What in your life has convinced you that God exists?

Question

I was just wondering if someone would come up with something better than the 5 proofs by St. Thomas Aquinas.

Answer 1

Evolution proves to me that God exists. God is all about cause and effect, while evolution examines the effect of "cause."

All the Douglass Adams (Hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy) fans out there will recall that God exists because of faith. If something comes along and PROVES that God exists, (like the very useful Babel fish) God will cry out "Oh No!" and vanish in a puff of logic. You wouldn't want that to happen now, would you?

Answer 2

God loves me. He has given me everlasting life. God is Love. God is Spirit. A fruit of God's Holy Spirit is Love. Love is a Spiritual factor.

I quit going to church after I married & moved. I didn't read the bible or pray or talk about God to people. I didn't want to offend anyone. During that 10 years I made some mistakes. At my 10 yr class reunion I got drunk & don't know what happened. Before that a person asked me about God. I didn't know what to say. Someone drove me to my parents. I remember being at parents home but I didn't know what I had done. I got very sick and couldn't get better.

Drove back home and for two weeks couldn't get better. I was afraid. No one would tell me what I did. So I prayed to God. Asked God to forgive me because I thought I might have spilled some secrets or did something awful.

Since I had been practicing self hypnosis, I tried to calm myself with it. With that came being stuck in the dream domain. A state of mind that can't go to sleep or wake up. With that were visions, voices, and heart attacks, etc.. I responded with yelling at God and it got worse. Stuck with this horrible feeling witch spirit that wouldn't leave me. This spell lasted nearly a year.

Someone came into my life and brought me to a church where I, desperate, went forward for deliverence. What happened is I made some stupid noises, and the pastor prayed for me and I calmed down & that witch spirit left me for good.

I still had problems and couldn't sleep well. So I went forward and did a rededication to the Lord. Each time I went forward there was more deliverence. I think it was the 4th time I went forward the pastor prayed for me and told me an anointing was coming. With that the Holy Spirit filled me strong and my arms went straight up towards heaven and I praised God in the Spirit.

I was in the Spirit when I got home and stared in my closet. I pulled a book out and the Holy Spirit led me to throw the Mormon book away. I pulled another book out & opened it to a page that had a verse that wrote, "It is the anointing, the Spirit of Truth that you have received that is not a liar and will lead you into all truth." The Holy Spirit revealed to me that I could trust Him. I went to sleep that night and don't remember what happened because I really slept. That moment was my biggest deliverence.

I still sleep well. And I have grown in my faith in the God that loves me. I still go to the same church & the pastor still preaches the victory and faith.

God is in my life 24/7. He is a light unto my path. He will never leave me or forsake me. It is a promise.


I don't know what the 5 proofs by St. Thomas Aquinas are. Please someone write them down.

Answer 3

Not one thing. On the contrary, many things in life have proved to me god does not exist.

Saint Aquinas' 5 proof's have been dissected and easily refuted amongst the past 600 years.

Answer 4

I felt a presence when I was down on my luck and homeless.I asked God for a sign he cared and I know I felt something.That feeling was God watching over me.I felt it in my very being and even cried with tears of joy.After that it was only another month and half before I got off the streets and got my life back.God became a reality because without him I would have given up and killed myself.I now have a personal relationship with God.I'm not a Bible thumper or a fundamentalist.Just someone who felt God.

Answer 5

Best thing: don't go for the logical proofs or the beliefs. They are NEVER satisfying or transformative for the long term. It's just a bunch of mind games that our logical, rational minds like to engage in; unfortunately they keep us from direct experience.

We can have a direct experience that yields the answers. Just look at stories about Zen enlightenment (e.g, read '3 Pillars of Zen' by Kapleau).

Answer 6

No one can prove by facts that God exists. The experience of God, however you understand that concept changes your life. The actual experience of God within has a profound impact on who you are. Be very still and listen to what going on inside of you. Can you still your mind to not think anything for even 60 seconds? Meditation might give you your answer. Blessings, Lotusrain

Answer 7

Their was a time when I was angry with god. One day a friend at work gave me a bible. The new testament I didn't think that much of it. I thought it was a little strange.
A few months latter My grandmother came up with cancer, and she had to have an operation done. When I heard about my grandmother having cancer, I was deeply even more angry at god about it. So I prayed to god more like talking to god. blaming him for what was happening to my grandmother.
Then my grandmother was not breathing in the operating room, and my family was very worried, because of her age. she is in her eighty's. We didn't think her body can handle the trama she was going through. Then she was in intense of care. I was crying, and praying saying " What did she do to deserve this she loves you. Why not me. Please don't take my grandmother away from me. I know we don't see eye to eye, but please don't take my grandmother away from me." So after three months she got better. Ever since that day I know that theirs a god. He answered my prayers. I didn't think she would've made it. That's why now I remain very faithful to God.

Answer 8

I spent a lot of time wondering if God existed or not. Then one day, I found myself praying. Then I realized who am I praying to? That convinced me that God exists.

Then before I had accepted Jesus, God helped me break an addiction that had hold of my life. That was enough to convince me that Jesus was my personal savior.

Answer 9

particular!!! particular!!! having examine the previous testomony i grow to be confident that purely God could have produced this way of F****ed up international... once you talk that, afterall, the God of the previous testomony is arguably the main unsightly character in all of fiction: Jealous and pleased with it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving administration-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic purifier; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniac, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. each thing else turns into sparkling.... The Maker Made This and what a maker!

Answer 10

I don't know what the 5 proofs are, I'm baptist, but I do know he exists because I wake up each morning, I have my health, my family, there are beautiful things all around us, mountains, waterfalls, rainbows, trees, nature, etc....I'm convinced because I see all this each and every day, and when I need him, all I have to do is pray, and hes there.