For Atheists: do you believe that it is even "possibile" that God exists? And part 2 of the question...

Question

If you believe that there is even the most remote "possibility" that God does exist, then isn't it "possible" that the Bible was inspired by God, and is true?

We Christians cannot prove God's existence without any doubt to those who don't believe, because it is by faith in Jesus Christ we are saved, and if by faith in Him we are saved, there will be no absolute proof of God, which would in effect, do away with that need for faith.

What I have learned about the evolutionary theoretical process has simply reinforced my faith in God...and it has also changed the mind of some scientists who were once Atheists.

Part 3. If there is the "possibility" of God existing, and there is the "possibility" that the Bible was inspired by God, then keeping an open mind, have you ever read the Bible while focusing on these possibilities?

Reading the Bible without the premise of the Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent, and All loving God who is Holy and purely Good inspiring it is counterproductive.

I did not say God does not offer proof of His existence, and for myself, I believe in the testimony of God in the Biblical account and the historical archaeological record, along with the science that actually speaks to back God's existence. I said we cannot prove without doubt...absolute proof. We cannot prove to ourselves or to the world absolutely. Evidence we have, yes, and experiences we have, yes, but absolute proof as of God appearing to the world at once to demonstrate His glory and power to us here and now indisputably we will have when Christ returns...when there will be no doubt left for anyone.

By the way, this is partly rhetorical....if you answer No, that there is no "possibility," then you make yourself to be "Omniscient." This is very unwise.

Just remember, there is only one absolute truth. If one claims no God, that is a statement of absolute truth. We all hold to an absolute, and they contradict each other. If we have 9 different ideas of truth, that are all fundamentally different, if it is determined that one is true, then all others must be false.

Atheists believe there is no God.

Judaism believes Christ is not God and not the Messiah.

Christianity believes Christ is God, and the Messiah, and we believe in the Trinity. Only one way to be saved, by faith in Christ.

Islam believes Christ is a Prophet only, and not God. No trinity. Only one way to God, Allah.


Buddha was a man who said I cannot save, he said he is not God. Buddhism is a philosophy that does not believe Christ is God, or Allah is God.

Hinduism believes there are many paths to heaven (an absolute statement of truth that contradicts the others..

...if one is right, the others are wrong. No two ways about it.

Answer 1

Yes, this possibility exists.

Answer 2

Sure it's possible that god exists. Highly implausible to me because nobody seems to be able to produce any observable evidence. That would seem to be a simple thing to do for something as powerful as god is to you faithful. I see creationism and evolution similarly in that they are both theories. Evolution, however, provides an abundance of evidence which can be studied where creation does not. So evolution becomes a plausible explanation for the ascension of the species. At least to me anyway.

I used to read the bible when I was a christian. Since becoming a humanist, don't care for the word atheist, I only refer to the bible when someone asks me to explain this or that. Of course I always consider it with an open mind but I continue to come to the same conclusion. That being that there is still no evidence to support the Bible's content.

Answer 3

Part I
I think it's "possible" that a creator God exists. However, an omnipotent God who intervenes on a regular basis (or at all) is a logical impossibility.
Part II
Therefore, I don't think it's possible that the bible was inspired by God, because the bible paints a picture of an omnipotent God. A Christian God, who is omnipotent, omnipresent, etc. is even more impossible than a God that's just omnipotent.
(Yes, there are different 'levels' of impossibility. Read David Lewis's book "Counterfactuals" and a textbook on Modal Logic if you want to make sense how that's possible.)

Part III: Again, I can't assume the premise of an Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent, etc... God in order to read the Bible, because it is a logical impossibility.

Answer 4

1. I do not doubt the possibility of a god. Just not your version, or anyone else's version.

2. No it isn't. There is too much of man's interpretation in it. If it was divine inspiration, why didn't god tell the author that that "demon possession" was really an epilleptic seizure? That the man that heard demons in his head was reallly schizophrenic? Why didn't god speed up science instead of lie about what it really was? Kinda goes against the whole "Thall shalt not bear false witness" thing don't you think?

