how do we know there is a god?
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God. This explanation is what everyone eventually resorts to when the other answers fail. 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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No one can prove it - zero, one, or many.  Gods, for some reason, choose to leave no evidence of their existence.\n\nFunny, isn't it.\n\nA
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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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Proof that there isn't god . . . talk about contradictions . . . lol \n\n1. God is satisfied with his works - Gen 1:31\n-- God is dissatisfied with his works.  - Gen 6:6\n2. God dwells in chosen temples - 2 Chron 7:12,16\n-- God dwells not in temples - Acts 7:48\n3. God is seen and heard - Ex 33:23/ Ex 33:11/ Gen 3:9,10/ Gen 32:30/ Is 6:1/ Ex 24:9-11\n-- God is invisible and cannot be heard - John 1:18/ John 5:37/ Ex 33:20/ 1 Tim 6:16\n4. God is tired and rests - Ex 31:17/ Jer 15:6\n-- God is never tired and never rests - Is 40:28\n5. God is everywhere present, sees and knows all things - Prov 15:3/ Ps 139:7-10/ Job 34:22,21\n-- God is not everywhere present, neither sees nor knows all things - Gen 11:5/ Gen 18:20,21/ Gen 3:8\n6. God knows the hearts of men - Acts 1:24/ Ps 139:2,3\n-- God tries men to find out what is in their heart - Deut 13:3/ Deut 8:2/ Gen 22:12\n7. God is all powerful - Jer 32:27/ Matt 19:26\n-- God is not all powerful - Judg 1:19\n8. God is unchangeable - James 1:17/ Mal 3:6/ Ezek 24:14/ Num 23:19\n-- God is changeable - Gen 6:6/ Jonah 3:10/ 1 Sam 2:30,31/ 2 Kings 20:1,4,5,6/ Ex 33:1,3,17,14\n9. God is just and impartial - Ps 92:15/ Gen 18:25/ Deut 32:4/ Rom 2:11/ Ezek 18:25\n-- God is unjust and partial - Gen 9:25/ Ex 20:5/ Rom 9:11-13/ Matt 13:12\n10. God is the author of evil - Lam 3:38/ Jer 18:11/ Is 45:7/ Amos 3:6/ Ezek 20:25\n--  God is not the author of evil - 1 Cor 14:33/ Deut 32:4/ James 1:13\n11. God gives freely to those who ask - James 1:5/ Luke 11:10\n--  God withholds his blessings and prevents men from receiving them - John 12:40/ Josh 11:20/ Is 63:17\n12. God is warlike - Ex 15:3/ Is 51:15\n--  God is peaceful - Rom 15:33/ 1 Cor 14:33\n13. God is cruel, unmerciful, destructive, and ferocious - Jer 13:14/ Deut 7:16/ 1 Sam 15:2,3/ 1 Sam 6:19\n--  God is kind, merciful, and good - James 5:11/ Lam 3:33/ 1 Chron 16:34/ Ezek 18:32/ Ps 145:9/  1 Tim 2:4/ 1 John 4:16/ Ps 25:8\n14. God's anger is fierce and endures long - Num 32:13/ Num 25:4/ Jer 17:4\n--  God's anger is slow and endures but for a minute - Ps 103:8/ Ps 30:5\n15. God tempts men - Gen 22:1/ 2 Sam 24:1/ Jer 20:7/ Matt 6:13\n--  God tempts no man - James 1:13\n16. God cannot lie - Heb 6:18\n--  God lies by proxy; he sends forth lying spirits to deceive - 2 Thes 2:11/ 1 Kings 22:23/ Ezek 14:9\n17. Because of man's wickedness God destroys him - Gen 6:5,7\n--  Because of man's wickedness God will not destroy him -  Gen 8:21
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GOD HAS ALWAYS EXISTED FROM THE BEGINING ON TIMES.\n\noUR MINDS AND THINKING POWER DOES NOT PERMIT US TO COMPREHEND MORE THAT WHAT WE CAN,SO WE HAVE TOBE SATISFIED WITH WHICH ANSWER/BELIEF SUITUS INDIVIDUALLY.
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Indeed there is a God. Let's face it, something cannot come from nothing.
