To believe in God is a rational choice .
I agree
Why should a God not Bless nonbelief just as much as bless belief?
If I created a table, and deep down the table knows I created it, but the table said to me (and/or everyone around it) "Kittyfranklin didn't create me!" how would that make me feel? It is simply not true. I did create the table and the table knows it.
If someone procreates, and the child (who, deep down, knows that person created them) says, "You are not my parent!" How would that make them feel? It's not true. That person is the child's parent.
A child who accepts their parent as their parent will definitely get more "credit" than a child who rejects their parent.
God can both be a God of punishment and Grace.
If you are Christion this may be a problem because most believe in punishment.
I am a Christian and I do not believe God is a God of punishment. I believe God has given us free will. Look around. Why would there be evil if there was not free will? If God was to stop people from doing evil, they would not have free will. We would not have the free will to choose love. We would not have the free will to choose Him. We would be robots.
Therefore, the choice in this matter would be to choose God or separation from God (which is equivalent to torture). God has "prepared a place" for people who don't want to be with Him. That is what hell is. We are the ones who get to choose where we go. That's the beauty of it! It is not punishment. God gives us what we choose. We choose if we will have eternity with God (which, if Christian, we believe God is our lifesource) or eternity away from God (i.e. eternal death and torture).
These are my beliefs of course, and everyone has a right to their own belieds, but I have thought them through for myself. If anyone has any questions or wants to try to throw something my way that I have not thought of, I welcome it. I am constantly questioning whether God exists, whether Jesus is "the way," etc. and then I come back to what makes the most sense to me with all my investigating, analyzing, putting puzzle pieces together, etc.
I don't think it can be proven, but I cannot find enough evidence against it. I also don't think anything can be proven. I'm very skeptical.
I also typically make most decisions based on what will carry the least amount of risk. Believing in the Christian God seems to carry the most amount of rational evidence and the least amount of risk, as opposed to other versions of God, or atheism.
I don't care whether the earth is flat or round (which is why I don't research it). The earth's shape does not change where I will end up. And even though I do choose to believe the earth is a sphere that rotates around the sun, I'm not going to just believe 100% what people say, including experts, scientists, etc. People can lie you know, lol! But I believe it enough for now because there is a consensus, and to me, when I look out over the ocean, it looks a bit curved quite frankly. But do I know that there is a possibility we have all been duped? Sure, why not? There are tons of things we've been duped about and we are currently being duped about.
If you've thought enough about something, belief is a choice. If you haven't thought much of it, you will be told what to believe and you will just follow that. So I suppose it's also a choice to simply believe what you're told.