Do you believe in God because?

Question

You are scared and can't be your own person?

Answer 1

That's exactly why most of the "faithful" have faith. Here's what I mean . . .

. . . The supernatural – including God, heaven, hell, Satan and tooth fairies – is an invention of the human imagination. The following is for those who believe in the supernatural or indulge other fantasies in preference to reality.

Faith and logic are antithetical. If religious adherents would admit that they believe for PERSONAL, rather than logical, reasons, THEN they would be honest about their "faith". But it’s dishonest to claim one's faith is logical – faith is a personal position, not a logical conclusion.

Faith and doubt always go hand in hand. Faith without doubt is BLIND faith. It takes a closed mind to sublimate doubt to the point of blind faith. Normal people leaven their faith with a little common sense. Doubt always nibbles at the edges of their faith. After all, without doubt, faith would have no context, no purpose, no meaning, no point. Would it?

Because there is no evidence for anything supernatural (including God), NOBODY can claim ANY knowledge of it. Anybody who does is lying or delusional. It takes suspension of disbelief to believe in the supernatural: one must convince oneself that the impossible is possible. This is the opposite of curiosity. You have one life, one quest: yet you choose to surrender it to something you can’t possibly know anything about.

When people talk about faith, they're usually talking about the supernatural: God, angels, miracles, etc. There is, of course, lots of doubt involved because the supernatural is entirely outside the human (natural) realm. It's not so much that God or angels can't exist . . . the real point is that NOBODY has access to the supernatural and thus NOBODY knows ANYTHING about it. Anybody who claims to have faith in something he knows absolutely nothing about is actually confessing to placing his imagination before, and above, his intellect.

Imagination has its place . . . but not where life decisions are involved. Placing imagination above intellect is surrendering your quest for meaning. You are surrendering the meaning of your life to your religion; to your version of God.

And that's fine. Just be honest about it. You made a leap of faith. Your faith is a personal position – not a valid logical conclusion.

Answer 2

no i believe in God because of the Things that i have seen in my own life that just tellls me this can't be fate there must be a God doing this..other people my see things differently and that is ok for me i just can't see how these things happen with out there being a God like i will pray for something and have real way of getting it and all of a sudden someone will bring it by and give it to me... i know some may not believe but this works for me
thanks for the question it's a good one

Answer 3

No. I am very much my own person. I used to be an agnostic. It isn't like my life changed outwardly. It is the relationship I have with God that is the difference in my life. A believer can't explain the feeling to someone. It's like trying to put taste or sound into words. It is not fear or repression or direction that keeps you with God. It's love.

Answer 4

When it comes right down to it, the only reason why you choose not to believe is that you know if you did, you would have to change your life style in some way.
You don’t like the idea of handing over your life to someone else whose going to tell you what you can and can not do.
Bottom line is you want to run your life as you see fit.
Well fine, go ahead and be your own boss; sooner or later you’re going to get sick and tired of constantly getting yourself into one mess after another. When you’ve finally had enough of yourself, Jesus will be there to help you pick up the pieces of your broken shattered life and give you the joyful, peaceful life you could have had all along.

Answer 5

I do not need to believe in God because:
I AM GOD!
This might not be an answer for you but it is for me.
I am not scared and I am what I am.
InklyPinkie

Answer 6

You have it a bit backwards, whether it is through being your own person truly, as in obtaining and growing in self knowledge and utilizing what you know to bring about the expansion/enlarging of consciousness which brings forth the birth or Awakened Self which is not of this world that you can even come to know God. The pattern of God is in all things, its even in the Atom, but in order to know God you must know thy self.

So the objective is to be your own person but not quite as you say, since to me being your own person would require you to not be shackled to the world, but become self sufficient and self sustaining apart from the lifestyle and mindset of this world. As you become complete within yourself. Until one knows thy self, they are only acquainted with external forces/LAWS which govern all things.

