What is the best defense for the existence of God?

Question

If you're an atheist play the devil's advocate. You main explain then why the argument is incorrect.
The best answer will be the most recurrent reason, whatever its quality.

Answer 1

Faith that He does exist.

Answer 2

There is no defense for the existence of God. God is. End of argument.

As far as I see it. Most people build up an image of God. If their image appeals they believe in God. If it does not they don't. Much of this depends on how they have been brought up and what they have been taught.

God doesn't reckon it great faith for someone to declare belief but to disregard what he says or requires, like the fool has said in his heart, 'there is no God' God, probably ignores our ramblings, because he can read the language of the heart.

It fits our comfort zone to have a pocket god and a pretend friend Jesus. The truth is God is not in our comfort zone, and Jesus is a reality.

The best argument for God is the Jews. Forget all about the big bang and first cause, and great philospophical arguments. There are few people who have as long a history. I can only think of the Chinese, but maybe there are others. To think also that for about a thousand years they were without a country, and yet as a people and a race they have been preserved. Their claim to fame is that they are his chosen people.

The Bible also has been produced and read consistently during that time. Yes it has been ignored, reviled, misquoted, misused, ridiculed, but it is still being produced, still changing lives. It is declared to the Word of the Living God

So then does God rely entirely on the intuitive and not on the logical? Probably. 'Unless you become as a little child, you cannot enter the Kingdom of God'
and
As far as the heavens are above the earth so are my thoughts above your thoughts and my ways above your ways
and
For the foolishness of God is wiser than the wisdom of men.

Answer 3

Look at the creation around you! It's quite simple actually...
I wont quote much scripture, but there's one verse in the Bible that strikes me as particularly relevant to the topic at hand: "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands" (Psalm 19:1-3). I've stood at the tops of mountains, I've stared at the vast firmament of the sky from the middle of the ocean, and I've seen lots of things in between. There's a sense of awe, a sense of wonder at the majesty of (what I believe to be) creation. I know I'm not the only one that feels it. So how did we evolve that awe, that appreciation? And more importantly, is all of the beauty we see in this world merely a result of some haphazard seeding of proteins and amino acids, with no rhyme or reason? To answer "yes" seems wrong on a visceral level, wouldn't you say?

Answer 4

the best defense for the existance of GOD is to take a look around you. the flowers ,the trees, a babys laugh and smile, the old couple married for 65 years who still hold each others hands as they take a walk in companionable silence, the sun,the moon, a newly wed couple leaving their wedding, the sunrise,the sunset, a rainbow, the beautiful music in church or whatever religious service you attend, a family having fun together. if you need any other proof just look around you and you'll see that something or someone stronger and greater than ourselves had to have some thing to do with this world .

Answer 5

YOU!

The fact you are alive, breathing, walking, talking and doing. You are the best answer, defense whatever. Just by Being, no religion, no have to, no you got to, just YOU.

By the way do you know what God wants?

Chapter 13 in What God Wants. Excellent book. Might answer a few of those questions you have. Or better yet might stir up new ones.

Answer 6

The two best are "Prove that god doesn't exist" and "Find a watch on a beach and not realize that it had to be designed"

For the first the rebuttal is prove that every other Deity that has worshiped in history doesn't exist.

The second is trickier as it sounds really good and very thoughtful. But essentially we are not judging on a single piece of evidence but on years of research and thousands of fossils.

Answer 7

Whether God exists is based wholly on how God is defined.

Define God as the universe and the physical laws of nature and nobody can deny that God exists except philosophers that question whether the world continues to exist when the door to the outside is shut.

Answer 8

If we exist, then we must have a beggining. All those scientific theories cannot explain how matter, energy, life came to be. They just explain how they changed, but not how they came to exist or start.

Then how would God come to existence?
God did not have to be created, if He needed to be created then He would not exist. It makes more sence to belive that theres an unseen force, creator of all, out there beyond our comprehension. Than the universe creating itself out of a 1 of 1,000,000,000,000 chance

I really dont understand pridefull humans denying God and trying to come up with their own theories as to how the universe was created, like their that smart.

and to those that dont belive in God due to lack of proof, but also know they are not smart enough to come up with reasons of our existence without bringing God into it, I tell you.
Why take the chance? If you dont know how the universe was created but also dont belive in God, you do not lose anything to put away your pride and belive in Him but rather you gain eternal life,

Beign an atheist does not gain you anything
Beliving in God gains you all you have ever dreamed of, and even if your wrong, what do you lose? Nothing at all

Answer 9

Consciousness.

It won't defend the preposterous beliefs of christians or muslims or any of the other religions, but it certainly plays havoc with reductionism, the belief that, if you can't see it or make sense of it, it is unable to be falsified and thus is not scientific and can be discounted.

Answer 10

Man can never prove the existence of god.
To do so would put the cosmos into utter chaos and cause god to disappear just to prove you wrong.

Answer 11

My defense is I don't need to prove nothing too anyone. I believe in him, if you don't your loss.
No-one can be brought to faith through logic, because there logic is 'right'. If you want too know my reasons for believing go too a christian seminar, or concert. The evidence lies wherever the holy spirit is.