I'm Agnostic,I believe that God's existence can't be proven or dissproven,someone get me off the fence?

Question

Can someone provide a good enough argument that he exists or doesn't exist,well let the debate begin.

Answer 1

Satan controls the fence! Get off or he'll GET YOU!!

Just kidding... Almost got you off the fence, though, huh? ;)

I don't think His existence can be proven or disproven either, but I think that He has created a positive enough effect on my life and my family's that I'm willing to continue believing in Him.

I don't imagine that God cares whether anyone proves or disproves His existence, quite frankly, as long as they live with respect to others and life in general. An agnostic man or woman with the love of his/her fellow man will get to a "heaven" long before a theologian who devotes his life to religious studies, yet fails to acknowledge the inner good in another for sheer difference of beliefs.

Answer 2

Since absolutely nothing creates absolutely nothing we can conclude something is eternal. This eternal something cannot exist in the dimension of time, because time requires a start. Logically you cannot go back an infinte years ago, so there has to be a starting point. So something eternal has to exist, without the need of anything outside itself to exist. This would eliminate every living thing on the face of the earth. Although non living substances could live without an enviroment. However non living substances are not able to create new subtances. For the sake of arguement suppose that trillons of hydrogen molecules is this substance. After time, there is still trillions of hydrogen molecules and nothing has changed. This would make sense because the eternal something cannot change, because it just is. The next question that arises is but why did this something create without a need to? Well this something must be a someone, and must have a will. This concludes that God exist,which is evident in the beautiful design of creation.

Answer 3

Keep an open mind, listen to what people say and deduct your own answers. Neither way is 100% sure. Though the evidence is in the atheist's court, there are still questions left unanswered. Watch the first part of this movie: http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/ (skip over the long intro). It raises a lot of doubt. Also look here: http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/ None of it actually makes much sense. If God says we go to hell if we don't blindly follow him, why did he let false religions with the same amount of answers and reasons be created? Isn't he just making us randomly guess? But then again, where did we come from? Obviously evolution, but science only takes you so far back, what about before that? We just don't know. But if you do your own research and reasoning, always keeping open and accepting to new ideas, then if God does exist, I'm sure He'll let you in.

Answer 4

Don't think of it as on the fence. The fact that you have not found a compelling argument from either side means you are applying critical reasoning. Pure logic cannot be applied to the problem. How's that for Strong Agnostic reasoning? You may wind up at an intellect vs. emotion standoff.

Answer 5

Wow, reading over all of the answers here, no one was helpful at all. I don't believe in a god, but I do believe in the morals and ideas that religion imposes.
Kindness and forgiveness. Unfortunately the bible was passed on for generations, being reinterpreted by corrupt and mentally deranged men, and evolving into a distorted version of the beautiful book that preached peace and acceptance initially.
I used to think I was agnostic, but I just cannot sense god at all. Life is so sporadic and meaningful, and meaningless, that I don't want to fathom a grand plan behind it, I just want to love it, and live it and appreiciate it.
It is up to you my man. Feel no pressure to pick one side though, that's silly.

Answer 6

There are several philosophical proofs for the existence of God, but, ultimately, it comes down to faith. One proof says that everything has a cause. However, there cannot be an infinite regress (there must have been some kind of energy or force that started everything). In other words, there must at some point be an "uncaused cause." God is the "uncaused cause," the spark which set everything in motion.

Answer 7

Look at the probabilities, and the unnecesarities.

Do you believe that their is equal evidence for existence as non-existence?

If so, you are an atheist already. Although I do not hold the 50/50 view.

Answer 8

One argument for atheism over agnosticism is how you view consciousness. If your consciousness is merely part of a bigger consciousness then "you" do not really exist. Everything about yourself is just copied from someone else. If that's so an individual God would be superfluous and impractical under Occam's Razor.

Answer 9

One, don't believe you're on the fence, be proud of who you are, you're smart enough to have a question mark at the end of it, not a period. I'm like that too, I'm Atheist, but I'm still open-minded to wonder, is God real? It's a matter of the heart my friend.

Answer 10

I sat on that fence for almost 6 years. I just decided to jump on the side that seemed more logical to me.

It didn't seem logical that a Being sat around and made life and death decisions.....what would be the reasoning?

However.....I never ever try to "convert" anyone to my way of thinking.....it's a very personal decision.....Good luck with it.

Answer 11

"The philosopher asks himself, 'what is your aim in philosophy?' and he answers, 'To show the fly the way out of the bottle.' And where is he when he has made his escape? He is, it appears, exactly where he started; for philosophy 'leaves everything as it is.'"
-Ludwig Wittgenstein

I think that the debate about god is much the same.