6 steps to believe in god?

Question

if your belief doesn't follow this process, do you see any problems with this process?

How to Believe in God
Six Easy Steps

1. First, you must want to believe in God.
2. Next, understand that believing in God in the absence of evidence is especially noble.
3. Then, realize that the human ability to believe in God in the absence of evidence might itself constitute evidence for the existence of God.
4. Now consider any need for further evidence (both in yourself and in others) to be a form of temptation, spiritually unhealthy, or a corruption of the intellect.
5. Refer to steps 2-4 as acts of “faith.”
6. Return to 2.

Answer 1

Nice list. Captures the spirit of their circular 'logic'.
Rev. Albert Einstein: So, God loved us so much He made us all sinners for being born and condemned us to death?
lol-I think I fell off the 6 step program a while ago and learned to see IN the light (not just see it & apparently get blinded)

Answer 2

"do you see any problems with this process?"

Yeah. "the human ability to believe in God in the absence of evidence might itself constitute evidence for the existence of God."
But humans, without evidence, believed the Earth to be flat. Children believe in the tooth fairy. Some adults believe(d) in the Abrahamic God, others in Vishnu, Anubis, and Aphrodite.

That's the most solid flaw. The others are something that varies depending on personality.

Answer 3

I think that is a true to life process that believers follow. Personally, though, step #2, which seems to be the most important, is a real problem for me. I think belief in the absence of evidence is a delusion, which I find ignoble.

Answer 4

Yeah...it is flawed...There is no nobleness in believing in something that does not exist unless you are Al Gore...then you get a peace prize...faith is what christians call it...not nobility.

Second, believing in something that does not exist is not evidence of its existence..bad logic here...faith cannot overcome bad logic no matter which way you spin it....

Third...needing evidence is not a temptation, not spiritually unhealthy nor a corruption of the intellect...it is called not parking your brain at the door...something everyone should do is question evidence no matter which side you are on..again not a faith issue...

So...see the flaws now?

Answer 5

Not sure what you mean by evidence, but there is plenty of it if you just consider the complexity of EVERYTHING. The generations of yesterday have been trying to find any other explanation that will oppose a higher being. The best that they have come up with is time. Which itself can not be expalined. A big bang of dust exploded( where did the dust come from)......so the first point you made I agree with, because you have to open to it, becuase the definiton of science is the ability to prove all other possibilites incorrect, well they havent done that so, evolution isnt science.

Answer 6

1. I don't specifically either want to believe in God or not believe in God. I merely want to believe the truth, whatever it may be.
2. Whoops, it isn't.
3. Whoops, it isn't.
4. Whoops, it isn't.
5. Yeah, that sounds about right.
6. I can't, I already dropped out at step 2 anyway.

Answer 7

let me revise
1. hit yourself in the temple with a blunt instrument.
2. make anything, no matter how vile and disgusting, permissible if you have faith that you are doing god's will.
3. abandon reason and logic, replace with blind faith
4. accept the bible as proof that the bible is true thus lowering your standard to what evidence is acceptable.
5. continue to be scared and ignorant.
6. repeat as necessary

Answer 8

believing in God is not enough. you have to leave your sin filled life and follow God. you can not break something that is supernatural into 6 steps. satan's demons believe in God. so that is why i say believing in God is not enough. if you are really looking for God then i suggest you read the bible starting with the gospel of Matthew and just read through it starting there. if you have an open heart God will show himself to you. and to the person on here that said it doesn't take faith, i challenge you with this verse:

Hebrews 11:6
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

Answer 9

It is not noble to believe in nonsense. Especially nonsense with no evidence. Peoples faith is not proof of a god.

Answer 10

Ha! I have a patent on this sucker.
1) Have lifelong indoctrination process and failing that-
2)brain alteration process, much like Stepford Wives.
Sure, it's more painful than your way, but you'll never have to question faith, or anything else ever again.