I believe in God, not because there is conclusive evidence for the world to see, but because it's what I like believing. I like knowing that God is there to catch me if I fall. That if I just trust in God then He'll make things good for me. That if I am good then He will reward me. It's something that's in your heart not your head!
2006-06-09 12:16:47
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answer #1
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answered by floppity 7
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The point is you would not believe it if it was proven to you, it fact like most of the world God, or Jesus could walk right up to you and even do some fantastic feat, and you would still say it was a hoax. It's easier for people to accept that God does not exist, that way they feel safer, but the religious ones would be still say that it was an impostor, because it would spoil the little thing they have going. Just think that if God, or Jesus was to stand up and tell the truth, 99% of the religious groups would fall apart, knowing they had been found out as false.
Just think how they would explain to them how they have killed in God's name, I would love to see them get out of that.
So you see you would never accept proof even it was given, good question.
2006-06-09 10:29:22
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answered by ringo711 6
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We cannot prove the existence of God because no one can prove the existence of love, but we all know it exists. God is love, some things are just beyond science.
Or you can take another argument, at some point, some time, something must have come from nothing. This is also scientifically impossible. Yet something must have happened.
2006-06-09 10:31:38
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answered by Cameron H 2
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The existence of God?? Well i have his telephone number and address here...he's very busy though so its best you become a pen pal or somethin: Oh sorry, what god are we talkin about here, God, The Titans, allah, Shiva, Brahman...could i be bothered listing them ...theres millions! Anywho im guessin you're just after the old standardised god God, Yes? Okay well here goes, his address is:
999 Heavenly Heights
Hopefully it'll get there
Amen.
He's very busy so he may never reply, i say he? NOPE, Haemaphrodite thats the only possible conclusion to this! yup s-he must be! In fact Call his name okay? Now to contradict myself.....Yup proof that he doesn't exist or proof that he does? Its ironic!
2006-06-10 06:03:39
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answer #4
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answered by Bahamut Zero 1
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I will give you 1000 points if you can prove the existence or non- existence of God.? Conclusive is ambitious on your part.
Their is no positive and no negative, that's why the argument has lingered for so long.
I hate Cut & Paste.
2006-06-09 09:48:03
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answer #5
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answered by ?Master 6
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Now it is such a bizarrely impossible coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the nonexistence of God. The arguement goes something like this:
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," say Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't though of that" and promply vanishes in a puff of logic.
--THGTG
2006-06-09 08:58:56
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answered by Anonymous
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Well, I think you can keep your 10 points, even if I can give you the answer, I will not be able to receive it. Because only when I die than I will be able to Conclusively prove the existence or non-existence of God.
This answer is WITHOUT PREJUDICED.
2006-06-09 09:05:04
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answered by simple 3
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first of all, God is invisible, same as AIR. You can't catch it and it is here.
Second, everything has to come from the creator even if you believe in big bang theory, (someone has to make that happen)
Third of all, Bible has made all the prediction come true
Think about it.. look at nature, you will feel the existance of God.
It was like this yeas ago, and like it now as well
2006-06-09 08:58:36
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answered by LetMEtell&AskYOU 5
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Well. I don't know how to prove god.
But I can prove Karma. (The law that whatever goes around comes around.)
One day my friends and I were going shopping, we had driven to the mall and as usual we were giving eachother a hard time. Anyways, I decided to open my door right into my friend's face, it hits him and he falls down and I get out of the car and see him sprawled out, I break into hysterical laughter- of course. Help him up, and turn to walk towards the front of the car- not paying much attention. The car in the spot to the right front side of us, I hadn't notices at all. And didn't notice until mid laugh- the passenger side door opens and and hits me right in the face, knocking me down onto the pavement.
Needless to say I fell into hysterics, as well as all of my friends. Becuase not ten minutes before that all occured, I had been explaining to them about Karma.
2006-06-10 00:26:38
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answered by Karmically Screwed 4
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Proofs For God's Existence
While theology may take God's existence as absolutely necessary on the basis of authority, faith, or revelation, many philosophers -- and some theologians -- have thought it possible to demonstrate by reason that there must be a God.
