what makes you belive in God?

Question

I'm not try to get people fired up, I want to know what makes you so sure about His existence?

Answer 1

As the saying goes seeing is believing. There was a time in my life when I set aside my faith and lived my life "my way." I fornicated, played the field and didn't really give a darn about whose feelings I hurt, so as long as I got what I wanted. My life was all about me. I didn't care about anything or anyone else. I WAS SELFISH. While I was far from being rich, I had just about everything a young man could want. I had a fancy condo, which my friends and I referred to as the bachelor pad, money, a hot car and women. However, one night, after returning home from a "booty call", I began to feel convicted. The young lady whose house I had left really cared about me a lot and I treated her like crap. I didn't love her nor did I see any future in us having a serious relationship. However, on that night it seemed like something just took hold of me. I felt so bad that I started to cry. I knew that I was capable of bigger and better things. Despite, the money, condo, car and women. I had nothing. My life was garbage. As soon as I got home the first thing I did was pray. I didn't become saved over night but as time progressed, I attended church and started studying the word of God for myself. Since accepting Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Saviour my life has improved drastically, both spiritually and physically. Some people say they don't believe in God because they can't see him. However, we must realize that while goodness and evil exist, they can't be seen in a person unless they are manifested. With that being said, God has manifested Himself in my life, therefore I believe. Peace and God bless.

Answer 2

I believe in God because well, how else is the world created? some people say it just started with some molecule, big bang and whatnot...but i think thats just complete baloney. When I look around and see the sun and the moon and the stars and such, I think of how these things got there and how everything around us is made so perfectly. To me, it's clear that there is a God because humans are naturally born to think that there is a creator. If there wasn't a God, why would people start to ponder about the things around us and start to think that maybe there is an intelligent creator. It is humans nature to praise a God.

Answer 3

I beleive in a creator



I choose not to call the creator , Allah, Mohommad, Jehohvah or Jesus ,too many people have been killed over religious wars for too many years over who's belief is right and who's is wrong,



Jews,Arabs, Catholics, Prodestants ,Muslims.Christians etc etc, young men women and children are still being killed unnecessarly because of someones belief or brain washing.



I was bought up a strong Christian ;but as I got older hopefully wiser I found it difficult to beleive thousands of years ago Noah had the time or the expertise to build any "ark" big enough to house 2 of every animal yet anlone catch all the insects and birds before they were destroyed by flood, even with the hep of his wife their 3 sons and their wives.



And when one reads that Jospheh arrived in bethleham with a pregnant fiancee (the baby conceive by the imaculate conception) if you said that about one of your friends or daughters in this day and age you would be the joke of the town.



I now beleive relegion such as following a faith is only contributing to someones power Grab and is a very lucrative way of a huge supply of cash for a slected few to retain a very nice life style.



I have not seen many pastors ect who draw their sole income from their church driving an old car, or living in a poor area in a less than a very up market home.



Being bought up a strict Cathlic my parents always put more in the collection plate than they could afford paying, our monthly building fund debt or what ever it was called for the year ,and as kids we went without a lot to maintain that salary sacrifice.



Look at the world today the Religious organisations are the riches organisations in the world, yet millions of people starve to death each day, yet there is more than enough money in the church funds to prevent anyone child or person staving or freezing to death.



Would i strap a bomb on my body or my childs body to blow up and kill men women and children in the name of MY GOD no I wouldn't.



I beleive some one or something created this wonderful world ,created life and the wonders of life but I will not and never will call it by a name that kills and destroys for power and wealth.

I still pray nightly and start by saying "God creator of the earth"

Answer 4

You see religion is like school. They are told God is this God is that, if you agree you get an A you get to go to Heaven and dine with God and you get to be happy forever, but if you disagree you get an F and you will burn in Hell forever!!!!!!!!! I mean it doesn't make sense to me and everyone else. They apply religious terms in everything so that the kid cannot doubt that God exists. They are that good! Hitler is pleased to see how many people believe in that crap! Hitler didn't have that much power of the Hitlerjuden or the Hitler youth. Then they use the whole you will burn in Hell crap. Oh if you disagree you will burn, if you try to be yourself you will burn, bla bla bla. They take in children that are like one years old and they start shoveling that crap down their throat so that when they grow up they do everything the Bible tells them to. They even do things that they find to be horrible! Yet they still do it! That is brainwashing whether you people want to believe it or not.



Then they start educating you in religion, like it is actual information. lol. They now have you during the school year teaching you gays are evil, non-believers are wrong, charles darwin is possessed by the Devil. Then comes summer camp, or Jesus camp that shoves all the crap and music of religion down your throat, telling you that gays are evil, non-believers are wrong and Charles Darwin is possessed by the Devil. Then there are Jesus music, Jesus clubs, and the Bible which you possess 24/7. Now they have total control over you. So do you still believe in God? I don't! I see it as a sophisticated manner of brainwashing. It has been going on for 2,000 years.

