It is said: "There are None so blind as Those who CHOOSE not to 'see'..."
'Real' is ultimately a subjective perception.
Clearly... foremost, at least two Sentiences must perceive 'something' to some similar characteristics, for it to OBJECTIVELY be 'real' as in 'reality'. If it doesn't...TO YOU
Take the phenomena of 'Gravity' for example. It will STILL affect your physical self independent of YOUR belief.
So... if there is NO pre-existant Sentience, who therefore perpetually imbues 'gravity' ?
Since 'gravity' independently acts upon all known sentient life forms, it DOES 'objectively' exist. And...
since the phenomena of 'entropy' consumes the energy to perpetuate perceivable phenomena, Gravity and Inertia for example. SOME energetic Sentience DOES ongoingly 'enforce' that which 'reality' manifests as 'Physics' to a repetitious insightful fashion.
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Why do some people believe that "God" IS real?
I mean, there's not a shred of evidence for one. The Bible sure ain't proof of anything.
If a person does a bit of research, they'll realize that the Bible contains few facts and lots of contradictions. The Torah and Talmud were written down by exiled Judean rabbis about 500 bc. It is not the word of any god, it was actually the invention of Satanism.
The stories about Jesus are tweaked beyond credibility, too. Biblical scholars agree.
Where I live, the crocus flowers bloom first in the spring.
Next come the daffodils
Next are the tulips. It's always in that order. How do they know what to do? Most people can't even figure out how to properly push their shopping carts in a grocery store. I absolutely believe in a higher power of intelligence that makes it all work. But I don't know if that's some guy with a white beard.
I think it's funny when a scientist says there's no God, but they know there was a big bang theory 13.8 billion years ago. Yeah, because that just makes perfect sense.
Well some people don't believe in things they can't see
I probably the way it is presented
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For the same reason religious people don’t believe in any of the other hundreds of gods.
if you believe in the christian god, you still don’t believe in zeus, horus, the muslim deity, the many gods the aboriginals believe in, or any other god.
believing that only YOUR god is the real god is insane. The likelihood that YOUR god is the only real one and all the other endless gods are not is narcissistic as hell.
it is much more likely that no god is real.
The idea of a god is generally injected to explain something people don’t understand or are uncomfortable with, like death.
people used to believe in a god of night and a god of day, then we discovered how the planets work so we didn’t need that “god” anymore.
believing in a magical creature above space and time, that created everything from the beginning of time to the end of time, and is omnipotent, that listens to the thoughts of one group of living organisms on a spec of dirt among an infinite sea of other specs if dirt and cares what those life forms do and think, and grants their “wishes” which in-turn would defeat the entire omnipotent idea… is quite insane.
Not a valid question.
The correct way to structure it is to say 'Why do people believe in a God / Gods?'
The burden of proof lies with the claimant, that is the theist.
The default position for everything is non belief.
Everything must be proven with evidence and there is no evidence supporting any of the claims made by theists.
Because humans are so stupid, they couldn't possibly keep track of an all-knowing, all-seeing Creator of All and keep its story accurate for over a thousand years. The majority of humans are and always will be stupid, so I doubt their claims that their creator god is "accurate." I'm not even saying a higher power doesn't exist - I'm agnostic - but I doubt humanity in its infinite idiocy, has any idea what that higher power is, if any. And yes, this is me being positive on the matter.
There's a lot of human depravity associated with religion, the books are very hard to read, with some wild stories or sad reality. A lot of it, is hard to stomach. Some big egos fall into the pit of "doom", lost. I had a bad reaction early on watching TV evangelists.
As well, difficult circumstances in life make it hard to understand "God". Especially... if there is a god, how could they do "this" or allow "this". Also, what happens to people I loved who weren't of the given faith... and thus lost forever. Hard to make sense of love, and loss, separation.
They don't like to see the human division between religions, so they choose none.
Running into difficult problems, they conclude God is not real or dead.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/S_OTz-lpDjwThe more I read of science and physics theory, Christ makes more sense.
- It's an extraordinary claim
- So far there is zero evidence. All we have is old texts and people's claims, neither of which are reliable
- The parameters of such deities are so vaguely defined that any fictional entity could be substituted. Exists everywhere, invisible to all measures etc is convenient
- People have believed in numerous deities throughout the centuries. These are no more valid (Zeus etc)
- People pray for help with disease etc and it never comes. Numerous horrific things are allowed to happen indicating this being doesn't exist, lacks power, or doesn't care.