St. Thomas Aquinas, in the thirteenth century, formulated the famous "five ways" by which God's existence can be demonstrated philosophically:
1. The "unmoved mover" argument. We know that there is a motion in the world; whatever is in motion is moved by another thing; this other thing also must be moved by something; to avoid an infinite regression, we must posit a "first mover," which is God.
2. The "nothing is caused by itself" argument. For example, a table is brought into being by a carpenter, who is caused by his parents. Again, we cannot go on to infinity, so there must be a first cause, which is God.
3. The cosmological argument. All physical things, even mountains, boulders, and rivers, come into being and go out of existence, no matter how low they last. Therefore, since time is infinite, there must be some time at which none of these things existed. But if there were nothing at that point in time, how could there be anything at all now, since nothing cannot cause anything? Thus, there must always have been at least one necessary thing that is eternal, which is God.
4. Objects in the world have differing degrees of qualities such as goodness. But speaking of more or less goodness makes sense only by comparison with what is the maximum goodness, which is God.
5. The teleological argument (argument from design). Things in the world move toward goals, just as the arrow does not move toward its goal except by the archer's directing it. Thus, there must be an intelligent designer who directs all things to their goals, and this is God.
Two other historically important "proofs" are the ontological argument and the moral argument. The former, made famous by St. Anselm in the eleventh century and defended in another form by Descartes, holds that it would be logically contradictory to deny God's existence. St. Anselm began by defining God as "that [being] than which nothing greater can be conceived." If God existed only in the mind, He then would not be the greatest conceivable being, for we could imagine another being that is greater because it would exist both in the mind and in reality, and that being would then be God. Therefore, to imagine God as existing only in the mind but not in reality leads to a logical contradiction; this proves the existence of God both in the mind and in reality.
Immanuel Kant rejected not only the ontological argument but the teleological and cosmological argument as well, based on his theory that reason is too limited to know anything beyond human experience. However, he did argue that religion could be established as presupposed by the workings of morality in the human mind ("practical reason"). God's existence is a necessary presupposition of there being any moral judgments that are objective, that go beyond mere relativistic moral preferences; such judgments require standards external to any human mind -- that is, they presume God's mind.
Arguments Against God's Existence
Arguments against God's existence have been given by philosophers, atheists, and agnostics. Some of these arguments find God's existence incompatible with observed facts; some are arguments that God does not exist because the concept of God is incoherent or confused. Others are criticisms of the proofs offered for God's existence.
One of the most influential and powerful "proofs" that there is no God proceeds from "The Problem from Evil." This argument claims that the following three statements cannot all be true: (a) evil exists; (b) God is omnipotent; and (c) God is all-loving. The argument is as follows:
If God can prevent evil, but doesn't, then He isn't all-loving.
If God intends to prevent evil, but cannot, then He isn't omnipotent.
If God both intends to prevent evil and is capable of doing so, then how can evil exist?
Another argument claims that the existence of an all-knowing God is incompatible with the fact of free will -- that humans do make choices. If God is omniscient, He must know beforehand exactly what a person will do in a given situation. In that case, a person is not in fact free to do the alternative to what God knows he or she will do, and free will must be an illusion. To take this one step further, if one chooses to commit a sin, how can it then be said that one sinned freely?
Hume provided powerful critiques of the main arguments for God's existence. Against the cosmological argument (Aquinas's third argument), he argued that the idea of a necessarily existing being is absurd. Hume stated, "Whatever we can conceive as existent, we can also conceive as nonexistent." He also asked why the ultimate source of the universe could not be the entire universe itself, eternal and uncaused, without a God?
Hume also criticized the argument from design (Aquinas's fifth argument). In particular, he emphasized that there is no legitimate way we can infer the properties of God as the creator of the world from the qualities of His creation. For instance, Hume questioned how we can be sure that the world was not created by a team; or that this is not one of many attempts at creations, the first few having been botched; or, on the other hand, that our world is not a poor first attempt "of an infant deity who afterwards abandoned it, ashamed of his lame performance."
2006-06-09 08:56:25
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answered by chips010 2
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After God created the heavens and the earth he created the beasts of the land and the birds of prey and the fishes that swim in the sea and he looked around and saw that it needed something and so he created Adam. God created man in his own image and set us higher than the beasts of the earth. I believe this image to be our spirits. Amen
2006-06-09 09:01:35
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answered by PATIENCE D 1
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