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You've opened up the box of mirrors. If you ask, "Who created humanity?", then state it must be God, the only logical follow-up question becomes, "Who created God?" Then who created that creator, and that creator, and that creator, ad nauseum. It's the "God of the Gaps" argument. If there is something we don't understand, it must be God. Well, in fact, there is no compelling reason to believe it "must be God."\n\nI don't believe in God, and I've thought this out fairly carefully.\n\nFirst, you have to define the term "God." The problem with most theists is that this term is a moving target.\n\nIn addition, because there is no evidence either for or against the existence of God, you cannot use deductive logic (a+b=c; therefore c-b=a). You can only reach a conclusion by inductive reasoning using the balance of evidence (90% of A is also B; C is B, so the chances are 90% that C is also A). \n\nSo everything stated hereafter is based on inductive reasoning. I believe it to be true, but it is not certain. However, it is even certain to assert that God exists, based on my statements below.\n\nI will assert (and others may shoot this down) that the only RELEVANT definition of God states that he intervenes to circumvent natural laws.\n\nIf God circumvents natural laws, then it is impossible to understand natural laws. All scientific findings would have to include the stipulation, "it is also possible that these results are an act of God, a miracle, thereby making our research meaningless."\n\nHowever, since we have been able to expand our knowledge of natural laws (evidenced by every appliance in your kitchen), the scientific method works in this discovery. And the likely conclusion is that God, at least the intervening kind, does not exist.\n\nAdditionally, if God is defined as all loving, all powerful, and all knowing, then it is impossible to explain suffering. Either God is not all loving (he acts sadistically), not all powerful (he cannot prevent suffering), or not all knowing (he created suffering by mistake because he didn't know the consequences of his actions).\n\nIf God is less than these and/or does not intervene in our existence, then he is either non-existent or irrelevant. The classic argument is that I cannot prove that a china teapot is or is not orbiting the sun directly across from the earth's orbit. But while I cannot prove this is not true, the evidence against it is compelling.\n\nThe evidence against God is equally compelling, and while it is not possible to prove beyond any doubt, it makes more sense to live your life with an assumption that there is no God.\n\nIt is more compelling to me that humans have invented God to reflect the thoughts of the ruling powers in a particular time. Events happened, and in a pre-scientific age, people hadn't a clue regarding the causes. No one could explain disease, floods, earthquakes, or lunar eclipses. Because humans are always looking for reasons, when none are found, it was the natural inclination to declare the cause to be "God" (or gods). As the faith grew, miracles and laws have been ascribed to this Divinity, and an orthodoxy grows up around it.\n\nSuccessful religions over the long run also are accompanied by some level of economic well-being to the populace. Unsuccessful ones are seen as false because they don't lead to improved lives.\n\nNow it seems unhelpful to believe in such superstition. The only matters that aid in our ongoing well being are work, location, health, sustenance, and pure, blind luck.\n\nSo, that's why I find God unbelievable. And you know what? It's okay if you do believe God does exists.
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It would take ABSOLUTE proof that He didn't exist.  No questions.  Someone would have to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that God does NOT exist.
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Good One. There is no proof that there is no God. That can mean only one thing. He is.\nAmen\nBut the non-beleivers will question this and say the burden of proof in on us. Well I'm sorry, the burden will be on you, when Jesus returns and you think that maybe you can sneek in because of your acts of kindness that you might have shown to someone in your life. He will not know your name.
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There is only one God. His name is Allah, some of his charecters as mentioned in the holy Quran chapter 2 verse 255:\nAllah! There is no god but He, the Living, the Self-subsisting, Eternal. No slumber can seize Him nor sleep. His are all things in the heavens and on earth. Who is there can intercede in His presence except as He permitteth? He knoweth what (appeareth to His creatures as) Before or After or Behind them. Nor shall they compass aught of His knowledge except as He willeth. His Throne doth extend over the heavens and the earth, and He feeleth no fatigue in guarding and preserving them for He is the Most High, the Supreme (in glory). \nThe link below is useful to answer your queation:
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Nobody can really know how to tell if God exists. It's all a matter of faith. That's what most religions are based on: faith in (a) supreme being(s). The Bible isn't much PROOF, but it does help to strengthen the bonds between God and His people. \n\nAnd no, the Bible is not straight from God. He may have spoken to his people, but he spoke through prophets (special messengers). Many (real) historical figures and prophets have written down their experiences with God in the Bible. Remember, the Bible was written hundreds (perhaps thousands) of years after these evens were said to have occured. Many of the stories in the Bible began as that--stories told from person to person through the oral tradition. \n\nAs far as proof goes, many of the historical facts (such as the dates of battles and kings of nearby kingdoms) have been found true. Names of Assyrian kings have been preserved. Do you remember reading about King Xerxes or the great Phoenician State of Tyre? These things have been proven to have existed at some point, only reinforcing the fact that there IS truth in the Bible. Whether or not you want to believe everything in it literally is up to you.
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Wow, good question!\n\nFirstly, your question is concerned with the idea that God believes in Himself. If He believes in Himself then He still has one believer. But then anyone of us could believe that we are God, which is why I would prefer to use the definition of God as our creator.\n\nSince you are asking 'can there be a God if...' can we first start with the assumption that there is a God, and he does have believers? If you can accept this idea, then it should be quite easy to accept that He doesn't just cease when people stop believing. He still created us, even if the creations reject him.\n\nOf course it depends what you mean by 'be'! If we don't talk about, or know about, God, then what would be the point in there 'being' a God. If he has no point, then is his existance still relevant?\n\nI've asked more questions than I have answered, but I hope this gives you something to chew on!
