Can anybody give me a good reason to believe in God?

Question

...Aside from Pascal's Wager...
...Complete with logic and proof...
...That's not extracted from a Holy Book...

The fact that I'm alive does not constitute as evidence for God's existence. I was formed when two human gamete cells combined... Take biology 101.

Answer 1

Because Muslims are justified in islamic law for killing you if you don't.

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.

While all of my questions will never be definitively answered, I find that rationally my belief is on solid ground. There are many things in the world we do not fully understand or “see”, yet we have no problems in believing them. For example, solar physics is not fully known, yet we all objectively accept, using faith and scientific discourse, the "fact" that the sun will rise tomorrow.

Why is it we can believe in many things using rational analysis, even when what we believe is only partially known, yet when it comes to matters like a supreme being, we suddenly want the "show me beyond a shadow of doubt" proof? As Aristotle once stated, "It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits, and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible."

Answer 3

But where did those cells come from? What told them to do what they did? Once they did it, what told all the other little cells they created what to do, and how did they know which parts of you to make? Everywhere in nature God has revealed his knowable attributes, His power, His wisdom, His love, His wrath. He didn't reveal enough of Himself to make you believe, only to let you know He's there. It's up to you to seek Him, not the other way around. He knows right where you are, and when you start to seek HIm, He'll find you. If there is order in the universe (and it's obvious there is), then there must be some will behind it. If a will, then a being. Even if you don't believe what the Bible says, it's insanity to deny His existence. If He exists and is able to maintain all this order, it is incumbent upon us to find out all we can about Him.

Answer 4

A fact is that science can not answer questions of what and how, as shown below.

a) What causes the sound that I hear?
b) Sound is caused when waves of mechanical energy travel through matter, causing vibrations that are detected by some hairs located inside the ear. These send signals to the brain that translate this into the sound you hear.
c) How does rain fall?
d) When water all over the world evaporates into the air, this rises way up into the air. When this reaches several particles in the air, this condenses into water particles, forming what we know as clouds. Later on, these clouds become too heavy for the air to hold and this begins to fall to the ground as rain.

However, science cannot answer "why" these phenomenon occurs. This is the reason many Christians, Muslims, Jews and other monotheists believe in the existence of a God who plans the occurence of all these wondrous things. All of the wonders in this world must have occured for a reason, and not just by mere coincidence. This reason is God.

Answer 5

firstly, God is not within the domain of provability...
however...
given the definition of God as Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Omnipresent, it can be substantiated that God is at least plausible.

First we'll address omniscience/all-knowing.
The potential for everything to occur must preceed its occurrence. It can be said in this sense, that all the information of the infiniteness of reality exists...and it works in perfect unison with itself. Hence, omniscience is a quality of reality/nature.

Secondly we'll address omnipotence/all-powerfulness.
Nothing which occurs can defy possibility...if it happens, it was possible. Hence, nothing can defy nature and act contrary to what is possible. Thus, reality/nature is omnipotent.

Thirdly we'll address omnipresence.
It's simply a matter of investigating the phenomenon of locality.
An excersize might help here.
Imagine an infinite blank space, with an infinite blank wall.
On the wall imagine a dot.
And a second dot.
Now, in the physical space of a thought we've created both locality and distance, and time(to travel between dots) and scale.
Add a third dot and we've created a plane...a 4th dot some distance away from the infinite wall and we've created a 3D object....all in the space of a thought....which occupies no physical space.
Basically, all which exists, exists in perception...which occupies no physical space.
So no space is every space...reality/nature is omnipresent.
(or we could just say that wherever the universe exists is everywhere - and omnipresence would be a quality of reality/nature again). Hence, omnipresence is real.

So if reality is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent, it follows that it may be synonymous with God as it shares the definition we have given to God.


...this isn't proof though....just one way of looking at it.

-Rob

Answer 6

The fact that you are alive is reason enough. What's more, look around you at nature. Where do you think it all came from? Trust me, it didn't just happen. But if you really want a great reason, do what the bible says, accept Him as your personal lord and savior and watch how He will change your life and show you what true happiness is all about. He will fill that empty void in your life.

Answer 7

Well, perhaps not the Christian God, but a reason to believe in any God, or Deity, or indeed hold a belief or have faith?
Why would you do that? Why would you choose to believe?
Because it's a choice you've made. For whatever reason. You believe, or don't because you choose to. You either see a benefit in it, or not.
It's up to you.

Answer 8

Well, I and anyone can give you advice and probably many good reasons to believe in God but if you don't take any of them seriously enough to take time to search for what answer is true and seems good to you, you'll never find anyone who has that good reason. The Bible is full of good reasoning but just reasoning alone will not help you to believe in God or not. I'd look deeply inside yourself and meditate on the information and reasoning that you do receive. This is also known as praying. Just pray: If you are real and worth believing in, God Almighty, help me find the answers I need to believe in you.

Answer 9

nope sorry. you have to be born into it to realy believe in it. I believe that we are here, but not by him
we are decendants of cavemen
big bang theory is just a theory and so is god
primordial soup mix
there is no proof that there is or is not a god, if you have the need to believe then that is enough. If you need to be talked into it then forget it, you will just end up being angry.

Answer 10

nobody can force you, it's a matter of faith. go study all religion and you will find the light, just like the singer Cat Stevens. look at the beautiful sky, they don't just happen. Pray to god so He show you the right path. Insyaallah. I believe it was in a Al-Bukhari hadith that says "if you come walking to meet God, He will come to you running".

Answer 11

The fact that you exist in a highly organized body and mind but did not create yourself suggests someone else did. Some say that someone would be God.