Do you think God exists?

Question

I havent seen him or felt him or touched him so how do I know he exists? Can you help me have faith?

Answer 1

The two halves of your question don't go together. You need faith because there is no way to see or feel god. If you insist on the need for evidence, you will never have faith. It's one or the other.

This is a very difficult "leap", and as you can see around here, very few believers make it. It's relatively easy to falsely convince yourself that you have some kind of evidence for the existence of god, and far more difficult to admit that no such evidence exists, which is necessary before you can have a belief based in faith.

I've made that first leap, and I'm aware (obviously) that there is no evidence for the existence of god. However, I do not think that god exists. I have no advice for you on how to have faith beyond what I just said: you can't have faith if you insist on evidence.

Answer 2

Have you felt the wind, seen a rainbow, a sunrise, a sunset? Got a note or call from someone you had lost touch with? Have you ever experienced true inner peace, that is the quiet voice that calms you and not the loud voice in your head
Has a stranger smiled at you? Have you witnessed the birth of a living being (person or animal), heard the waves crashing on the beach, felt the warmth of the sun on your face?
then you my friend have experienced God,

Answer 3

Yes, God exists. Here is an excerpt from the Baha'i Holy Writings on this very subject:

PROOFS AND EVIDENCES OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

One of the proofs and demonstrations of the existence of God is the fact that man did not create himself: nay, his creator and designer is another than himself.

It is certain and indisputable that the creator of man is not like man because a powerless creature cannot create another being. The maker, the creator, has to possess all perfections in order that he may create.

Can the creation be perfect and the creator imperfect? Can a picture be a masterpiece and the painter imperfect in his art? For it is his art and his creation. Moreover, the picture cannot be like the painter; otherwise, the painting would have created itself. However perfect the picture may be, in comparison with the painter it is in the utmost degree of imperfection.

The contingent world is the source of imperfections: God is the origin of perfections. The imperfections of the contingent world are in themselves a proof of the perfections of God.

For example, when you look at man, you see that he is weak. This very weakness of the creature is a proof of the power of the Eternal Almighty One, because, if there were no power, weakness could not be imagined. Then the weakness of the creature is a proof of the power of God; for if there were no power, there could be no weakness; so from this weakness it becomes evident that there is power in the world. Again, in the contingent world there is poverty; then necessarily wealth exists, since poverty is apparent in the world. In the contingent world there is ignorance; necessarily knowledge exists, because ignorance is found; for if there were no knowledge, neither would there be ignorance. Ignorance is the nonexistence of knowledge, and if there were no existence, nonexistence could not be realized.

It is certain that the whole contingent world is subjected to a law and rule which it can never disobey; even man is forced to submit to death, to sleep and to other conditions -- that is to say, man in certain particulars is governed, and necessarily this state of being governed implies the existence of a governor. Because a characteristic of contingent beings is dependency, and this dependency is an essential necessity, therefore, there must be an independent being whose independence is essential.

In the same way it is understood from the man who is sick that there must be one who is in health; for if there were no health, his sickness could not be proved.

Therefore, it becomes evident that there is an Eternal Almighty One, Who is the possessor of all perfections, because unless He possessed all perfections He would be like His creation.

Throughout the world of existence it is the same; the smallest created thing proves that there is a creator. For instance, this piece of bread proves that it has a maker.

Praise be to God! the least change produced in the form of the smallest thing proves the existence of a creator: then can this great universe, which is endless, be self-created and come into existence from the action of matter and the elements? How self-evidently wrong is such a supposition!

These obvious arguments are adduced for weak souls; but if the inner perception be open, a hundred thousand clear proofs become visible. Thus, when man feels the indwelling spirit, he is in no need of arguments for its existence; but for those who are deprived of the bounty of the spirit, it is necessary to establish external arguments.

Answer 4

My only sincere question to you is do you want to believe?
I believe that God exists as our Eternal Father. He has given us agency (choice). With that agency he has allowed us to exercise our faith in Him. Faith is not something tangeable, it is a hope for things which are not seen but are true. I can tell you have a desire to know so experiment with the word (the scriptures) and they will allow you, by the manifestations of the Holy Spirit, to know the truth of them. Remember the words of James "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God; who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not." (James 1:5)
And consider the following:

Suppose that a person decided he wanted to prove once and for all there is no God. Since the scriptures claim that God dwells in the heavens, the first task the person would have is to examine every cubic inch of the heavens (the universe), to see if there was no God. But even that impossible task creates a new set of problems. First of all, it would have to be an examination in the fullest sense of the word. Human beings see only visible light, which is a tiny portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. If by see we mean only what the eye can register, God would be totally missed if he exists at another frequency of the light spectrum. In other words, suppose God were at the ultraviolet or infrared frequencies. This person looking for God would miss him completely.
But examining every inch of the universe across the fulness of the electromagnetic spectrum still wouldn't provide irrefutable proof. Suppose the person marked out the universe in a grid and began to search it systematically, square by square, from A to Z, and doesn't find God in any of the squares. Could that person then say there was no God? No! What if God was in square L when the searcher started in square A, but by the time that person reached square L, God had moved back to square B or C?
To prove there is no God, a person would have to perceive (in the fullest sense of the word) every cubic inch of the entire universe simultaneously! In other words, one would have to be a god in order to prove there is no God.

