Do God really exist?

Question

How do we all know for sure if there is a God and if he's real? Where are the proofs? is God a man or a woman? what's God's nationality? Do God have parents? I mean everyone has parent right?

i'm just curious. and because one is curious about God's existance i don't think it's a sin for not being a believer.

Answer 1

I don't believe in God.

I think that it's your faith in him that makes him real. If you want him to be real, then he is real, and if you have this faith, then you don't need proof. God is whatever you want him to be, although most people refer to the Christian God as a Him, although I think the Hindu God of Gods, Vishnu(sp?) is female, although I could be wrong.

Answer 2

One needs to have a formalized understanding of logic and philosophy to understand the topic of God's existence. Here is a starting point:

Premise: Every event has a cause
Premise: The universe has a beginning
Premise: All beginnings involve an event

Inference: This implies that the beginning of the universe involved an event
Inference: Therefore the beginning of the universe had a cause
Conclusion: The universe had a cause

For something to have caused the universe it must have existed outside of the universe and time. That First Cause could only have been an omnipotent supernatural agent, God.

Another argument is one from design:

1. The universe began to exist
2. The universe has complexity, order and fine-tuning
3. Complexity, order and fine-tuning imply design
4. Design that began to exist implies a designer
5. Therefore, the universe has a designer

Premise 1: See Big Bang theorem (Hawking, Penrose) All matter and time itself began at this moment
Premise 2: Universe has complex designs, e.g, cellular DNA, Laws of Physics, fine-tuning for life on earth, etc.
Premise 3: Nothing ordered can come from chaos, an orderer is required. Laws of Nature are often cited as counterexamples, yet these very Laws are themselves ordered.

Premise 4: Self evident. If something did not begin to exist, there is no beginner or designer

Thus, the universe has a designer, God.

Yet another:

1. If God does not exist, objective moral values do not exist.
2. Evil exists.
3. Therefore, objective values exist. (Some things are really evil.)
4. Therefore, God exists.

Another way to prove the existence of God is from the impossibility of the contrary. The transcendental proof for God's existence is that without Him it is impossible to prove anything.

The non-believer world view is irrational and cannot consistently provide the preconditions of intelligible experience, science, logic, or morality. The non-believer world view cannot allow for laws of logic, the uniformity of nature, the ability for the mind to understand the world, and moral absolutes. This is because in the non-believer’s world you cannot justify or account for laws in general: the laws of thought in particular, laws of nature, cannot account for human life, from the fact that it's more than electrochemical complexes in depth, and the fact that it's more than an accident. In other words, in the non-believer’s conception of the world, there's really no reason to debate; because in the end, all these laws are conventional. All these laws are not really law-like in their nature, they're just, if you're a non-believer and materialist, something that happens inside the brain.

Answer 3

It is folly to try to prove God exists. There is not now nor will there every be proof until the final days of Judgment.
God asks us to accept him on faith. In order for faith to be possible, there can be no proof. Once something is proven, then faith is not possible. The sad part, though, is if you wait for proof, then you have not accepted on faith, and then it will be too late.
God is neither man nor woman. The genders were created by him so that we could multiply. This is also why God does not have parents.
God rules over all heaven and earth. His power and glory transcend national boundaries, so there is no nationality involved either.
It is a sin not to believe in God. The Lord commanded us to love God with all our hearts and minds above all things. This parallels the first of the Ten Commandments. If you do not believe in God, then there are other things that you are beholden to above God, be it a lover, a hobby, a habit etc. That becomes your god and is sinful.
If you want to know that God exists, you have to seek Him. He will not let you wander. If you seek Him, He will come to you.then, as Angels points out, you will KNOW.
If you wish to seek Him out, and need help, there are many here who will be glad to show you the way.

Answer 4

"Proofs" is one of those words. "Proof" in math isn't the same as proof in history or in interpersonal relationships or in biology or in any one of a host of other disciplines.

But let me give you a simple argument called "The Cosmological Argument." The argument is this: The cosmos is here and must be explained as to how it got here. This argument is using the law of cause and effect, which states: Every effect must have a preceding and adequate cause (the cause must come first and be adequate). What do I mean by adequate? Well, the building didn’t collapse because a mosquito landed on it. The tsunami didn’t hit because someone threw a pebble into the ocean.

Now, when it comes to explaining the existence of the universe, you only get three possibilities: (1) the universe is eternal (it has always been here), (2) the universe created itself, or (3) something created the universe. There is no other possibility except to claim that the universe is simply an illusion and does not exist. So let’s examine these three possibilities to see which is the most reasonable.

