Can you honestly say you know without a doubt that there isn't any God/s or spirit world?

Question

If so please list your reasons and sources and please no insults if you're answer isn't an actual answer just go away.

I believe in the spirit world based on intuition or feeling but I never claimed to know or be able to prove it where many atheist and cynical minded people, not skeptics whom I like to consider myself, do. They say well I can't prove a negative when really you can, what of negative numbers, opposites can be proven by their opposite, negative by positive. Or they make some totally illogical comparison to Santa clause or me, pink unicorn. Were there are many logically thought out theories that have been put out there for the existence of an ultimate force being behind the universe or holding it together in a way. I'm no scientist so I'm sure I'm not explaining myself well but I don't believe it is fair to dismiss all the work that many people have put into trying to find the truth in their way, spirituality is just another method, God just another answer but it is the same question. Why are we here? Atheist have their science and some of us open-minded theist have our mysticism.

Answer 1

no one in this world human can say that with any real proof that some one else cant tottally punch holes in or bring a whole other set of possibilitys that is a quetion for the ages the one big mystery and no one has the answer it is a personal choice in witch either you beleive or do not

Answer 2

A fascinating question, in fact, the answer to this question is one of the oldest and probably the most fundamental reason why many people believe in God and other unseen supernatural beings.

The fact is, of course we cannot prove or demonstrate that God or a spirit world does not exist.

This seems very profound and suggestive evidence for the possibility that God exists, until we realise that this is true of an (actual) infinite number of hypothesised entities.

Some famous examples of such entities, which have been used to illustrate the inability of this argument to provide evidence either for or against the existence of God and other undetectable supernatural beings, are; The Flying Spaghetti Monster, The Invisible Pink Unicorn and Russell's Space Teapot.

An interesting thought experiment, that can be used to not only highlight the point of positing such entities, but also provide insight on how and why mankind believes in unseen supernatural beings, is to take a passage of the bible and to substitute the word 'Flying Spaghetti Monster' (for instance) in place of each instance of the word 'God'.

You will notice how the biblical passage being read changes from being seemingly credible and profound-sounding (usually even to non-believers) to sounding rather ridiculous, despite the fact that the assertions made and assumptions underlying the passage have not changed. The only real change is our response to envisioning God as either an all-powerful world-creating being with a deep voice and alpha-male like characteristics, or as an all-powerful world-creating sentient bundle of meatballs and spaghetti.

Answer 3

No!!!!!! But I will ask a question to those who have said there is scientific proof that there isn't? How can you prove that there isn't? Give me the proof and the source of that proof....Please? What science has ever one way or the other? And if they have figured out how to prove it....they need to share it with the hundreds of scientist that have been trying to figure out some form of science for centuries and centuries and even with the IQ of a Genius they have failed to do so!!!! I have tried and I am slightly more intelligent the the average bear...and guess what? Nothing one way or the other!!! That's right no proof there is and no proof that there isn't HMMMM?<

Answer 4

No, I can't say that there is no god or spirit world.

I would pose a different proposition. Many of the people who claim to not believe in God equate that statement with not believing in the Judeo-Christian model of God. There are many good reasons why someone would not believe in Jehovah. There are many good reasons why someone who does believe that Jehovah exists would oppose him.

Don't get me wrong, there are many sincere atheists, but I think there are many who simply can't believe in God as described in the Bible. Of course, this is outside of your actual question, so I won't get into a lengthy exposition. It's just something to consider.

Answer 5

No, and that's why I'm agnostic. Agnostic means I hold the philosophical view that the existence of a god or gods cannot be known.

But, I also can't know whether there is a blue giant shrimp floating about the outer arms of the galaxy.

Knowledge and belief are two different things. I don't *believe* in the blue shrimp, because there is no evidence or reason to. I don't believe in a god or gods for the same reason.

This makes me an agnostic atheist.

Answer 6

There is a spirit world. The spirit world refers to the particular essences of any given specific entities. For example: In the aspect of more dense entities: The spirit of a tree is very different from the spirit of a rock or the spirit of a human being. In the aspect of less dense entities: The spirit of joy is different from the spirit of sadness. And to verbally pay heed to the existences of these different spirits we come up with names for them. Like the spirit of water in Nahuatl (the Aztec language) is Tlaloc. These are just names to more easily refer to a particular spirit of a particular entity. Instead of saying " Spirit of water, I feel good that you exist", we say "Tlaloc, we honor your existence."

Likewise the name "God" refers to the great spirit. However "God" is the spirit of all spirits, while all other spirits are spirits of individual entities. Analogically, the great spirit or "God" is the ocean, while individual spirits of individual entities are like drops of water. All individual spirits are part of the great spirit.

I find having names for specific spirits a bit redundant, since the great spirit covers them all already. I am a practical guy. I practice simplicity and have an innate tendency to cater to the big picture. But if a particular entity of existence catches your attention in a special way, well, you have the freedom to show your special appreciation to it. For example,iIf you want to worship the spirit of destruction, you worship Shiva. The term Shiva represents the essence of destruction. It's not a person, it's a spirit. You can make up your own name for any spirit. People have been doing it forever.

Answer 7

No but I can honestly say from personal experience I believe in the human soul or spirit and based on my experience there definitely are separate unseen dimensions that occupy the exact same space as ours and all of them are spiritual/physical worlds to one degree or another and there is some basis in fact for the creative evolution of all the superstitious illogical human religions.

Answer 8

Can you honestly say you know without a doubt that there is a God or a spirit world?
Works both ways doesn't it?
NO ONE knows for a fact if there is a God or not. People need to accept that.

Answer 9

You can't know anything without a doubt. 100% certainty is impossible. I do have very good reason to doubt that there is anything supernatural in this world for 2 reasons. 1 there is no repeatable test that has ever shown any evidence of supernatural phenomena, and 2 we have discovered natural causes for phenomena that were at one time though to be supernatural.

Remember, if you don't know the cause of something it's perfectly OK to say "i don't know."

Answer 10

I believe in kharma...does that count? I'm not saying I don't believe in a God or Gods or spirit. I just have a hard time believing in a God who would condemn me to hell for being unsure. I live my life with good intentions and treat others with respect and kindness. I would never intentionally hurt and still people claim that I am doomed because I do not accept their beliefs as they do.