Do you believe; and why?

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(05-08-2019, 06:07 PM)bfine32 Wrote: I think the title is the answer "Why do you believe". I believe because I believe. If I were to need proof I wouldn't believe. Some things I have pointed to when asked is:

What's the one thing God didn't give man? The knowledge of good and evil. God wanted man to be obedient stewards of his creations, but man stole the knowledge of good and evil and that question for knowledge has motivated many to prove the good does not exist.

How the story of creation pretty much mirrors the theory of evolution in sequence.

A rock cannot become alive.

He created a scenario in which the knowledge of good and evil would be accessible, yet he made that access forbidden. If he did not want them to be exposed to, or curious about, said knowledge -- then it seems to be rather capricious to tempt them with it in the first place. 

As for our quest for knowledge motivating people to prove that God does not exist; I would propose that its more the case that the accumulation of knowledge has often eliminated God as a plausible or relevant explanation. For instance, people once thought lightning and thunder were the result of an angry super being. We now know what cause lighting and thunder, which eliminates the need to insert a god as the cause. As the knowledge of how our universe actually works continues to bottleneck, there is less and less need and opportunity for supernatural explanation.