To athiests- SERIOUS answers please!?

Question

I really appreciate all of you guys' input here to help me better understand you guys reasoning. I previously asked the question-"Why don't you believe in God?" Majority answered because there's no proof. So now I'd like to know (seriously)
What in particular would you need to see, or feel, or whatever....to believe He exists? What proof would you want ?

Answer 1

im not athiest but i think you guys need to go to the church in Jerusalem and see a weird fire pop out in front of you. look it up on the internet: Holy Fire......
...not holy smokes! which is what some people say when they see their candle just light up like that!!!

Answer 2

I agree that any proof is good enough but you ask what woudl suffice and I think it might be easier to point out what religious people consider to be proof and tell you why I dont agree.
The power of prayer - do i really need to explain it? If it "works" then it's a miracle (even though some people might pray to meet a new friend then go online, make a friend then raise the roof to god) but if it doesnt work then you get the slogans like "works in mysterious ways", "not the path he has for you". I would need to see double blind tests of prayer.
The Good book - it has been translated, edited and added to over the years, it contradicts itself and it does not match up to historical records (floods, sky gone dark for days etc)
God is the only possible explanation for life - NO NO NO NO this only opens the question who made god. Why is the big bang theory so upsetting to Christians, is it because we evolved from monkeys? If it is then look up the word EVOLVED, it doesn't mean I'm calling you a monkey, I'm simply explaining how our complex lives came to be this way. I think that any god who created us would not make us curious and intelligent if he wanted credit for making everything (and he does want credit, lots of it) Looking down now seeing me, he would see Im a good a moral person, intelligent (to a point at least) and he would see that I simply dont believe in him because he has left such a very very poor trail for me to follow - the book he left for me has been handed to me in an edited version which makes it impossible for my reasoning to accept. Now tell me - why would he not show a tiny bit of proof to bring me back into the flock. Why would he find it fair that I burn in hell for all eternity for not having credible evidence of his existence? It makes no sense at all - the burden of proof lies with whoever makes the claim so that it god, jesus, the church and christians..... otherwise you are simply following a lifestyle which you were born into or which you needed as a crutch. All fair and well until it conflicts with progression of the human mind in science (the earth is NOT 6000 years old), philosophy (we have morals without god) and content living (enjoying people for being people, loving the complexity of nature and the wonder of space)

Answer 3

I'd need to see his supposedly "infallible" word right about facts, i.e. it talks about events that should have impacted every civilization that was around at the time, yet none of them recorded them. There is no evidence that the Jews were ever in Egypt or that they were slaves and escaped. If the wise men saw the star of Bethlehem and traveled for up to 2 years, other cultures should have noticed and recorded it. If the temple curtain was ripped, why was its destruction not recorded until the temple was actually destroy in 70 AD. The list goes on and on.

To boil it down, I'd like to see consistency and proof.

Answer 4

To me God is just an idea someone had, and nothing, ever, has been proven of his existence, nothing, ever.

If i told you that i know of a dude called bob who lives somewhere else (exactly where i do not know) whose son came down to earth 3000 years ago, his name was larry, and he was the saviour of man, fed a few thousand people, walked on water, did some magic and peformed a miracle or two, would you believe me.

Blind ignorance has never been my forte, in maths you can prove that x=100 in the equation 2x=200, religion on the otherhand asks us to believe that if 2x=unknown, then x=god.

Proof to me would be some kind of irrefutable evidence of the existence of god. In fact i am more likely to believe in the existence of aliens rather than god because of that possibility to me is far more realistic than the existence of a "god".

Answer 5

Most of these people wouldn't know or believe in God if he stood right in front of them and told them the true story of his life anyway! So why even ask? I know why,They say they don't believe but they sure are quick to explain what they know absolutely nothing about.God is not going to give you a car if you pray for it, just like no one else would give you a car just because you asked for it. You probably would have to get to know the person first before he would do anything for you, let alone give you a car. Just pray for them that someday they will understand, and that someday God will touch there heart.

Answer 6

I'm not an athiest, but proof would be actually seeing or hearing him. And no, hearing voices in the back of your head isn't god, its a mental disorder. And what you call miracles can all be explained scientifically.

Answer 7

This question keeps coming up, and my answer is always the same: Omnipotent omniscient omnipresent creators should have NO trouble convincing their creation of its existence. Yet it is all faith and no proof. Not even evidence.

Even worse, it's the same for all the thousands of other gods in recorded human history.

Answer 8

In order to believe in the Abrahamic God, the proof that I would require would have to prove that not only a higher power existed but it would have to prove the Bible as well. If a higher power were proven, I would still not believe that higher power is the 'God' referred to in the Bible.

Answer 9

How about a coded message, in the language of your choice, encoded in either human DNA or the cosmic background radiation and giving a translation of some known religious text?

Answer 10

'Christianity isn't hurting certainly everyone' try telling that to each and all the abused little ones who've fallen sufferer to the Church (no longer purely the Catholic church). try telling that to each and all the victims of the Crusades or the Spanish Inquisition or the 'Witch' trials (even in the present day in Africa). did you be responsive to what ensue in Egypt to the worlds maximum considered necessary library interior the third century? It grow to be burnt to the floor by employing Christians scuffling with Pagans scuffling with Jews. have you ever any thought how plenty that could desire to have set back the completed human race? we are able to purely guess. i do no longer unmarried out Christianity I unmarried out the biggest recognisable factor of the priority that could desire to be Islam at the instant - no longer purely the Christians. that is no longer basic to assert who's worse. And Judaism continues to be oppressing Palestine (with Christian help).