how do we sure that God exists?

Question

I don't think simply by 'faith' is a good answer enugh, I realized that sometimes superficial beliefs are there to answer the unanswered.

Even in the past, religions are one of the institutions that provide answers that science cannot answer at the moment, however, when science was discovered, more and more religion was banished for cheating the public.

Sometimes, human beings created their own religion? How can we sure that cat is so sacret in Egypt while we're kicking it on the streets?

When something bad happens, we say "it's God's plans", isn't this a psychological way to answer the misery the person encountered and also to console him? We often blame God for many things, such as failure in business and education, is that the right way?

We often say that everything in bible is correct, but it is written, structured, planned, organized, and potentially distorted by human. The priests claims it to be correct, any evidence?

thanks for the "compliment" from unclewayne. I can contruct sencentenses, but this is just my first draft writing without doublechecking my grammer and spellings. I believe that what is written should remain original.

to address "tuberoot", faith is a very abstract word that does not carry much meaning. When we hope for the best, we pray; when we did something successfully, we thank God; when we did something bad, we seek salvation from God; when we failed, we blame on God.

Do you see the link? It does not really link to God. One thing I noticed is that "man is sinful, therefore, to go to heaven, you must go through the religion, and become a christian", this sounds like a commercial to me. Don't you guys think so?

As for "visitorparkingonly", I think you're confused with "faith" and "truth", when I start the car, I "hope" that the car will work, the truth is - it will. Unless there is something wrong with the car, which I "hope" that it's not. I don't think there's any link with faith.

As you mentioned 'Faith...hope..certain..do not see", Don't you relised that when we say "must have faith in God", we are saying "We must hope that God exists and believe that we really do although the existence is not vivd to me"?

Science has not found a solution for the evolution of mankind, that's why religion still has it's role to work at this modern time. Do you think religion will really work if we know for sure that we are originated from one of the specieses in the universe?

You are also confident that God promises you many things, can you just name some? Or it is just your hardwork then earns you the rewards?

Answer 1

Elwood - you are so cruel.


However, "blue lagoon" is so right. I can't believe a person who can't construct sentences can make such profound insightful observations. -- What does that prove? Formal Education is never as good as an open-mind. (Maybe "blue lagoon" is from foreign country, and he is new to our language.)

Answer 2

How are you sure that your car will start each time you have need of it? Faith!
Same applies here. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see." (Hebrews 11:1).
Did you know that a scientist, if he/she is willing to set aside all they learn about evolution, and then look at the hardcore facts surrounding the creation of the world, every single one of them would admit that something greater than us, an intelligent designer, created everything. Start with that idea firmly in mind, walk outside and look at everything around you: trees, plants, birds, everything and ask yourself where all this came from? Was it all just by some randome chance that could never be proven anyway, or what there something or someone behind it all? Follow that and then understand all that God says in His word! He promises a lot! I step outside and I am confident each time that something so far beyond me created all this...then faith fills in all the little gaps that my mind cannot comprehend. Again, faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. FAITH!!!

Answer 3

Any religion believe simply by faith is not going to convince people, at least I know I don't convice by it.

It may seem people are more psychological convice by simply either 'following others's faith' or simply believe in a religion that 'he love us' then have a thorough study and in depth research before have it as their spiritual growth.

Science and religion actually didn't contradict, those people who have a wrong understanding for a religion make the religion contradict with the science. As far as I know, the religion which I study in can 'get along' with the concept of science very well, the leader even encourage us to learn from their concept when it proven to be logic, he ofter have a dialogue with sciencist too.

As far as I concern, there's no such thing as 'so and so plans', as i mentioned before in one the the QnA, if god really love us so much, why do he created us in such massy world, with all the wars, terrorism? so much suffering in our life? To let us learn our lesson? Why don't his created us in such a way that we are so intelligence and have so much wisdom that we no need to learn from all the painful lesson?

