Can anyone give me a convincing reason to show that God exists?

Question

I don't believe in God but I would be interested to find out why some people do.
(Free points available, I don't mind :D)

Oh and Jesus M.....BULLSHIT!
I have not strayed to satan, and how the hell are you a top contributor, that isn't even an answer to my question!

Answer 1

you cant proof he dont exist for starters

...then again you cant proof he does exist :S

see what i mean

Answer 2

The best answer I can give is:
Because it's the only logical way for the universe to have been created.

The Big Bang theory describes the events of the universe's creation, but not how those events originated. The reason for that is because they do not know. The theories that have been proposed for how the big bang was caused involve matter or energy that existed prior to the explosion. Well, how could that matter/energy have existed? To believe that it existed forever (impossible in science) is no less ridiculous than believing in a deity.. There had to have been a cause for that matter/energy. It had to have been created at some point.

The only theory that would make sense on how this occurred is the God theory.

I find it kindof funny when people use the Big Bang theory to try to show God doesn't exist. They can't explain how the events took place, yet they chose to believe in the theory.

That's really no different than someone believing in a God. Both require faith. You either have faith in nothing (since no theory is viable according to science), or faith in a higher being. Either way you choose to believe.

edit: The arguement against this (how did God come about then) is flawed because as far as I know, the religions don't believe God is physical. They believe he is spirit. Did happiness, sadness, or anger exist before the big bang? Of course they did. People didn't invent those feelings, they were always here, just with no people existed to express them. They didn't have to *be* created. God would be the same way. You can't view him as a physical being.

Answer 3

This may not be convincing but look at it this way;
when you leave your home and family everyday to head off to work, do you immediately stop believing that your home and family exist until they are right there in front of you again? No of course not.
So just because you left The Other Side to come to this life doesn't mean that they do not exist.

Answer 4

It is not the responsibility of the believer to "convince" the non-believer. God exists whether you believe in Him or not. The Lord simply teaches us to 'put the bug in the non-believer's ear'. Only God has the true power to help someone believe.

God does not want us to love Him because He "says so". He does not want us to believe in Him because we can "see" Him. The true test comes by faith. True believers will love Him even when times are tough and things get hard spiritually. People who believe by sight can be easily deceived.

God exists within everyone. Anyone and everyone has heard the Lord's voice. We all have little "guy instincts" telling us what is right from what is wrong. The path that we chose leads to redemption or conviction. We are either happy with our decision or we regret it. The little "voice" we all hear telling us right from wrong is God's way of speaking to our souls, trying to guide us down the right path.

Answer 5

Short answer is no.

There can never be any proof that god exists or not. That's why it's down to belief. Faith is when you believe a thing without concrete proof.

Unless of course, god were to come down and say 'yep, it's me. I'm real' - then I suppose we'd have proof.

But then, the next generation, who hadn't seen that happen, would have to rely on belief again.

I don't have belief in god. I do have hope - hope that is being slowly crushed by the ebbing away of any last shreds of humanity in the world.

Answer 6

God is real and he does work miricles. you can look on tv and find people of other religions having proof that God is real. How do you think that man got on earth and and if you believe that man came from a monkey how did the monkey have its existance? How did the first living thing have its evxstance. That my unbelieving friend is proff that God does exist. Talk to him and ask him to show you a some thing that he exist dont ask more something that you think is impossible like let 1 million dollars far from the sky into my arms because that doesnt happen.

Answer 7

I grew up an atheist and totally believed that there was no such thing as god. No god would let the worlds atrocities happen. As I grew older, I learned more and became an agnostic; refusing to believe without more hardcore evidence. Today I'm really on the line and leaning closer to believing that there is a god. Some of my explanations are just questions to encourage thinking about the subject..

1. Can you explain near death experiences that, no matter the race/culture/background of the person who experiences it, are all the same?... Perhaps they're all the same because we're all dying and going to the same place run by the same head honcho: God.

