What is the evidence for God?

Question

I have been searching for God for a long time, but have not found Him. Am I missing something?

This is definitely not meant to sound offensive...I am truly seeking....If you'd like to respond to my email, please do....

Answer 1

Eschew religion then.

Go out in the world, and look about you. Look closely. Look at life, at the sky, at a leaf.

Then stop thinking about it so hard that you mask the presence of the Creator inside you. You don't need to search, just stop fleeing what is around you.

Answer 2

To search for God is like searching for happiness. Only when one is unhappy or dissatisfied, one searches. This is a built-in biological need. We search for food, when we are hungry, for water when we are thirsty, for explanations, when we are ignorant. The question is: Will I be satisfied with what I find? When we are children we content ourselves with childish things, which we abandon when we grow up. The difference between a child and an adult is that the child is in the process of developing the critical faculty, the ability to reason. A child is more likely to believe in fairy tails than an adult, but some people never grow up. Their critical faculty is so damaged, they can never acquire full possession and use of their brains. Do not accept explanations on faith. That’s for children. Accept only facts and non-contradictory logic, then you’ll know the truth. It is the truth that adults want, not fantasies, and it is the truth that will fully satisfy an intelligent, grown-up mind. There is no correlation between the “belief” in evolution and the belief in God. The theory of evolution is a fact, like the theorem of Pythagoras. Evolution explains scientifically why and how we got here. The belief in God explains nothing. But yes, to believe in anything doesn’t take much effort, wheras to learn about how evolution works, how the universal law of natural selection operates to bring about living organisms from simple to complex takes an inquisitive mind, some learning and the desire to expand one's ability to reason.

Answer 3

As an atheist, I have been searching for evidence of God too. Like you, I have found no trace which leads me to the conclusion that God is a delusion and does not exist. The entire 'proof' of the existence of a supernatural being is based on 'faith', but faith in what? I am acutely aware that as an Irishman living in the Christian West, I have more chance of finding a Christian God than a Muslim or Buddist one if I was to take up a faith. This is by accident of birth, so how can one be so passionately sure of your faith if you know that had you been born a few thousand miles East I might have been bowing to Mecca and being equally full of a totally different 'faith'. You cannot say it does not matter as God is God, otherwise we would not have all these wars over it, and as an Irishman I speak from experience! In my country, the God and the religion ARE the same, but two different variations which have caused Ireland to be split down the middle in the North.

Do not despair that you have not found God, instead congratulate yourself on having the intelligence to look beyond ancient scriptures which are a bunch of different documents by multiple authors which have been edited and re-edited and further 'modified' to put a completely absurd view of the world and our place in it. The fact the Bible states (if you add up the generations since Adam in Genesis) the earth to be 6000 years old and makes not one mention of dinosaurs should give a slight hint that the rest of it is baloney too.

As for a book of morality, Lot offers his daughters to the people of Sodom for gang rape to protect the two angels who visit him. Luckily for them the angels temporarily blind everyone so they can escape. God then kills Lot's wife by turning her into a pillar of salt for the rather minor sin of turning around to have a look at the destruction of Sodom (a rather natural human reaction) and not an act of a merciful God who loves us! This story finishes off with Lots daughters missing male company so much they sleep with their father and get pregnant!

My question to you is, do you really want your children reading this garbage? Do you really want the morals of religion to guide you? Use your head, exercise human compassion and you will be a better person than the bigots who spout religion yet rarely live up to their pious statements.

Answer 4

I m not sure that God as in how religions see may exist, the truth we may never know.I dont know if a human named Jesus or Buddha was God,maybe in those days great humans were made Gods n thier greatness exagerrated, may be some great men today migth have also been named God if they were born earlier. but I do feel there is a supreme governing power , that governs all that exists.It all depends on what u believe.Some people experience supernatural things but it is possibly just how a mind works

