How can I believe in God when Ive never seen him or have concrete proof?

Question

I want to believe and ive always heard you cant be a true christian and go to heaven unless you have 100% percent faith in God. How can anybody believe in something they havent seen. Isnt it possible people trick themselves into believing miracles happen when it could have just been chance? I feel as if I will never be able to commit to religion. where can i get hard evidence scientific proof?

Answer 1

You can't, unless you're delusional.

That's what believing in something that has no basis in reality is: delusion.

Answer 2

There were people who got upset when I began questioning. However, if you really want to believe, questioning is the first step to true faith. You can't make God your own until you question if He's actually there. Until then, you mindlessly follow others.

If you are living the life God asks, (His 10 commandments) He will show you. Then you will know, that you know, that you know, that you *know*, that He is there, because You will know Him, and you will feel Him in your heart; and that will be all the proof you will ever need. See John 14:23.

You know the empty feeling you get inside when you are all alone and everything is quiet (especially at night)? That empty space is the place that God fills when He really lives in your heart. That empty space is gone when you have 100% faith in God.

The 100% comes when you have a relationship with Him and you KNOW Him. To develop a relationship, first you must accept Jesus as your Savior. (Jesus said, "No man comes unto the Father accept through Me." John 6:65) Then you communicate with Him--You talk to Him (pray without stopping) and listen for Him to speak to you, (through His Word).

If you still can't hear Him, ask the Holy Spirit to help you understand what He is trying to say. If all you hear is bad, get *anything* out of your life that you place before God. (Ask Him to show you what, if any, these things are.) Then, come to Him again.

As for hard evidence and scientific proof? Look around you. The world declares His glory! (Where did everything start? And where did that start? And that? And that?) Either you have "faith" that matter began somehow--or you have faith that God is who He said He is, and that He did what He said He did.

This is a good question. Thank you for asking it. You are in my prayers.
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Answer 3

That's nonsense. No-one has 100% faith.

Belief means you accept something as true when you don't KNOW that its true. If you had concrete proof of God, you would not believe in Him, you would KNOW Him.

It is possible that people trick themselves into believing...

Unfortunately, the only thing that will give someone conviction about God is to first believe in him enough to try out his way of life. That usually brings feelings within which are hard to deny... they bring conviction.

Even the scientific proof comes when you believe, but the proof only comes after the faith...

Alma 32: 27
27 But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than desire to believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words.

For an explanation of how to find spiritual proof of God's existence, read Alma 32:26-43 -
http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/32/26-43#26

In my experience, living the laws of the Gospel brings peace, happiness, understanding and wisdom. The experiment part is that you perform the commandments of God, and "desire to believe". The proof is the feelings you have from doing it.... you feel your soul expand... and you feel closer and closer to God as time progresses.

Answer 4

Do you only believe in what you can deal with with your senses? How sad. How did you think of this question since there is no proof of thought? An EEG only proves that an electro chemical impulse went through the brain. It gives no proof of thougfht or what the thought was yet you believe you have had a thought, i presume. As to Christians having 100% faith at all times. No faith grows over time. One goes through a trying time and doubts and rather than one's doubts being proven one's faith is proven so there is a little more faith and this happens time and again through one's life and faith grows.. I am still concerned that you can't commit to a belief which you can't prove scientifically but you had the thought that you couldn't believe it.

Answer 5

When I read questions like this, I always wonder: Has this person seen any particles of dark matter lately? What concrete proof do they have with dark energy?
It's not like they can get hard, direct evidence for either of those, either.

So, ah, how will you be able to commit to science then? Because you choose to believe the mathematical mumbo-jumbo you don't understand over the religious mumbo-jumbo?

Others simply make a different choice of what to believe in. It helps if they consider god more likely than dark matter, I suppose.

Answer 6

To a degree I look at this question the same way that a blind person has to look at the existence of the sun. Can a blind ever see the sun? Can a blind person ever touch the sun? So, why do most blind people in the world believe there is a sun - not because they see or touch it, but because the existence of the sun leave traces or evidence of its existence. Even if one is blind you can still feel the heat that the sun gives off. The same with God - His existence is beyond our ability to comprehend but the evidence He has left is clear. Perhaps the best evidence is that of His Messengers Who, one and all, were able to singlely and alone overcome all opposition and transform their societies. Another would be an infinite and orderly universe - does it make more sense that out of random nothingness and infinite orderly universe came into being or that a all-knowing Creator did it instead.