Answer 5

You have to believe in something it might as well be good. You believe in God if you feel that there is something much greater than the universe, who created all things, including the universe. Now that's big, I mean, Godly big. You believe in God if He's the only one you turn to for help when nothing or no one else will help. That's when you by Faith and Faith alone ask God to help you in your hour of need. * "When the world from you withholds all it's glitter and it's gold and you find yourself living on meager fair, just remember in His word how He feeds the little birds, Take your burdens to the Lord and leave them there". If you can do that and feel good about yourself, you BELIEVE.

Answer 6

When I received Christ into my heart, it was as if an unseen weight lifted off my shoulders. The sky became bluer the grass became greener, and I knew that I was saved. Because of profanity and my inability to not stop cussing, it was not until I was baptized in the Holy Spirit that God removed my filthy mouth. When God touches your life in a personal way, you will stop questioning his existence and start living your life with your spiritual eyes wide open.

Answer 7

Hi for me it is looking around me at a beautiful creation it is as if a wonderful artist created a painting all over.For me I can not look at the world and all of it's amazement and not believe in a creator.It is just hard for me to think such a thing just happened.Just like when I look at a car or pretty clothes or anything I think is nice you know someone made that it did not just come to be.As far as religion goes I don't believe in it I feel it is good to have your own relationship with God instead of a group of people telling us what to think or how to feel.

Answer 8

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

The Beneficent Allah, (1) Taught the Quran. (2) He created man, (3) Taught him the mode of expression. (4) The sun and the moon follow a reckoning. (5) And the herbs and the trees do prostrate (to Him). (6) And the heaven, He raised it high, and He made the balance (7) That you may not be inordinate in respect of the measure. (8) And keep up the balance with equity and do not make the measure deficient. (9) And the earth, He has set it for living creatures; (10) Therein is fruit and palms having sheathed clusters, (11) And the grain with (its) husk and fragrance. (12) Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny? (13) He created man from dry clay like earthen vessels, (14) And He created the jinn of a flame of fire. (15) Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny? (16) Lord of the East and Lord of the West. (17) Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny? (18) He has made the two seas to flow freely (so that) they meet together: (19) Between them is a barrier which they cannot pass. (20) Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny? (21) There come forth from them pearls, both large and small. (22) Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny? (23) And His are the ships reared aloft in the sea like mountains. (24) Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny? (25) Everyone on it must pass away. (26) And there will endure for ever the person of your Lord, the Lord of glory and honor. (27) Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny? (28) All those who are in the heavens and the earth ask of Him; every moment He is in a state (of glory). (29) Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny? (30) Soon will We apply Ourselves to you, O you two armies. (31) Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny? (32) O assembly of the jinn and the men! If you are able to pass through the regions of the heavens and the earth, then pass through; you cannot pass through but with authority. (33) Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny? (34) The flames of fire and smoke will be sent on you two, then you will not be able to defend yourselves. (35) Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny? (36) And when the heaven is rent asunder, and then becomes red like red hide. (37) Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny? (38) So on that day neither man nor jinni shall be asked about his sin. (39) Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny? (40)



now if you still deny allah you are in risk



may allah giuid you to his bath

Answer 9

People can offer good and bad reasons. He has set it up that way. If you want to know, ask Him not us. He will show you. Here is the catch you must believe it. Then he will show more. Faith is not blind, it always is based on evidence.



The Bible says your a sinner. It also says you can do nothing about that. It says that Jesus has taken the penalty for your sin and offers it as a gift to you.



Now do you believe or not. Don't listen to anyone else, even me. I am just telling you what he told me. If you believe act on that and he will show you more.



Others say it is a scam but that is because they don't believe. Hope this helped you on your search. This forum does not lend itself to following thru, that you have to do on your own.

Answer 10

The Bible.



Acctually, I really have no idea. I do believe that there's a God out there. I go to church and everything but i personally do not have a personal relationship with Him. I want to but it's hard if you get what i mean. Well, i wanna work on it and be a good christian.



God bless

Answer 11

I dont know . dinosaurs weren't in the bible and neither were cavemen so im skeptical

i think it all holds some truth but part of it is a myth or fairy tale if you will.

I was brought up 100% catholic and i went to religion classes almost every day and church at least once a week.

I started questioning all that I had learned when my classes were over in high school . ....they gave me all this info. but there are SO many things missing.

Answer 12

because God is; He created the winds, the sky, the earth, and all the lives in it. Science may try to explain creation but all they do is present theories---tell me why did we become human and the monkeys, apes---primates continue to evolve and actually stayed as they are and did not become human if we are so similar? Will these primates continue to evolve into humans after a few more millions of years duh why did evolution wait so long for apes to become human when we are from the same gene tree yet we "branched out" from the same gene tree itno the people we are today?