Answer 5

God is in your heart and soul, god is what you believe it to be. I believe god is the energy that supports all of life, not necessarily someone who looks over us and watches our every move, i think that god is in the core of everything with life and that the sun is god because the sun gives us life and has the power to take it away, and is the biggest ball of energy in our solar system, when people pray for god to help them i think they are just channeling into the energy that exists inside them and when someone believes strong enough in their god that it can change their life.
My advice would be to figure out what works for you and what makes the most sense and put your faith in that. But i ask you to look into the facts of the sun being our higher power and see if that makes any sense. here are some examples
1.It gives us life
2.if it were to die out so would we
3.you really can't look directly at it for very long
4.in ancient times they describe god as a bright light
5.the 10 commandments were burnt into a slab or rock
6.when people have near death experiences they always see a bright light or feel a warm light on them
7.Sunday!!! the day of god also god rested on the 7th day of creation
8.the sun effects our weather, or crops, plant life, animals, the moon, the planets around us and the entire solar system really

Answer 6

Evidence? I haven't seen any one being providing me evidence that One God exists. Nor have I read one line that isn't some quote from some other person who had given such a charming impression the women and fellows who quote it or follow it gained when they falter from fear long enough to gain a sense of balance.

Oh! Please. I don't want to be your surrogate Father. I wanted to be at your side in the quest for life, adventure, and living.

I wanted to play when my needs were no longer demanding my attention at work.

When my stomach was full I wanted to rest. Unlike in the wild one spends more time dodging beasts that wanted to make them their supper.

I don't want to be your God.
I want to be the good guy or the bad guy when we are playing outdoors.
I want to be, the fireman, the policeman, the priest doctor, or MD, the good guy when I am in charge all alone.

Nobody ever, that I played along side, wanted to be the bad guy all the time, so we swapped places to keep the game interesting.

And we tried our best to look good when we were doing the dieing scene. You want evidence someone is a GOD? Are not the friends and Family you know / knew and loved evidence.

Are not the union of a man and a woman that created a child Evidence?

Answer 7

There is no evidence that can be considered without first having the presupposition that he does exist. That is to say, you must first take a leap of faith before any of the evidence produced will make sense to you. Why is that?

It is my understanding that since god does not exist you must first trick yourself into believing he does and then find whatever you can that supports this belief and ignore anything that challenges it. That is the only way to truly (in the sense of those who believe) find god.

Many will tell you that you must have faith. Well what is faith? It's belief without evidence... i think that sums it all up right there.

Answer 8

Hey, that's ok! You trying to find God, and at least accepting there may very well be a higher power is the first step to finding your faith. Atheists don't/can't believe in a God, but like Christians, cannot prove it either way. That's why it is faith, but there is a website called artakiane.com, please go. A true messenger of our Lord, she was born into a family of atheists! And started having visions of God & heaven without any exposure to it, it's so amazing! Get ready for some eye candy, hopefully it will be exactly what you are looking for ~ "proof", what really can be proven anyways? Love to you brother:o]

Answer 9

My husband and father both found God in nature. Ironic, that out of all of the things in the world - after reading, and asking and listening to religious rant after religious rant, they found it in a quiet moment.

To me, I see God in the way humans and animals are designed. There is not one part of me that thinks it all evolved this way by chance. From the ocean to the sky, to the creatures that inhabit the world - it's all so complex.

Read Phillipians 4:8 -- dwell on the good things. God will show Himself to you if you ask Him directly. Do not look for him in a church - in churches, you will find faulty humans just trying to do the right thing.

Good luck!

Answer 10

It depends on people’s faith in Him.
Evidence for God: Belief in the Oneness of God – indivisible in His Existence, unattainable by human thought, all – embracing in His Wisdom and Power.
I do not know which religion you belong to but i am a Muslim so i wrote you about the evidences for God whatever was in my mind. Actually fundamental position is common to all great religions, whatever their denominations may be; and equally common to all of them is the moral appeal to man to surrender himself to the manifest will of God. But Islam, and Islam alone, goes beyond this theoretical explanation and exhortation, it teaches man not only that all life is essentially a unity, because it proceeds out of Divine Oneness, but it shows us also the practical way how every one of us can reproduce, within the limits of his individual, earthly life, the unity of idea and action both in his existence and in his consciousness.
According to the Qur’an, God did not call for blind subservience on the part of man but rather appealed to his intellect; He did not stand apart from man’s destiny but was nearer to him than the vein in his neck.
Best of Luck!!