Believing In God Has It's Many Reasons

Through out our lives we will all at some point seek for answers of the questions we have about life itself, but no one has ever got the true answer. No one knows why they were really put on the earth or what the point of life is or why there is good and evil. Religion try to answer some of these questions. A common question is who or what is god. Religion sets lifestyles for people to follow, it makes path ways in attempts to try answer these questions and these are what people live by.

The origins of religion as Brodie mentioned make sense to primitive beings with no understanding of what is beyond themselves, it is true that they were driven by the will to survive and multiply, but eventually our frontal lobes evolved to the point where we could question something instead of just doing it or ignoring it. A god seems

With the passage of time, there also have been scriptures appearing that support the existence of God. Stories, events and many supernatural occurrences that is beyond human’s intellect. The Myths of Fire, Water, Earth and Air were famous for their supernatural existence in the Roman Era. Before the Ancient Greek religion turned into mythology, existence of God was well practiced by the Greek people. Homer, a famous Greek writer, writes in the ‘Odyssey’ about how if man does not follow the God and believe in them, then man will fall and be doomed. The Greeks were a very religious civilization. They showed that one could believe in the gods without having solid, concrete proof. Looking at this religion we can see that God does exist.

• Children know humans are not behind the order so the idea of a creating god (or gods) makes sense to them. Children just need adults to specify which one.

There’s still a possibility today, that their theory of how the world was created can be incomplete. Why is it that you can believe what scientists tell us about and not believe that God exists? Others might argue that God was the one that gave us free will, so he could have seen evil coming, yet he still gave us free will. But, then how would he have let us have a voice if he had not given us free

The belief in some higher presence, other than our own, has existed since man can recollect. Religion was established from this belief, and it can survive and flourish because of this belief. Christianity, one of several forms of religion that exist today, began sometime during the middle of the first century. Christians believe in a higher presence that they call "God." This belief in God is based on faith, not fact; faith is "unquestioning belief that does not require proof or evidence." (Webster's New World College Dictionary, 1996, p. 487). The belief in God exists primarily for two reasons: It answers the question of why we exist, and it is used to exert moral control over society

Now that I think about it there is another thing that I can be sure of that is no one can be certain that there is a God or higher power that has created us. Many people have a belief in God and support the theory very passionately. The problem with that belief is that there is no evidence that there is a God. The other side to that argument would be how can I prove that he doesn't exist. How can one explain our existence or even how the world or the universe began to existence. Did the universe just start one day or did something have to create it all. If there was a God I think that the world could be as I perceive it because God should be good and God would not allow me to live a life that is not true.

People go out, make friends, commitments, work, join teams and much more. Why do we do these things? Because if we didn’t we would be lazy and not be unique or have a meaning. Purpose is defined as “the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists” (Wikipedia). Without religion, we would have no purpose or idea of what happens after death. Religion is a thing because it gives us as humans a purpose and guides us through life. It sets out rules or guidelines to live by for purpose. But there is no hard copy proof of some of the beliefs in religion, so how are we supposed to know that they are true. The thing is we don’t. So, the question remains to why we as humans continue to believe in such things. “Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious” (Wikipedia). It is possible that people believe in religion because they are afraid of death and the unknown. But who is to say that that is really the way to live our life. Over time morals for society have changed

My belief in god has no firm beginning. It was just something I accepted like two plus two equals four or that chocolate ice cream tastes really good. I never really knew that you did not have to believe in god as everybody I knew for most of my life did. That was until I encountered, my cousin, Ryan’s beliefs or lack thereof. He thought

If there is a God, then who God is, by the way? Those who believe in God have always questioned the Supreme Being in whom they believed day by day. Eventually, they start to make the answers to their curiosity. The first

On one side of you have religion, on the other side you have atheism; the truth lies somewhere in-between. At the start of my journey I believed that we were created by this universe. In the end, I realized that something or someone created this universe. There is a purpose to our existence. We were created to evolve.

By the time I went to primary school, I realized my thoughts were totally different from most of my classmates’ ideologies and the books I had read in China. Neither my classmate believes God created this world, nor any textbooks use in classes ever mentioned about God’s existence. I was not able to resolve my confusions until I went to college, and found a church located close to

Are the arguments for religious faith without belief plausible, or do you find problems with the idea that we can have faith in God without believing he exists?

In the great words of Immanuel Kant, “God is a postulate of practical reason, a necessary component of moral thought. A moral person will always wish for the highest good, a world in which morality alone is sufficient to cause happiness” (Reszitnyk, 2016, slide 12). Essentially, morality is truly created upon our own ideas based on life experiences. If the existence of God is the core of morality, and is the objective moral fact, then He is the good that exists. Anselm of Canterbury, which means, “The essence of God, is a being than which no greater can be conceived. It is greater to exist than not to exist” (Reszitnyk, 2016, slide 10). Essentially, one can believe in God since He is the greatest one can conceive, and since God exists to one

There is many reasons why atheist seem to not believe in God. One reason would be because faith is unreliable. A common characteristic of both theism and religion in their reliance on faith: belief in the existence of God and in the truth of religious doctrines of neither founded upon nor defended by logic, reason, evidence, or