how do i know if God is real?

Answer 1

A problem is that many people's concept of God is misguided and they end up losing their faith because the kind of God they though they believed in never existed in the first place.

The place to look at what God is really like is the Bible. That is his revelation to you. Look at the life and teaching of Jesus Christ, God's ultimate self-revelation.

How do you know he is real. There is a historical answer and a personal answer.

The historical answer is Jesus. He was a historical person (he is mentioned by non-Christian ancient historians). But he did one thing to prove that God is real: he rose from the dead. If he did not rise, then the course of history in the last 2000 years would have been completely different. The fact that Christianity exists today is only because his early followers saw Christ die and then saw him alive again, and were willing even to die for the belief that they knew was true.

The personal answer is that you have to approach God in faith and ask him sincerely to show you that he is real. But you have to approach on his terms, not yours. You can't make demands on him, "show me you're real or I won't believe in you". He created you, he's all powerful, he makes the demands. He tells you, "come to me in humility, trust and obedience."

So my message to you is to:
(a) have a look at the accounts of Christ's life in the Bible (e.g., Matthew or Luke) and see what you think, and
(b) ask God to show you he's there but do it sincerely and humbly and be ready to respond in faith and obedience to what he reveals to you.

Answer 2

The Supreme Being, whose distinctive name is Jehovah. The Hebrew language uses terms for “God” that convey the idea of strength, also of majesty, dignity, and excellence. In contrast to the true God, there are false gods. Some of these have set themselves up as gods; others have been made objects of worship by those who serve them.

Are there sound reasons for believing in God?

Ps. 19:1: “The heavens are declaring the glory of God; and of the work of his hands the expanse is telling.”

Ps. 104:24: “How many your works are, O Jehovah! All of them in wisdom you have made. The earth is full of your productions.”

Rom. 1:20: “His invisible qualities are clearly seen from the world’s creation onward, because they are perceived by the things made.”

New Scientist magazine said: “The lay view persists—of scientists having ‘disproved’ religion. It is a view that commonly expects scientists to be nonbelievers; that Darwin put the last nails in God’s coffin; and that a succession of scientific and technological innovations since have ruled out the possibility of any resurrection. It is a view that is wildly wrong.”—May 26, 1977, p. 478.

A member of the French Academy of Sciences stated: “Natural order was not invented by the human mind or set up by certain perceptive powers. . . . The existence of order presupposes the existence of organizing intelligence. Such intelligence can be none other than God’s.”—Dieu existe? Oui (Paris, 1979), Christian Chabanis, quoting Pierre-Paul Grassé, p. 94.

Scientists have identified over 100 chemical elements. Their atomic structure displays an intricate mathematical interrelationship of the elements. The periodic table points to obvious design. Such amazing design could not possibly be accidental, a product of chance.

Illustration: When we see a camera, a radio, or a computer, we readily acknowledge that it must have been produced by an intelligent designer. Would it be reasonable, then, to say that far more complex things—the eye, the ear, and the human brain—did not originate with an intelligent Designer?

Is it important which God we serve, as long as we have some religion?

1 Cor. 10:20: “The things which the nations sacrifice they sacrifice to demons, and not to God.”

2 Cor. 4:4: “The god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine through.” (Here the Devil is referred to as a “god.” See 1 John 5:19; Revelation 12:9.)

Matt. 7:22, 23: “Many will say to me [Jesus Christ] in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and expel demons in your name, and perform many powerful works in your name?’ And yet then I will confess to them: I never knew you! Get away from me, you workers of lawlessness.” (Even professing to be a Christian is not a guarantee that we are acceptably serving the true God.)

