Is there proof?

Question

Is there proof that God, angels, spirits, the devil, demons, heaven, or hell even exists? Of could it be that man has a wild imagination when it comes to questions man can't answer with his five senses or reason?

Hey "Beavers...", will someone give me an example of how to prove something DOES exist when there is no evidence to really back it up? That's the question you should have asked. How can one tell if something is real? With the five senses and reason, not "Devine Madness."

Hey "Steve Mo...", check this out.
"I form the light and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil. I the Lord do all these things." --Isaiah 45:7 KJV

My dear dmd, I am sorry I had to give you a thumbs down. We're still friends, though, aren't we?

Answer 1

There isn't any proof that he's real. Some people say "Well, there isn't any proof that he ISN'T real!!"

Well:
Now let's imagine that we have a conversation one day and I say to you, "I believe in Leprechauns. You cannot prove that Leprechauns do not exist, therefore they exist." You actually have heard of Leprechauns. There are lots of books, movies and fairy tales dealing with Leprechauns. People talk about Leprechauns all the time. Leprechauns even have a popular brand of breakfast cereal. But that does not mean that Leprechauns exist. There is no physical evidence for the existence of Leprechauns. Not a single bit. Therefore, it is obvious to any normal person that Leprechauns are imaginary.

Answer 2

(1) - the argument from motion. If you see some dominoes in a long row falling down, you know someone pushed them, nothing moves itself. And neither does the whole universe. Think of the universe as an enormous chain of dominoes, all moving. Something outside the chain must have started the movement in the beginning. Otherwise it couldn't move, because nothing can move itself.

(2)- The very existence of things, not just their movement. You need a first cause of existence just as you need a first cause of motion, because nothing can make itself exist if it isn't already there. Nothing can cause itself. If there's no God who eternally exists, how can existence begin? If there's no God who has existence by his own nature and doesn't get it from any cause, how can the gift of existence be passed down the chain of creatures, who borrow it from each other?

(3)- Everything dies, or ceases to exist. Now if there were no God who never died, who never ceased to exist, then eventually everything would die and nothing could begin again. And then there would be nothing at all.
The second law of thermo-dynamics says all energy gets dissipated, wears down. Even the galaxies get cold, if there were no God the universe would have slowed to a stop by now.

(4)- The fourth one is an easy one. In the universe some things are better than others, right? So there must be a best, a standard of goodness to judge all the relative "betters". One thing is closer to it than another. And this standard has to be absolute goodness.
You may say that everything is relative. There's no absolute. To what? Only God Himself.

(5)- The argument for design. Design proves a designer. And nature is full of design. Therefore there must be a Designer behind it all.

Rev: J.P. Hermanson

Answer 3

The Christian God was very careful to prove Himself when He had the Bible written. It is different from every other book. In it He predicts the future. No other book does this with accuracy. God names names, dates and places so we can check out history and see that He was right. He even gave us the very words someone would say centuries before the fact!

If you were God and you wanted to communicate through a book, you would put things in there only a God could know, such as the future. If you wanted everyone to know that you were going to come in person, you would explain what you were like so you would be recognized. You would put in the city of your birth, where you grew up, what kinds of deeds you would do, your temperament, your purpose, even how you would die.

God did all that in the Old Testament. It was all in book form 400 years before Jesus, the Son of God, came. The New Testament gospels follow Jesus and point out some of the places where He fulfilled the prophecies.

“Daniel 11, written in the 6th century B.C., gives an amazingly thorough account of Alexander’s Grecian kingdom, divided first into four competing factions after his death. It predicts details of the struggle between the Ptolemy and Seleucid empires for a period of 160 years, right down to the advent of the Roman Empire. That is why the skeptics used to claim that the book of Daniel could not have been written before 164 B.C., but now we have proof of a much earlier writing text.

“The prophet Isaiah (44:28) gave the name of a king not yet born and of a kingdom not yet instituted and of an event that would not take place for another 150 years. He predicted that a king named Cyrus would commission the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem. Cyrus did come to the throne in Persia, and in the first year of his reign in 538, he issued a decree that the temple in Jerusalem should be rebuilt. (See 2 Chronicles 36:22-Ezra 1:1-3. This prophecy described in the Bible is confirmed by the discovery of a Babylonian inscription.)

“Daniel actually gave the time when Christ would come into the world and die. Daniel (9:24) predicted that Messiah would be cut off (die) 483 Hebrew years after the issuing of the Persian decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem. Artaxerxes Longimanus issued that decree on March 5, 444 B.C. (Neh. 2:1-8), granting the Jews permission to rebuild Jerusalem’s city walls. This, too, is confirmed by archeological discoveries. Four hundred eighty-three prophetic years (360 days to a year) and seven days later, Jesus was crucified as predicted, How could a prophet accurately predict the date of Messiah’s death hundreds of years before it took place, unless he was the ‘voice’ of God as he claimed?”

Thanks to the Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran, we know with certainty the above prophecies date before the occurrence of actual prophesied events.

He has proven His existence perfectly and wonderfully. The Christian God is the true God.

Answer 4

What proof would you accept?
Has anyone ever said ...its the devil in you,if so then you have your answer.
Do you not think that some things are evil?
do you not think that some things are good?
Where do you think the evil things come from if not the devil and the same with good things in life if not from God.
Belife is a huge part of this question but if so many people in the world believe in some form of higher being then there must be a reason behind it all.
If a tree falls in a forest when no one is around then does it make a sound?IF NO ONE IS THERE TO HEAR IT THEN HOW DO YOU KNOW IT TO BE TRUE,CAUSE YOU WERE BROUGHT UP TO BELIVE IT?
People just have to belive and thats all there is to it.
God bless you.

Answer 5

Is there proof he doesn't exist will be the beleivers reaction. Haha somehow you can make up a god and expect people to somehow disprove him which is impossible. Because the fact there is no proof ends the whole conversation. How would one disprove god. You can easily disprove most of the bible but then they say they're just moral stories. Someone give me an example of how to prove something doesn't exist when there is no evidence to really dispute.

Answer 6

ding ding ding ding ding... give that man the prize

that is why it is called faith or belief...because there is no proof

you would have thought that with your five senses and reason you could have figured that easy one out on your own.... so I guess it is best you leave that harder stuff to us who can get to a level of existance beyond the five senses and the results of calculated reasoning

you should be told this much... all reality comes from the imagination....

everything that exists was the creation of someones imagination...so go figure.. the power of imagination is strong... the difficult part is having the faith to test your imagination... i bet those guys who straped their butts to the first rocket sure had some faith in their imagination

Answer 7

What is proof? Is it the fact that every culture/society has acknowledged some kind of higher being that cannot be understood? Or is it the fact that things exist despite our ability to understand how? Or is it something that is limiting to our understanding and learning?

Answer 8

I think that religion is not necessarily something that you need to be able to explain. It is something that you need to feel and believe in in your heart. Not everything in life needs to be explained and that is certainly true with religion. It all about believeing and many people will argue with that but if you truly believe then it wont matter what others say. So no, there is no proof except for the Bible but many people dont believe in the Bible. It is something that you have to feel in your heart.

Answer 9

Religion is entertainment and most don't have any other kind so it's real to them because they're obsessed with it. Being sure that God exists is just as easy as being sure that you feel emotions.

Answer 10

I don't know which is why I'm still waiting and looking for it. The problem is that I don't know how to truely go about doing so and which God to look for.