Question:
Christians, why do you believe in any gods at all?
anonymous
2015-02-15 14:57:10 UTC
Christians, why do you believe in any gods at all?
Ten answers:
anonymous
2015-02-15 14:58:12 UTC
I believe there is a god because some times things do workout the way I dream about it or turns out better than expected. but I'm just a Christian who doesn't follow the bible methods and I never go to church but I believe in god and jesus
?
2015-02-17 05:40:08 UTC
Because they are dumb as stumps and must be told what to think, how to behave, what to wear, what to eat, what to drink, what to say, what to believe, etc... they have no sense of self and are less than human as they have evolved into nothing more than puppets or muppets with their strings being pulled.
Karissa
2015-02-15 15:03:58 UTC
For one thing, it certainly wasn't my parents influence that made me believe in God.



What makes me believe in God is that fact that I've asked so many questions in my life, regarding so many loopholes that seemed to come up in my faith, and every single one of them seem to point back to the conclusion that He must exist. I believe in God because I tried prayer a couple of times and it seemed to work, and then I prayed a few more times, and now I pray daily and it hasn't lead me astray yet. I believe in God because I know it my heart that he is always there for Me, with me at every step. It wasn't always like that, my faith has been a journey, but I know now that He has always been with me and has always loved me. I believe in God because when I trust that God is with me and that I can be his hands and feet for others, I am at my happiest.



And is believing that there is a God any less unbelievable that believing that there was no God to create the universe?
?
2015-02-15 16:14:40 UTC
Christians do not believe in "gods". They believe in one true and living God, His name is Jesus Christ. We believe because of the grace and mercy of God.
?
2015-02-15 14:58:09 UTC
Cause they are easily brainwashed into believing such BS. Think about it - there is a reason why 90% of people are the same religion as their parents. They were brainwashed into believing it from birth.
anonymous
2015-02-15 17:43:38 UTC
Why don't you let people email you?



I want to be your slave.
anonymous
2015-02-16 05:20:33 UTC
Belief in God will ultimately be a matter of faith because absolute proof (or disproof) of the supernatural will never be found. However modern Astrophysics has proven the existence of God beyond a reasonable doubt.



Newton's Third Law of Motion states "For every action there is equal and opposite reaction." Every action in the universe was caused by a prior equal and opposite reaction.



If we logically follow each and every action and reaction back to the beginning then logically there has to be a first action without a prior equal and opposite reaction. Modern astrophysicists call this event the Big Bang.



This first action was completely independent of outside forces. This action was God, the un-caused cause, creating the universe. This proof also fulfills the principle of Occam's Razor.



By the way, it was Georges Lemaître (1894–1966), a Belgian Catholic priest and professor of physics and astronomy, who proposed what became known as the Big Bang theory of the origin of the Universe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lem...



Another beyond a reasonable doubt:



A universe in which life has a chance to exist can only happen in where a couple of dozen universal constants coincide, including:

+ Minimum interval of space

+ Minimum unit of time

+ Planck's Constant

+ Maximum velocity

+ Gravitational Attraction Constant

+ Weak Force Coupling Constant

+ Strong Nuclear Force Coupling Constant

+ Rest Mass of a Proton

+ Rest Mass of an Electron

+ Electron or Proton Unit Charge

+ Minimum Mass of the Universe

+ Total Visible Rest Mass

+ Boltzmann's Constant

+ Hubble Constant

+ Cosmological Constant

+ Cosmic Proton/Photon Ratio

+ Permittivity of Free Space

+ Electromagnetic Fine-Structure Constant

+ Weak Fine-Structure Constant

+ Gravitational Fine-Structure Constant



A couple of percent difference in any one of these constants would make the universe completely uninhabitable. Roger Penrose, a peer of Hawking, calculated that the chance of a universe capable of supporting life as we know it as one part in 10 raised to the power of 10 raised to the power of 123.



This fine tuning of the universe, while not an absolute proof of God, can be used to help prove the existence of God beyond a reasonable doubt.



“Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist must be rather silly.”

–Nobel Prize winning physicist Max Born



“The best data we have (concerning the Big Bang) are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the Bible as a whole.”

–Arno Penzias, the 1978 Nobel Prize recipient in physics



“I think only an idiot can be an atheist. We must admit that there exists an incomprehensible power or force with limitless foresight and knowledge that started the whole universe going in the first place.”

–Christian Anfinsen, winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry



“The Big Bang ripples and subsequent scientific findings are clearly pointing to an ex nihilo creation consistent with the first few verses of the book of Genesis.”

–Quantum chemist Henry F. Schaefer III, five time nominee for the Nobel Prize.



“There are good reasons to believe in God, including the existence of mathematical principles and order in creation. They are positive reasons, based on knowledge, rather than default assumptions based on a temporary lack of knowledge.”

–Geneticist Francis Collins, the leader of the Human Genome Project and currently the director of the National Institutes of Health in the United States.



“A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.”

–Cambridge University astrophysicist and mathematician Fred Hoyle.



“Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God – the design argument of Paley – updated and refurbished. The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design. Many scientists, when they admit their views, incline toward the teleological or design argument.”

–Cosmologist and astronomer Edward Robert Harrison



“God created the universe out of nothing in an act which also brought time into existence. Recent discoveries, such as observations supporting the Big Bang and similar astronomical phenomena, are wholly compatible with this view.”

–Henry Margenau, Yale University Professor of Physics and Natural Philosophy.



“God is a mathematician of a very high order and He used advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.”

–Nobel Prize winning physicist Paul A. M. Dirac, who made crucial early contributions to both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics.



“The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is nonintuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God, and Christian belief that God became Man around two thousand years ago, may seem strange to common-sense thinking. But when the most elementary physical things behave in this way, we should be prepared to accept that the deepest aspects of our existence go beyond our common-sense intuitions.”

–Nobel Prize winning physicist Tony Hewish.



“Astronomers who do not draw theistic or deistic conclusions are becoming rare, and even the few dissenters hint that the tide is against them. Geoffrey Burbidge, of the University of California at San Diego, complains that his fellow astronomers are rushing off to join ‘the First Church of Christ of the Big Bang.’”

–Astrophysicist Hugh Ross



“When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that one day I would be writing a book purporting to show that the central claims of Judeo-Christian theology are in fact true, that these claims are straightforward deductions of the laws of physics as we now understand them. I have been forced into these conclusions by the inexorable logic of my own special branch of physics... From the perspective of the latest physical theories, Christianity is not a mere religion, but an experimentally testable science.”

–Professor of Mathematical Physics Frank Tippler



Just for starters...



What worried me more right here though is what kind of person goes to a forum (as you repeatedly do) of a subject matter about which the people who are interested therein he has little but disdain? What pleasure gets you off, poking religious people with a virtual pointy stick? Please don't.



Don't like dinosaurs? Then stop hanging around in a dinosaur related forum!



If God does not exist, your question is irrelevant.

If God exists, your question is redundant.
anonymous
2015-02-15 15:03:53 UTC
i gust you humans need to believe in something
anonymous
2015-02-15 15:00:42 UTC
Because he's real and saved many... he could save you too
?
2015-02-15 15:27:12 UTC
I don't just have blind faith, and I so far have answers to the common reasons atheists don't believe. I've experienced things in my life that science doesn't explain. Really weird things have happened; I sat in a random seat out of 150 and found out it was my assigned seat; I didn't know there were assigned seats. “Seek first the kingdom of God…and these things will be added to you.” When I feel like I’m with God, things work out in life. I’m not prepared for a test, and it gets postponed. The only two times so far I wasn’t prepared for a certain class, we didn’t get to that part anyway. One of the times I felt a Being/power around because I was in a "spiritual mindset" I held the Bible to let it open to wherever it would fall open to. . It fell open to a place that was talking about the 15th day of the month in the 12th year. From what it said before in the chapter, it was talking about the 12th month. I opened to this the night of Dec. 15th; the same day of the year it was talking about.



