Does anyone else struggle to believe in god because of what is scientifically known?

Question

Does anyone else struggle to believe in god because of what is scientifically known?

Answer 1

I have the same issue. I don't call it a problem tho, but I am the kind of person that believes what she sees. It is hard to put into words really. If there is a "God" I think he would understand this and have some faith in me. I for one don't think the world would be as messed up as it is if there was a "God" I do believe in reincarnation. I think this life is kind of like a test, if we suceed in whatever we were put on earth to achieve than we move on to a "after life"  eternally. If we should fail, then we come back as something else(probably worse of than the previous time) and get to try it again... and maybe again and again. I don't believe in organized religion. I don't want anybody to tell me what is "the right way to live" i might think it is different. Humans were given the ability to dream and believe so by all means believe whatever you feel strongly about, if you are proven wrong in the end I would sure hope that you wouldn't be punished for having some questions or doubts even. That is what makes humans unique and different from animals for crying out loud. I hope you find some answers that you believe in and aren't punished if they turn out to be wrong. Why else would we have these abilities just to be shut down!? I don't know but someday i will.

Answer 2

Well I believe that God is the creator, and to all the people who cannot believe because they think god would not make this earth such a messed up place, it is our fault it is so messed up. God gave us choices, he did this so we can make the choice to love him. I mean, if we didnt have a choice we would not know what love is, or hate. we would be robots, without personalities or feelings. We had a choice and we messed it up.

And as for proving or disproving evolution or creation, not one scientist can prove the real beginning, the beginning of everything, before the 'bigbang.'

I believe that God may have created the world through the big bang as we do not know how he actually created eveything. But if he did do it that way, then he was in control of every step and nothing happened 'by chance.

Answer 3

"Science" is just an honest way of investigating nature.  It experiments, checks, rechecks, trusts no assumptions, questions variables and interrelationships.

It recognizes logic can be illogical because of assumptions.

A scientist forms a hypothesis, tries everything  (within budget) to dis-prove it.  If he and others cannot, it is probably true - it is a theory.  We're human, so "science" is not all it could be, but it works.  It is as honest as mankind can be.  

It has nothing to do with gods or God.

We have a mind, the will to freely use it, and more than enough scriptures, of various flavors, to guide our lives if we are honest and diligent about applying them.  

Once god was a tree, a rock, lightening, and sun circled the earth.  Why should knowing nature, the universe, do anything but increase our awe of God?  The more we know, the greater God must be in our minds.  

Right now that is so immense every honest individual must admit to an inability to understand.  

There are those who would force you to have public schools teach your children religious ideas, to subvert the honest pursuits of science.  Those dishonest or conceptually challenged souls believe in a small god - one they can understand.

Just let it be.  There is nature.  A creation.  To know it is good.

How we apply it --- is a different discussion.

Answer 4

I don't struggle: I rejoice that scientific theory can so effectively disprove supersticious tripe.

Answer 5

Yeah sometimes I think how can one guy watch over everything and why would he let such horrible things happen but sometimes I'll catch myself praying to god.

Answer 6

Yeah. I can't believe in something thats not there. Evolution is kinda reasonable. More than god.

Answer 7

We do not know if our Creator exists or not.  Science has not proved nor disproved His existence.  

We all hold unprovable beliefs about God.  Either we believe that He exists or we believe that  He doesn't.   There is no middle ground.  We must hold a belief because we must live our lives.  To believe means to "hold as true".  It is the same mindset that scientists adopt when they seek dark matter, for example.  They don't know that it exists or that they can find it, but they "hold as true" that they can find it so that they can earnestly and honestly seek it.

Some people "hold as true" that He exists so that they may honestly seek Him.  Others "hold as true" that He doesn't exist so that they are free from the authority of anyone (including God)  who would tell them how they ought to live their lives.

Answer 8

nothing was scientifically known until after 1400 years ago.and this will answer the question,if someone is really interested to KNOW ,if anyone else struggle to believe in GOD because of what is scientifically known,one has to know first how anything came to be scientifically, not only known but after being proved,then accepted by any scientist of any time.search for the source of science(all science,even some not yet and shall never be accomplished by man unless otherwise,then you will get a clue of that, believing in GOD thing.THANK YOU.

Answer 9

God is a lie

Religion is a crutch for the weak.

Break free from the ignorance

Live above christ, live above lies

Answer 10

1. Only in recent years has science discovered that everything we see is composed of invisible atoms. Here, Scripture tells us that the "things which are seen were not made of things which do appear."

2. Medical science has only recently discovered that blood-clotting in a newborn reaches its peak on the eighth day, then drops. The Bible consistently says that a baby must be circumcised on the eighth day.

3. At a time when it was believed that the earth sat on a large animal or a giant (1500 B.C.), the Bible spoke of the earth’s free float in space: "He...hangs the earth upon nothing" (Job 26:7).

4. The prophet Isaiah also tells us that the earth is round: "It is he that sits upon the circle of the earth" (Isaiah 40:22). This is not a reference to a flat disk, as some skeptic maintain, but to a sphere. Secular man discovered this 2,400 years later. At a time when science believed that the earth was flat, is was the Scriptures that inspired Christopher Columbus to sail around the world (see Proverbs 3:6 footnote).

