How many here support God's existence?

Question

I figure since the Religion and Spirituality section are strictly based on pure evidence that maybe some here would base their reasoning on God's existence to a more logical level.

There are alot of arguments that support God's existence but no real proof... so i just wanna get some insight to what you may think?

Answer 1

O.K. I'm going to take the middle ground here. You can neither prove or disprove the existence of God. Quotations from the Bible mean nothing. You cannot use it to "prove' the existence of God, whether you believe in the scriptures or not. Neither can you use your own existence (or existence in general) as proof of God.
By the same token, you cannot use lack of evidence as proof of the non-existence of God... at one time people only thought swans were white and to say that all swans are white seemed a reasonable statement... until the first black swan was discovered. So with that principle in mind, opinions regarding scientific theories are just that - opinions. This is where statistics comes in. If you observe that with a sample of 1,000,000 swans every one is white then based on that evidence it is likely that swans are white. It takes only the discovery of a single black swan to demolish the theory. Theories are accepted as fact where there is an overall preponderance of evidence supporting their postulates.
There is no test or experiment that you can perform that will prove or disprove the existence of God. Belief in God is an issue of faith. Faith is belief without justification. Atheists however usually take one of two positions, either:
a) Nothing that I have expirienced leads them to believe in the existence of God, so far. So they refuse to accept the concept without substantiation, or...
b) Examination of the history of religion (any religion) leads them to believe that God is a superstitious concoction created by primatives and propagated through history by individuals or groups that have benefited from the populus maintaining such beliefs. As such they actively state that they believe God is a man made concept, devoid of divinity.

Finally, this may be purely semantics for there are many definitions of what God actually is. Many main stream religions believe that God is a physical being in whose image we are created. This being the case God, must be some kind of superman who looks like us, but has dominion over the physical universe. Other believers conceive of God as being a kind of Force or pandeity. So the question of his/ her/ its existence should probably be culled in terms of which "type of God" do you think exists?
If you are looking for logic to support the existence of the Almighty, I'm afraid that all you are likely to find here on YA are more questions.

Answer 2

Hold on a minute there, mister. There is PLENTY of proof that any number of different gods exists. It's just that (like ALL proof, really) it's not mathematical in its perfection. But it is still proof.

In the same wise, there is plenty of proof that there are NO gods. Again, none of it is iron-clad and completely indisputable. That's what happens in the real world.

The only real question any of us must ask is whether all these proofs add up to enough to believe in any particular set of ideas or not. Not whether proof exists - just what it means. And obviously people have very different interpretations of that very question.

Personally, I have the benefit of some proofs that other people may not have. I communicate with my gods, so I have pretty close to no doubt that they are out there somewhere. About the same level of doubt that any number of other things are really out there (I never have seen Timbuktu... maybe it's really a myth).

But barring any personal revelation, I'm sure your mileage may vary. Peace.

Answer 3

A two dimentional being can no more prove the existence of a three dimentional being than we can of God. A two dimentional being has length and width in their environment that they can control. Therefore, they can theorize there may be a third dimention of height, but without it in their enviornment, they can't prove it. Perhaps if we controlled time (the 4th dimention), we could come closer, but would we be there? I don't know.

So, just because a 2-D creature cannot prove a 3-D creature exists, does not mean the the 3-D creature does not exist. They just have to believe it does.

Answer 4

the Bible is easily proven false by history and science;you are simply brainwashed just as are the Mormons,Jews,Muslims and every other "religion" follower like the Jim Jones group,the Moonies,etc... the fact that you have to rely on "The Bible Says" or " I just know in my heart" shows how ridiculous the whole Chtistian Religion is...
What about Hell (The Lake of Gehenna) just "appears" in the New Testament,yet the New Testament is a "continuation" of the Old Testament?Doesn't jive...
The different Religions and Cultures and races in this World..the fact that this "god" would torture the majority of everyone he ever created but loves them ,but hates their sin because he put two children in a Garden with something he knew they would pick up and then torture everyone forever and ever and ever?That is way worse than Hitler,Stalin and Hussien combined...
The fact that none of the Churches or even two people in any Church agree on what the Bible even means...the only ongoing miracle is Catholic Priests take a vow of celibacy and miraculously don't have a need to expel a basic bodily fluid but don't get neutered and then wear black dresses and molest little boys that wear dresses and sing like women...
but "god" does exist;the intelligent design of the solar system and the weather system and photosynthesis,dna and reproduction,nutrients from decomposition,the food chain;the fact that people have the same thoughts when in the same room keeping quite...thinking a tune in your head and someone close to you starts singing it..we are all definately connected by a Life Force in a designed Universe,but that in no way proves any Religion as accurate;much to the contrary;but it does show we are manipulated

Answer 5

The traditional ontological proofs have the weakness of relying on the logical implications of our concepts to compel God's existence. But it might be better for now just to look at the shortcomings of the human linguistic conceptual apparatus-- its 2-dimensional linearity-- in terms of its inadequacy for describing reality in its multi-dimensional fulness. The denials of God's existence all rely on arguments couched within this ill-fitting conceptual vessel. The standard late modern intellectual conventions can't even provide an adequate account of human consciousness, much less probe matters of intelligence in the universe with enough certainty to grant such denials credibility.
___Of course, if one holds an anthropocentric notion of God, then the denials get nudged towards the plausible, but if one's theology keeps in mind the inadequacy of our concepts, then the best the deniers can accomplish is to fight such a theology to a standoff.

Answer 6

Well there are many proofs of God's existance, its just a matter of thinking even more deeply about our human creation.

"[Scientists have] revealed vast amounts of information encoded in each and every living cell, and molecular biologists have discovered thousands upon thousands of exquisitely designed machines at the molecular level. Information requires intelligence and design requires a designer."

This source has many good debates!

Answer 7

Without proof,as you said, there is no way to prove anything. You either believe or you don't. To believe in God you need faith and faith is not based on evidence.

Answer 8

I believe in Almighty God. When people say they do not believe God exists, they are saying that it does exist but in a different form, different way. They call it energy, force; something that they know is extra, something out there; for some scientists they call it a phenomenon; any other names to replace the name of God. Some people believe they themselves are god. Free thinkers actually mean they believe in god but they do not want to limit god to only one religion.

Answer 9

with all the artifacts being found today should lead people to at least think about God.

I believe in him because I have seen miracle's, have had prayers answered that astounded doctors,

I have felt God's presence around me, we believe in air that we can't see so what's wrong with believing in God????

Answer 10

I think that God exists.

There's about as much proof against God as for, so it comes down to personal experience with things that can be classified as supernatural (miracles and such).