Can you Prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that God Exists?

Question

And you can't just say "yes". I have never seen anything in my own personal life that comes close to resembling the supernatural realities described in the Bible, Torah, or Koran. No burning bush, no miracles, no wheels in the sky. How can all of these godly things all of a sudden stop. I seek evidence yet the various clergy always say "Look in your heart". Then they ask me for money which makes me distrust them... All of them... So can you prove it? Can anyone really?

Answer 1

WE are all god because we made GOD. Our fears and superstitions are what makes god. God is a concept.

We use god to explain where we came from, what we are doing here, and most notably what happens to us after we die. We also use god to seek peace amongst each other. It’s the basis of countless laws, principles and virtues. Religion is not a bad thing but like anything it can be used for good and for evil. Like a gun that can be used to keep the peace it and can also be used to spread the violence and religion can be manipulated and perverted in any direction.

The Good: Looking out for the greater good of others. A set of laws and principles that oddly seems to reverberate through every religion as if we were all looking for the same things. The power to better ones self.

The Bad: The inquisitions, the Holocaust, 9-11, Jonestown, Charles Manson, etc.

The evidence you seek can be found in people’s reaction to it. Look at how many people have responded to your post. Imagine if you asked for a brownie recipe. I doubt the response would be as numerous or as impassioned. Almost every response is of a visceral nature because so many of us NEED to believe in something and either DO or DO NOT with that amount of passion.

Over the years we’ve debunked several of these ancient religion by climbing mount Olympus, sailing the oceans, and exploring space, etc. Some religions have faded out of existences while others grow stronger, still others are yet to be born. None are more contrived than another and they all serve a purpose. Our purpose.

Jim we strive to know the answers to the big picture and because of our large brains and larger imaginations we dream up these elaborate schemes that make us feel better. Imagine if you raised a child without religion and then one day in their adulthood tried to tell them that there was this big guy way up there with a long white beard who rewarded you if you were good and punished you if you were bad. They’d laugh in your face. The bigger issue was that I was describing God but I very well could have been talking about Santa Claus. They are one in the same. A concept.

Answer 2

If you're speaking scientifically...

Once you think about it, the existence of life and matter contradict scientific laws and prove God's existence. I'll use plain logic to make my point, every sentence will be a step. The universe exists, and is made up of matter. There are two options for the nature of its origin; either it is self-existing, or it had a beginning. The first is untrue because energy is naturally becoming less useful; therefore, if there was an eternity of existence into the past all the energy in the universe would be useless, and the universe would be dead. Through elimination, the universe must have had a beginning. If it had a beginning, then that means the universe existing contradicts the fact that matter cannot be created or destroyed. Life must have had a beginning as well, but that also contradicts scientific law (The Law of Biogenesis). Therefore, if the existence of matter and life both contradict science, it must mean one of two things; either the laws are wrong or have exceptions, or there was supernatural assistance in the creation of these things. The first, as far as we can tell, is false because the laws have been true without contradiction since they were written. Therefore, through sound logic, there was a supernatural being who created or assisted in creating the universe.

Answer 3

Can you prove that anything exist external to that which you perceive as yourself?

In a dream, you have a sense that you exist. To some extent you perceive the existence of things,events,persons and places within the dream. You awaken and those things do not have the certainty of existence, maybe...

You are certain of your existence within and without the dream, maybe,

If you want the "supernatural realities" described watch movies, tv, or take an halucinagen. You merely want vain entertainment not revelation.

The proof of miracles is all around you and in you, It might not be your time to understand that you see it. Has everything you have learned, know or come to understand been easy? Of the things you have come to think you know, have you not occaisioned to discover something more or different about it, that enhanced your perpective to a deeper level?

Learning takes patience and piety. The things read in the text you mentioned are often are metaphors. Study metaphor. Perhaps you are deficient in understanding subtlties.

