 19 years of tithing) my husband received his annual raise, then a 2nd one. A 3rd is pending, as well as a 4th. Four raises in one year. This is not all God has done for us over the years; but as 'evidence', it is pretty compelling.

God acts based on the amount of faith we have, as well as how much, how strong, and how sincere our belief is. People of weak, or nonexistent faith won't see much (if anything) in the way of God acting in their lives.

Obviously, if God searches our hearts to determine how much faith we have, he does not need our faith to exist. Otherwise, we would need to have faith to bring him into existence, and more faith to have God--the object created by faith--to act.

So, to refer back to your question, faith and belief are necessary for God to act on his word and fulfill his promises in our lives. This would explain why Christians experience so many miracles, and the rest of the world either doesn't understand, thinks it's a huge joke, or both.

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Romans 3:3 (King James Version) For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

Hebrews 11:6 (King James Version) But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Hebrews 11:1 (KJV) Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Malachi 3:8 &10 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. 10Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.


Hope I helped. God bless you.

Answer 6

Because we must chose to believe or not. Without choice (freewill) we are just slaves. How could you not believe in God, if He reveiled Himself to you in a godly, unquestionable manner?

Answer 7

Because God said so!

Answer 8

Just for the same reason we need to buy Barbie's friends becuse she's so popular

Answer 9

FAITH IS TRUST LIKE I BELEIVE GOD WILL DO SOMETHING FOR ME BECAUSE I ASKED AND BELIEVED HE WOULD TRUST GOD ASK HIM FOR SALVATION YOU WANT BE SORRY HE IS AWAY MAKER HE WOKE YOU THIS MORNING YET YOU DIDNT DESERVE IT HE IS GOOD

Answer 10

very good question! thank you atleast someone feels the same as me!