Answer 5

Start with thinking about your body. Billions of cells, each one like a factory. Each cell with DNA, a gigantic book, with directions for chemical and other reactions to produce you. You have many body parts inside. Sit still. Have you noticed how quiet it is, maybe you hear a slight thump of the pulse or heartbeat. How many man made machines can work so quietly?

So you drank milk and ate baby food, and now you enjoy all sorts of tasty dishes, hopefully..and that food was captured into cells to create a bigger you.

Your nervous system, sends messages from your brain to the whole body to control it, and receives messages concerning your environment, heat, cold, pain, temperature, etc...

You have a specific number of hairs, on your body and head. This is written in the DNA. Can you find that number in your DNA? Can you read the directions on how to make your liver, or eyeball? Can you determine how much oxygen you need to absorb into your blood, from the lungs, to deliver to each cell?

I imagine the instructions in one DNA cell, if they could be read, could fill a book miles thick.

Now go outside and put in a bucket 6 pounds of water and 2 pounds of dirt and see if you can create even ONE cell with DNA or maybe create a new animal or a baby....What are the chances you can?

Once you have created a new animal, where do you get the power of life/spirit to put in it, so it can move?

If you look on line and view a few stars, and compare the size of them to the earth, what conclusion do you arrive at?

So if you come to the conclusion you cannot create even one living thing...How much power and wisdom and knowledge would it take for a person to do it?

Since there is proof of life on earth, does this prove to you that there is intelligent design and power and love involved in the life here?

Answer 6

I used to feel somewhat the same way. I would ask in prayer that my Faith would be strengthened. Over the years it has been. Clear your mind of all your earthly cares. Focus on God. Ask him to help you. You will feel a joy in your heart and love of everything and everybody in the world around you. It may not come immediately. But keep at it. Faith is continue trying to hear and feel him when it appears that nothing is happening! I will keep you in my prayers

Answer 7

Yes, I know God exists! But how? I have experienced Him through faith!

But how does it work?

Through see, taste, hear, feel, smell we contact our earthly environment.

Faith is the sense through which you use to contact God. The sixth sense as some call it.

As an example: suppose you are hungry and some one gives you money to buy food. To you money is the assurance that you are going to have food. Just like faith, it "is the evidence of things hoped for, the substance of things unseen" (HEBREWS 11:1). When you have money you still don't have food, but you have the evidence because of the purchasing power at hand.

God is a Spirit by nature (just as we are human), so we can only contact Him through faith (just as we use the 5 senses to contact our environment). When we believe Him, then we can experience Him, otherwise " without faith it is impossible to please God: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him." (HEBREWS 11:6).

Take love for example, how do we know we love someone or they love us? We can't see(eyes), feel (skin), taste(tongue), smell(nose), hear(ear) our love neither theirs. Moreover, we can't measure it or empirically prove it. But we become so sure of its existence, as much to us it is real. But how do we know it is there? It is by Faith!

Faith in God, works in a similar way.

Hope this can help you to have faith in God.

Answer 8

Yes, God exists.

If you found a watch on the beach and it was still working, you would not presume that this intricate watch that keeps good time simply pulled itself together and manufactured itselfl through some random process.

Watches don't make themselves. Clocks don't make themselves.

Take a look at the universe. It is the largest clock we are able to observe. It too didn't just pull itself together and manufacture itself.

For every clock there is a clock maker.

Answer 9

you know there a lot of things I've never seen ,but that doesn't make them not real,I can't cut myself and see my own DNA,or a atom,i can't see air,carbon monoxide is a orderless and invisible gas,and it will kill you ,so I'm not going to cut my car on and leave it running and get in my car to prove that it exist,but I know God exist ,I have not doubt,i feel in my soul,and sometime the words i type i don't know were they come from,and they are his word and i've seen things ,people being healed,so many different things it would take to long to write them,but the only way to find real proof is look for him,seek and ye shall find,and I have looked and I have found,you can too if you want too

Answer 10

Your argument makes no sense... that's like me saying:

I haven't ever seen, felt or touched Russia... that means it must not exist...

Also... I haven't ever seen, felt or touched you... that must mean you don't exist...

No one can help you have faith... faith is believing something despite a lack of proof... if we helped you have faith it wouldn't be faith anymore...