Actually, its philosophically nonsensical to prove a negative, and proof (strictly speaking) doesn't apply to questions like this. Proof is available to mathematicians, but no-one else really, we all depend on the evidence we see and our ability to interpret it. Some people see the world and it proves God's hand in its creation, others see the world and realize that a creating god is only one of many possible interpretations. Your problem is probably that there is no possible PROOF that God exists. That's why it's called faith - it's about believing in the absence of evidence. Believers don't need proof. For non-believers, the issue is that there simply isn't enough evidence for God. We find our way through the maze according to what we think is important.
2006-06-24 12:14:46
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answered by Bad Liberal 7
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1. There is no collaborated evidence that Jesus actually existed (just a few offhand references, one by Josephus), or that he did and did all the things that we claim he did.
2. There is no way to trace the Bible documents to the people who claim to have wrote them. Their true authors are still a mystery.
3. The world is a messed-up place. People pray constantly for relief or intervention, but the rain continues to fall on the just and injust alike. Good people die, and bad people prosper.
4. Few of us experience any "real" miracles in this life -- aside from those miracles "created" by redefining what a miracle is ("Oh, just being alive is a miracle!")
5. Some Christians are "less good" than some non-Christians. Why should Christians be given more credibility?
6. Why Jesus? Why not some of the other self-proclaimed Messiahs?
7. Many of the things credited to God cannot be proven to be from him. A Christian will attribute someone's cancer remission to God healing them, but down the street a little boy will die from leukemia and God is not blamed for his death. It seems arbitrary.
Need I continue?
(And these are conceptual issues. We haven't even begun to discuss any seeming inconsistencies in archaeological or history data, or shows why one interpretation is better than another.)
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I'm actually a Christian, but I think my point is that you cannot "prove" God and Christ to people.
You can *make a case* why believing in God and Jesus is a reasonable thing to do -- and possibly makes more sense than NOT believing in Christianity.
But you can never prove Christianity, and if you base your faith on that, then one day either your faith will falter or you'll be ineffective in sharing your faith with non-Christians.
In the end, what matters is this question: "Why should I personally desire to be a Christian?"
People come to God as individuals, not because they were coerced by some sort of logical proof. In fact, they will deny evidence and find a way around any logical proof, if in their hearts they still don't want to believe in God.
Becoming like Jesus and acting as he and God would (i.e., loving others at your own expense, caring about them, serving them, and so forth) is the only "proof" that really means anything in the long haul.
2006-06-24 12:42:09
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answered by Jennywocky 6
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Christianity is true!!
There is enough proof for the fact that more than 2 billion people truly believe that a fairy-tale is the Truth.
Just look around you, walk onto the streets, you'll find all the proof you need. 1 out of every 3 persons in this world calls him/herselves a Christian, how much more proof do you need?
Christianity can be found in so many books. Try the Bible, you can find a lot about the fairy-tale in there, as it seems.
Good luck, hope this helped.
2006-06-24 12:15:28
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answered by Thinx 5
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Freewill user-friendly potential that a man or woman has the skill to make ethical possibilities, after that's held responsible for the consequence of that selection. no longer something in Christian theology has ever stated that "unfastened will" potential you're making random possibilities. If there have been no circumstances or circumstances, then no decision may be mandatory. So the certainty that there are exterior stimuli that rigidity you to make a style does not disproves unfastened will. the certainty which you're making the call based on your previous studies, education, morals, and so on helps the theory that unfastened will exist, because of the fact it rather is those issues that enable to you're making ethical judgements. a man or woman without those may be incapable of starting to be a style. So each little thing you listed - exterior impacts, circumstances, circumstances, and the movements of others - are all what make the Christian concept of "unfastened will" no longer purely achievable, yet needed. I have not any clue what philosophy or faith you're turning out to be your theory of "random action" from, even yet it is not something taught by potential of the Christian faith. per threat you need to learn somewhat greater approximately Christianity,
2016-10-31 10:34:08
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answered by Anonymous
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Two ways to have proof:
1. Believing is seeing...it is called faith and as long as it is true to you then it is proof, the proof God provided on your heart.
2. In a human aspect, becuase we question everything I suggest a book. "The Case for Christ" It is a great book and helped me with the proof I needed to guide me back to faith.
2006-06-24 12:19:55
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answered by lord777ak13 2
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People cannot have free will AND have an all knowing god. The two statements completely contradict each other, yet Christians say they are both true. It's like saying you can draw a perfect circle with corners, it just doesn't work.
Christianity is a religion that is based on fear! A good god would not threaten people with eternal suffering for not believing that he existed.
The Christian god, one that is supposed to be all good, creates suffering:
"God is omniscient. When he created the universe, he saw the sufferings which humans would endure as a result of the sin of those original humans. He heard the screams of the damned. Surely he would have known that it would have been better for those humans to never have been born (in fact, the Bible says this very thing), and surely this all-compassionate deity would have foregone the creation of a universe destined to imperfection in which many of the humans were doomed to eternal suffering. A perfectly compassionate being who creates beings which he knows are doomed to suffer is impossible."
An all good god would not punish finite sins with infinite suffering:
"God is perfectly just, and yet he sentences the imperfect humans he created to infinite suffering in hell for finite sins. Clearly, a limited offense does not warrant unlimited punishment. God's sentencing of the imperfect humans to an eternity in hell for a mere mortal lifetime of sin is infinitely more unjust than this punishment. The absurd injustice of this infinite punishment is even greater when we consider that the ultimate source of human imperfection is the God who created them. A perfectly just God who sentences his imperfect creation to infinite punishment for finite sins is impossible."
The reasons why Christianity doesn't work go on and on. I don't want to change your beliefs, I'm just trying to answer your question. Here's a quote to think about:
"The very concept of sin comes from the bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?"
-Dan Barker
2006-06-24 12:30:47
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answered by Anonymous
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Has anyone EVER with logic, scientific and objective facts, proved to you that Christianity is true?. Your faith goes against reason, so the only solid proof we need to prove you're wrong is that your faith cannot prove itself.
2006-06-24 12:13:38
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answered by Lanondadek 1
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I'd say that there isn't PROOF that ANY religion is false.
Since proof kinda goes along with knowing something, and since we can't know for sure there is a God, etc., (we can only believe), there isn't really proof that any religion is true of false.
2006-06-24 12:09:24
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answered by gummy937 1
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Yes, the answer is W. The real question is this: Can you prove it true without a shadow of a doubt? Just a thought.
2006-06-24 12:08:03
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answered by plasticfishes 2
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yes check out my questions. christans cant agree with each other. when i read this part of the bible it didnt make sense. christian presists only talk about what is obvious to all people. like love thy neighboor. who dosent know that. when i read the bible its as if it was written by a man beacuse it uses thy too much.
Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. (Psalm 119:9-11 KJV)
what?
so i think this means a young man can cleanse him self by listening to me. see it seems like it has been changed. oh about the question i asked click on my name and see the question that says wich one is it? the whole question is eveidence.
2006-06-24 12:31:36
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answered by servant of AR-RAHIM mostMERCIFUL 3
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