We have to thoroughly research and contamplate of any study which we come across, before we accept it. It don't make sense to me that anythings which claims by any people is correct when they can't answer any of your doubt but just tell you 'so and so love you, so just trust him' in any religions.

Answer 4

I think that the word 'faith' is one of those words that are subjectively understood. That is; everyone has their own meaning of the word.

I think that you might see it differently if you understood faith as being 'trust.' Trusting God is most certainly enough. At least that's what my Bible says.

As for blaming God for things; why blame him for the bad things unless you also thank him for the good things? I think that makes more sense.

Answer 5

I, for one, do not believe that God exists. Religion is such an obsolete coping mechanism that it's holding back the advancement of society, and people should be capable of functioning without it by now.

Answer 6

Read the Holy Quran once and you will get the answer. I bet if you don't get the answer after reading the Quran I will send you 100 US dollar straight.

Answer 7

Our walk is by faith.You must believe without seeing,that is why its called faith.

Answer 8

First, get your head examined
Second, pick up a copy of hooked-on-phonics in your local library

Third, NO EVIDENCE, hence the term belief-system....

Answer 9

Proof is not short, but here are three.

A PRACTICAL MAN'S PROOF OF GOD

The existence of God is a subject that has occupied schools of philosophy and theology for thousands of years. Most of the time, these debates have revolved around all kinds of assumptions and definitions. Philosophers will spend a lifetime arguing about the meaning of a word and never really get there. One is reminded of the college student who was asked how his philosophy class was going. He replied that they had not done much because when the teacher tried to call roll, the kids kept arguing about whether they existed or not.

Most of us who live and work in the real world do not concern ourselves with such activities. We realize that such discussions may have value and interest in the academic world, but the stress and pressure of day-to-day life forces us to deal with a very pragmatic way of making decisions. If I ask you to prove to me that you have $2.00, you would show it to me. Even in more abstract things we use common sense and practical reasoning. If I ask you whether a certain person is honest or not, you do not flood the air with dissertations on the relative nature of honesty; you would give me evidence one way or the other. The techniques of much of the philosophical arguments that go on would eliminate most of engineering and technology if they were applied in those fields.

The purpose of this brief study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective. To do this, we are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real. If you do not believe that you exist, you have bigger problems than this study will entail and you will have to look elsewhere.

THE BEGINNING

If we do exist, there are only two possible explanations as to how our existence came to be. Either we had a beginning or we did not have a beginning. The Bible says, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (Genesis 1 :1). The atheist has always maintained that there was no beginning. The idea is that matter has always existed in the form of either matter or energy; and all that has happened is that matter has been changed from form to

form, but it has always been. The Humanist Manifesto says, "Matter is self-existing and not created," and that is a concise statement of the atheist's belief.

The way we decide whether the atheist is correct or not is to see what science has discovered about this question. The picture below on the left represents our part of the cosmos. Each of the disk shaped objects is a galaxy like our Milky Way. All of these galaxies are moving relative to each other. Their movement has a very distinct pattern which causes the distance between the galaxies to get greater with every passing day. If we had three galaxies located at positions A, B. and C in the second diagram below, and if they are located as shown, tomorrow they will be further apart. The triangle they form will be bigger. The day after tomorrow the triangle will be bigger yet. We live in an expanding universe that gets bigger and bigger and bigger with every passing day.



Now let us suppose that we made time run backwards! If we are located at a certain distance today, then yesterday we were closer together. The day before that, we were still closer. Ultimately, where must all the galaxies have been? At a point! At the beginning! At what scientists call a singularity!

A second proof is seen in the energy sources that fuel the cosmos. The picture to the right is a picture of the sun. Like all stars, the sun generates its energy by a nuclear process known as thermonuclear fusion. Every second that passes, the sun compresses 564 million tons of hydrogen into 560 million tons of helium with 4 million tons of matter released as energy. In spite of that tremendous consumption of fuel, the sun has only used up 2% of the hydrogen it had the day it came into existence. This incredible furnace is not a process confined to the sun. Every star in the sky generates its energy in the same way. Throughout the cosmos there are 25 quintillion stars, each converting hydrogen into helium, thereby reducing the total amount of hydrogen in the cosmos. Just think about it! If everywhere in the cosmos hydrogen is being consumed and if the process has been going on forever, how much hydrogen should be left?

