Question for believers: WHY do you believe?

i spent months looking for the truth....read John 20:29

i saw Jesus and showed me truth! it's Jesus that is truth! not catholicism not islam not judaism not atheism not notihng! IT'S JESUS CHRIST!

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I am a believer for many reasons:

1) if who has done bad are not punished, so what makes people do good as long as they could do bad and not punished

2) If there was no God, From where did the prophets arise, why, and how did they prove to 1/6 the world to become Muslim and 1/3 the world to become Cristian, and many Jewish.

3) There was no God to pray for, why would Mankind Exist

4) If there was no God, then there would be no prophet, then how would Muhammad (The prophet that can neither read nor write) make the Holy-Qur'an that unables scientists until now with not a single fault and not a single contradiction neither with itself, nor with the recent scientific discoveries.

5) If there were no God, then how did Prophet Moses throw a normal stick - Thousands of years ago- to become a real snake that eats the fake sticks of the vicars of the Pharaoh at that time.

I can go on but I should go now.

Are half the world fools and 2.3% of the world (Atheists) are right

I don't mean any inconvenience but it doesn't make sense does it?

If you have any arguments, feel free to E-mail me at

Shareef0012@gmail.com Or

Shareef0102@yahoo.com

My reasons definitely won't convince anyone and I don't want them to. Whenever I mention them, I get made fun of. I'd rather keep them to myself.

I have my reasons...I have thought about it, and continue to do so. It makes sense to me but if I'm wrong in the end, I'll admit it.

It's difficult for me not to believe because, although I retain a view that we currently can't know if a God exists, and lean more towards theism, some atheist arguments can't convince me that their isn't a God. The fact that we can't see, hear, touch, smell, or even, taste God, only proves to me we can't scientifically study God. There are parts of the universe we haven't studied or experienced yet and maybe we'll find God there, or maybe God exists beyond non-existence and existence.

Just my two cents, if I'm wrong, I'm wrong, and I'm okay with that. Currently, I believe there is a God, and it isn't based on the mentioned lack of the proof non-existence of God, but for other reasons.

Honestly--I grew up in church but when we moved my family and I never found a church that we wanted to be a part of. A lot of them had fake people who were hypocritical and judgmental. And by no way am I saying that I am perfect at allll because I am definitely not but God gives me something to believe in. He listens to me and accepts me for my mistakes as well as my accomplishments. And I am sure this sounds really foolish but I am in college and have grown closer to Christ the year and a half I have been here than I have my whole life. I definitely feel an emotional need to go to church and worship...I love it. I feel loved when I am there. When I worship it brings tears to my eyes. With so many pressures in college it is nice to have Christ as my stability. And I'm sorry if this sounds completely crazy...because it probably does. And don't get me wrong I love to have fun too but regardless of the mistakes I make (a lot) Jesus is always there to forgive me and lead me in the right direction. And I feel like I have an experience with a higher being everytime I pray. I get so emotional. Its amazing how someone can love so much. Ohhh and I apologize that I wrote a small novel haha!

Im not religious but I was raised in a christian home. As far as I see, they believe because that is what they have been taught their entire lives. Maybe its the fear of going to hell or it makes them feel better about dying also. If you believe that you have led a good life and are going to heaven, I guess that would make dying a lot less terrifying. So I think for them it does fill something emotional. I think they feel like they have to believe in something or else what is the point of life? I personally am just skeptical of it all. It just seems to me like God would not contradict himself all the time and get his facts wrong about how he created the Earth in the bible. And it seems to me that he wouldn't let people wonder like we do about what he supposedly really said in the bible. Just seems like an emotional/mental tortue that a God should never put upon something he created. Just everything about it is all wrong to me. So i think God may very well exist (just from this lingering feeling I have that never ever wants to leave me alone), but not the God that has been presented to me by other people. Not this God from any organized religion. I honestly feel like if there is a God he might be like the force or he's just a scientist letting us do our own thing and taking tons of notes.

My grandma always explained it like this: As I used to be atheist and her Christian we'd talk about it quite often. My grandma once asked me if I believed in "something" - and I'd say yes, but not God, then she would say, if you believe in something, then you believe in God. He/She doesn't have to have a name, doesn't have to have rules or mythos surrounding He/She/Them/It whatever...So, yes I do now believe in a "God". 2 reasons directly from me: ever been really depressed? crying, punching your pillow pissed/depressed at the world or over a death, an illness, a break-up...? Whenever I'm really upset I'd usually ask why? Why, why why? Who am I talking to? I always wondered...if I'm truly atheist then who am I angry with? Lose your car keys or a wad of cash or an important paper and then find it? Thank you, thank you...who was I thanking? Part of me wonders if it's just habit to look up and say thank you when that happens, like because I saw it on TV or my Grandma do it, maybe I was just subconsciously mimicking them. I don't have a clear answer for that. I can't really say either that the world is any more beautiful with a God in it or not either, because if you really believe that all of this is a huge accident...that really doesn't make any less special right? I'd think it would make it more special than some being's "design". However, and here's the absolute answer for me: When I met my husband for the first time. When he asked me to marry him, when I know for sure, absolutely that I am still head over heels in love with him! I can't believe that it's chemicals in my brain, I mean partly yeah...but there's gotta be more than that...there's GOT to be way more. Sort of sappy! Heeheee, and that's the reasons I believe. Good question!

