Is belief in God a choice

[Rhizomorph13]

Everyone,

I just found this at the Funk and Wagnell site:

Belief:
a mental attitude of acceptance or assent toward a proposition without the full intellectual knowledge required to guarantee its truth. Believing is either an intellectual judgment or, as the 18th-century Scottish Skeptic David Hume maintained, a special sort of feeling with overtones that differ from those of disbelief. Beliefs have been distinguished according to their degree of certainty: a surmise or suspicion, an opinion, or a conviction. Belief becomes knowledge only when the truth of a proposition becomes evident to the believer. Belief in someone or something is basically different from belief that a proposition is true.

This leads me to the idea that belief is a spectrum phenomena that includes chosen as well as NOT chosen(De Facto) beliefs. When this thread started I thought belief was the result of being convinced but this definition has changed my mind. My own belief in the soul and reincarnation would only rate as a suspicion on the belief spectrum.

SO you don't "believe" in a truck bearing down on you; you have full "knowledge" that the truck will hit you. It is a purely gnostic event whereas belief is something that falls between gnostic and agnostic.

Rhizo