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So why do you believe in him/ her it

2007-11-19 09:02:27 · 21 answers · asked by Wondering Faith 2 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

So, other than what appears to be the hearing of voices.. (a scientifically proven sign of paranoid schizophrenia) and references to a "book" containing a bunch of conflicting accounts .. You don’t seem to have much

2007-11-19 09:14:32 · update #1

And I do not believe in no god .. as you say .. no more than i believe in pink Unicorns.. .. but according to the logic reported here I should definitly believe in the FSM
.. same account same resoning

2007-11-19 09:16:07 · update #2

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I have asked the same thing face to face with learned men of faith and have received about the same answer each time. Although phrased differently because they were unaware of each others answers, the common points were these.
1) I feel him in my heart.
2) The bible says so.
3) Look around and see the world? who made that if not god?
My rebuttal was....
1) I don't feel him in my heart. If yours can be taken as evidence of his being then mine is equal but contradictory.
2) The bible was written by man. Man lies to his own purposes. The word of man is not evidence of the existence of god, but is evidence of the existence of man.
3) See the sun move across the sky from east to west each day? How does that happen if not for apollo pulling it in his chariot? Lack of credible knowledge is not proof of god. It is proof of our own ignorance.
So while I do not know the answer to your question, I have yet to find him/her. You do not seek alone, continue the quest for answers. We are the big fish here but our pond is not the wide world. We can see more than we can grasp yet.
and for the record I am an agnostic. unfortunately you can't prove the nonexsistance of god any easier than you can prove he does. I look around my home and see no kangaroos. to use the atheist logic I can only conclude that kangaroos do not exsist. If I were to see kangaroos, the theist view is that the kangaroos must be accepted as proof of god. Both views lack the thread of reason.

2007-11-19 09:47:47 · answer #1 · answered by singthunder 4 · 1 0

You're right, but for some things that are difficult to explain, God is a very concise, simple answer.

There are things in the world that are amazingly complex, like our nervous system, and our reasoning mind would expect an equally amazingly complex answer, like this all knowing benevolent super-being who created us and the world around us.

For those who have studied Natural Selection, they know that it has been a long and amazingly complex journey to become what wonderful species we are now.

Creationalist dumb it down to the defense, "I didn't come from a monkey!"

Science, evolution, and natural selection will be main stream information with in a generation.

2007-11-19 09:23:43 · answer #2 · answered by dougfr007 3 · 0 0

Well the best scientifiic I acn give is the second law od Thermodynamics and the Bible has never been archaelogly inaccurate prophecies haev been fullfilled,and besides if God really ain't real why si there legions doubting Him.You don's see many people doubting Buddhism or Islam but because God is powerful and Satan is rela thats while people doubt God.And spiritually there is many ways to prove it but those are scientific.

2007-11-19 09:20:41 · answer #3 · answered by Ratty Lover 2 · 1 0

Not by the narrow guidelines of scientific method. However, all of nature testifies of His existence. God is Spirit. His creation is of a physical nature that can not limit Him or contain Him. So the method used to define His creation will not serve to define Him. Man is more than physical in nature and it is in the rest of that form that God has chosen to produce more than sufficient evidence to convince. The only way to attain that evidence is through the guidelines He has set.
The only reason the Christian community is at odds with science is that those who wish to discredit God have discovered this. Disagreements are not with science or scientists. The discoveries of science are matters of great delight to many believers for they highlight the magnificence of God and the wondrous things He has done. Disagreements are with those who wish to make premature conclusions or misinterpret scientific evidences in support of their denial of God.
Fear (respect) of God is the beginning of wisdom. Just as all things have had a beginning, so does knowledge of God. Refusal to begin will produce no results.

2007-11-19 09:27:19 · answer #4 · answered by sympleesymple 5 · 0 0

God isn't a part of the natural world that he can be tested "repeatedly" with the same results. He is spirit and he has a personality. The only way you can "test" him for confirmation is if you start up a relationship with him and see time after time that he is good and that he loves you, because nothing he does in your life will ever go against those two truths.

2007-11-19 09:06:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

No. The evidences that are offered do not contradict a 'no god' hypothesis, and so are worthless toward establishing the existence of a god.

2007-11-19 09:09:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

If it can't be seen or measured it does not exist, scientifically. Just because we humans, living on a speck of dust in the universe, can't prove something, doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. It just means that we lack knowledge on the subject.

2007-11-19 09:08:37 · answer #7 · answered by Starjumper the R&S Cow 7 · 2 0

There are several books written on this topic. Scientifically based, written from doctors, geographers, etc that in essence have been converted when they have set out to prove SCIENTIFICALLY that Jesus did not exist when in fact, they found indisputable fact that he did.

Search amazon. Case for Christ, etc. You'll be surprised

2007-11-19 09:07:14 · answer #8 · answered by Juicy Fruit 5 · 2 1

It is done every second of every minute of every hour of every day.
Every time a living organism procreates it is scientific, repeatable, confirmable proof of the existence of God.
Only God is the explanation of the existence of life.

2007-11-19 09:09:22 · answer #9 · answered by Molly 6 · 0 2

Yes.

See Proverbs 30:33

Pastor Art

2007-11-19 09:06:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 3

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