First, is the universe eternal? Absolutely not. We know this is true because of the universally recognized second law of Thermodynamics (the law of energy decay or entropy). This law states that everything goes downhill from order to disorder, more usable energy to less. This law is the reason why heat flows from hot to cold and why this building will fall apart if it is not kept up with. If someone doesn’t believe in the second law of thermodynamics, just challenge them to live forever; even with this awesome machinery we have in our bodies, you will eventually wear out and die. We can see that the universe is running down and wearing out; the stars are burning up, the radioactive atoms are decaying, etc. As Psalm 102:26 says, the heavens “will wear out like a garment.” Given enough time, the universe will experience what some call a “heat death” where there is no more energy available for work (everything will just be low level heat energy); every part of the universe will be the same temperature, and no further work will be possible.

Eternal things obviously do not wear out because they would have had an infinite amount of time to come to their end. Since you cannot have an end without a beginning, the universe must have had a beginning. And everything that has a beginning has a cause. This building had a beginning, you had a beginning, therefore there must have been a preceding and adequate cause. The evolutionists know this and so they came up with the “big bang” theory from that “cosmic egg” (the universe exploded into existence). But there is still a major problem, you have to explain where that “cosmic egg” came from. As it has been said, “There must be a cosmic chicken.” Some scientists like Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov proposed the oscillating universe theory to avoid a beginning. This theory states that the universe acts like a yo-yo; it explodes and then gravity pulls it back in, and then the process repeats itself over and over. But the second law of Thermodynamics still refutes that idea, since each cycle would exhaust more and more usable energy. The universe is not eternal!

Ok, that brings us to the second possibility: Did the universe create itself? I think Hebrews 3:4 answers that pretty well, “...every house is built by someone...” Let’s say I walk into my livingroom and see a crayon drawing of our family on the wall. When I ask my daughter where it came from, will I accept her answer of, “It just appeared there; it came from nothing”? Her grandparents might, but I won’t. It is pretty clear that something cannot bring itself into existence. As R.C. Sproul has said, “It is impossible for something to create itself. The concept of self-creation is a contradiction in terms, a nonsense statement . . . It would have to have the causal power of being before it was. It would have to have the power of being before it had any being with which to exercise that power.” As it has been said, “Nothing scratched its head one day and decided to become something.” I’m sorry to have to drop this bombshell on you, but from nothing, comes nothing.

And now the third possibility: Did something create the universe? If the universe is not eternal and could not have created itself, then the only remaining alternative is that the universe was created by something or Someone. This would have to be a transcendent, eternal, self-existing being. I can find only one satisfactory explanation to our conundrum, and that is found in Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”

Someone may argue, “If the universe needs a cause, then why doesn’t God need a cause; who created God?” The answer is, everything that has a beginning has a cause. God, unlike the universe, did not have a beginning. Time is linked to matter and space (as we can see from Einstein’s general relativity). If God created the universe, then He created time along with matter and space. If God created time, then He is outside of time and doesn’t need a beginning.

What is more absurd, to believe that God Created everything out of nothing or that nothing turned itself into everything? The fact is, we live in a Universe that is an effect. There must be a preceding and adequate cause for it. The only thing that makes sense is a Creator who is more powerful than anything we can imagine.

Answer 5

OK here is a site with proof of events that happened i the bible.
http://www.bibleplus.org/discoveries/discoveries.htm
Such stories as the red sea crossing, where God parted the waters, please dont tell me that it was the moon coming close to the earth randomly! What are the odds of that happening? Its ridiculous! And there is no proof of this!
The only way you will discover God in a real way is to ask him. Sincerely! Don't say it, believe it, you want proof he is real. Ask him, God knows the motive of the heart

One more thing, a person called 'the dude' posted his answer at the top. 'no.' Did any one else check out his source, because i seriously hope thats not what your evidence is!

Answer 6

I KNOW God exists in the way I know I exist. My faith and belief is so strong that I do not feel the need to validate Gods' existence with tangible proof. To people who have chosen to deny God no amount of evidence would be enough, short of Him appearing right in front of them and telling them. To know God is the same as feeling God. It is like feeling my own heartbeat within my chest.

No God = Know Fear
Know God = No Fear!

Answer 7

Test the system. Try following the commandments for a while. If it brings the promises that are in the Word of God then there's a witness for you.

Can you prove He doesn't?

Answer 8

Nobody can prove any gods, much less a specific god, exist; many people will tell you their god exists but no others, but will never be able to prove it, even if they think so. Some will threaten you with eternal pain or promise eternal joy to get you to believe in their god; these are all stories, created for people who were scared long before we understood the universe. Now we have no more reason for these superstitions.

How terrible the bible in particular is:
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/

How silly and horrible religion in general is:
http://godisimaginary.com/
http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/

The alternative:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/
http://www.infidels.org/
http://www.positiveatheism.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Universalism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_humanism

Answer 9

yes, he exists, and he has different names....just depends on the religion that you are talking about....god doesn't have a select gender or race. no parents either. God has always existed. i guess you could say that it's all about faith, beliefs....

Answer 10

No. Neither Santa nor the Tooth Fairy. And you're right with your "parent analogy." If there was supernatural sentience, it would have to have evolved from something else; eventually something simpler.