Do you believe Zeus is a real God? If not, why not?
It is impossible to prove/disprove existence of a proposed entity called by humans "God", because its existence would be so much different that ours. God needs to move beyond our dimensions. We might speculate about it, but will never be able to describe it, since we lack cognitive apparatus and we are limited by the laws of physics.
2 Peter 3:3-6, Modern English Version
"3 Know this first, that there shall come scoffers in the last days who walk after their own lusts, 4 and say, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things have continued as they were since the beginning of the creation.” 5 For they willingly ignore that, by the word of God the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed standing out of the water and in the water, 6 by which the world that then existed was flooded with water and perished."Note: scoffers and willingly ignore, willingly... it's a choice based on motivation.
If I showed you a real reason, you would become suicidal.
One of the more obvious reasons is that there are currently of 40,000 different versions of “god” worshipped by humans.
Every last one of those 40,000 religions claims that theirs is correct and the others are all lies.
It doesn’t take being a super genius to realize that none of them are correct.Lots of reasons. This is why whenever I talk about my faith to people who say they're agnostics or some atheists (some for good reason) I always like to say "I don't KNOW anything more than you. The only thing that has changed since I found Jesus is now I have faith" and faith fluctuates. When I was a "non believer" I always took Christians as arrogant and it and the cross was offensive to me. I remember cursing God when my father passed away. Now I draw strength from it. And I don't want to beat anyone over the head with a Bible. I just want them to feel the same joy and peace that it brings me. But I only if they're ready and willing to hear it.
Because it just doesn't make sense and hasn't been proven to be true. I was told that God would always be with me and wouldn't let anything bad happen to me during hardships. Covid happened and my faith was already hanging by a thread. I became lonely and depressed that almost drove me to suicide. Where the hell was "God" when I went through that? Then some other shit with the church. I eventually lost faith in christianity
The Bible actually addresses this - off the top of my head in Romans and the latter part of 1 Corinthians 2. If course, atheists will not care because they don’t believe the Bible to be true in the first place. That’s between them and the God that they don’t believe in.
Happy hunting.The canonical gospels are highly contestable ancient literature. Half of Paul's letters are not even considered to be written by Paul himself according to scholars. Having said that, I'm a Christian today. I fought and battled with doubt my entire life though. To blindly follow is a shallow base.
A young man named Bryce told me, "Kanye West says we all need to put God back in our lives". I told him, "Instead of putting God in our lives we need to put love in our hearts. To invoke the name of God is an intellectual endeavor. Jesus says 'Lean not on your idea of God but instead lean on your hearts".
In the teachings of Gurumayi Chidvilasanda she says, "Do not look outside of you in this world of maya for love; you will never find it. Instead, take this love that's inside of you out & share it with the whole world".
Because religion is bogus in my opinion.
Now, I respect people to have their own religion, it just shouldn't affect my life or get put on me.
Religion is mainly used to shame and control people. I see it all the time.
I just don't believe In a God or deity, you cannot force belief.Well it's a subect that cannot be answered empirically, as soon as you try to define it, you've lost it. O also think many people are thinking , more of santa claus when they mention god since it's always for something , usually w/ promise to "be good" if xyz happens.
It makes the most sense for them.
Some people believe he’s up there, some people dont
Neither group will make sense to the other group because they don’t think like they do
That’s the way it is with everything in life
Probably because they can't see any reason to believe god is real. In the dichotomy of real or not, they've made a choice.
Personally, I'm an atheist. But I don't BELIEVE god IS NOT real. I simply DON'T believe that it is. That is the position of most atheists. The ones who believe god doesn't exist are known as gnostic atheists.
When was the last time you saw an Angel? also when I had crisis God did not helped me.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/ODetOE6cbbcEvery culture on Earth has claimed their god (s) is real. Why is yours any more real than the others you would claim to be false?
1. have to shit obvious design flaw.
2. Satanists have more power than the pope
3. Priests rape young boys
4. 90% of war has a religious motive
5. People doing good to others get the most shit
6. Jesus hasn't shown in 2020 years.
7. kids that get bullied and kill themselves because of the pain would be tortured until eternity if the gods story was the real deal
8. You can escape eternal torture by confessing your sins to a gay pedophile
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