Little edit note: Gonna add a few more little things since you updated yours. 1. and this sounds very Christian of me, but if the world were a happy-go lucky place where everything was handed to us, how would we know what was good vs. bad? how would we know what friendship was as opposed to malevolence?

2. Why does science and religion have to conflict so much? this is one of the worst problems, many religious people take things so literally - why couldn't God have made man WITH evolution? and the scientific people sometimes come across as zealots as well when that's opposite of what science is, i.e. we don't know everything, and we are often wrong, really really wrong. Just watch the weather channel sometime...science at it's worst! and thanks for the note, another problem religious people have at times is not admitting they've been angry with God. God can be a real sunofbitch, and I'm angry quite often! but that doesn't mean i don't believe.

3. Thanks for being respectful to us as well :)

Are all you herpderps ready? We go back and forth, No you prove it! No you prove it! Well sorry to tell you but God exists, you Atheists say "You believe in a book!, Ha!" Well your definition is full of the word "Nothing" /lol on you herpderps.

There is more than enough evidence to prove God, or another spiritual higher being, (Ima Christian, Boogady Boogady Boo! Ill push my love onto you!, Go figure)

But in all fairness, you Atheists sure put up a fight, you know with all your "Show Your Proof!" yet you have done 0 experiments that the Big Bang happened or any of that. Your logic is based on everything Scientifically and you put your FAITH (See what I did there? ;)) into a man who tells you "Trust Me Ima Scientist!" (Family Guy, WooHoo!)

Give up, when you're playing in Fire for an Eternity, you're going to think, "Wow, all I had to do was live my life right and believe in God." /FAAALLLCOOONN PUUUNNCCCHHH, Denied to heaven.

Hope this was Exciting for you, im sure ill be reading a whole bunch of links tomorrow for your "Proof" that you have done 0 experiments for, and believed in a man "In a little coat" God Bless peoples You're going to need it! :D

I don't tend for this to be rudish but I respect your choices. Although I don't agree with them.

I'm no longer a Christian, but I was indoctrinated as a child. When I was a Christian I couldn't even comprehend how someone couldn't believe in the Christian god. My family said it was true, all of my friends and acquaintances believed it was true, and an atheist was either a weirdo or the devil to me. But at that time I knew nothing of comparative religions and never realized that faith in its most basic and literal definition is belief without proof. If you notice, every answer will mention faith because they believe that is enough or claim there is proof without even mentioning what this evidence is. I know this will tick off Christians (although that is not my intention) but I was simply brainwashed. That's what indoctrination is.

Thank you for asking. So far, I believe you have an honest heart and you are serious with this question.

I did not really understand at first why I should believe in God, believe God and want Him in my life.

But there is within me an "urge" - a strong "urge" that was crying out loudly from my inner being that I need a god. That "need" was what bothered me most. And I just cannot ignore it or deny it because it was there and it won't go away. So I cautiously and carefully try to one by one, one step at a time, gave to its promptings until I finally found out that "it" was crying because it was hungry and thirsty. And it was God it was begging for. I became a Christian and believe me "it" was filled, satisfied and pacified. That spirit in me is at peace with the creator God.

It's good to know you are so open-minded. Seriously, I used to go to church because I felt I HAD to and then I started reading the Bible. I got a good study Bible and a Bible Handbook. Then I started getting books on archeology from the Middle East, Jerusalem, Egypt, etc. I just couldn't get enough of all they found and still are finding that is exactly what it says in the Bible. To me it is very exciting so no one can ever tell me there is no proof that certain things didn't exist.

You actually sound like you want to know, so I will tell you what I can in a short period of time.

Of course, I believed as a child because my parents taught me that way. We were very active in church, and everyone I knew believed in God and was a Christian. It was just the way I grew up.

As I got older, the classes I went to in church taught me about some of the science in the Bible, how the Bible implies the world was round, even though everyone back then thought it was flat, how the winds travel in cycles even though nobody could know that. How the order of creation had followed that taught in Genesis (not in one day, of course, but generally in that order - separation of dry land from water, etc.). I learned about the prophesies in the Bible that God gave to show how we would recognize the Messiah and read where Jesus had fulfilled all of those prophecies.

When my son was 13 years old (I was 38), he said "I guess I've just read a lot of fiction, mom, because it sounds so Harry Potter. Plus, there are a lot of smart Buddhists and they don't believe like we do". It threw me for a loop! I had been praying that God would give me a thirst for knowledge, but wow, I did not like the way I felt when my son asked me that. I was so miserable and frightened! I started studying everything I could get my hands on, and I read about how the people in Jesus' time who did not believe Jesus was the son of God still talked about the miracles that had been performed (they called it magic tricks) and the way the Christians acted together. I studied and studied and prayed and prayed and eventually I learned what I needed to know and my faith was so much stronger.

It would be impossible for me not to believe in God because I am so in tune with God now. I feel him working in my life, teaching me, adn I see him working with my children too, appealing to each of them according to their own special traits. For my oldest son, he is interested in the science and historical aspect, my daughter is very in tune to her heart, and my youngest son - the most social of the bunch - is so into helping people in need.

I hope that answers your questions.