Why do you think you "know" God exists?

Question

Most theists would never identify themselves as agnostics (don't know if God exists or not), so how do you think that you KNOW God exists rather than just believing in it?

Answer 1

By trusting my intuition. It's not logical, it's not scientific. Then again, logic is made by man to analyze, science is created by man to study, but logic and science have very little to do with the universe around all of us.

All I've got to trust is what I know, I've endured an what I've experienced. So yes, I believe in God, the creator of all things. I believe in a guiding hand pushing and pulling all things through evolution. I believe that Religions are a creation of man, in an attempt to understand something that is far beyond his comprehension.

So yes, I do believe, and no, I couldn't prove this to an atheist satisfaction. Then again, I'm not here to convert anyone, we're all grownups here, and free to make our own decisions. Live the way YOU want to live, and mind your own business.

"You only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself."
Richard Bach

Answer 2

The act of Believing is probably Man's strongest personality trait solely because it absolutely defies Reason. Believing in God is like believing in the existence of Love, there is nothing tangible that proves love exists but we all know that it's there. From my understanding of agnosticism, they aren't sure of the exist of God or not, but true agnostics are searching for ways to find out. Some people give agnostics a bad rap because they think it's a spiritual back alley to escape dealing with the "God issue". Through my mind's scope, God exists whether I believe he exists or not.

Answer 3

Lets look at it from the other side. I am atheist. I only know god don't exist because there is no proof of it. Everything I have ever read in the bible seems to conflict with evolution, Evolution is something that can be proved to a point. We know we can change thing by selective breeding. Keep breeding people with long fingers and over a couple of hundred years you will have people with even longer fingers. We have proved this with dog and other types of selective breeding. We have learned that we can even make a copy of a person or animal, a clone if you will.

So no I have no proof there is not a god and only a little proof the bible is fake. A little proof of non existences is more proof then none that he does exist. So till some kind of proof is brought to the table I have to say there is no god and never have been.

But even if someone was able to prove to me that there is a god that still don't mean I owe him my life and that I should bow down to him and serve him. He has to prove worthy of that.

Sorry guys I just can't make myself believe in a god.

Answer 4

For the 10000000000000 :

Just the observation that things exist, that there is a creation, is a proof of God. You can't have a creation without a creator. Allah is the great Creator.

"Allah" is the same word used by Christian Arabs and Jewish Arabs in their Bible, centuries before Islam came.

On page one [1] of Genesis in the Old Testament, we find the word "Allah" seventeen [17] times.

Every hotel and motel on the earth, just about, has a Bible placed there by the Giddion Society. If you look in the introduction, you will find samples of the different languages they have translated. For Arabic they have translated the verse in the New Testament in Arabic from the famous verse in the Gospel John 3:16 -

"For God so loved the world . . . "
- and the word the translators used in Arabic for "God" is the very same word used by Muslims around the planet, "Allah."

Allah = Has no gender (not male and not female)
* "He" is used only out of respect and dignity - not for gender
Allah = Always singular - Never plural
* "We" is used only as the "Royal WE" just as in English for royalty
Allah =Means "The Only One to be Worshipped"

http://islamtomorrow.com/allah/

Answer 5

Bare with me here. First you have to have hope that He exists. Then that hope grows into faith that He exists. Then faith grows into knowledge. Once you KNOW something, you don't have faith or hope in that thing, because you KNOW it.
One of the ways you KNOW something is through tests of your faith. Another way is by testing God. I don't mean this in a blasphemous way. If I have been introduced to someone, but forget their name, but I think it's Kevin, or something close to Kevin, maybe Keith, or Devin, or something along those lines. I can go up to the guy and say, "Hi, You're Kevin, right?" I've just tested my theory that this guys name is Kevin. The same concept can be done with God. "God, if there is a God, (name of friend) says there is a God. If that's you, please let me know. I don't wish to anger you, but I don't want to be deceived either. I want to know for myself." If you say something like this with an open heart, really wanting to know, He will let you know.
Personally, I can't remember ever not believing in God. But I did ask Him about the truthfullness of the Book of Mormon and it worked, I got my answer. From then on, I've tried to foster my relationship with Him. I've learned different ways that He answers my prayers, and different ways I need to prepare myself to get an answer. It's not always what I want, but I know when it's from Him.

Answer 6

I, very fortunately, come from an open-minded Dad & Mom...they provided me tools & directions to find my own truths...and I took it from there, at a very young age.

I found one great truth in "seek and you shall find, ask and it will be answered"...it has never failed me. But I am a very good listener, too, which definately helps. I also have a loud "inner voice", which also is an advantage.

I know that God/Goddess exist because of this...I seek information from every source I can get a hold of, when I ask a question of them, I listen...to the next song on the radio, to the next conversation I hear, to the next line in a book I pick up, to my "gut"...and in all of it, when that soul bell goes off inside that says "There You Go! There's Your Answer!" or "Now That Makes Sense!"...I keep it...and I leave the rest.

I also have had experiences of my own, let alone the thousands & thousands of recorded research documents on near-death experiences, past-life regressions, spirit visitations, angel sitings....way too many to just nix off as nothings, or hallucinations, because they are ALL the same--all. How can it be that from every corner of our globe, from every culture & religion, from every echelon, from every age group...these folks all describe the same experiences of Home?

There is also sooo much awe in this life that just reinforces my knowing...when each of my children were born, when one died...when a car accident should have, by all accounts, rendered us all dead, but we were hardly scratched...when in the midst of heart-ache over a relationship a phone call from out of the blue brings a smile & hope...when I see a flower growing in the middle of a parking lot...when your house burns down & a whole community rises to the occassion...I know God in all these and soooo much more....Good Journey to you, too...keep your mind cookin' & your heart open---See you on the Homefront someday!

Answer 7

Think about all the "coincidences" In the world. Take DNA for example. It is the most complex thing in the world. There are quadrillions of codes representing different amino acids. If there was just a single thing different with it, we would not be able to exist. Is that really just coincidence? If so, it would be probably a 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
chance.

Answer 8

I think God exists because some things work out so perfectly. I think I decided god existed when I was in algebra class. (a^2+b^2=c^2 is divine!)

Answer 9

If you have never known something I can't explain it. I do know that when I read something or hear something I do not necessarity know it. To know is to know with a certainty. I can say that I know God. There are lots of things I don't know and you can tell me till you are blue in the face but I will not know it until I am able to internalize it, own it for myself. I know God and no one can take that from me. I didn't always know Him but now I know Him.

Answer 10

If you don't "know" that He Is, it's very hard to explain. It's a feeling just like you know you are alive, or it's hot, it becomes so much a part of you it's like breathing. God puts the knowledge in our hearts. It's always been there, you don't have to fight to believe, you have to fight to not believe. It's not anything I'd want to be without again. I need to feel Him near me, to hear Him in my heart, it's like needing air.