Question for "REAL" Atheists...?

Question

What would it take to prove to you that God really exists?

Answer 1

If God came down to Earth and said "Here I am!" then cured Cancer and Aids

Answer 2

Here's a simple experiment to prove/disprove the existence of an almighty, omniscient deity who cares about humanity.

Get a crowd of "believers" of each faith. Everyone would have to volunteer. Everyone receives a six-cylinder revolver with three bullets randomly loaded in the chambers. They each pray to God to save them, spin the chamber, put the gun to their head, and fire once.

If the God of the chosen faith exists and cares about humanity, the guns will all stop spinning on an empty chamber and no one will be harmed.

If the God of the chosen faith does not exist or doesn't care about humanity, roughly 50% of the volunteers with die.

All we need is volunteers for the experiment.

Are you willing to prove once and for all to every atheist in the world that your God exists? Or do you really lack faith in the power and intentions of your deity?

Answer 3

Proof: God himself coming down and proving it to me. God knows what I need to witness.

If you mean what would it take to convince me that their very well might be a god, then I could say witnessing a miracle such as the regrowth of an amputated limb, or the spontaneous creation of complex life from an indeterminate source.

Answer 4

It is impossible to prove gods existence. An advanced alien civilization could come down and trick us into believing that they were gods. In fact it is impossible to prove that anything is real.

Answer 5

To have "shown himself in my heart", whatever that means. I hear it all the time, but I've never felt it. I assume that if the feeling is as great as people say it is, then I would start believing right away. I used to go to church and pray that God would show himself to me, in any fashion, when I was a kid, and I never felt a darned thing. I've never experienced anything vaguely "supernatural" in my life, ever.

But hey, if he's too busy to induce belief-worthy emotions into me, or show himself physically, or even briefly appear in a dream, and didn't feel like giving me a brain that would easily comprehend the idea of a God, then I'm probably going to remain "faithless". :)

Answer 6

If God were to appear and demonstrate that He was God, that'd do it.

Why is that so much to ask? It's _far_ more than the Christians have ever been able to produce.

If I wanted to convince you that I could fly by flapping my arms, wouldn't you want to see me do it? Surely you wouldn't just take my word for it, even if I could produce a half dozen other people who said they'd seen me do it. Not even if I could produce a thousand other people who said they'd seen me do it. And if you were smart, not even if I could produce millions of other people who said they'd seen me do it. None of that would mean anything if I couldn't actually demonstrate it.

Why should belief in God be exempted from testing? Why should I just take your word for that, if I won't take it for other far more reasonable claims?

Your "God" can't even pass the simplest tests - not even the one that the Bible raves about, with Elijah and prophets of Baal and the altar consumed by fire. On any test of the claim that God exists, Christians simply fail. Always have, and apparently always will.

LOL at the guy who points us to the "answersingenesis" propaganda site. Get serious - that site is an absolute joke. You'd have to be amazingly gullible not to see through what they're doing.

Answer 7

I didn't know there were fake atheists.

But anyway, the only thing that would prove to me that your god exists is if he showed me your heaven and I got to see my grandmother and I wasn't dead.

Answer 8

Measurable, verifiable evidence that could only indicate a deity. I haven't the slightest idea what that would be. It is your hypothesis.

You might want to start by defining exactly what god is. It is really hard to hit a moving target one way or the other. You have made it a moving target to insulate it from scientific investigation.

Answer 9

Some sort of direct, undeniable personal experience probably. Otherwise some sort of hard evidence, not sure what form that would take. So far no proof whatsoever has been forthcoming. I understand you and others choose to believe on faith. I don't take things on just faith without some sort of evidence. Otherwise why not believe in unicorns, faeries, etc...? It seems to me one's concept of reality would be very pliable and unreliable if one made a practice of taking things on faith the way they do supernatural deities.

Answer 10

I'm sorry - I'm a Christian, and I understand that this question isn' directed at me, but I had to post this.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/aftereden/view.aspx?id=142

Please, all you atheists who want a "sign", look at it.

To the questioner: If I WERE an atheist, I would want a sign too, something big and bold. But if I really wanted PROOF and wanted to know the truth and meaning of life above all things, and had the conviction that if I found a certain religion to be true I would give up my lifestyle and follow that religion, then I would go searching for it, because there are plenty of signs all around us. If any of you atheist answerers really do want evidence, proof, signs, some clear thing - read history books on Christian men, like George Muller, D.L. Moody, Willian Carey, Adoniram Judson, David Livingstone, Mary Slessor, Hudson Taylor, Amy Carmichael, Jim Elliot, and Bruce Olson - and try to figure out what makes them tick. Jim Elliot went to be a missionary in Ecuador and was killed, along with his companions, the tribe he was trying to witness t. Later, his, as well as his companions' wives and their sons, went back to try to be missionaries to the same tribe. Bruce Olson went to South America as well without any kind of support, trekked into the jungle, and tried to witness! What kind of craziness is this? To the world's eye, it might be insane, but everything comes clear if you really want to understand WHY they did it. Those two are mere examples! George Muller ran a huge orphanage, and prayed every day that he might receive enough food to feed them all! There was never any extra food - it was eat, and it was gone, and he prayed for tomorrow. Hudson Taylor went to China and founded the China Inland Mission; Adoniram Judson went to Burma, only to be imprisoned, tortured, almost executed - and yet he tried to witness all the while!

I say, if you want a sign, you don't have to go very far. And if anyone wants God to come down out of the clouds and cure sicknesses and illnesses - that's ridiculous. You don't want a sign at all. And also, he already did that when he incarnated as a man. Of course this sounds ridiculous. If I were an atheist, I'm sure I would scorn it. But the thing is, I understand it because I want to understand it, and everything goes well from there.

I also say: if you can't believe the records of a mere 2,000 years ago, written down by the meticulous Hebrew scribes - who, I might add, are so meticulous that a Jewish family can trace their genealogy back for eons - if you can't believe something that recent, how can you believe scientists who describe in great detail exactly how the fossil chain evolved? Ah! Two billion years ago! Five million years ago! Three hundred thousand years ago! Please, try to listen to something that was only written 2,000 years ago, and has continued until today. And look for the real thing, the untarnished Word of God.

Romans 1:20 ... For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.

For the rest of the chapter, go to blueletterbible.org. Thank you!

Answer 11

If he came down and showed himself to me. Then, I would say "wassup, could you hook me up with a bentley?" and he would say "aite" snap his fingers(and do a little lean wit rock wit it) and a bentley appears out a puff of smoke. If that happened i would believe.