How can you convince a non believer that God exists?

Question

What is the simplest way to prove to someone that God is alive?

Answer 1

The best way EVER is to show them how God has changed your life.

If they see that your life has been better since God has entered it, perhaps they'd be intrigued enough to want God in their lives. ;^)

As St. Francis said, "Preach the Gospel at all times, and if necessary use words." God bless

Answer 2

You can't prove there is a God, because there is no proof.

And sorry- but the Bible is not proof- Most religions have their own holy book, and all assert their respctive holy texts are proof their God is real..

Why do you feel the need to convince people there is a God?

I should think a persons relationship with God- or lack therof -is a very personal thing- and to force your beliefs on someone else is rude and intrusive.
If you have faith, great, but dont force others to worship your God-or any one of the dozens of other Gods worshipped in different cultures. If they want to be religious, its thier choice to make- not yours...

Answer 3

Sure. this miracle or any other that you think will stand up to the same level of scientific scrutiny that anything in science has to stand up to. Many have made this kind of promise in the past. None have yet to produce a miracle. i.e. something that defies the normal order of the universe. Kirk Cameron and his buddy tried to do it last night on TV. But all they could come up with was that a creator must have created us, otherwise we wouldn't be here. Oh, and that our moral code comes from the ten commandments. Really week from a scientific point of view.

Answer 4

Only God can convince and convict them. You can do your part by showing them how God is alive in you. The best thing we can do is to live what we believe, be a good example, and be prepared to give answers for the hope that we have in Christ. It should be a hope that inspires others to want the same hope we have. If we, as Christians, behave no differently than the rest of the world, then why should they believe what we say is true? As followers of Christ, people should be able to see a difference in our lives - a positive difference!

Remember, Jesus said, "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples."

This is a command I think we all too often neglect. Just imagine all the glory God would receive if we put more focus and energy into just this one commandment! And, nonbelievers would not be so weary of us.

Yes, we should share our faith with others because Christ commanded it, because scripture is living and life changing, but we should share it as the GOOD news it was intended to be - and good news is not shoved down anyone's throat. We cannot force them to believe. We don't have that power.

Another powerful thing we can do is pray. All throughout scripture we are told God listens to the prayers of the righteous. My brother was once a practicing Wiccan who wanted nothing to do with God. I didn't dare try to push him because it would only push him further away. The only thing I could do was pray, show him Christ's love, and answer honestly any questions he threw at me. It was ONLY God who changed his heart - He gets all the glory for my brother finally accepting Christ as his Savior.

So, you can offer convincing proofs of the existence of God by using science and nature, and you can provide archaelogical, historical, and textual evidence to support the Bible's credibility, but only God can change their hearts. I still think the best way is to practice what we preach.

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A book you might want to see if your friend is interested in reading would be "The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus" by Lee Strobel. Lee Strobel was educated at Yale Law School, is an award-winning former legal editor of the Chicago Tribune, and was an atheist turned believer during the course of his investigation. Here's a link: http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0310209307/ref=s9_asin_title_1/002-8446737-0096055

Another resource to check out might be http://www.wayofthemaster.com/

Answer 5

Hehehe. You cannot. If you have any proof you can show them, but keep in mind that the bible, personal experience and the existence of the universe, or the beauty of nature does NOT prove that your God exists, is the only one, and deserves to be worshiped.

Answer 6

Why simplest way ? Is there anyway one can prove that ? God is an expression of the emotional mind in a die hard optimist. One who 'wants' to experience it, may succeed. One who understands why a believer thinks the way he or she does, need not do the same.

Answer 7

You cannot. How can I convince you that Russell's teapot exists?

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Russell's teapot, sometimes called the Celestial Teapot, was an analogy first coined by the philosopher Bertrand Russell, intended to refute the idea that the burden of proof lies upon the sceptic to disprove unfalsifiable claims of religions. In an article entitled "Is There a God?," commissioned (but never published) by Illustrated magazine in 1952, Russell said the following:

If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.

In his book A Devil's Chaplain, Richard Dawkins developed the teapot theme a little further:

The reason organized religion merits outright hostility is that, unlike belief in Russell's teapot, religion is powerful, influential, tax-exempt and systematically passed on to children too young to defend themselves. Children are not compelled to spend their formative years memorizing loony books about teapots. Government-subsidized schools don't exclude children whose parents prefer the wrong shape of teapot. Teapot-believers don't stone teapot-unbelievers, teapot-apostates, teapot-heretics and teapot-blasphemers to death. Mothers don't warn their sons off marrying teapot-shiksas whose parents believe in three teapots rather than one. People who put the milk in first don't kneecap those who put the tea in first.

Answer 8

Tell non believer to memorize a occasion that he/she has merely escaped from an accident. Let him to think why he has survived, led to survived. In this case he can consider occurrence of victimising if so what is the situation now.
This un-felt power for our 5 sense of prevention bad called god. In return calamities happens and many people survive due strong believe of their survival is with blessing god.
But some of them are not mature enough to believe the god power.

Answer 9

1.Logical convincing will not quest the thirst of GOD till he/she does not search on their own to quest the thirst of GOD.
2. If any human searches for this then GOD guides silently to seaker ie from where and who will help to quest the thirst of GOD.
3. So, pls leave the non believer on their own so that they can face their suffering critically , your interference will delay them to come in the stage of spiritual quest.

Answer 10

You dont have to convince them, Just tell them about Your God and what He done for you and leave it at that. That way he gets to think about it when nobody is around and you know you did what you humanly possibly could.