Suppose I attempt to drive my automobile without putting any more gas (fuel) into it. As I drive and drive, what is eventually going to happen? I am going to run out of gas I If the cosmos has been here forever, we would have run out of hydrogen long ago! The fact is, however, that the sun still has 98% of its original hydrogen. The fact is that hydrogen is the most abundant material in the universe! Everywhere we look in space we can see the hydrogen 21 cm line in the spectrum_a piece of light only given off by hydrogen. This could not be unless we had a beginning!

A third scientific proof that the atheist is wrong is seen in the second law of thermodynamics. In any closed system, things tend to become disordered. If an automobile is driven for years and years without repair, for example, it will become so disordered that it would not run any more. Getting old is simple conformity to the second law of thermodynamics. In space, things also get old. Astronomers refer to the aging process as heat death. If the cosmos is "everything that ever was or is or ever will be," as Dr. Carl Sagan is so fond of saying, nothing could be added to it to improve its order or repair it. Even a universe that expands and collapses and expands again forever would die because it would lose light and heat each time it expanded and rebounded.

The atheist's assertion that matter/energy is eternal is scientifically wrong. The biblical assertion that there was a beginning is scientifically correct.

THE CAUSE

If we know the creation has a beginning, we are faced with another logical question_was the creation caused or was it not caused? The Bible states, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Not only does the Bible maintain that there was a cause_a creation_but it also tells us what the cause was. It was God. The atheist tells us that "matter is self-existing and not created." If matter had a beginning and yet was uncaused, one must logically maintain that something would have had to come into existence out of nothing. From empty space with no force, no matter, no energy, and no intelligence, matter would have to become existent. Even if this could happen by some strange new process unknown to science today, there is a logical problem.

In order for matter to come out of nothing, all of our scientific laws dealing with the conservation of matter/energy would have to be wrong, invalidating all of chemistry. All of our laws of conservation of angular momentum would have to be wrong, invalidating all of physics. All of our laws of conservation of electric charge would have to be wrong, invalidating all of electronics and demanding that your TV set not work!! Your television set may not work, but that is not the reason! In order to believe matter is uncaused, one has to discard known laws and principles of science. No reasonable person is going to do this simply to maintain a personal atheistic position.

The atheist's assertion that matter is eternal is wrong. The atheist's assertion that the universe is uncaused and selfexisting is also incorrect The Bible's assertion that there was a beginning which was caused is supported strongly by the available scientific evidence.

THE DESIGN

If we know that the creation had a beginning and we know that the beginning was caused, there is one last question for us to answer--what was the cause? The Bible tells us that God was the cause. We are further told that the God who did the causing did so with planning and reason and logic. Romans 1:20 tells us that we can know God is

"through the things he has made." The atheist, on the other hand, will try to convince us that we are the product of chance. Julian Huxley once said:

We are as much a product of blind forces as is the falling of a stone to earth or the ebb and flow of the tides. We have just happened, and man was made flesh by a long series of singularly beneficial accidents.
The subject of design has been one that has been explored in many different ways. For most of us, simply looking at our newborn child is enough to rule out chance. Modern-day scientists like Paul Davies and Frederick Hoyle and others are raising elaborate objections to the use of chance in explaining natural phenomena. A principle of modern science has emerged in the 1980s called "the anthropic principle." The basic thrust of the anthropic principle is that chance is simply not a valid mechanism to explain the atom or life. If chance is not valid, we are constrained to reject Huxley's claim and to realize that we are the product of an intelligent God.

Answer 10

Um hello. Why do you people keep asking if I exist? Do you exist?