How do you know God exists?

Question

Or doesn't, according to your beliefs?

I'm not asking for proof either way, just asking why you believe as you do.

Answer 1

You don't see Wind,cold,hot or humid, but you expierence it.
You expierence God.

Also it would lose value if it was just proven.
Most of the Bible has been scientifically proven, if you do research.

Answer 2

I don't think that God exists. Here's why:

First, you have to define the term "God." The problem with most
theists is that this term is a moving target.

In addition, because there is no evidence either for or against the
existence of God, you cannot use deductive logic (a+b=c; therefore c-b=a). You can only reach a conclusion by inductive reasoning using the balance of evidence (90% of A is also B; C is B, so the chances are 90% that C is also A).

So to begin with, I will assert (and others may shoot this down) that the only RELEVANT definition of God states that he intervenes to circumvent natural laws.

If God circumvents natural laws, then it is impossible to understand natural laws. All scientific findings would have to include the stipulation, "it is also possible that these results are an act of God, a miracle, thereby making our research meaningless."

However, since we have been able to expand our knowledge of natural laws (evidenced by every appliance in your kitchen), the scientific method works in this discovery. And the likely conclusion is that God, at least the intervening kind, does not exist.

Additionally, if God is defined as all loving, all powerful, and all knowing, then it is impossible to explain suffering. Either God is not all loving (he acts sadistically), not all powerful (he cannot prevent suffering), or not all knowing (he created suffering by mistake because he didn't know the consequences of his actions).

If God is less than these and/or does not intervene in our existence, then he is either non-existent or irrelevant. The classic Bertrand Russell argument is that I cannot prove that a china teapot is orbiting the sun between the earth's orbit and Mars. But while I cannot prove this is not true, the evidence against it is compelling.

The evidence against God is equally compelling, and while it is not possible to prove beyond any doubt, it makes enormously more sense to live your life as if there were no God.

It is more compelling to me that humans have invented God (a) to help people deal with the pain and fear associated with death and loss, and (b) to reflect the thoughts of the ruling powers in a particular time. Because humans are always looking for reasons, when none were found, it was the natural inclination to declare the cause to be "God" (or gods). As the faith grew, miracles (coincidences) and laws were ascribed to this Divinity, and an orthodoxy grew up around it.

Now it seems unhelpful to believe in such superstition. The only matters that aid in our ongoing well-being are work, location, health, sustenance, and pure, blind luck.

So that's why I don't believe God exists. And you know what? It's okay if you do believe God exists.

Answer 3

I think of how well our anatomical bodies work....almost like a blueprint was followed...with functions of specific purpose. Same goes for genetic structures in general...everything is TOO well organised for me not to beleive there wasn't an external intelligence involved.
That and a few experiences with ghosts....I figure if THEY'RE real, than I have no problem at all with the existence of God.

Answer 4

In my heart, I want to believe. How are we ever to know? You can pray and pray and pray, but who and why are we praying? Is it to make us feel better about ourselves? I have faith, but I can not answer this question without speculation, I want to know the same. If God does exist, why are we in the mess we are in now?? Are we supposed to learn something from it, and as a human being, I would rather know sooner than later. My view is my opinion, and that is it. Good question and I look fore-ward to how honest others will be with this question. Good intentions on your behalf. Congrats on a good question!!

Answer 5

I believe God exists because of the intricacies of the universe, nature, humans etc (I don't believe all of that "just happened by chance"). And because He revealed Himself to my soul in a personal, intimate way. And because everyday He communes with me, talks with me and He changes me more and more to be like Him. And because He has proven Himself real over and over through His Word which has never failed, been found to be false and has stood the test of time. I know He is real because He lives in my soul. He has saved me, healed me, provided in miraculous ways for my every need, gives me joy, peace, hope and love.

Answer 6

i dont.
hahaaha.. but i'm schooling in a very strict catholic school, and i have strict catholic parents, too.

if you want to know why i dont, just see my blog at Real Life Log, Mistical Jessica.

but recently i found something very interesting. maybe i should shift to becoming a Buddhist. the buddhist holy bible can really describe what God is, what is human, and a lot of things that will satisfy your knowledge about this world.

Answer 7

I just prefer to live in a world with free will and responsibility for my own actions, rather than a scripted one made by a being that will torture me for eternity because of my defects, which it created me with... So I am an Atheist because I am too optimistic to believe in God. Perhaps part of it is vanity in thinking that I have better reasoning ability than people of earlier centuries...

Answer 8

interesting. the way i've read these messages, you've stirred up some people. But to be frank, I encourage either side of the argument to study for themselves. Not just faith, but other things...science, perhaps? That's all I'll say...i won't get unneccessarily involved.

Answer 9

ah...the classic mixing of terms

no one can prove the existence or non-existence of a godhead...that's why it's called "faith"

for the counter-positive view
a lacking of proof is not a proof of lacking

believe whatever you will
leave "proofs" to the geometricians

Answer 10

Check out a star map(all stars have a precise orbit)
Do you have to remember to take each breath?
Species of life become extinct, no new life is currently (or ever evolved).
How does rain know to rain?