What would it take to believe that there is a Creator?

Question

Other the a lightning bolt to the cranium!

I beleive it would most likely be impossible to prove 100% but is there something in your mind that if you saw proof of this or that would/could that do it?

Or would it take something on more of a personal level with God that you would think that it had to be a sign?

In response to "what would it take for me to believe there is no Creator?"

To late, I have had more than enough physical evidence and then to top off a personal experience! That can never be taken from me!

I just wonder for your sake I want to help you find God, if you have not all ready! And am really curious as to why you can not or don't want to seek the truth!

Thanks for all your answers!

Ultimately we are all seeking the truth! But not everyone will find it!

Answer 1

Evidence of such a being would be helpful. A reason to have a belief in the deity. A mechanism for creating physics/space/time.
A reason to not except an eternal universe. Right of wrong I do not belive in the big bang theory. A message from the diety in question that cannot be explained by natural occourances.

Incredible claims require incredible evidence.

Answer 2

I have no doubt there was a creator. I've been reading the Bible for years, and believe that every word was inspired by God. Everything that scientist are discovering today in biological sciences points to a creator. From the simplest cell, scientist realize now that it couldn't have developed by evolution. It takes protein to make DNA, and it takes the information in DNA to make protein. Both DNA and protein had to have been created fully functional, at the same time, for cells to exist.

There's also something else in biology called irreducible complexity. If any part of a whole system is working fully, the whole system can't survive. There's no way certain systems could evolve without all parts being fully functional.

The DNA code has now been mapped, and what has shocked scientist is that the DNA code is a digital code. Scientist write out the DNA codes in mathematical formulas. Digital codes, by there very nature, can't evolve, that have to be designed.

I think science is finally proving the Bible.

Answer 3

For since the creation of the world, Gods invisible qualities, his eternal power, and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made so that men are without excuse." Romans 1:20

this verse means that even though you lived on some deserted island and nobody ever told you about God or anything.... He makes it clear to you through creation.

everything around you was made by him.. how else would it have got here? some explosion? explosions only cause destruction.. there is no way that it could possibly create the universe that is so complex and perfectly balanced..
think about it:

just a bit closer to the sun - we would burn

just a bit further - we would freeze

if the moon was a bit closer - tides would be to high and flood the earth

if the moon was a bit further - the tides wouldnt be high enough and marine life would be impossible

the human body - is so incredibly complex.. someone had to have created it right?
or are you really going to believe that we all evolved over millions of years from some slime struck by lightning?

EVERYTHING if in PERFECT BALANCE the planets in orbit, the earth on its axis - by chance?? i think not.

Answer 4

It is called a leap of faith.

imagine being at the grand canyon. now stand at the edge, and step out toward the other side. the fall is great, the other side imposable to reach, it can't be done, yet for that moment you throw your life into the unknown and trust the imposable, and your eyes close as you know that you are dead and will fall and be destroyed upon the rocks below.

your foot that you stretched out touches land and your other foot follows a lump in your throat you turn to see where you had been.

You see a ditch maybe an inch deep and the crossing maybe but 12 inches even a baby could cross that leap, you now know that your face was down in that ditch and what you thought was 1000 feet deep was but a inch, and the gap of maybe 600 to 1000 yards but a foot across!

Answer 5

It would be impossible to prove 5% that there is a creator, let alone 100%.

For those that believe, you have faith and faith alone. Where did you get that faith? 9x out of 10, it's because it was passed down to you by your parents. What examination did you do to come to that faith?

Those of us that are atheist most likely took a path to find atheism and no matter what silly proposition a xian has, there's nothing you can do to change our minds.

Answer 6

I would be more inclined to believe in a creator if there were any evidence to support such an entity. The more evidence, the more merit I would put in that belief.

Over time, from ages 17-19, I realized that there is no evidence that supports the belief in the existence of a creator (I was a devout believer (born again, even) before that). I found that what I believed in was hearsay - I believed in what my parents (and other elders) believed in, which they believed in because their parents and elders believed in it. None of those beliefs was based on reality, just on the beliefs of other people.

Would you believe your mother stole something very valuable just because a lot of other people believed it? Nobody actually saw your mother steal the item, but one person who had a high position in the society said he believed she stole it, so everyone else blindly believed that person. So when it's your turn to decide for yourself, would you just believe what everyone else believes, without any proof?

