How does God know he exists ?
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God. (cheating) This explanation is what everyone eventually resorts to when the other answers fail. Now, before I go any further, I should make clear that I'm not talking about any of the gods defined in various religions. Throughout all of human history, we've been trying to explain existence. But nobody has ever succeeded. And it's likely that nobody ever will. So we create the concept of God, whose only necessary property is being "that which explains existence." \n\nThis doesn't tell us much about god, though. It doesn't mean that any particular religion is correct. It merely defines god as something which answers The Question, because we have not been able to.
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He is God, he always existed. This is difficult for man to understand because we are not infinite creatures. The finite can never understand the infinite.
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NO one did. He always existed. Its hard for us to comprehend this because we are created beings. We had a beginning. God did not.\n\nGod created all that is so already knew everything. Since we had to learn this is a bit hard to comprehend too.
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God. (cheating) This explanation is what everyone eventually resorts to when the other answers fail. Now, before I go any further, I should make clear that I'm not talking about any of the gods defined in various religions. Throughout all of human history, we've been trying to explain existence. But nobody has ever succeeded. And it's likely that nobody ever will. So we create the concept of God, whose only necessary property is being "that which explains existence." \n\nThis doesn't tell us much about god, though. It doesn't mean that any particular religion is correct. It merely defines god as something which answers The Question, because we have not been able to.\nread this: http://www.toykeeper.net/philosophy/knowledge
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Youre right, you cant prove it. But thats fine for most people, cause if you keep telling yourself thats something exist, its gonna exist. So you dont need a proof. If you keep telling yourself that theres God, God will exist. If you dont, then he wont. It simple. And about the Bible, I could write a book right now about a new God, bury it in the earth and then about 1000 years later someone's gonna find it, and there will be a new religion, and everybody will believe in my God. You know what im saying? So you cant prove anything, its just whether believe in it or not. If you do you'll see it.
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How do we even know God has eyes?
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God does exist.\nThere are many natural phenomenon which have not been yet discovered by man,nor doe we really know how those that exist come about.\nSome theories have been successfully proven, others , only time will tell.\nSome atheists claim that this universe is in existence from ever and it will last for ever. If this universe is in existence from ever, then it must have infinite source of power and energy, but we see that no material thing is infinite in this universe. The temperature of Sun is falling down, even the earth is cooling off. All the sources of energy in this universe are being consumed up and exhausting. So the world is approaching to its end as was prophesied by all the religions. It proves that the universe came into being a finite time ago and it also has a definite end. We know from our whole life's experience, that if we consider any process, there are only two possibilities, that a process is either started by some human beings, or it might be a result of some other process. If we move back in this tree of processes which are a result of some other process, ultimately we shall come across a process, which could not be attributed to any other process. At that place, we are left with no other argument, except to believe that it was started by some Super being. We refer to that super being as 'GOD', some atheists call this Super Being by the name of 'nature'. Actually just giving a different name to this Super Being really does not make much difference, they believe in GOD, and all they need is just a little fine tuning.
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D and E. A bit of a contradiction, true. Cognito ergo sum. I think therefore I exist. Man thinks of God, therefore he exists. Which points to the fact that if the God is a product of man, then the supposed God of (A) does not exist. Therefore I motion that a god, or gods, do not exist at all. How can a god exist and de-exist, through the thought of man? Logic101. My weak point in college, but a great tool in regards to faith, religion, and gods.
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No human knows the answer to that. Only GOD does.
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No. I know there is a God.\n\nYou have a physical machine called a body that is able to use its mind to ponder the question, relay visual information from a physical world of comparable low-tech computers through the optic nerve, into the brain, with the mind to comprehend the ramifications, then transfer that thought process to an incredibly complex systems of nerves, tendons, and touch to the fingers to type the letters. This then communicates a question of the soul. The soul is something that science cannot a.) explain and b.) create. It can only mimic with unsatisfactory results. That soul is concerned for the existence of an eternal destiny beyond time and space--that there is a world beyond the physical world we see in the here and now. You are an incredible creation who has been given the free will choice to believe, or not believe. A being that can love, write poetry, paint or play works of incredible complexity and beauty. To smell, and taste, enjoy. So, like you, I set out on a path to find my Creator. It is obvious that He exists, but is He personal or an impersonal force? My answer came through the study of prophecy in the Bible. Like the DNA strand and life itself, it was hard to dispute the evidence. Now with the realization of the truth of the Bible, God made it clear that He was not only a personal God, but One who wanted to know ME, and that He knew everything about me--even the number of every hair on my head.
