Are humans really capable of knowing whether god exists?

Question

How can human beings ever know that god exists? We are incapable of that.

Disclaimer: I don't claim to be an agnostic or atheist. So please don't bash me for that. I repeat again. I am neither atheist/agnostic nor am I trying to challenge the beliefs of religious people. This is just a simple question.

Answer 1

Yes. We can know that there are no gods. We do this the same way we know that Tinklebell doesn't exist. Look at the literature and study where it came from. Religions have histories, and you can study the creation and development of religions. In every case, you can see that the religion was started by people who believed superstition. If you go back far enough, it is just primitive ancestor worship and sun worship, neither of which we consider gods today.

You can also study human psychology and see how we tend to make up superstition. We can compare common superstitions to religion.

Answer 2

confident we are able to determining! God has revealed himself to us via regularly occurring revelation. meaning we are in a position to comprehend there's a God via employing what we see in nature. ascertain this out: a million. on earth oxygen contains 21% of our ecosystem. If oxygen were 25% fires would erupt spontaneously; if it were 15 p.c. human beings would suffocate. 2. If our surroundings have been much less sparkling, now no longer adequate photograph voltaic radiation would attain the eath's floor. If it have been greater sparkling we would be bombarded with a protracted way too much photograph voltaic radiation down amazing right here. 3. If the moon-earth gravitational interaction have been bigger than it presently is, tidal outcomes on the oceans, ecosystem, and rotational era woudl be too severe. If it have been much less, orbital ameliorations would reason climatic instabilities. In the two journey existence on earth would be no longer attainable. 4. If the Cabon Dioxide point have been bigger than it is now, a runaway greenhouse consequence would enhance (we could all expend). If that time have been scale back than it is now, vegetation would no longer be geared up to maintain useful photosynthesis (we'd all suffocate) 5. The gravitational pull coudln't be all people-of-a-style for existence to exist amazing right here interior the international. If the gravitationalcontinual have been altered via employing 0.0000000000000000000000000000... share our solar would no longer exist, and consequently, neither would we. There are 122 of those sides. there may well be such an detailed precision to the soundness of existence. i do no longer think of this handed off without God.

Answer 3

Yes we are capable of knowing! god has revealed himself to us through general revelation. That means we can know there is a God through what we see in nature. Check this out:

1. On earth oxygen comprises 21% of the atmosphere. If oxygen were 25% fires would erupt spontaneously; if it were 15 percent human beings would suffocate.

2. If the atmosphere were less transparent, not enough solar radiation would reach the eath's surface. If it were more transparent we would be bombarded with far too much solar radiation down here.

3. If the moon-earth gravitational interaction were greater than it currently is, tidal effects on the oceans, atmosphere, and rotational period woudl be too severe. If it were less, orbital changes would cause climatic instabilities. In either event life on earth would be impossible.

4. If the Cabon Dioxide Level were higher than it is now, a runaway greenhouse effect would develop (we'd all burn up). If that level were lower than it is now, plants would not be able to maintain efficient photosynthesis (we'd all suffocate)

5. The gravitational pull coudln't be any different for life to exist here on earth. If the gravitational force were altered by 0.0000000000000000000000000000... percent our sun would not exist, and therefore, neither would we.

There are 122 of these points. There is such an exact precision to the balance of life. I don't believe this happened without God.

Answer 4

I don't think we are incapable of knowing. God made it pretty easy to believe in Him just in the Creation itself! We just need to look around us! Do we need a microscope to see an elephant? If you saw a picture hanging from a tree in the forest, and didn't see any evidence of the painter anywhere, no footprints, etc., would you say, "Wow! Look what the wind created over millions of years!" Of course not. I would conclude that there was a painter, even if I didn't see any other evidence of his existence. Likewise, would people of the future look at Mt. Rushmore and say, "Wow, look at what millions of years of wind, rain and earthquakes sculpted out of the rock!" Again, of course not. We logically conclude that it was made by an intelligence. So why do we believe that the actual people that those carvings represent came about by pure chance? It's not even logical.
You believe that the computer in front of you was intelligently designed, yet you may believe that the human body, which is thousands, if not millions of times more complex than a computer, came about by random chance or by trial-and-error? Again, such a stance is illogical.

Answer 5

Sort of depends on how you would define the knowledge of God. Every culture has recognized something infinitely bigger than themselves. They've assigned a god or gods to that. Are they true? When Paul preached to the Greeks, he saw a place where the people had an altar for each of their gods. So as not to offend a god that they may have missed, they left one altar empty. So Paul said "now let me tell you about the god who you missed, the real God who has revealed himself to man."

Psychologically, if by definition God is Number One, the only true ego in reality, and man's downfall is ego, selfishness, then it follows that every human is trying to be Number One, that is, God. Trying to be a supreme ego is some pretty good evidence that perhaps He might be real?

"Only God's eye hath the capacity to see God" Just like we cannot stare at the sun, we cannot see God and comprehend him, just live by His light and warmth.

Does God really need us humans to prove His existence? If we can't, is that evidence that He does not exist? It's a catch 22: reaching for the tree of knowledge is what separated man from God in the first place. Trying to use knowledge again to prove God just drives you further away. You can't use the worldy mind and its machinations to come to God. That is why certain people cannot admit the existence of God. Their big ego locks them into their mind and their knowledge. They cannot transcend it, lest their ego die. It's self destructive.

People that truly know God have something special about them. A stillness and peace that surpasses all knowledge. They don't know about Him by knowledge, but know Him because He makes His home in them, and they rest in Him. No proof required.

Answer 6

Even those religions that claim we can know there is a God all claim a special revelation from God, without which all humanity would be in the dark about the creator. Of course all these special revelations contradict each other. One could be right . All could be wrong. None have any evidence to support, so all demand unmerited belief in their claims.

Answer 7

There is no evidence that there is a god. It isn't rational or reasonable to believe in things without any evidence to back it up. You would be stuck with hundreds of thousands of gods and everything else that human imagination could come up with.

Not believing in god, is the same as not believing in Odin, Zeus, Ra, Hera, The Great Spirit, Osiris, The Flying Spaghetti Monster and all the others. I would be no less surprised of evidence of Odin was found than I would be if evidence of your god was.

I do allow the possibility to change my mind if presented with evidence, but I am certain that there isn't a god.

Answer 8

Are you asking a question or are you answering your own question? Don't ask a question if your mind is already made up on what the answer is. You will never find God if you don't first seek, you have to figure out what seek means to your life. I don't know what you know, but I know what I know, and I know of existence, what the existence is exactly maybe we will never know. I am capable, maybe you are not capable, you have to pay your dues first to see, maybe you don't need God or to be saved and that is a good thing also.

Answer 9

I am an agnostic and that is precisely my point

I don't say incapable from a mental capacity, but just because we can't go back to the beginning and after we die, we can't let those still alive know what the answer is.

Answer 10

I don't think we can know. In my opinion, God is Spirit, and we are in a physical world with physical senses that can't sense spirit. If we are spiritual being inhabiting a physical body, our physical senses overwhelm any spiritual senses that we may have. Our physical bodies are not capable of existing in a spiritual world or plane. Whereas spirit can exist in a physical plane.