Answer 4

I can simply say creation but then people will credit creation to evolution which is purely the result of an accident and chance. If you want to go with the accident then thats your choice. The proof that I use to others is that man is unique amongst everything else in existence. He is different because he is the only one that says "I think therefore, I am." Man has the intellect. No other species has it. A lion or a guerrilla does not kill a human being and then go off somewhere and say to themselves, "I shouldn't have done that." They are instinctual and do not have the intellect. The intellect tells us what is right and wrong. I call this part of the human being the soul. Animals do not have souls. They do not know right from wrong. They don't even know that they exist the way we do.

Answer 5

God cannot be proved or disproved. I don't think God is into that kind of game anymore.

Let's look at it this way. Think of the greatest scientist who has ever lived, say, Einstein or whoever you think is/was the greatest. Now imagine a schoolboy going to him and saying he does not believe in his theories. Einstein would say, do you even know what my theory is about? Go, first try to learn my theory then we will discuss.

God is too big for us to question Him. He has already revealed Himself. We must first learn all we can about Him before we can ask Him for more.

Answer 6

The shadow of the doubt belongs to you and I cannot steal it. I cannot come to you and in its place transact the thousand and one instances of truths that I have put together to formulate my own understanding of truth...not as I see it but as I've gleaned it. These facts are like tiny drops of water that eventually all run together and form a pool that sooner or later you are able to look into...only you don't see your own reflection but several as the Word of God changes you from what you are, to what you want to be...then finally to what He wants you to be. You see, its no longer the pillar of fire by night and the pllar of smoke by day for a nation of people to see, its no longer a star over a town called Bethlehem or the parting of a sea, there are no booming voices from the sky or a consecutive number of plagues to torment a king and bring him to his knees. Now, today, because of Christ...its just you and Him and His Word. These "miracles" or signs and wonders served their purpose and yet time and again you are shown how they failed. God through Moses had no more than delivered the Hebrew captives out of bondage before they turned their backs on Him and cast for themselves an idol. Jesus fed mass peole all at once but now he feeds even more through His scriptures by inciting His true disciples to give of their blessings. The burning bush...ever ask youself...Okay...why a burning bush? Because of the propensity for people of that time to make for themselves a graven image of every type of animal and worship it...yet here was the very wood that was used to make graven images, ones that should and would be burned in Gods all consuming fire at the end of the age and as well, no possible way to make a relic iconic idol from a burning bush without burning the idol itself everytime one wished to worship it. Every single event, occurance and passage in the Bible has some significance. There is nothing written for nothing. Yet, how does that help you, a skeptic. Okay, you say that clergy types ask for money. It might interest you to know that the Bible predicted that there would be these types and that religion has nothing to do with money. At least not money that is given to "them" anyway. Yet, everything that God asks a person to do in one place never changes throughout the whole Bible..it just gets ignored and or minimized. Throughout the entirety of it...there is the same message over and over and over. The premise never changes. Everything about religion that you see now...the Bible prophecied first. I can prove that...However, I cannot prove God exists. He can and He does and He will to you if you seek Him...but I can't show you because the Way is too complecated and I don't have the Words. He does. That is how He reaches each of us today...one at a time, person to person, heart to heart and word by word. Once that seed is planted...its up to the individual to cultivate it and have it grow...however, like He said...for some, it just won't take because the ground the seed falls on is hard. Yet, even He can bring water out of stone, feed 5000 people with a little boys lunch and give a widow a never ending supply of oil for her bread. If you pray...He will soften that hardened heart and give you the seed of faith you need to see all of His miracles and there are thousands...not just one. So yeah, look in your heart and let Him prove it. Love in Christ, ~J~

Answer 7

As an Atheist I see no point at all in asking this question. There is no way it can be proved and all it does is give believers a weak argument that all we ever ask is for proof of god, which simply is not the case.

Answer 8

No one can PROVE such a thing. I have had many things in my personal life that do come close to resembling the supernatural realities described in the Bible, Torah and Koran..So I believe.

Answer 9

Stop asking clergy and people that don't care to prove it.
You will never get an undeniable, personal supernatural revelation. If that's what you are looking for then remain in your unbelief.

The evidence for God and Creation is abundant, you just need to know where to look.

Try these websites for starters:
http://www.leaderu.com/offices/billcraig/
http://www.reasons.org/

Answer 10

Psalm 19: 1