3. I've read the bible cover to cover three times. I started as a christian. I read it as a believer, I read it when struggling with religion, and I read it the final time when I'd realized it wasn't really the word of god.

I have to disagree with your conclusion, unless by counterproductive you mean controlling the masses is productive. I got much more out of the bible the last time I read it.

Answer 5

I think that almost anything is possible, and so it is possible that some sort of deity exists. We have no evidence that one does, though, so I must operate on the assumption that it doesn't. I feel that's the only intellectually honest thing to do.

I think, however, that it is outside the realm of possibility that the Christian Bible was inspired by a god, even if I believed a god did exist. I simply know too much about the book and the history of it to think that's possible in our system of reality. I've read the Bible several times, often while attempting to be "shown" that it's real. I wanted to be a Christian, especially as a young kid and teen. Nothing happened, and nothing is going to. It's just not reality.

The whole "you just have to have faith" thing will convince no one who isn't already in possession of it. I cannot convince myself to believe something that isn't true, and I wouldn't want to. The whole premise that one must have faith to understand the Bible so one can understand enough to have faith to "get saved"... it makes no sense. Sorry.

Answer 6

First - yes it is possible that there is some god out there.

Second - yes it is possible that one of the scared books in the world is the word of that god.

Third - I have looked at the bible with an open mind but that does not mean that I come to it believing everything that I am going to read before I read it.

Fourth - the problem is that the possibility of some god existing and the possibility of the bible being right are, to me, so remote as to not warranty even the slightest belief. To me it would be like believing in the outside possibilty of a rabbit's foot working magic.

Answer 7

Parts 2 and 1 are related to my mind, but not in the way you'd like to think.

In other words, the possibility of a god existing is rendered nothing *because* the bible is lying.

We can prove some of the 'facts' as false, completely (eg, the earth was made over many millions of years because different rocks have different carbon-17 levels ... so it couldn't have happened in a day), so I think its just a big lie.

Answer 8

1. do you believe that it is even "possibile" that God exists
I'm am not 100% sure godS don't exist. But let's call it in the 99th percentile range.

2. no. Even if gods exist the bible is obviously a heavily-edited compilation of various authors with stories that range from the bizarre (talking donkeys) to the outright lies (global flood, we already know that never happened). Written by men, for men, to codify the old stories unwittingly creating the whole organised religion thing.

"What I have learned about the evolutionary theoretical process has simply reinforced my faith in God...and it has also changed the mind of some scientists who were once Atheists."

Please, name these eminent scientists. Humor me.

3. well we have established (1) is remotely possible but (2) is already proven false. So (3) sort of falls by the wayside.

C'mon, talking donkeys.

Answer 9

Hey can I ask you if you would like to have some dialog with me so I can show you how to prove GOds existence. See there is a way, the question is do people want to except the truth. Please email me and I will write you concerning this. It is not a simple thing to do but if you learn how it can be done.

Let me know if your interested.

God bless.

Oh yeah the thing about Atheists is they cannot say GOd does not exist. they would have to know everything to do so. It is that they do not see evidence for him, the problem is how they support this using there world view. They have to borrow from the theist world view to support their own beliefs, most do not realize they do this. This is what I would share with you if you are interested. It would take a bit of explaining.

Answer 10

Anything is possible, but do I believe it...no. There has not been one bit of evidence of the existence of a god in all my lifetime. I need SOMETHING...some kind of evidence. If god was real, why would he not make himself known? It doesn't seem like such a small thing to ask of a God that wants total obedience. He apparently made himself known to people in the Old Testament. Then suddenly nothing. For 2,000 years nothing. Sorry, I don't believe it. It's not logical.

atheist

Answer 11

I would say the existence of a God as you conceive of it is about as probable as a planet filled with one eyed, one horned flying purple people eaters. Fine I grant that planet could exist but it is extraordinarily unlikely.

Do you know the history of the Bible? Are you aware of how many times the Bible was rewritten and retranslated? Are you aware of the staggering number of translatory mistakes that were made? I suggest the book "Misquoting Jesus" for a decent read on just how poorly the "sacred text" has been treated over the centuries. By the way, that book was written by a Christian so it is not biased.