I believe that God is who He is.

Answer 13

He does. He reveals Himself to me through His Holy Spirit and He gives me the faith to believe in Him. I see the evidence of Him everywhere, and feel His divine presence guiding my life and blessing my soul.



This world and all its wonders, from the changing seasons to the miracle of birth to the majestic grandeur of mountains and rivers to the delicate balance of ecosystems is not just some cosmic accident--God put it here and created us to tend and enjoy it. I can also see how true His Word (the Bible) is and how it has been and is being fulfilled. Spend some time around devout sincere Christians and you may feel God's presence in the midst of that true worship as well--I have felt it, and it's not just emotion--it is very real.

There is an old hymn that sums it up for me, the end of the chorus goes like this: "You ask me how I know He lives, He lives within my heart."

Answer 14

Nothing presently. Conclusive evidence of existence if offered sometime in the future would probably make me believe, though I don't think I would ever be worshiping this God.

Answer 15

Got me. It sure doesn't make much sense does it? But, I suppose there might be some fulfillment in believing that something created us for a purpose rather than we being just a random incident of the universe.

Answer 16

One because like someone stated earlier that everything created points to his existance or a greater being. And also because everything I read in the bible is true. The world around me. I have yet to find error in God's word

Answer 17

because scientists can only go up to a certain point-- the big bang



you can believe the world started out with just one bacteria that happened to form out of no where



or that a supreme being made everything



they cant go before that.



i believe that this whole world and universe is so precise and works a specific way that a supreme being has to exist

Answer 18

I believe that there is something more than life.

I dont nessacarily believe in a god or gods, but i believe that things and changes happen for a reason, good or bad, right or wrong, there is always a reason.

Answer 19

Christianity is a faith based religion, which means, we dont know for sure. But my spiritual experiences with conversing, seeing, and feeling him, makes me believe.

Answer 20

My faith. I don't need to see Him, or hear Him. I just believe because that feels right to me. It comforts me that there is a higher being and that we go somewhere wonderful after we die. I know it might sound ridiculous, but people have believed in Him for thousands of years, why stop now?

Answer 21

Human conciseness and thought patterns. Our ability to think and be creative and awareness. Our emotions. For me, there must be a higher mechanism which created it for us. This I call God.

Answer 22

i'm not.

theres no proof.

except a book.

and all the religions have books.

its hard to know which ones right.

or if any of them are right.

so i'm just agnostic.

i'm not sure if i'll ever know for sure.

Answer 23

i don't, but being able to think, to breath, to live and been so perfect of a human being, makes me want to believe in his existence.

Answer 24

nothing makes me believe in God, I can choose not to believe... but I'd be dumb! I first chose to believe him in faith because I knew something had to be true and He was the only one with enough guts to outright claim to be the truth. Now I know him and talk to him and he comforts me and uses his Word to teach me.

Answer 25

My personal experience after being born again

Answer 26

Well you can't see your brain either, but you believe you have one don't you? What makes Him so different? And where did the whole universe begin? It didn't just come alive from nothingness

Answer 27

Jesus revealed Himself to me. I'm sunk. I was searching but I really didn't plan for this to happen or even expect it to happen because I thought it was a bunch of crap. What am I supposed to do now?



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Answer 28

my inner being has told me that to be safe and sound in this world to trust in yourself , not to be afraid of the dark ,

Answer 29

I know God, so I believe in Him. It's not something that can be put into words..... that'd be like trying to explain what something sounds like to someone who was born deaf, or what something looks like to a person who was born blind. It's like an extra sense to me.

Answer 30

Philosophy. That's how I found my way to God.

Answer 31

I don't. I have zero faith in the existence of a god.

Answer 32

every time you use the word fire it hurts me deep inside

Answer 33

He has showered me with blessings my entire life. I would have to be a fool to ignore that.

Answer 34

when things happen to me and i realize something is behind it i say it was god who set it up for me

Answer 35

Nothing in creation points to an intelligent creator.

Answer 36

This is why Christians need "FAITH"



*prepares to be bashed by Atheists and receive thumbs-downs*

Answer 37

Ummmmm The fact that I exsist!

Answer 38

I don't, I have thought that blows the whole religious thing.

Answer 39

well, it's mainly all the turmoil in our world and the challenges I came across in my life.

Answer 40

Just having my prayers answered, and not always on time!

Answer 41

Faith brings strength and hope that's what I get out of it.

Answer 42

Everything in creation points to an intelligent creator.

Answer 43

im atheist...

but im open to ideas...

i dont see any proof so i dont belive...

Answer 44

i am does not believe in god

Answer 45

I don't know, I am losing my faith

Answer 46

ask how it ends

Answer 47

Nothing.

Please don't assume that I do.

Answer 48

i dont

Answer 49

the bible

Answer 50

im born again..

Answer 51

faith