Answer 7

BeforeI believed in God my life had no purpose. He gives me reason to live, and that's to live for Him. I don't have to worry, and can put my faith in Him. And because I've seen Him work in me and my life. There are also 25,000 manuscripts that prove the Bible right, and the Bible has never been proved wrong. I can trust in God and His word. God is my rock I can depend on Him and not on the world.

Answer 8

I never was one to believe in God for most of my life. I kind of held out a hope that there might be a God, because there was certainly a lack of love in my growing up. So I wanted there to be this loving father, someone or person who would accept me and love me just as I was - unconditionally.

Much later I looked at 'my belief in a god', and realized that I was hoping that someone was 'out there', taking care of me, and saw that by holding my belief - the way I was - that it did have the effect of complacency on 'me not taking control of my own life. But still I didn't know what it meant to be my own person. This was because I didn't know who or what I was. Yet, I knew it was time to start using my will in another way, and my idea at the time was to learn all about becoming spiritual. So I started my spiritual journey.

So then I went with that for awhile, taking control of my will, gaining wisdom about myself and spirituality, but then eventually I fell back to earth again. It was then that I realized I had went from one extreme to the other, I was doing more gaining then letting go. I was fooling myself, I was still there, the only difference was I now had a spiritual image. So what I'm saying here is that now I thought I was God...

Then another period of surrender and returning to center, questioning myself and my motives.

I find out today, looking back, that yes, my beliefs, more than anything else were that which kept me from being my own person. I was scared to be my own person, I was afraid of my true nature, I was afraid to lose myself, I wanted somebody else to do the work. I didn't think I was strong enough, etc.

Then I found out that I could never be my 'own person'. Any kind of gaining or trying to be somebody or something other than what I was, was in fact the problem itself. Then I realized that I would come into being, or become my true self, only by letting go. What that would be like, I had no idea of, I couldn't concieve of it. I knew what I had to do however, to just keep surrendering (meaning getting quiet, and being present, like when you fall alseep), and I knew that the more I succeeded in doing this, then the more the old me would go away and be replaced with something else. This 'doing' is the only way to make an essential change in oneself, because it doesn't use the mind. Any other way is conceptual and fooling oneself as one is using one's mind to do it.

You see, it's not about gaining anything at all. If one sees gained self-knowledge as something one is acquiring to reach further goals, then one is accumulating - one is staying intact - one is maintaining the current illusion of being 'one's own person'. I see the value of self-knowledge is that which tells you about what you WERE owning, about what you were still hanging onto. Any kind of attainment, keeps the owning one intact.

I think that self-knowledge has the most value to show you how to let go, it shows you how to dissolve 'our own person'. Then I imagine that when dissolvation is completed, then one will know what god is, as one will be one with god.

Betsy

Answer 9

No, I believe in God and am my own person. That's why I fall short as a Christian.

Answer 10

The Bible says perfect love casteth out all fear, 1John 4:18, I believe in God because I know that the Bible is the truth and I have accepted Jesus as my Saviour because I know that he died on that cross for me and you. He died there to wash our sins away, and only by Jesus Christ can we go to Heaven, that is the way God made it, He is the potter and we are the clay, He is the creator, He made us in His image, He loves us unconditional, thats why He sent His son to die in our place on the cross at calvery, remember John 3:16, For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. The Bible says to choose whom you will serve, there is only two ways to go, Jesus or the devil, thats what the Bible says, Maybe its time you stepped out and made that commitment to Jesus, Can you confess to Him that you are a sinner in need of a Saviour? Will you admit that Jesus arose from the grave the third day washing your sins away and now you want to become saved and born again? If you do just pray this sinners prayer of faith believing in Jesus with all your heart and you will be saved, just pray Dear Jesus, I know and confess that I am sinner in need of salvation. I believe you died on a cross at calvery and arose from the grave to wash away my sins, I ask you right now to come into my heart and save me, I pray this Prayer believing in the name of Jesus Amen. If you prayed this prayer with a sincere heart you are now a child of God, rejoice that your name is written in the Lambs book of Life. Jesus will now send his Holy Spirit to come and live in your heart and guide you into all truth. If you made a decision for Christ or have any questions, Please send me an email, God Bless YOU!!