How do you know that God exists?

Question

I'm another proud Christian.

Answer 1

I have a personal relationship with him.

Answer 2

You can know through your reason. For example, how do you know that a book you own has an author? Because someone has to have written it (well, there are some people who say that a thousand monkeys working for a thousand years could come up with Shakespear, well, if you want to believe that the book you're holding is written by a thousand monkeys, go ahead, but its not reasonable). Everything we know about life has a cause, everything but one thing, that is. For everything in the universe there has to have been a first cause, this is God. He is a cause in and of Himself and He is the first cause which causes everything else. But, he also gave us free will, so we ourselves become causes (hence we're able to create things like clocks, computers, books, etc.).

There are many arguments from reason for the existence of God. Faith and reason do coexist and are fantastic together! This is why Muslims got so upset at the Pope's speech, his talk was basically about how faith without reason is empty for anyone can believe anything, but what we believe must be reasonable. Muslims don't agree hence there are Muslim terrorists because they are not using their reason.

But, frankly, I believe in God not just because my reason (i.e. my brain) tells me so, but because my heart tells me so. He has rescued me from some very bad situations (like moving from Iran to America and now to England!) and I've seen miracles in the lives of my family. I believe in God because every time I look outside and hear the birds singing or I look at a baby, my heart smiles.

Here's another very simple reason for how we know God exists. When we suffer, we know that it isn't just pointless, we feel that it has to have meaning. And the only meaning can come from God.

Answer 3

Look around. Have you ever wondered how the little things in life work? How it took men at least 6,000 years to figure out how to make a motor turn, but 6,000 years ago our brains were working. Have you ever looked at a DNA molecule and seen how vast the code is. Stuff like this doesn't happen just by something exploding in space. And it would take a human more than a lifetime to put together an entire sequence of DNA big enough to mimic a human's. So whether you believe in the Christian God, or the Greek God's you know there is something bigger and more powerful out there.

Answer 4

Religion is a fantasy. It is no more than a comic book that too many people embrace. Millions and millions of people too busy in this non-sense that the truths of the world around us may never be told. There is NO God. Everything has an explanation and it's typical cult and caveman thinking that provide superstitious explanations to science.

Do you also believe that Superman is real? You would if the text was written in a dead language thousands of years ago because proof is never demanded from cult members.

Answer 5

"Where shall I begin, to tell the story of how great a love can be . . ." this is not meant to be flip. If I had one question, and I might pose it soon, for evolutionists and atheists alike, it would be how did LOVE evolve. It is no accident that Rav Shaul (Paul) wrote 1 Cor 13, and specifically "faith, hope, and love . . . the greatest of these is love". All three are abstracts. There can be no scientific rationale for any abstract, especially these three. John 1 4:7 says that Love is of G-d. In fact, as I looked up the reference, I remembered doing a word count of the word love and its' mutations in chapter 4 and that word is used 26 times!

Let's look at some other proofs (I'll post a link to an apologetics site of mine) look at bonding as a proof. This talks about how we come to relate to others, it starts in the womb and progresses onwards. How about all of our primal instincts, and how did they develop. How about the very process of thinking and even how we come to know that we know (epistemology).

The basic problem the world has is that they attempt to subject humanity upon deity. In other words they think of the creator as being like the created. Wrong. It's time for us as Christians to have people learn to think "outside the box".

I forgot to post the link earlier, but I have returned to do so.

Answer 6

It is very easy to get to know that GOD is existing as following:
Suppose while you are walking in the desert, you found a Glass Bottle. What is the first thing you can think of:
a- Some one passed before you come and left the Bottle. OR
b- This bottle was made by nature

Definitely you will think the answer is (A) not (B).

Ask your self the second question, which is more sophisticated, making a Glass Bottle or this universe??!!

The answer of course is that it is more difficult to make this universe than making a Glass Bottle.

Ask your self who made this universe before we were found on earth, so simple it is God.

Can you comment on this simple Philosophy.
Waiting for serious thinking viewers only please. Thanks

Answer 7

Because I exist and this earth exists. Just think about it. This earth is perfectly positions to sustain life. It is exactly the right distance from the sun, It is tilted at just the right angle, it spins at exactly the right speed. What would happen if the earth slowed down in it's rotation? What would happen if the speed of it's rotation increased? What if the earth moved significanlty closser to the sun? Even those who believe in the big bang lie....how is it that the earth landed in exactly the right place with the right engineering to sustain life?

Answer 8

The same way I know the I exist! In real terms the proof of my existence or lack of existence is no easier then arguing about the existence of God.

Answer 9

Because I can see Him on line wiggling His noodley appendages for our delight.
I am a proud follower of the church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Ramen !

Answer 10

I feel it. Sure, many times as I grew up I would doubt his existence, but as I grew older and more sure in my faith, I just knew because it becomes obvious as you look around, but you need a relationship with him first.

Answer 11

Knowledge can be defined as justified true belief. Even if it is true that god exists (and I very much doubt it) there is no justification for the belief.