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no...if it were possible there wouldn't be these fun debates on yahoo answers..gotta love some of these answers though lol..stuff exists..that means gods exists..nice!..and the ever popular..can you prove he doesn't....burden of proof is on the believer
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God has existed forever. He doesn't have a beginning and will never have an ending. I know it's impossible for us as humans to comprehend, but we have to believe it by faith. Our minds just can't comprehend it. \n\nI know that alot of people won't agree with what I just said, but can they come up with a better explanation? I don't think so.
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Good question. Personally, I don't think God exists at all. Or if He does, it's all just aliens messing with our heads. Think about it. All these supposed "alien abductions" has a bright, white light taking them up to a space ship above. Remember the painting of Jesus resurrecting 3 days after he was crucified? Bright, white light taking him up again. No offense to anyone; just food for thought.
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Good question. Now, I am a Christian, so, will answer from my perspective and understanding. God is a being that is highly advanced in, intelligence and has the capability to Create. Not only life!!! He/She/it can bring into existence anything. Thus, through this creation, He does has Absolute power. This makes God all seeing, all knowing and all powerful. He can see, past, present and future from one time zone, so, he know what you did, are doing and will do. He expresses a concern for humanity (This is even seen it Highly intelligent children, so, NOT a myth). He would allow his creation to learn and experience life, both good and bad. He has emotions, He/She/It can laugh, cry, have hurt feelings and joke.\nGuess that enough, could say more.\nI like what Taimur say, yet it seems more from what is written than a personal relationship. I thought the question ask for my opinion not that of what is written, Sorry, if I answered wrong. I just went from experience and not Bible or any other book.
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God has always existed and will always exist and He was not created, or born....He always was and always will be, eternally.
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Whether God exists is not the question. If you look you can see God's hand in life all around you. The question is more of what is God?  Through logical discourse, testimony of other people and other such evidence you can start to decide whether any religion has a clue, whether God is a factor of the human collective or spirits or whatever conclusion you can deduce from the evidence. \n\nThe first step is to look for inconsistancies in magnitude or frequency which imply intelligence over the normal chaos of randomness. If there is no God then the chaos factor will rule. There will be occasional accidents which can seem as if there was intelligent action behind them. By nature these must be rare as the result must be random if there is no God. I am talking about matters beyond normal human control that is. Also about understood factors. Cancer going into sudden remission is beyond our ability to understand right now. It cannot be claimed or refuted as a mircle because we just don't know enough to say. \n\nInstead look to things we do understand the mechanics of. Then look for the unexplained. A %100 fatal disease suddenly being cured is an example. Of course the diagnosis has to be accurate and the remission total. Changes in peoples lives from external sources. The mechanics of social interaction are well understood. The flight of a butterfly perhaps holds a clue if you study it with an open mind. To see God's hand you have to look for it. It won't often slap you accross the face and you can deny it's existance despite postive proof just as easily as you can find proof in randomness if you have decided before opening your eyes what you intend to see and work at seeing just that. To prove of disprove you have to look as objecctively as you can. Drop as many predisposiions as you can and just look for a while. After you look follow up possible leads and objectively say this might be or this can be explained by such and such and assign a probability of that being a reasonable explanation. Many "acts of God" are pure randomness. There comes a point where random is too random though in my opinion. Where mathimatical odds of coincidence become too high to be remotely acceptable. \n\nI believe there is God. The nature of God is something I am trying to learn right now. I reject all theology at this time as it is subjective and the nature of God to me is too important an aspect to just accept somebody else's opinion. I want to know for myself what it is. So I examine all the possibilities and discard those that discredit themselves. In general the preponents of a description of God to me are irrelivent. Bad people taint good ideas all the time. Still if a theology is by nature corrupt it will produce %100 corruption in it's proponents. If I meet a large enough sampling and see a commmon trait prescribed by that theology I'll reject that theologie's dogma as harmfull. That does not make the base theology wrong, just the surrounding dogma and celibration of it harmfull. Too many people reject God as non-existant based on very subjective criteria. Bad experiences with the application of dogma for example. Bad experiences with theology is another. They forget Theology is a man made thing. People do what they will with information, information being just another tool in man's hand. It can be used for good or bad. The source of the theology is distinct and different. To blame God for the actions of a clergy group is like blaming iron for being made into a sword. Iron is an ore that minds it's own business in the ground. Men discover it and make what suits them from it. This is free will in action. It is free will though that makes me believe in God the most. Nature abhor's a vacume and free will is a vacume of power. It is an unatural state. It's existance a rebuke to randomness and nature. All other elements follow closely very prescribed rules. Life does what it pleases when it
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First you should think about if God is what you "think" he is, and then if he is what you imagine he can be, if it's true or not, if it's true, how do you know it's true and if he is not true or not exist can you prove that he is not?\nIf you believe in heaven, then God created the heaven, so how can himself came from heaven!?\n\nso first find out if the God exist or not, then prove it that he is exist or he is not! if you did that then I'm sure by then you will know where he is came from.