why believe in God?

[noone]

why should i believe in God?

[faith]

why should i believe in God?

This question is partially related to  existence .. why do  we exist?  Who has given us existence? 

By the way , I don't mean by the first question the religious answer given by some muslims that we have been created to worship Allah.. the question here is meant just to discuss the very existence we feel.

As well, there are lots of questions which the idea of atheism stirs such as life and death ..

[Thyfriend]

  (peace be upon you)

Don't you ever feel a need to pray to God when you are in trouble? That's confirmation He exists, because you reach for Him voluntarily. You should believe for rewards, to help others, and peace on earth.

[aouse]

 

somthin should of started the should of started the universe  dats y i blive in god

[phoenixis]

Actually I could argue that the feeling we get when we want God is no proof at all. Just because we want God does not mean he exists.

Also the start of the universe does not require a God becasue the universe could be part of something much larger that is eternal and creates universes. In whch case the need for a God is none.

[jones]

right phoenixis! fifty years ago, britan would have been terribly angry and shocked to hear boys sleeping with girls before marriage. now, it's accepted as "natural". what's right and what's wrong and how people feel changes all the time.

[piers]

when you have a sentence there could have been that is based on less reliability than any text claiming God. now if you look at the universe bieng here by chance you will see that idea is contradictory to the way the universe wroks i.e. cause and effect. now we have science which is a lot of laws which describe how things happen in the majority of instances and that is how science theorys are made by repetitive exeriments. so if we have chance that wouldnt work because you may create a metal ally doing 1 thing and then the next time you do the same thing you create a new planet because that is what chance would mean. so actually it is glaringly obvious that there is evidence of design. now when you say the world eternal creating the universe that stops bieng chance and becomes a creator. now the word God can mean creator. the universe as we know is contigingent and so it needs a beggining which is nto contigent so we have an infinate bieng that created the universe because if you just have contingency you get to the stage where you have nothing because something contingent comes into existence and so at the very start you cant have nothing so you have the infinate which is God.

[phoenixis]

Have you ever heard the Eisteinia phrase God doesn't play with dice? When physics realised that things occure randomly everyone was really shocked. Somethings do not require a cause. A good example is beta plus decay. Soming causes a up quark to become a down quark and and a positron is emited as well as a neutrino. It is random when that happens. Electromagnetic waves can spontaniously produce mass!!! E=mc^2. The universe is very strange but on no account do we have any need for a creator. People believe in God because they feel comfort by doing it. But that doesnt mean it is true.

[Beanie127]

OK piers, note that the rules that operate within this universe - such as cause and effect, to which you refer - do not necessarily operate outside this universe and before this universe was created/came into existence. Therefore cause and effect cannot be used to argue for the existence of a Creator for this universe. Nice try, though.