Belief in God is comforting, relieving, consoling, and gives meaning and purpose to life. The Bible says so. Other People Believe in God 1. Belief in God is comforting, relieving, consoling, and gives meaning and purpose to life. Religious people have been raised to believe in God.
People believe because they fear death and the unknown.
As pattern-seeking animals, we seek causes to which we can attribute our actions and the actions of others. According to attribution theory, we attribute the causes of our own and others' behaviors to either a situation or a disposition. Problems in attribution may arise in our haste to accept the first cause that comes to mind. But I suspect this is only part of the explanation. In dealing with others, for example, we might attribute our own good fortune to hard work and intelligence, whereas the other person's good fortune is attributed to luck and circumstance.