How can I know that God exists?

Question

I wrote an ebook called "The Richard Dawkins Delusion" found on mobipocket.com and invite all to read and respond.

Answer 1

Ok, will check it out!

Answer 2

Since this is a philosophy thread...

Have you considered reading traditionalist philosophies attributing to a divine unity in resolving the metaphysical problem of diversity? I suggest you study readings such as St. Thomas Aquinas' proofs of God's existence.

He gives 5 proofs in his Summa Theologica. He does not give empirical evidence on God if that's what you're expecting. It explains through basic logical reasoning 5 rational proofs of the existence of God. (Through the concepts of oneness, perfection, simplicity, immutability and infinity).

Reading it can give one assurance that theism isn't necessarily going against rational thinking.

Answer 3

Everything you see in world are materials. Even your own body is just another material which will rote on the day you die. Your soul is the one thing that wont die. Think about it why are you here in this material world. You are here for nothing?....Your soul by the way, that is real. thats what proves God exists. You are here in the world to chose. There are only 2 choices Bad and Good......Its up to you.
One thing you should know why humans are so special in thinking. Its because we are given the potential to be the worst of the worst (worst than animals) and the best of the best (best than the angels).
--------We exist because there is one and only God.----------------

Answer 4

Wow - a question in the form of an infomercial. Me thinks that your work contains no empirical evidence proving the existence of a divine being and instead is a bunch of metaphysical delusions - else you would have posted the information rather than ask us to pay for it.

Answer 5

Well, as of now we can only rely on logic to either say it's true or false, because both sides are lacking enough evidence to prove to the other that the other is wrong. Or, more accurately, atheism has more physical evidence than theism, but theism finds too many logic gaps to consider that evidence adequate.

Answer 6

Think of it this way: Science has been able to to say the universe started when 2 particles collided causing the Big Bang. Who or What created those 2 particles?

Answer 7

Why do we keep asking other people what that personal relationship means... so that we can know that God exists?

All the answers you seek are inside of you..... and no one knows like you know what your answers would be........ The answer is within your dreams..... Look inside and i guarantee that you have been speaking with Him daily, but you don't know that because you cannot read the symbolic nature of the spirit....... Dreams are a language.... and you speak it every day.......


your sister,
Ginger,
((dream interpreter for over 20 years))

Answer 8

One might make a prudential judgement in regards to your question on the basis of rational inferences, but in order for one to know God exists, God would have to reveal himself-- and such revelations are usually not discerned through epistemological theories or rational inferences, but through the quality and virtue of faith.

Answer 9

You can't... you can only make you satisfied by answering unanswered question using an ultimate and infinite power called God. it is just a remedy for our lack of knowledge!

Answer 10

You can't. That's why they call it "faith". Religion would immediately cease to exist as we know it if we have proof that God existed...He would then become the subject of scientific and rationalistic observation and study, not faith.

Answer 11

Since you will never know the existence of God using philosophy, then try theology:

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608b.htm

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=282&letter=G