5. God told Job in 1500 B.C.: "Can you send lightnings, that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?" (Job 38:35). The Bible here is making what appears to be a scientifically ludicrous statement—that light can be sent, and then manifest itself in speech. But did you know that radio waves travel at the speed of light? This is why you can have instantaneous wireless communication with someone on the other side of the earth. Science didn’t discover this until 1864 when "British scientist James Clerk Maxwell suggested that electricity and light waves were two forms of the same thing" (Modern Century Illustrated Encyclopedia).

6. Job 38:19 asks, "Where is the way where light dwells?" Modern man has only recently discovered that light (electromagnetic radiation) has a "way," traveling at 186,000 miles per second.

7. Science has discovered that stars emit radio waves, which are received on earth as a high pitch. God mentioned this in Job 38:7: "When the morning stars sang together..."

8. "Most cosmologists (scientists who study the structures and evolution of the universe) agree that the Genesis account of creation, in imagining an initial void, may be uncannily close to the truth" (Time, Dec. 1976).

9. Solomon described a "cycle" of air currents two thousand years before scientists "discovered" them. "The wind goes toward the south, and turns about unto the north; it whirls about continually, and the wind returns again according to his circuits" (Ecclesiastes 1:6).

10. Science expresses the universe in five terms: time, space, matter, power, and motion. Genesis 1:1,2 revealed such truths to the Hebrews in 1450 B.C.: "In the beginning [time] God created [power] the heaven [space] and the earth [matter] . . . And the Spirit of God moved [motion] upon the face of the waters." The first thing God tells man is that He controls of all aspects of the universe.

11. The great biological truth concerning the importance of blood in our body’s mechanism has been fully comprehended only in recent years. Up until 120 years ago, sick people were "bled," and many died because of the practice. If you lose your blood, you lose your life. Yet Leviticus 17:11, written 3,000 years ago, declared that blood is the source of life: "For the life of the flesh is in the blood."

12. All things were made by Him (see John 1:3), including dinosaurs. Why then did the dinosaur disappear? The answer may be in Job 40:15–24. In this passage, God speaks about a great creature called "behemoth." Some commentators think this was a hippopotamus. However, the hippo’s tail isn’t like a large tree, but a small twig. Following are the characteristics of this huge animal: It was the largest of all the creatures God made; was plant-eating (herbivorous); had its strength in its hips and a tail like a large tree. It had very strong bones, lived among the trees, drank massive amounts of water, and was not disturbed by a raging river. He appears impervious to attack because his nose could pierce through snares, but Scripture says, "He that made him can make his sword to approach unto him." In other words, God caused this, the largest of all the creatures He had made, to become extinct.

13. Encyclopedia Britannica documents that in 1845, a young doctor in Vienna named Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis was horrified at the terrible death rate of women who gave birth in hospitals. As many as 30 percent died after giving birth. Semmelweis noted that doctors would examine the bodies of patients who died, then, without washing their hands, go straight to the next ward and examine expectant mothers. This was their normal practice, because the presence of microscopic diseases was unknown. Semmelweis insisted that doctors wash their hands before examinations, and the death rate immediately dropped to 2 percent. Look at the specific instructions God gave His people for when they encounter disease: "And when he that has an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself even days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean" (Leviticus 15:13). Until recent years, doctors washed their hands in a bowl of water, leaving invisible germs on their hands. However, the Bible says specifically to wash hands under "running water."

14. Luke 17:34–36 says the Second Coming of Jesus Christ will occur while some are asleep at night and others are working at daytime activities in the field. This is a clear indication of a revolving earth, with day and night at the same time.

15. "During the devastating Black Death of the fourteenth century, patients who were sick or dead were kept in the same rooms as the rest of the family. People often wondered why the disease was affecting so many people at one time. They attributed these epidemics to ‘bad air’ or ‘evil spirits.’ However, careful attention to the medical commands of God as revealed in Leviticus would have saved untold millions of lives. Arturo Castiglione wrote about the overwhelming importance of this biblical medical law: ‘The laws against leprosyin Leviticus 13 may be regarded as the first model of sanitary legislation’ (A History of Medicine)." Grant R. Jeffery, The Signature of God With all these truths revealed in Scripture,how could a thinking person deny that the Bible is supernatural in origin? There is no other book in any of the world’s religions (Vedas, Bhagavad-Gita, Koran, Book of Mormon, etc.) that contains scientific truth. In fact, they contain statements that are clearly unscientific. Hank Hanegraaff said, "Faith in Christ is not some blind leap into a dark chasm, but a faith based on established evidence." (11:3 continued)

Answer 11

Science did not prove the existence of God,

still  I believe in HIM. It is this faith makes a

human , a human. Prevents you from going crazy instead to

think right, stay away from evils. God will reward you if you are good, and punish you if you do anything wrong--- this faith

keeps one straight. Science is not able to give

an explanation how the first cell came in to being,

the ocean, the different living beings started from where? Evolution took place from where?

All these questions dont have clear answers yet.

savithri