2. We have consciousness. Are there other animals that have the same level of consciousness/awareness that we do?.. Is this something specially given to us by a God/gods? If not, why, despite the billions of years of evolution, why are there not other animals that are as prosperous as humans (having language, technology, and history)?

3. I had missed a day of school and was suppose to watch "What the bleep do we know?" in my honors class. Instead I found a copy of it online and watched it. Instead of being that, it was something misnamed and completely different. Still, it was this incredible documentary that had a group of scientists (they listed names, specialties and the institutes they were associated with, but i forget them now) coming together to decipher the same question: Is there a God? In the documentary they started talking about intelligent design and the different parts of human cells. They stated how there are parts of a cell (showing what they looked like) and how they fit together, much like a complex machine. Each part working together to accomplish the cell's job, however each part was special and couldn't possibly have evolved over time because some parts were co-dependent on each other. Part-A couldn't have evolved to its current shape without Part-B already developed and Part-B couldn't evolve to its current shape without Part-A already developed. All of it drawing to the conclusion that the most tiny and minuscule parts of the human body would need to have been planned by a master engineer: God. It was a *great* documentary that gave me chills.

4. Any medical miracle that modern medicine isn't able to explain.

5. Are coincidences just that, or is it a term people have given to try and not think of God's actions in our lives?



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EDITED/ADDED (because people are misguided and uneducated):
1. The bible wasn't made by God. Portions of the bible have been written by many different people throughout history. The books of the bible are there because a council of human men (who are given to folly) said that those essays/stories/letters/writings could come together to create a book to be known as the bible.

2. Some would like to argue that "duh. God created it! Stuff can't come from nothing!" but sillily forget then that God came from nothing. I would love to see them answer the question "where did God come from?".. was he just bored and sitting around before he decided to create us?.. are there other universes that were his creations before and after he did us?

Answer 8

The existence of God can be proved in five ways.
The first and more manifest way is the argument from motion. It is certain, and evident to our senses, that in this world some things are in motion. Now whatever is in motion is put in motion by another, for nothing can be in motion unless it is in act. For motion is nothing else than the reduction of something from potency to act. But nothing can be reduced from potency to act except by something in a state of act. Thus, that which is actually hot, as fire, makes wood, which is potentially hot, to be actually hot, and thereby moves and changes it. Now it is not possible that the same thing should be at once in act and potency in the same respect, but only in different respects. For what is actually hot cannot simultaneously be potenetially hot, though it is simultaneously potentially cold. It is therefore impossible that in the same respect and in the same way a thing should be both mover and moved, that is, that it should move itself. Therefore, whatever is moved must be moved by another, and that by another again. But this cannot go on to infinity, because then there would be no first mover, and, consequently, no other mover, seeing that subsequent movers move only because as they are moved by the first mover, just as the staff moves only because it is moved by the hand. Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a first mover which is moved by no other. And this everyone understands to be God.

Answer 9

I would love to know and have proof that God exists. The truth is the only thing I'm certain of, is that good and evil exist and that we are in a constant battle with these forces. I also know the bible exists, and that it was written to give us all a standard or moral code to live by. Unfortunately, to many people abused its power throughout history, and has given it a bad name. I don't know if the bible was inspired by God or written by man. There is no proof. There is only choice. ;-)

Answer 10

Einstein said that the Chaos in the Universe pointed to a Creator.

Had it all started with the famous Big Bang, everything would be the same.

Answer 11

Speaking powerfully to me are both the lives and teachings of the world's universal educators: Krishna, Zoroaster, Moses, Buddha, Christ, Muhammad, The Bab, and Baha'u'llah. Each had no formal education but exhibited incomparable knowledge and said that that knowledge was not from himself, but rather from a creator being; each willingly suffered and sacrificed greatly to spread his teachings, which he claimed were not from him, but from an all-powerful being, when there were seemingly better choices for wealth, power, and influence available to them; each taught the principles of a good and moral life and related it to a spiritual existence after physical death; each said that they would return in spirit with a new name. As these universal educators have had such an incomparably powerful impact upon humanity, I pay close attention.