There is no proof, only faith, which in my opinion is worthless
2007-07-20 13:34:26
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answer #1
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answered by Gawdless Heathen 6
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You wrote that question didn't you? There is your proof.
No lightning struck you down for that question, I trust. There is your proof of His love and long suffering.
Can you prove that you ate a burrito in 1995? Or that there is love? You don't know if someone really loves you, do you? Speculation based on 'obvious' evidence is not proof.
Obvious to you is not obvious to me. Some people can get it, (by the grace of God) and some cannot. You may say it's obvious, but it doesn't make it a fact.
Truth and fact are not the same. (A-theists have a tendency to muddle the two.) I can talk until I am blue in the face, but I'd rather not.
2007-07-20 13:57:56
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answered by Blank 4
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I can't offer proof (and I don't think anyone can, seeing as God, being supernatural, cannot be studied directly), but I think the preponderance of the evidence favors belief- I think there are too many things that we more likely acquired them from a higher being that also has them than from a naturalistic universe in which they would otherwise be absent. For example, we can sense no intelligence nor consciousness in matter itself, yet we possess both. While we can't rule out that we always possessed them or that we acquired them from a naturalistic universe that has neither, is it not a more believable scenario that we obtained them from a being that can give both because it has both itself? The same could be argued, perhaps to a lesser extent, for free will and our senses of beauty and morality (although one could argue that both are merely illusory, I would think it more likely that they seem real because they are).
2007-07-20 14:07:26
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answered by Deof Movestofca 7
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Dude, you're not going to find any proof. You will find a bunch of babel about how people "feel" and what people "know". There is no proof. That's how their system works. If we could prove it, we couldn't guilt you. But as far as the "written with Divine intervention" bit, I'd have to say that according to the Bible, people have free will, which lets them write whatever they want. Hence no intervention. I can tell my one year old what to do. That doesn't mean that her actions are based on my directions alone. Unless of course you think that I told her to stuff her diaper down the toilet. What a messed up message I gave her, huh?
2007-07-20 13:38:45
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answered by stevenhendon 4
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There is no 'proof' that God exists just people who believe, and may I note that a belief is not the truth for everyone. I say this because there are some people who think that there's only one god yadda yadda and that's the TRUTH. However there are other people who think that there is no God or more than one God, and to them that's the TRUTH. So that is why I believe that God's existence is based on a belief, not the truth. If it was the truth then everyone would agree.
2007-07-20 13:43:33
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answered by The Nikki 6
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2:28: How can Ye reject the faith in Allah?- Seeing that ye were without life, and He gave you life; then he will cause you to die, and will again bring you to life; and again to Him will ye return."
-Quran-
You are proof of Gods existence. Your parents are proof of Gods existence. The trees and mountains, Skies and planets and stars are all proof of God.
If you want to see the proofs you shall see them, if you don't then you shall not.
You are absolutely right. The Bible was written by ordinary men just like you and me. Unlike the Quran which was written and has never been changed since Angel Gabriel spoke the words to Prophet Muhammad. Unfortunately the Bible has verses that have actually been debated and taken out from original copies....The Quran has no such thing. The words have never changed from the start.
2007-07-20 13:37:32
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answer #6
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answered by Anonymous
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None at all. In fact, quite the opposite.
There was never any proof of the existence of Zeus and his band, of Ra the Sun God. But they were as real in people's imagination then, just as this god is as real in deluded people's minds today. It IS clear to see but there are none so blind ...
2007-07-20 13:39:19
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answered by Phisch 2
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Jesus´ hand held my hand. Physically.
I felt it, I saw it, It saved me from a terrible death.
If you would go to Mars and find a watch there would you think it was the result of chance, evolution?
E. g., when I study and see the results of my research on this marvellous subject that is "photosynthesis" at the molecular, atomic, electronic level I have a powerful evidence of God´s existence!
And there are many others!
"I was blind but now I see!"
2007-07-20 13:42:25
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answered by Vovó (Grandma) 7
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Fortunately for them, religion is not about proof based on evidence, but about faith in spite of it.
2007-07-20 13:39:01
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answered by Fred 7
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I can't prove it to you, but read this...I think it applies to this question perfectly. It was written by Boyd K. Packer a member of the quorum of the twelve in the LDS religion.
What Does Salt Taste Like?
I will tell you of an experience I had before I was a General Authority which affected me profoundly. I sat on a plane next to a professed atheist who pressed his disbelief in God so urgently that I bore my testimony to him. “You are wrong,” I said, “there is a God. I know He lives!”
He protested, “You don’t know. Nobody knows that! You can’t know it!” When I would not yield, the atheist, who was an attorney, asked perhaps the ultimate question on the subject of testimony. “All right,” he said in a sneering, condescending way, “you say you know. Tell me how you know.”
When I attempted to answer, even though I held advanced academic degrees, I was helpless to communicate.
Sometimes in your youth, you young missionaries are embarrassed when the cynic, the skeptic, treat you with contempt because you do not have ready answers for everything. Before such ridicule, some turn away in shame. (Remember the iron rod, the spacious building, and the mocking? See 1 Ne. 8:28.)
When I used the words Spirit and witness, the atheist responded, “I don’t know what you are talking about.” The words prayer, discernment, and faith, were equally meaningless to him. “You see,” he said, “you don’t really know. If you did, you would be able to tell me how you know.”
I felt, perhaps, that I had borne my testimony to him unwisely and was at a loss as to what to do. Then came the experience! Something came into my mind. And I mention here a statement of the Prophet Joseph Smith: “A person may profit by noticing the first intimation of the spirit of revelation; for instance, when you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas … and thus by learning the Spirit of God and understanding it, you may grow into the principle of revelation, until you become perfect in Christ Jesus.” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, comp. Joseph Fielding Smith, Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1977, p. 151.)
Such an idea came into my mind and I said to the atheist, “Let me ask if you know what salt tastes like.”
“Of course I do,” was his reply.
“When did you taste salt last?”
“I just had dinner on the plane.”
“You just think you know what salt tastes like,” I said.
He insisted, “I know what salt tastes like as well as I know anything.”
“If I gave you a cup of salt and a cup of sugar and let you taste them both, could you tell the salt from the sugar?”
“Now you are getting juvenile,” was his reply. “Of course I could tell the difference. I know what salt tastes like. It is an everyday experience—I know it as well as I know anything.”
“Then,” I said, “assuming that I have never tasted salt, explain to me just what it tastes like.”
After some thought, he ventured, “Well-I-uh, it is not sweet and it is not sour.”
“You’ve told me what it isn’t, not what it is.”
After several attempts, of course, he could not do it. He could not convey, in words alone, so ordinary an experience as tasting salt. I bore testimony to him once again and said, “I know there is a God. You ridiculed that testimony and said that if I did know, I would be able to tell you exactly how I know. My friend, spiritually speaking, I have tasted salt. I am no more able to convey to you in words how this knowledge has come than you are to tell me what salt tastes like. But I say to you again, there is a God! He does live! And just because you don’t know, don’t try to tell me that I don’t know, for I do!”
As we parted, I heard him mutter, “I don’t need your religion for a crutch! I don’t need it.”
From that experience forward, I have never been embarrassed or ashamed that I could not explain in words alone everything I know spiritually. The Apostle Paul said it this way:
“We speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.”
“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” (1 Cor. 2:13–14.)
2007-07-20 13:53:17
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answered by Laura S 2
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rainbows gensis 9 ;13-17
2007-07-20 13:41:14
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answered by Anonymous
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