Is it easier to believe in God, or is it easier not to believe?
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I think its harder to believe.\n\nI mean..isn't it always more difficult to believe things that aren't tangible and easily explained? \n\nIt would be much easier for me to say...nah..I don't get it, there aren't enoughh answers....i'm not going to believe in God...\n\nBut I prefer to believe, even though sometimes its harder.
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Of course when you ask a question like this you are going to get mixed answers from believers and non-believers.  Believing in God is a conscious choice. You either decide He is, and conform your life to that belief, or you chose not to believe and act accordingly.  DO NOT let anyone else make that decision for you!!!  Believing in Almighty God is a step of faith; God is beyond our comprehension.  We cannot even begin to understand His thinking or His "ways" because we have nothing to compare Him with.  That is why it takes faith.  \n\nI suggest you pray and ask God, with all your heart, to reveal "truth" to you; pick up your Bible and read.  This is how you "Seek" truth.  If you seek Him; you will find Him!\n\nBe careful you do not let the devil into your mind!  By asking a question like this you are inviting input from the spirit of the anti-christ.  You are spiritually vulnerable right now.  The Bible tells us to "guard your hearts and minds".  Input from non-believers is going to add to your confusion!  Surround yourself with believers and when you come into unity with them; you will see the manifest power of God.  First comes the believing (faith), then comes the seeing!  You won't see God until you believe He's there!  We take the first step then He keeps feeding our faith to grow it stronger by showing Himself in many ways.  \n\nIf you don't look for Him you won't find Him.  But that doesn't mean He's not there!!!  Just like those who chose not to believe in God, doesn't mean He's not real.  They just chose not to believe in Him!  \n\nI am believing for you.  You will find out that God is real and you will become a powerful witness to His Glory!!!
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I doubt anyone would believe that God was answering here a Y!A. It's different when God talks to people inside their heads, that is somehow much easier to believe. Oh Yeah it's God not schizophrenia.
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Not easily.  It wasn't a completely coherent question.\n\nThe area of pain and suffering is a longstanding issue in the question of the existence of a loving God.\n\n"If good not God, if God not good" goes back a long way.\n\nFor me, that some can believe in spite of terrible suffering and injustice is rather more evidence for the ability of humans to have faith than in the existence of a loving deity.
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Sometimes to see you have to believe first and at other times you have to see to believe.  I think just like everything else, both have their place in life.  I also think that's it's up to each individual when these principals are applicable.  Why do many believe who don't have proof, but depend on heresay?  Well, I believe (as I see it in people over and over again, including myself) that each of us are born with the spirit to know and understand God/Jesus and divine purpose.  When this proclivity is not correctly harvested and harnessed, we go with what "sounds" right or makes "sense".  I read somewhere, "if you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything."  This is probably what you're referring to.  I don't know......
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How much faith do you need to not believe there's an invisible unicorn in your backyard? You can't prove that there isn't. You can only believe that there isn't. An atheists disbelieves in God as much as you disbelieve in magical gnomes in your dresser. They can't be disproved, they're magical, but as a rational person you decide that there are no gnomes in your dresser, but there is a possibility that there are because you cannot monitor your dresser every day all the time. A religious person definitely has more faith than an atheist.
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No, I lack belief in all gods that I've come across so far. It's not possible for me to believe in something if I haven't seen/experienced/perceived anything that makes me think it exists.\n\nTo akpajuju, what if you believed in the wrong god and that god treated idolatry much worse than simply lacking belief? Or what if there is a god that respects honest lack of belief due to never having seen any evidence, but condemns insincere profiteering people who "believe just in case"? You're no "safer" than an atheist. Also it isn't a choice, I can no more choose to believe a god exists than I can choose to believe I'm sat on the back of a unicorn right now.
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no, believing or not believing in something like god is neither bad nor good. It's what you do with the belief or disbelief that will determine whether it's a bad thing.
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Believing in God does not make your life easier.  \n\nWill God give your marriage security?  Will God protect you from heartache? \nFrom Sorrow? Hunger? Poverty?  \n\nNo.   How will he make your life easier? The only thing he gives for you is hope and fear but you can get that without him.\n\nI do not feel alone.  I know God will not make my life easier only I can do that.
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I think people believe in religion because it is much easier to follow along with everyone.  There is comfort and safety in numbers and if you just do what the nice man tells you to do, you'll get into heaven and won't have to do any real work to get there!  YAY!!!!  lol...really, don't people wonder about the fact that the huge miracles that you read about in the bible just don't seem to happen? it's because people forgot how to believe in themselves and in their own spirituality and began to believe in what they were told to believe.
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I think there's a difference between believing that God is great and thinking that I am great.  I've met me.  I have nothing to be a snob about.\n\nI do believe that God is great.
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What you say just isn't true for many people.  People don't refuse faith; faith just doesn't exist for many people, especially thoughtful, rational-type people.  And you already know that it's not true that God always gives when asked; lots of times He doesn't.\n\nRE: Your Email (Yahoo wouln't let me respond directly):\n\nThanks Jenny.  I've read lots of the Bible growing up.  I have not decided "he doesn't exist."  But if He exists, he has not given me Faith.  To the contrary, He has given me a brain and a heart that do not lead me to Faith, even reading the Bible.  Who knows why, but that's the situation.  I can act like I have Faith, I can pretend I have Faith, but it would be a lie, and I can't just manufacture real Faith.  I'm sure it's very comforting to have Faith (regardless of whether it's well placed).
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people think the Christian life is easy .. its a lot harder than people think , living for God ,denying self,being persecuted by people like you. its easy to live in the world, do whatever you want, pretend youre a good person,  and not have to be in a relationship with God.\n\nits a way bigger leap of faith to believe in nothing and that we magically came from nothing one day than it is to believe the bible is true.
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I will answer you after you put this in the form of a question.\n\nIt is good to believe in something. I see you believe in what you call the big bang theory. You might elaborate a bit on that for the crowd. Then we can talk a bit. \n\nPersonally, there is only one reason to believe in God and that is not a reasonable one. It is strictly experiential. If you can find someone who has direct experience with The Ineffable and can say, "Do this and you too can experience God" then you might be persuaded. \n\nMe, I have had two direct experiences. I cannot tell you how to get there. I am trying to get back again without dying. Best of luck with whatever you choose to make yourself happy.
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Evidence is not for those without faith. When someone chooses not to believe, there is no study, experiment, or proof that will convince them otherwise. They will always find a way to rationalize the evidence you present to them. Faith is a gift from God to the Believer, and does not come from OURSELVES.  You either Believe God's supernatural power, and the benefit of prayer, or you don't.
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Good question... people believe what they\nwant to believe, not necessarily what is\nright.  Belief in God requires faith...\nbelief in the media requires mental\nacceptance, which is much easier.\nThere is a way in life that seems right, \nbut will end in destruction.
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I can answer this. Because its easier to believe a lie than it is to believe the truth. the truth shall set you free but youd rather be a slave to Jesus.