What convinced you that God truly exists?

Answer 1

What convinced you that God truly exists?
Here we have two things to Consider One GOD and other Exists.

Now coming to GOD

GOD is the Cause of this universe.
In him this vast universe resides.
Look every religion or any philosophy speaks that GOD is Omnipresent, omnipotent.
He is all-pervading. He cannot be bound by anything. He is the eternal freedom.
He is Infinite in Infinite aspects.

This universe is bound to some rules and is following that rule beautifully.
So there cannot be a blind rule or ruler behind this.
There should be something which is running and governing this harmony.
That intelligence is installed by whom or by what.
Who is behind this extraordinary universe.
There should be something.
As there cannot be an effect with out cause.
So what is the cause for that cause?
So this proves there is something beyond all this.
From whom the intelligence is borrowed.

Coming to exists or existence
What is existence?
You exists and I exists.
So do animals,trees and stone have existence.
But this not going to be forever.
So this proves existence is limited.

So based on the above things
As GOD is not limited he does not exists.
GOD is the cause for this existence How can he exists.
GOD is beyond existence and non-existence.
He is beyond light and darkness.
He is beyond all this rules of nature.
He is the absolute.

GOD Bless You.

Answer 2

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 3

Looking at science and archaeology convinced me of the accuracy of the Bible and seeing what accepting God and following Jesus does in peoples lives. I HAD bought into alot of the liberal and atheist thinking until I decided to stop listening to prefab answers and went and did some looking for myself. Try reading the Case for Faith by Lee Stroebel or Mere Chrisitianity By C.S. Lewis Both WERE atheists until they did the search for truth and then became convinced and accepted God and follows Jesus!

Here are some quotes that made me think about....
"There is no incompatibility between science and religion... Science shows that God exists." - Prof. D. Barton, Nobel Prize Chemistry

"If I had no other data than the early chapters of Genesis, some of the Psalms and other passages of Scripture, I would have arrived at essentially the same picture of the origin of the universe, as is indicated by the scientific data." Nobel Prize-winning physicist Arno Penzias (Big Bang Theorist)

"The principle of [divine] purpose ... stares the biologist in the face wherever he looks ... . The probability for such an event as the origin of DNA molecules to have occurred by sheer chance is just too small to be seriously considered ... ."Ernst Boris Chain - Nobel Prize in medicine

"So many of my colleagues are Christians that I can't walk across my church's fellowship hall without tripping over a dozen physicists."
William D. Phillips Nobel Prize in physics

Even Professor Antony Flew the former atheist (30+ years of speaking as an atheist) that had debated men such as C.S. Lewis recently said that the latest biological research "has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce (life), that intelligence must have been involved." He is not a Christian but a deist (God exists, but not a personal God) .

Truth is absolute and knowable and must be searched for, but many will try to hide it, deny it or muddy it. - annon.

Science can purify religion from error and superstion. Religion can purify science from idolotry and false absolutes - Pope John Paul II

Answer 4

Wow. Straight to the nut and bolts of it.

Did the universe simply come into existence on it's own or was it created? This is the starting point.

After you come to one of two possible conclusions to this question, you are forced to accept that God exists or that he does not.

If you choose that it was not created then the journey can be pretty short as only the discoveries in science and physics can guide you.

If you conclude that it was created, then a whole new dimension opens up for you. One of faith.

Scientific facts will still be there to refer to, but faith is a personal journey that will force you to look not just out for answers. It forces you to look inward as well.

Answer 5

I have a conscience. I know when something feels right or wrong. I have emotions, I feel love, hate, anger, joy...etc. I love music and art. Then I think, am I just here by chance, do all these emotions and feelings mean nothing? And then I realize that there must be a creator a higher power. It is the only thing that makes sense to me.

Answer 6

One of the things that soldered things in place for me was a philosophy/government class. In Plato's "Allegory of the Cave." people had to be led out into the light by an external entity. Plato said it should be a philosopher. Nope, higher, for me. God allows us to see our sin, gives us a new heart, changes our lives, gives us hope. Atheists are stuck in the shadows. Salvation is a gasp of realization. Plato described it rather well, but I don't think he considered the extrapolation of that allegory.

Answer 7

To be honest, I've been a Christian ever since I could walk. Technically, my family didn't convince me. I'm practically forced to read the Bible and go to church two to three times a week, so I might as well believe that He does... I mean, who has REAL proof that He doesn't? Seriously...

Answer 8

I can honestly say that God did. Have you ever heard of the so called "Sinner's Prayer"? When I did the Sunner's Prayer I was alone- not in a church or with any other people around, and I have a spiritual experience that was amazing. I have been a Christian ever since!

Answer 9

When I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, the Holy Spirit comes and lives inside of me and He has been helping and empowering me and giving me an unknown tongue to pray ever since. The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God, is very real to me.

Answer 10

My God given computer (Intellect) tells me there is One creator God who created everything in perfect and beautiful manner. He has given me enough intellect to convince & know fully that He exists.