If I can prove to you that God exists by doing something really really impossible, would you belive in Him?

Question

If not, then the problem is not belief but your will. Therefore can't do anything about that.

Answer 1

uh... just how impossible are you talking? Like... snapping your fingers to change your hair color? Defying all laws of physics at the same time? Standing on a bomb that detinates and walking away unscathed?

I mean, this little wager you're talking about is kind of vague. Come back when you're not going to be so... wishy washy.

Answer 2

This is a ridiculous 'question' that has NO foundation in reason. How do you equate proof with will? Proof = evidence, not will. Will = want. It's not that Atheists don't *want* to believe in a god, they just aren't led around by a learned *faith* in whatever god they've been taught and instead request proof. Perhaps you should reevaluate your logic as right now, it's incredibly flawed. The only correlation I see is that non-believers have no will to believe in something without proof. But that's not what your "question" says and it's a technicality.


Your being able to do parlour tricks won't convince most of the existence of any god. It would more likely make them reconsider magic and illusion.

Answer 3

How would it prove God exists if YOU do something 'really really impossible'? All that would prove is that YOU have abilities beyond normal people. It wouldnt prove anything either way about the existance of a God.

How about if I can prove to you that God DOESNT exist by citing lack of evidence, inconsistancies, contradictions etc. Would you then STOP believing in Him? If not, then your belief isnt based on evidence or fact or logic or rationality, but on pure desire to believe. Therefore cant do anything about THAT.

Answer 4

No, in my mind it would prove that God does not exist.

Now it is such a bizarrely improbably coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful [the Babel fish] could have evolved by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says 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 thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
-- Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Answer 5

You cant prove God's existence, neither hould you try to proove it.
Let the Holy Spirit do that! You should pray and you should share your beliefs with others. But you should'nt force it! If the person is not interested, dont insist!
Jesus never forced anyone! The apostles neither! And neither did the first diciples!
Faith does not need proof! Faith is beyond reasoning, it is obedience, a way of life!
God bless you.

Answer 6

You're begging the question. If you can prove god exists (no matter how it would be done), then god exists. If it can be PROVEN that god exists, he exists. Point is, it can't be proven. But that doesn't mean god DOESN'T exist (for that, you'd have to prove that god doesn't exist, which you can't do), just that the knowledge of god is unverifiable.

But the point is, you CAN'T prove that god exists, but in a situation that you COULD, then sure, I'd believe you. But that's not the case.

Feel free to come up with hypothetical situations with examples of how you could "prove god" but trust me on this one, there aren't any. I'm willing to respond to specifics, of course.

Answer 7

If you can do something "impossible" than it's not impossible.


Now, you COULD do something which would appear impossible, given what we know about the universe.

However, that would constitute evidence only that we don't know how it was done. It would be an unknown.

Unknowns are not proof of anything. They are unknowns.
Lightning was once an unknown. Electricity. Disease... all of these were once unknowns and manipulating them would have seemed impossible 1000 years ago.

But they're not anymore.

that's why unknowns can't be used as proof of a deity.

(besides, WHICH deity anyway?)

Answer 8

Well, you would have to do something that could not be explained by something else, like some cheap trick. I'm not quite sure what that would be. I suppose God himself could appear before me and do something really awesome, like stop time or something.

The key here is, you would have to *demonstrate* God's existence, not just suggest it with special effects.

Answer 9

You have to love how often Christians use the term "will" in their comments. No, nothing could change it. Why? Because everything is left up to interpretation.

Ancient humans use to believe lightning was God's spear and thunder was his voice. That seemed "impossible" to them because they were ignorant. What is your excuse?

Be good.

Answer 10

someone yesterday tried to prove God existed by explaining how unicorns were real. I don't think I can believe that.