HOW COULD GOD PROVE HIMSELF TO YOU? Would you need magic? The ocean to part? Cause you to fly? What?

Question

Just curious---no insults intended.

For each person it would probably take something different---In your opinion---what would it take for you?

Answer 1

C.S. Lewis was one of Englands great writers and literary authorities. He wrote 'Mere Christianity and 'The Narnian Chronicles' and many more. He hung out with a group of great english writers that called themselves 'the inklings'. They used to meet one night a week in a pub and discuss things and they did that for 40 years. One of the group was J.R. Tolkien who wrote 'Lord of The Rings'. One day he had one of those guys in his office at Oxford or Cambridge or wherever he taught. They were talking about intellectual things. He never gave his name but he called him a giant in literature so he was probably well known. Lewis used to idolize this guy. He called him the cynic of all cynic, the critic of all critics and the atheist of all atheists. He admired this guy because at that time Lewis himself was an atheist. For some reason or other they started talking about the gospels and the new testament and the resurrection of Jesus and the miracles of Jesus. All of a sudden his friend said something that sent an electric shock down his spine. He said "you know if you just forget all the things we've been taught in school and look at the historical evidence for the resurrection and the miracles and the new testament in general, the evidence really is quite excellent.....in fact it almost seems like it really did happened". Lewis said that this shocked him.
He reasoned that if his atheist hero saw a lot of evidence for the christian faith then maybe he might want to look into it. Lewis said that it was from that day on that he started to examine the evidence for the christian faith. He'd never done that before. Eventually he became a faithful christian and one of the great apologists for the christian faith. He used to say that he came into christianity 'kicking and screaming'. What he meant was that he had never wanted to be a christian. He was quite happy to stay an atheist but the evidence for christianity was overwhelming. Him and his atheist friend were friends for another 30 years. His friend saw how Lewis converted and how his life changed and Lewis constantly discussed with him the evidence for christianity (which Lewis had become an expert on) since they all met once a week and talked late into the hours of the morning, and yet his friend died 30 years later and never converted to christianity.
The moral of the story is that if a person does not want to know God, no amount of evidence will convince him/her. They don't have an intellectual problem with christianity. They have a moral problem. They want to live their life their way and they don't want any law of God or law of Moses or law of Christ laying down rules about what they can do and what they can't.

Answer 2

Oh boy, it would take a lot.
Being able to do incredible things, could be lots of things, a god, aliens with sufficiently advanced technology as to be indistinguishable from magic.........or something evil maybe??
How would I know in effect that the magic performer is the christian god?
I'm not sure what it would take really, but there would have to be unequivocal proof.

Answer 3

I don't give a prize to God for parting the ocean. When the world itself that He has created is so amazing and unbelievable to us, where is the necessity for Him to prove himself to us?

And He is not here for telling- 'look I told you so, and you didn't believe that I was there.'

I need only to see the personality ie God, in personified form. I know that the personality and aura that He will show, will only make me chant to His glory. There will then be nothing left for me to do. What could you do also, except chant in devotion?

Answer 4

So far he has failed to prove himself.

My country lost more than 50 thousand on account of Tsunami.

Eash day thousands die in Africa or elsewhere?

I do not need wings. But can he do somthing about these unfortunate events or a logical explanation.

God lives within you. It is your effort that will bring him out.

But there is no super natural God as implied.

Sorry.

Answer 5

MY EXPERIENCES

I experienced God many of times, when you fellowship with him. I received the Holy Spirit one day before I came to the church that I am attending now. The power of the Holy Spirit was so powerful that it was a force that rippled from my feet through my body and up to my head. It removed the pain and depression that I had at the time and it caused a great sensation of peace (to this day, I was never water baptized). He will be there for you; he knows your needs and wants. One night after doing the will of God (ministering to someone against the book of James) I was driving back home and I continued to fall asleep on the fwy. On the third time, my ears popped opened, like a loud explosion, I felt a rush of pins and needles swirling around the inside of my head, I felt pins and needles from my elbows to my hands and then I was wide awake, like I had slept for days. I drove all the way home and when I got into the driveway I started to fall a sleep again. Once he picked me and my motorcycle up, while riding in the mountains after I was about to crash. I blacked out and when he set me back on the path, I woke up. Once he sent an angel down to stop me from doing something stupid, this angel looked like a human but when I turned away for a second and then back he vanished. I can go on and on. Have faith, sit in a church and learn God's word. You need to find a home church, be obedient, follow his word, be baptized with the holy spirit, show your self approved and do the will of God (Mark 16: 15 - 18)

Answer 6

He would have to actually come down to me in person and prove right then and there that he can work in magically ways.

Answer 7

i don't know, it's been a long time since i seriously entertained the possibility that a god might exist. i suppose a voice in my head that was able to reliably answer questions about the distant past or future might suffice. it's not too much to ask is it?

Answer 8

God said it, I believe it...That settles it.

I guess the biggist way God shows himself to me is the fact that im still alive, after all the times im supposed to have died.
God just wont let me die till His work with me is done.

Answer 9

If God needs to prove himself, then there is no need for belief.
If God proved himself, then he would be a fact, not a belief.

Thats why people believe, not know.

Answer 10

i know God exists when I look at all the love and good that surrounds me. Even on bad days I just look at all that I've been blessed with and I know he exists.