"I believe God exists" vs. "I know God exists."?

Question

What's the difference between these two statements?

Answer 1

varying levels of certainty?

Answer 2

Knowledge is defined (in the philosophical community) as justified true belief.

So the difference is that knowing that God exists requires two things:
1. God does exist,
2. The person who knows that God exists has legitimate justification for his/her belief.

Answer 3

By grace through faith I know God exists. From reading and studying God words in the holy bible, I believe God exists and from looking in to the sky at night I believe there is a higher power that makes me believe he exists.

Answer 4

There is no difference to the person who believes, or knows.

As far as the statements in and of themselves, however, I think that a belief is something that you have come to know as fact but that is not always common knowledge. It is more personal, because you have to, within yourself, make the choice to believe.
Knowing, however, is believing based on things presented to you, whether it is through experience or not or evidence or whatever it may be.
With both, you are taking it as fact.

Answer 5

I suppose the first statement would fit a "Deist", one who believes there is a higher power but the extent stops at just that belief.
Someone who says "I know God exists" likely has a personal relationship with him. A presence in their heart, spirit and soul that comforts, guides, and convicts them in daily life. Those who have invited Christ into their lives (like myself) know that God comes and changes things, and speaks to us in thoughts, the BIble, through other people, and that it is indeed real, and God can be known.

Answer 6

No living person can "know" that God exists. You can believe that God exists. To know something requires absolute proof. I know that the Red Sox won the ALCS. I believe that the Red Sox will win the World Series. See the difference?

Answer 7

It might actually be the same thing. I absolutely know I exist. Since I know I am not God, God has to exist. Believe it or not.

Answer 8

when you "know" something, it is just an information you hold in mind, meaning to have information firmly in the mind or committed to memory. it is like being certain about something but is limited in believing firmly in the truth or certainty of something. but when you say that you "believe" in something, you actually "accept" something is true. it is religious faith since we are talking about God. the statement "I know God exists" only pronounces that you are certain that there must be a god that exists, but "believing in God" that you have the confidence that your God must really be existing and that you accept this as the truth.

Answer 9

Difference is no.1 is a normal answer from most woman and a few odd men. no.2 is usually from a nutter or a foreigner who has been brainwashed from an early age, not there fault, sad really. We used to be a god fearing nation until science taught us differently.

Answer 10

The difference between belief and knowledge... in my opinion, as human beings we know nothing unless we experience it first-hand. Eg. unless you have personally flown an aeroplane around the world/ seen the globe from space, you only believe that it is round (Based on interpretation of facts).

Knowledge based on the interpretation of facts has proved wrong too many times for any open-minded person to believe in it. (Mind-F***??)

Answer 11

belief is something that one feels and does not experience, one needs not have any basis to believe. to know beyond any doubt requires some sort of proof. anyone who knows god exists would need some proof of their statement (perhaps some photographic evidence)