Answer 3

Why shouldn't God exist? If you believe in your existence, why not believe in the existence of God? There are 8,400,000 different species existing in multifarious forms. According to the Vedic understanding. God is also a living being, but He is different from all others in that He is the chief—the supreme living being. According to the Bhagavad-gitä [7.7], mattah paratarah nänyat: "There is no living being superior to God." We all experience that there are beings more intelligent than us. And God has the ultimate intelligence. Why can't a person who exceeds all others in intelligence exist? There is no question of "if God exists." God must exist. In the shastras [scriptures] He is described as the superlative personality, the super-powerful and super-intelligent being. We can see that everyone in the world is factually not on an equal level: there are varying degrees of perfection. This indicates that there is a superlative person, and if we go on searching for the person with the greatest wealth, intelligence, power, beauty, or whatever, we will find that God possesses all these qualities in the superlative degree and that every other living entity possesses them in degrees relative to Him.
The books—Bhagavad-gitä and Srimad-Bhägavatam—explain much about Krishna. And Krishna is not the only interesting topic they present. Other topics include discussions of these relevant and timely questions: Why do we die? What happens after we die? Why must we suffer? Does God exist? How do we know for sure? These topics pertain to every living being in the universe; they have universal interest.
Yet people are not even interested in what will happen to them after they die. They know they will have to pass into an unknown realm, but they are not interested to learn more about it. But wouldn’t a person naturally show interest if he were to be forcibly uprooted and moved to a foreign country he had never seen before? Wouldn’t he want to know what the place was like, what the people were like, what he would be doing there, and how he would be received?
And if a person were being punished, wouldn’t he be interested to know why? “What is it I have done? Why do I have to undergo this suffering?” Any intelligent human being would ask these questions.
So why are we not interested in what will happen to us after we die? Because of a bad system of education.
Modern education tends to produce atheists and agnostics. We are losing the ability to question in a metaphysical way. Because of overemphasis on materialism, we have been taught implicitly that there is no such thing as life after death, that suffering is an inevitable fact of life, and that there is no God, no soul, no spiritual reality—just electrons, neutrons, and protons.
Modern education provides little philosophy, little higher thought about the larger questions of life. Even if there are philosophy classes in our academic institutions, they take an insignificant role in the educational process. They are not usually required courses, and their topics are so irrelevant to our day-to-day living that hardly anyone is interested in them. Subjects such as linguistic analysis and relativistic ethics are not the exciting things you want to spend a Saturday night thinking about. They just have nothing to do with the heartbeat of modern society.
How anyone could not be interested in Krishna.
Krishna is everywhere. He’s the source of everything. He knows everything, including everything you’ve done in your life, even every thought. He knows things such as the exact position and velocity of every atom and electron in the universe. Not only does He know everything, but He’s all-powerful. That means He can do anything. He created all the universes. He created wonderful works of art like our bodies and the marvels of nature.
Since Krishna created everything, He also owns everything. Imagine if you owned everything! Krishna also ultimately controls everything; so everyone must do what He says. How is it that people are not interested in such a person?
http://srimadbhagavatam.com/
http://vedabase.net/bg/

Answer 4

I could come on here and tell you every way that I personally belief that god shows that he is real. But what good would that do? You have to find this question out on your own. Ask lots of questions and search hard. One thing i can tell you is he promises to show himself to us and draw closer if we are willing to seek him out and to draw closer to him.

Answer 5

the only way to KNOW GOD is to read what he said..in the new testaments FIRST.
for that is where the FULLNESS OF GOD is manifested..in open eyes of the blind
ears of the deaf...raise quite few dead
materialized food for the hunger..,on and on.
to KNOW GOD..is knowing who created you.
GOD is a SPIRIT..a LIGHT/LOVE/TRUTH force
that is very gentle
the spirit of darkness which is satan..the spriit of darkness, hatred, fear, deception.

GOD who is LOVE, created man in HIS IMAGE (light, glory..love, truth..pure)
then sin came..by adam obeying /agreeing with satan..the fallen jealous archangel.
jealous of us..who are made like the father.(love, truth, light/glory)

does light remove darkness? YES.
so LOVE removed hatred.
peace of GOD..remove fear of satan.

book of proverb is good book too.
the more you read about GOD of the holy bible..not NIV..KJV might be confusing.
AMP bible, living bible..they are pretty good bible.
when i accepted JESUS LOVE for me.
i believed FIRST in my heart..not in my head.
I KNOW HE LOVES ME.
he been there for me, in the past before I finally listen
and when i did..i receieved him
ans supernaturally i recieve the baptism of the holy spirit of power of love and soundmind=spirit of truth.

Answer 6

Use the same litmus test you would use on unicorns or Leprechauns. If God can't pass that, ask yourself "Why should I believe in him".

Answer 7

God cannot be real,he doesn't exist,no proof!

Answer 8

Do what I did.

Ask for tangible evidence of his existence. The bible and Christians claim he will reveal himself to you.

He won't because he doesn't exist, but put him to the test as prescribed in the bible.

If he doesn't show up, then he doesn't exist, or doesn't care to show you that he does, either way, he isn't worth worrying too much about right?

Answer 9

Which one?

Answer 10

Which one were you aiming for?

I personally like Ganesh, but I have a thing for elephants.