There are more long-term things that have happened that ended up having meaning. For example, There was always something I noticed about a person I’d I had never spoken to or had anything to do with. I noticed this from the time I was little, so it was really ingrained into me somehow to want to be what he is in a spiritual sense. I thought he was with God and felt some connection to him through God. Years later, I was playing piano for church and he of all people joined to be another musician for the service, and later had something to do with me after all, and I happened to realize something I had been looking for because of him. Seriously, not one else could have made me realize it, and this was at the time I needed it. If it weren’t for it leading up to all this all my life it wouldn’t have helped me/meant something that I knew was good. Once on Christmas morning, a dream turned into something powerful like a vision. There was a light and a voice that said something and an extreme power moved me away from the person I was with in the "dream". You could say it was just a dream, but it was the most overwhelming power I've experienced, and I know what a dream feels like. There was a certain number I associated myself with, and it came up all the time. I would even predict what number on a list my name would be and not be surprised when it was my number. The time I questioned the meaning, a person walked by saying the number... A few days ago I felt scared because I felt something around, but it seemed ok because I felt a power/Being around as well. I felt like the power was more than usual, like something was happening. I was going to bed and trying to pray because of it, but an annoying car alarm/horn started going off right then. It crossed my mind to pray for it to stop, even though I would never pray for something like that; I don't think God would answer such worldly things. I thought because of the power maybe this is supposed to be an exception and I should try it, but I didn't want to go against my beliefs like that or "test" God with something trivial. So I wasn't going to, but I realized I could just say "If this is supposed to happen (God's will, not mine), as a sign or something, let the horn stop." There was suddenly no sound after the word "stop" even though it had been several minutes of the sound. That person I mentioned would post things on facebook, and I changed the letters to numbers (a=1 b=2...) and added them up (yes I was that obsessed). The post would add up to be divisible by my number (which was 17), and this happened with something like 3 out of the ONLY 4 posts I added.



Recently I doubted God’s existence, but I knew I’ve experienced a real Being so I was sorry. I was thinking about it a lot while walking home, and I imagined being hit by a car and tried to feel what would happen (if I would live on). Then as I was walking, a truck stopped so I crossed in front of it but it started going again and didn’t see me. Then it did, and stopped and apologized and said “God bless.” It seemed like a sign… then the next day I was wondering about it in the lunchroom (a big place) and the people at the table next to me happened to be talking about religion. That’s unlikely; I don’t usually hear that being discussed in college. The next day I went to the lunchroom and thought about the last time I was there. The people across from me were talking about religion. So that’s twice in a row, and usually I can’t hear what people are saying, but they happened to be within earshot.



As for the number coincidences, I aced statistics; I’m not assuming normal things are unusual; numbers don't lie. Based on everything (number signs, coincidences, long-term and short-term life working out and it being according to the internal sense of the Bible, and the power I feel around), I feel like it's reason to believe. Ok I was going to stop rambling but I had to add that I just added my username letters (turned to numbers), and the sum is divisible by 17 (my number). I'm aware that people think the brain can cause feeling/visions. The brain may change as someone has a feeling/vision, but that doesn't prove that it's doing it on it's own. We're natural AND spiritual beings, so our spiritual mind is connected to our natural mind and can affect it. When you lose natural restraints, spiritual things are more obvious. (The most obvious case being when you die). "Crazy" people see things because there's something wrong with their natural brain. Maybe they're seeing spiritual things though because of that. It makes at least as much sense as our brains happening to somehow evolve to randomly see these detailed things in NDEs. How would our brains doing that help us naturally? Why would they evolve that way?



To find spiritual important things you’re supposed to seek; “Seek and you will find.” I find that to be true in my experience. If you just wait around for natural proof instead of realizing deeper real reasons, you might miss out on finding it.


This content was originally posted on Y! Answers, a Q&A website that shut down in 2021.
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