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God is our creator. He loves us and he sent his son to us to save our souls. You have to have Faith. He is with you all of the time whether you believe in him or not. Everyone is God's Children, all you have to do is ask him into your heart and believe in him.
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A very good question.\nThere are several questions within your one. \nI believe: ( through research and not belonging to any one religion)\n\nReligions define God by a name which is inherent in the human mind to tag something to understand it( tree, dog, human).  With the understanding of infinite thought and probabilities the One religions refer to is the same God.  The Source.  The source of light, dark and all existence.  This is one entity or energy.  \n\nThe paths we as humans choose to find this source is our differing religions each with their merits and flaws.  We seek the same source.  Eventually. \n\nThe Source is no 'man' or 'woman' sitting on a throne being wise, judge mental and all knowing it (It) is simply everything.  That was, will be, is or may be.  It is the fabric which which binds everything.  Before man began to categories or define it.\n\nThe second question within yours hints at the 'prophets' question of the being the only way to the Source. Jesus, Mohamed, Quetzalcoatl, Buddha etc. (note we are speaking only of the prophets of Light) each proclaim that their way is their path God. The ultimate source.\n\nHumans are different in their perceptions of everything so it is reasonable that God would have conceived of different paths to reach the One, ie enlightenment.
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God ... AND ... there are several references.  Here's a link to check out:  http://www.allaboutgod.com/names-of-god.htm
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first we have to know are we a belivers or not ??? becouse if yes have many concepts but if no the is nothing to answer \nlets say it is yes so my answer will be like this way\n       The question of God's existence has preoccupied man's mind for many centuries. Those who believe in God seem to agree that the limited finite human intelligence cannot prove the existence of the infinite boundless God. It can only illustrate or demonstrate his existence to the satisfaction of the curious human mind. Those who deny God claim to rely on science, \nphilosophy, or special theories of knowledge. Their arguments are sometimes inapplicable, sometimes irrelevant, always complex, and often incomprehensible. However, the developed mind will find its way to Allah. Failure to find the way does not mean that there is no way. Denial of reality does not make it unreal. \n\n       As we look around in our environments, we see that every family has a head: every school has a principal, every city or town has a mayor; every province or state has a premier/governor; and every nation has a head of state. Moreover, we know beyond doubt that every beautiful art is the creation of some great artist. All this is obvious, yet it does not satisfy the hunger for knowledge and the curiosity of man about the great things in the world. One often wonders at the beauties of nature with its scenic charm and marvels; the almost endless horizons in the sky and their far-reaching expansions; the ceaseless succession of day and night in the most orderly manner; the course of the sun, the moon, and the great stars; the world of animate and inanimate objects, the continuous process and evolution of man, generation after generation. One often wonders because one would like to know the maker and maintainer of all these things with which we live and which we immensely enjoy. Can we find an explanation of the great universe? Is there any convincing interpretation of the secret of existence? We realise that no family can function properly without a responsible head, that no city can prosperously exist without sound administration, and that no state can survive without a chief of some kind. We also realise that nothing comes into being on its own. Moreover we observe that the universe exists and functions in the most orderly manner, and that it has survived for hundreds of thousands of years. Can we, then, say that all this is accidental and haphazard? Or can we attribute the existence of man and the whole world to mere chance?\n\n      If man were to come into being by  accident or by sheer chance, his entire life would be based on chance, and his whole existence would be meaningless, and no rational being would leave his existence at the mercy of fluctuating chance. Every reasonable human being tries to make his life as meaningful as possible and set for himself a model of conduct according to some design. Individuals, groups and nations do plan their course of action. And every careful plan produces some desired effects. The fact of the matter is that man does engage in planning of one sort or another, and can appreciate the merits of good planning. Yet man represents only a very small portion of the great universe. And if he can make plans and appreciate the merits of planning, then his own existence and the survival of the universe must also be based on a planned policy. This means that there is a Designing Will behind our material existence, and that there is a Unique Mind in the world to bring things into being and keep them moving in order. The marvellous wonders of our world and the secrets of life are too great to be the product of random accident or mere chance. In the world, then there must be a Great Force in action to keep everything in order.\n\n       In the beautiful nature there must be a Great Artist who creates the most charming pieces of art and produces everything for a special purpose in life. This Force is the strongest of all forces, and thi
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We can know the nature of God through Jesus Christ who is the express image of His Father.  Read the book of John in the Bible.  You will see what God is like.  Jesus Christ puts the skin on God so to speak.  \n\nHebrews 1:2-3 tells us: "[God] has in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who is the brightness of His [the Father's] glory, and the express image of His Person . . ."  Christ was in the likeness of His Father in nature and character.  This tells us that God is quite awesome, loving, kind, and true.  He is not just some Person that is completely unknowable.  I know Him more and more each day.  He's very, very real.