Why's it so hard for so many people to BELIEVE?

Think when Jesus walked the Earth. He was here doing amazing things and still people did not believe. People still want "Proof" They won't except all the proof and amazing things the Lord has done and still does.

Be Blessed!

Why is it so hard to believe?

Good question......

Okay, an honest answer.

1. Many of us were never hammered by religions of any sort by parents. You apparently were raised Christian. But had you been born in India, you'd be Hindu. Ever thought of that????

2. Many of us finished high school, and found that first year in biology far more reasonable on how life got here, than that a sky daddy zapping navel-less people on this planet.

And along with this myth, the rest of Christianity's ideas of needing to be save, go down the tubes as well.

As well, most of us believe that dead is dead. There is no postmortem life. Living things, like us are made of cells. When enough of them in your brain die, all you were, are or ever would have been die too.

No one has ever come back.... not my grandparents, not my pets, not my friends. Have any of yours come back years later to talk with you, and take you out to dinner?????

3. Jesus really has no history.

He wrote nothing, and everything that was written about him was written some 60+ years after his supposed death, and not by the names of those guys on the gospels.........they were dead too.

As well, no contemporary historian ever wrote a thing about him. We can't even find any death certificate signed by Pilate--- and this was a time of hugely accurate record keeping in the Roman Empire. Soooo, no one alive wrote anything at all about him. The commonly listed historians, Suetonius, Tacitus, Josephus, weren't even alive !!!!!!! (And the one line about Jesus in Josephus is a 13th century forgery.... it appeared in no previous copies.

4. Lots of virgins historically in religions have given births to males. Notice, however, not one virgin ever gave any birth to any female.

5. And the real fatal flaw of Christianity? Jesus had to trace his ancestry back to the house of David. This is done thru Joseph. But Joseph was not his daddy....god was. And no one traces Mary's. Women weren't very important in the Middle East then, and still aren't.

5. Educated people "belief" where there is evidence. In christianity, it is "FAITH" and in your case you have faith. But faith, by definition is belief with no proof.

Is this enough for you to understand why there are now in Europe and the US, fully 40% of people who now no longer believe in gods, or the divinity of Jesus????????? ("cus there's even more).

Helpful?????

I can see the internal organs of other creatures. I can (but hopefully not) see the internal organs of other people. My internal organs show up on X-rays, MRI or CAT scans.

What you call 'spirit' I call emotion, which is a product of the chemical and electrical activity in the physical matrix of human brains. I defy you to show me a spirit.

Meanwhile, ask yourself why it is that you believe all that stuff, but you do not believe in mermaids, you do not believe in Vishnu, you do not believe in Spiderman, you do not believe in Odin and the feast halls of Valhalla?

Could it just be that you believe in the things you have been told to believe in? The things that give you a warm fuzzy feeling?

That is nice, but - if you were stood at the edge of a cliff and you really, really believed you could fly, and you got a lovely warm fuzzy feeling when you thought about flying around in the sky . . . . would that deep and sincere belief stop you from falling to your death if you were to jump off the cliff?

Belief is a box that religion puts God's children in. Anything within the "belief" is accepted anything outside the belief is blasphemy. If there is anything to believe in it is you. Believe in yourself for you are the truth the light and the way.

once people accept that belief is relative, subjective from person to person, we can understand why one's ideas might not be held by another. what matters is what you believe and how that is significant to you. i'm a christian, and it still breaks my heart that my brother and his family are not. (they're atheists) i mean, i've never been preachy and tried to ridicule their life style. it's simply that i genuinely BELIEVE he is missing out on a loving spiritual fulfillment that i am blessed to know. but he has to find that for himself, i can't will him to do so. all i can do is hope he has (or soon acquires) the spiritual peace i know in my life. hope this helps. God bless you, my friend.

Everything I believe in I KNOW that a real person(s) has proven at some point in the history of the earth.

God cannot be proven.

Mind you, I'm not atheist - because God can't be disproved either.

why is it so hard to not believe in something? why do i have to believe in your views? why are we ignoring everyone else's ideals?

wind can be quite visible, you can feel it, it can affect you, and it can be measured.

we don't see our spirits - because there isn't any. it can't be seen, touched or measured, nor proven - that's why no one has seen it - it's just a word. and you don't know it's there. if no one ever taught you that word - would you still know you had one?

god doesn't exist because he was never seen, no one know what he looks like. only but a few have ever really claimed to have spoken to him - yet still no description. he can't be touched, seen, or felt.

You're conflating "belief" with "faith." Faith is belief without evidence or in spite of evidence to the contrary.

Look Bub, People are happier when other people don't force their religion on others. As a Sikh I believe that if someone wants to follow another religion then we should let them. As long as they are good people God will accept them.

Belief gets you screwed over. Example: Ponzi schemes