Does God exist? How do you know?

Answer 1

Yes, i definitely believe in God. To me, he is everything good in the world - love, happiness, excitement, peacefulness, content, that tingling sensation, warmth, SUNSHINE, birds singing, green plantlife, clear blue skys, cultures/diversity, colors- everything i love i thank god for putting it there. Just being appreciative of the good things and disregarding the bad opens your eyes to the possibilities of God's power.

Answer 2

I personally see God in just nature. Not that nature is a God, but I look at this earth and see that there is no way anything like this happened unless it was created. Just look at the human eye, the blood clotting system, and the bacterial flagellum.

I also believe in God because He's changed my life. I spent a few years doing what I wanted to do, and not listening to God or my parents, but since coming back to Him I get along with everybody better, I'm happy all the time (I have gone to 3 funerals of people I knew the past 2 months, but I'm at peace with all of them), and it's all cause of what God has done in me.

Something else I'd like to say is that it is tough to have faith in something you can't see, but tell me, have you ever seen the wind? You don't, you can see the effects of it (leaves blowing around, clouds changing shape, etc.) but you don't actually see the wind. So how do you know it exists? Because of the effects. If you look at people who are really into God, you can see that their lives are changed.

Answer 3

Now, obviously we can’t “prove” that God exists or doesn’t exist, since He is outside of the physical realm. What we can do is look at the physical realm and see what the evidence points toward. It is more like proving a case in the courtroom by presenting and examining the evidence and then coming to a conclusion.

It certainly is reasonable to suggest that if there is a God, He would have made adequate evidence available for us to believe that He exists. And that’s what Romans 1:20 says: “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.”

Is it really clear? Can we give strong arguments for the existence of God? Can we give answers to the skeptics' challenges? Can we say as the Psalmist did, “The fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God’” (Psalm 14:1)? Absolutely!

Let me just give you a sample of the Teleological Argument. Is it logical to believe that chaos gave rise to order, nonliving to living, nonrational to rational? I don't know about you, but simply looking at my newborn child was enough for me to rule out chance. The human brain makes that computer you are using look like a child's toy in comparison to complexity. If you were walking along a deserted Island and just so happen to come across a computer, the first thing you would think is, “Look what nature made,” right? Is it logical to believe that the brain designed the computer, but the brain is a product of time and chance?

I would strongly agree with Lord Kelvin (the Father of Thermodynamics), “Do not be afraid of being free thinkers! If you think strongly enough you will be forced by science to the belief in God, which is the foundation of all religion. You will find science not antagonistic but helpful to religion.”

Are we the ones with blind faith? Were you there when non-living matter gave rise to life? No, well do you see non-living matter giving rise to life today? Where you there when single-celled organisms gave rise to many-celled organisms, when invertebrates gave rise to vertebrates, when ape-like creatures gave rise to man? No, well do you see it happening today? You have to believe that matter came into existence by itself and then arranged itself into information systems by blind chance. That is what goes against real science.

As Dr. Jonathan Sarfati says, we need to quit calling evolution a theory; that is giving it too much credit. “Goo to you” evolution is an unsubstantiated hypothesis or conjecture, not a theory.

So why do so many people reject the obvious evidence, who look at the awesome creation and say it's a product of time and chance? It’s simple, they don’t want there to be a God. You see, if God created us, then He also owns us. If He owns us, then He has a right to set the rules by which we must live. If He has set the rules by which we must live, then we are accountable to Him. They don’t want to be accountable to God; they don't want to be controlled.

The problem you will find is that there will never be enough evidence for the skeptic. As it has been said, "A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it's a forgery."

Answer 4

He lives in my heart. One day I was in church, where I had been a "member" for many years. I am not sure what the Pastor said, I have gone back and listened to the tape of that sermon many times. But I was in the right place at the right time and the Lord told me that I was lost. I gave my heart and my life to Jesus Christ and life has not been the same since.I cannot give you the proof of which you ask, I can only tell you that He is real, and I know it, because He lives in my heart.

Answer 5

There are more ways to "know" than by using your eyes.

How do you know you are YOU and not someone else? How do you know that you have mind (not a brain)
How can you "understand" math? Some people get it, some people don't ...what makes the getting?
God tells us in Romans 1 that He made the world and the people. He made the people with the ability to know Him, clearly in what He made so that everyone "is without excuse". He says that in order NOT to know Him you have to supress the truth and believe a lie.
God should be intuitively obvious. If He is not, you have a problem. Whether you believe in Him or not, the truth is still the truth.

Answer 6

I see G-d in everything around me. How else do you think the Universe got here?

And if you say the "Big Bang Theory" then tell me where the stuff came from to make the "Big Bang!"

How does anyone know that G-d does not exist? To answer that would mean that you were claiming that you knew everything!

Answer 7

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/
http://www.evilbible.com/

What's the origin of the Jesus stories?
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa5.htm
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/origen048.html

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 8

No. The overwhelming scientific evidence points to a slow, gradual process over billions of years. Further, there is no evidence of any intelligent power guiding these natural processes as they appear to work autonomously. When we fiat the existence of a deity, which is what one must do to claim he exists, we complicate what is a simple and elegant dance of the particles that make up everything. There is no creator because there is no need for one.

Answer 9

YES GOD DOES EXIST! how do I know? well because it is apart of my faith and then there is the times my questions have been answered, (missing lots of course), BUT, more importantly the experiences i have had in church!

Answer 10

noone knows for sure, we want to believe in a higher being, but the fact is there are three choices
1) we decompose , the end, ain't no more the void
2) we have one lifetime here to prove ourselves worthy
3) we reincarnate multiple times until we prove ourselves worthy.
no matter what you believe two are wrong.

. I believe in a god of unconditional love that created our souls with free will (not humans) in his likeness. many souls could not bear to leave fathers side for the loss of love. many souls went out and returned to share their adventures. Some souls rebeled wanted to be a god themselves. This place (earth system) WAS CREATED FOR THE SOUL TO MAKE ITS FINAL CHOICE. Do they really want to be a "little God and live in dominion=lordship over others. or return to father of love/fellowship/joy/sharing/ab... bliss.

What if heaven and hell are exactly the same except for one difference? What ever you picture in your head heaven to be, imagine hell to be the same except for one difference. Everything you can do in heaven you can do in hell except for one difference. The difference is love or dominion. If you choose love you are in heaven, you are sharing love/joy/fellowship, absolute bliss in all you do.

If you choose dominion you are in hell, everyone will be dominion bent, acting without regard to anything but personal pleasure, personal gain, exercising power over others. Everyman for himself in all that is done. Everything else is the same.

Now which path do/will you choose? LOVE or DOMINION



P.S. Doesn't hell feel a lot like earth?
P.S. S. If you choose dominion click on exit, there is nothing here for you.