What are the pieces of evidence that allegedly prove the Christian God that cannot also be used to prove...?

Question

...other gods? I was just wondering what Christians use to not only try to prove any god exists, but specifically THEIR God.

Some have listed the Bible as one, but pretty much everything in the Bible, down to the prophecies even, can be found in other historical writings, most of which are even older than the Bible (i.e. Hinduism, Epic of Gilgamesh, etc.).

So what specifically proves the Christian God exists?

[I realize it is essentially impossible to prove God exists. I'm looking for what is used as "evidence" that God exists. Thanks!]

I'm not asking for you to tell me what you feel proves that there is a god, but what you feel proves that it is specifically the Christian God and not any other god.

Answer 1

The bible, along with older texts and teachings all basically talk about the same thing, the One true Source which is GOD. The difference is in the many different cultures that interpret that belief. The only "evidence" as we may understand it is really a personal choice. It's what you choose to believe. No matter how many different religions are out there, whether you believe or not is up to you. If you believe in love, and truth, and all that is good in this life, then you believe in God because he/she is at the core of all of that.

Answer 2

The atheist Bertrand Russell wrote in his book "Why I am Not a Christian" that if it is true that all things need a cause then God must also need a cause. He concluded from this that if God needed a cause then God was not God (and if God is not God then of course there is no God). This was basically a slightly more sophisticated form of the childlike question, "Who made God?" Even a child knows that things do not come from nothing, so if God is a "something" then He must have a cause as well, right?

The question is tricky because it sneaks in the false assumption that God came from somewhere and then asks where that might be. The answer is that the question does not even make sense. It is like asking, "What does blue smell like?" Blue is not in the category of things that have odor, so the question itself is flawed. In the same way, God is not in the category of things that are created, or come into existence, or are caused. God is uncaused and uncreated - He simply exists.

How do we know this? Well, we know that from nothing, nothing comes. So if there was ever a time when there was absolutely nothing in existence then nothing would have ever come to exist. But things do exist. Therefore, since there could never have been absolutely nothing, something had to have always been existing. That ever-existing thing is what we call God.

Answer 3

Your claim that "[... it is essentially impossible to prove God exists...]" is false (as I'll show in a moment). It is true that without some concept of what the term "revelation" means and a community in which that concept is both embedded and living, there is no rational access to what Christians refer to when they refer to god. Rationality always presupposes a community with a shared view of what good reasons are, and what they are not, for explanations to be given, accepted, challenged, revised, refuted, and otherwise viewed as "rational."

Now for your proof:

(1) Everything that exists contingently has a reason for its existence.
(2) The universe exists contingently.
Therefore:
(3) The universe has a reason for its existence.
(4) If the universe has a reason for its existence then that reason is God.
Therefore:
(5) God exists.

HTH

Charles

Answer 4

First, belief in the Christian God is based on faith that he exists.

Second, you are wrong about the Bible, read it thoroughly and you will find your proof. The Bible is not the most sold, read, referred to book in the world for no reason.

Historical evidence that Moses, Noah, Jesus, Paul, etc lived is proof as well.

Third, the fact that you are who you are is proof. What or who else could make humans human, birds fly, fish swim, trees grow, etc. Look at how complex the human body is or the solar system. Only God could do that.

Answer 5

Arguments for the existence of God are for the most part rational inferences rather than empirical proofs or evidence. These rational inferences are often used to demonstrate the probability of God's existence, but these arguments are not intended to necessarily demonstrate precisely what God is (his essential nature). As to God's nature, one can surmise from the existence of the material universe that God must be greater than that which exists, but as to his specific "character" or intentions, believers are generally more reliant on the catagory of revelation as a basis for their claims.

Answer 6

science http://www.understandthetimes.org/101scientific.shtml (but then again, Muslims claim scientific foreknowledge as well)
archeology http://www.dawnbible.com/booklets/archeology.htm (although parts of the koran are also archeologically correct, but on the search engine there are only two links for Islam and the search engine gave Christianity 675 links)
prophecy http://www.trustbible.com/prophecy.htm
Islam claims some so-called prophecies, one supposively being about a son of arabia waking up the wrath of the eagle, however, the word eagle is not even in the koran.http://www.hoax-slayer.com/wrath-of-eagle-iraq.html
This link compares prophecy in teh Bible and prophecy in the Koran, and challenges for someone to give three adequate prophecies from the Koran. http://www.geocities.com/worldview_3/quranvbible.html

Answer 7

WOW! I was just thinking on this topic at work today.

Proof that God exists:

I think we can both agree that if we see a fuel pump that is used to make a car run properly and without it the car would be useless; that pump is solid evidence that it was designed by an intelligent designer - correct? And if that pump runs too slow or too fast the car malfunctions. But because the pump runs at the perfect speed for that car to run properly that would be even more solid proof that it had an intelligent designer - correct? So, doesn't it likewise make just as much sense to acknowledge that our heart is exactly like a fuel pump for a car? Without it, we are completely dead. But it functions at the just the right speed so that we fuction perfectly. That for me is the most logical way that I can prove God.

Proof that the God that exists is the God of Abraham; the Christian God:

I know of only one way to do this. It is a challenge given to all of us by Jesus, Himself. I think it is the perfect challenge because it tests our sincerity. And it requires us to invest ourselves in Him. Without that, we'll never know the truth. And rightly so, for He has invested Himself in us. In His own words, the challenge is:

John 7:17

17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
KJV

The challenge is a very personal one, and that is as it should be. Our salvation is a very personal issue. For no one else is responsible for your faith in God. It's just you, and Him. So, in essence, Jesus is saying to each of us, "If you really want to know if I am from God, you must prove it to yourself by doing what I have been telling you to do."

I like that challenge.

Thanks for a thought provoking question. I hope I've given you a thought provoking answer.

Answer 8

there is not any evidence. And in improve, i might choose to assert those are my critiques and don't recommend to offend every physique or faith. in any case, there rather isn't any evidence. it rather is precisely why i'm vulnerable agnostic-open to new ideas, yet we even have not have been given any evidence yet according to possibility evidence would nicely be stumbled on. And to base an entire faith on faith, i in my view think of is silly. because of the fact what makes the religion any diverse than Santa Clause? how are you able to suspect some thing the place below no circumstances you may tutor? returned, those are MY critiques.

Answer 9

I lost belief in God for a long time and had it restored by a paperback printing of St Thomas Aquinas' defense of the concept of God with page after page of short argument.

FYI, there is but one God and the monotheist religions of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity worship this same God. According to my Franklin, all not monotheistic are pagans.

Considering that most of us worship mammon as much or more than true God, it would be correct to call ourselves pagans. Personally, I am broke and call the one God "Mighty Manitou" therefore I am not pagan".

Answer 10

The gift of the Holy Spirit (John 14 & 16; Acts 2; Galatians 3:2-5; many other refs) is unique. He is in believers, but His presence can be endued in us more powerfully if we seek it.

Some Jewish believers such as priests and prophets in the Old Testament also received the Holy Spirit 'upon' them to accomplish things supernaturally.

Christians who have established great healing ministries are *much* more successful than healers of other religions (much of whose power may be occultic).
e.g.
* Smith Wigglesworth
* John G Lake
* Kathryn Kuhlmann
* Voice of Healing ministries in 1950s America
* Bill Prankard (actually he's also a really likeable chap)