I couldn't believe in the absurdity of god when I realized there wasn't any evidence or proof of his existence, and that the only reason anyone believed it was because long ago some so-called "important person" (some ancient emperor/dictator (the equivalent of a liar/manipulator like George Bush today) said so, and all their elders accepted it because they couldn't (were afraid to and trained not to) question authority, just like you and I were by our own religions and cultures.



One idea I always had was that (if he was real) God could have made one little clue to prove his existence that wouldn't require just believing what other people say. Unfailing trust in other people is unfounded, so if he wanted us to believe in and trust in him, he should have made some proof, so that we don't have to depend on what other men say. The Bible is written by men. If God was real, why didn't he create the Ten Commandments on indestructible stones (if he's all powerful and all knowing, he could've done that). Or he could have written (and even mass published) the bible himself, instead of letting ignorant and fallible men do it. Or he could just come down and talk to us personally. If he was real, he could just make announcements every now and then, in a way that makes sense to everyone instead of through retarded propheices that only 1% of the world population at most is gullible enough to believe in.

He doesn't have to be all secretive. People make up all kinds of excuses about how people have to have faith and if he just proved his existence then people wouldn't have to have faith to believe and that that would somehow negate God's big plan! What a bunch of crap. By doing that, he (if he actually existed) is essentially saying "you better believe in a book written thousands of years ago by extremely fallible and ignorant men that's filled with contradictions and scientific untruths, and if you don't have faith in those men, then you will be punished forever and ever with the most extreme torture devisable." Sorry, I'm just not enough of a sucker to believe such crap.

When you realize that religion is faith in other men, not in God, religion no longer has any appeal. And the "need" to believe in God (an utter absurdity) no longer has any value or pull.


The person above me gave another ridiculous reason to believe in God. He says that the existence of the universe is proof that God exists, but it's not. He might as well say the existence of Diamonds is proof of the existence of invisible diamond-pooping elephants. God is one theory of an many that explains why the universe exists (although the Creation theory is severely lacking as an explanation).

Some people think diamonds exist because coal (or carbon) is subjected to extreme heat and pressure for a long time (thousands of years) and it changes the physical make-up of the carbon over time, and it eventually changes into diamonds. People that believe that are called scientists and the reason they believe that is because after doing all kinds of studies, that is the best explanation they have (and they've proved that it works like that in lab tests).

However there are those "non-scientific" people who say the diamonds weren't made like that, they were made by invisible elephants that poop out diamonds (that's why diamonds are crystal-clear, because the animals they come from are transparent, too). To these non-scientific people, the existence of diamonds is proof of their theory, even though there is no other evidence of the invisible diamond-pooping elephants. No big foot prints near the diamonds. No way of explaining how the invisible elephants take a crap inside solid rock hundreds of feet below the earth's surface, but those are all just technicalities, because the diamond's very existence is obviously very clear proof of those elephants' existence and we don't need any more proof than that!

Answer 7

if he showed up, burned a bush without it burning, turned some water into wine, parted a sea, appeared as a giant face across the entire sky everywhere, walked across some water, or raised the dead(ok this one i might be suspect that he is either god or the zombie master) that might do it, provided i saw it and knew there were no tricks or what not, but i'm open to believing...in fact, in chicago on a bus a guy told me he was jesus and for a dollar and a hug he would let me into heaven and i decided it was worth it..nobody else would believe him though.

Answer 8

Overwhelming logical and scientific proof, but there is no such proof at all. To "believe" means "to be convinced something is true without proof". I do not believe or disbelieve anything. I know facts. I do not believe fantasies. Several wise men said that many people accept God on the basis of faith and that the savants reject him for the same reason. I don't like being blind, but many people blind themselves to anything that disproves their beliefs.

Answer 9

William H? Macey? wow, it's an honor to answer your question mr Macey.
For me, the proof comes in the form of miracels. If i see a few miracles done in the name of a certain god (by more than one person of course, other wise, they could just be doing magic trciks or somethng) then, i would believe.

Answer 10

People fail to understand that everything in existence is mentioned in the bible. The way that it seems to point out, nothing can exist without it's opposite. So you'll have to accept that this world was made to be divided into two groups of every kind. For everything has a shadow.