This is all to say that you want it to be to easy - the evidence of God is all around us but you do have to look and seek. It is not going to be given to anyone on a platter.

Answer 7

The simple answer is, you can't get hard proof. Religion is based souly on faith. Yes there is hard evidence to back up the evolution theory, and that is what I believe in myself, because I too think like you. My common answer when I ask, if God created us, then who created God is, he has always been there. Then I ask then isn't it possible for us to have just been there, and they get mad. There is no hard facts, there is no evidence, only a book which was translated in the Dark Ages and could have been changed many times. Sorry that there is no clear cut answer to your life long riddle.

Answer 8

I'll tell you what. You describe to me how salt tastes and you'll understand what it is like to describe how you know God exists: the faith aspect of it all.

But the main idea is to remember that if you want to know if something exists, you have to "experiment." If you want proof of what Christians say, do what they tell you to do. Pray, pay tithing, and go to church. If nothing happens, perhaps nothing is there. If something does happen, then you'll have the experience of faith.

The scientific process still works for religion. I supplied you with the experiment. Only you can gather your conclusive data.

Remember (and I'm sure you've heard it before): we've never seen the wind, but we've seen the leaves blowing, felt our hair move, and watched snow flurries. We all know it exists, but no one has ever seen it. How do I know it's there? I went and stood in it.

Answer 9

here is some evidence 4 creation


As a microbiologist, the bacterial flagellum has always fascinated me.

The flagellum is a corkscrew-shaped, hair-like appendage attached to the cell surface, which acts like a propeller, allowing the bacterium to swim. The most interesting aspect of the flagellum is that it is attached to—and rotated by—a tiny, electrical motor made of different kinds of protein.

Like an electrical motor, the flagellum contains a rod (drive shaft), a hook (universal joint), L and P rings (bushings/bearings), S and M rings (rotor), and a C ring and stud (stator). The flagellar filament (propeller) is attached to the flagellar motor via the hook. To function completely, the flagellum requires over 40 different proteins. The electrical power for driving the motor is supplied by the voltage difference developed across the cell (plasma) membrane.

In 1996, Dr. Michael J. Behe, a professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University (and an evolutionist), published a challenging book to classical Darwinian evolution entitled “Darwin’s Black Box.” In this book he uses the flagellum to introduce the concept of “irreducible complexity.” If a structure is so complex that all of its parts must initially be present in a suitably functioning manner, it is said to be irreducibly complex. All the parts of a bacterial flagellum must have been present from the start in order to function at all.

According to evolutionary theory, any component which doesn’t offer an advantage to an organism, i.e. doesn’t function, will be lost or discarded. How such a structure could have evolved in a gradual, step-by-step process as required by classical Darwinian evolution is an insurmountable obstacle to evolutionists. How a flagellum is used, however, adds an additional level of complexity to the picture.

Some bacteria have a single flagellum located at the end of a rod-shaped cell. To move in an opposite direction, a bacterium simply changes the direction of rotation of the flagellum. Other bacteria have a flagellum at both ends of the cell and use one flagellum for going in one direction and the other for going in the opposite direction. A third group of bacteria has many flagella surrounding the cell. These flagella wrap themselves together in a helical bundle at one end of the cell and rotate in unison to move the cell in one direction. If the cell wants to change direction, the flagella unwrap themselves, move to the opposite end of the cell, reform the bundle, and again rotate in a coordinated fashion.

The structural complexity and finely tuned coordination of the bacterial flagellum attests to the work of a master engineer who designed and created the flagellum to function in a wonderfully intricate manner.

Dr. Dudley Eirich

Answer 10

I incredibly have in no way see a huge Bang. I incredibly have listened to the after-effects of the vast Bang. i believe you and your ilk want to place it as "i've got seen the wind that strikes the trees" or something like that. Proving evolution would take a protracted time. So putting it in basic terms, we've yet to have a rival theory supply sufficient evidence that evolution is fake. i replaced into suggested in a Christian abode. We went to church a pair cases each week. i replaced into taught in a school that taught evolution. on the time 'sensible layout' wasn't attempting to parade around instead theory to creationism and creationism have been frequently debunked.

Answer 11

three seperate religions record Jesus and hey we started time by him .both Arabs and jews share five of the old testament books so its feasible to believe they were in touch with a greater power. yeah i figure the Bible is corrupted by human desire and political expediency and early civilization had a limited understanding of some of the big picture but hey dont you feel awe at how complex and beautiful life is especially the bloody bits like life and death as well as the short flicker inbetween the two?