What would it take to convince you that God exists?
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i think there might be a god, but i'm not sure. i don't think a god would be as judegmental as christians make him out to be. what would really make me a believer would have to be a personal experience of some kind.
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I want to convince  people that God doesn't exist for the same reason Christians try to convince people he does exist.  Christians think that if they can convice some one that the Bible is true, then that person will go to heaven when they die.  I think that if I can convince people to stop deluding themselves about God, then we could put aside our differences and Christian, Muslim and Buddhist could work together to make Earth a paradise.
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You can't say God doesn't exist. If you are saying his name, he is there.
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Read Genesis 1:26-27.  If you look around you you know that God must exist. Faith means to hope for things which are not seen, but which are true.
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Wow, I was talking with some friends from church recently about this. I also had this feeling deep inside, "what if God didnt exist?" We talked for hours, debating on facts. Our conclusion: Yes, God exists. I'll try to give you some insight on what we went over.\n\nOk, let's not get too complicated and just give an everyday example. Suppose you got home today, and there was this beautiful chocolate cake with icing and everything, on top of ur table. Now, we have 2 theories of where that cake came from:\n\n1) There was an HEB truck this afternoon going by ur house, and all of a sudden, a car hit it at 70mph, and the truck rolled over violently. There were eggs, flour, all sorts of stuff in the truck, and they all got mixed up in the crash, and the truck caught on fire, and the extreme heat baked all that stuff, and as the truck continued to roll on the street, the stuff flew through ur window and miraculously landed on ur table.\n\n2) Someone who knew how to bake a chocolate cake, went there and did it, and then put it on top of ur table for you.\n\nWhich one makes more sense? If you answered #2, good! Then God created the Earth and everything in it. If you prefer to believe in an absurd and very creative theory called "the big bang", in which somehow gases mixed up, just in the right proportion, and then everything exploded and the earth was formed ... my friend, you have a very creative mind. First of all, how were those gases there? Someone must have created it. God. Stuff doesn't just appear.\n\n=D Doesn't that make sense? Ok, now, let's get a lil more complicated.\n\nScientists say that man evolved from monkeys or whatever their creative mind came up with. Well, it has been proven that over time, living beings only lose genetic material, constantly. Therefore, evolution cannot be possible. The human body is so complex, there is no way it just "evolved" from something. A project called GENOMA, just recently finished their research. Their task: make a complete mapping of the human DNA. Many countries joined forces to complete this project, each taking a body part, like arm, leg, or whatever, and finding out the DNA code for it. Germany was in charge of the human eye. At the end of the project, they said that the human eye was so complex, that there was NO WAY it could have evolved from some other animal. It's a fact. Scientists researched and wrote it down. Aren't they contradicting themselves now? Ok, I believe I made a point on this one. Mankind did not evolve. God made man in His image.\n\nOk, now back to the big bang stuff. The NASA has been measuring the distance from the Earth to the moon, and it's a fact that every year the moon gets further and further away from the Earth. Fact. It's been proven. It's also a mathematical equation. So, if we take that mathematical equation, and do it backwards, we come up with how long since the earth and the moon we're almost touching. The calculations say something about 10 thousand years. It can't be more than that, otherwise the moon would have been rolling around on the earth.\n\nAlso, it's possible to calculate the rate of aging of the Earth. Every year, scientists calculate the rate at which the Earth is aging. It's roughly the same. If we then backtrack how long since the Earth was relatively "new", the calculations vary from 10 to 12 thousand years. It's fact.\n\nAlso, the population of the Earth. Today, we have roughly 6.5 billion people alive. Populations, increase in a mathematical progression. In other words, there will always be more people alive today, than there are people dead. Fact. It's not possible to have more people dead than alive. Draw a sketch of a simple family tree, and you'll stumble upon the same conclusion. So, if we backtrack how long since the beggining of population, the results say somewhere between 10 to 12 thousand years.\n\nEvery fact that we
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Knowing and believing are two different things.  You would like God to reveal himself to you so you could know he exists.  I agree. That would make more sense than giving you a brain and then expecting you to believe what you can't see.
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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.
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Woo hoo, a comment clearly designed to start a big argument on here, which I don't agree with, everyone has their own opinions!\n\nHowever, I sense that the basis of your point is that there is no real hard evidence to sustain the existence of any god, which is not the same as saying he doesn't exist, but is a definite statement to say that wehave no way of knowing. \n\nSo why everyone doesn't just live their life based upon earthly things, eg looking after and revering the earth around us, rather than pinning our hopes on some concept of a higher being, I don't know. \n\n(by the way, there IS actually hard evidence to suggest that the whole idea of a god stems from a part of the human brain, which operates only to convince us of a higher power, so we feel more significant than we actually are..)
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It is not possible to say 'God exists' or 'God does not exist'. There is simply no proof either way.\nThose that say 'God exists' must at some point take a leap of faith.\nThose that say 'God does not exist' must make a similar leap of faith towards scientific / empirical proofs.\n\nI don't know about 'being sure' but I tend to think that almost all the misery caused in this world is due to human choice and free will. Unless I'm mistaken, there is pretty much all the resource, food and know-how on this planet to keep us all well, fed, warm, housed etc. if it weren't for the inherant greed and desire within us all (not being 'holier than thou' here - don't see me selling the laptop to put food in a starving African - just admitting my failings!) Maszlow's heirarchy of human needs is a good starting point for understanding what we need / what we want and why we choose to proceed upwards as we attain our needs.\n\nPerhaps the 'garden of eden' is a very good analogy for what happens when we have free will. Without it all God's graces were given, as soon as human's chose the 'forbidden' path from their own free will, it all started going wrong.\nBit harsh to blame God for what we have chosen as a race to do with the gifts of creation / evolution?
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Sure God exists. One simple questions you can ask anyone who does not believe in god is: Who created the initial energy that triggered the Big Bang. Scientists cannot answer this question because they do not know the correct answer, or maybe they know it but theyjust don't want to say it. The only correct explanation is that God created it. And this explains the existence of God. But I think that we, humans should please him for all his work and we should pray to him. But that goes into another debate on which religion we should follow. But just remember something: There is one God who has created everything and it is he we should be thankful to.
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No one can say for sure, for proving Gods existence would remove the need for faith. Without faith God does not exist.\nThe concept of Gods was created by every culture independent of each other. Can the whole of humanity be wrong?
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If it were obvious, everybody would agree about God's existence. Since not everybody agrees, it can't be called obvious.
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Dear musical_k,\n\nRegarding miracles...\n\n1. It is rational to believe that God exists (e.g., see http://www.godsci.org/gs/godsci/evidence.htm for scientific and intellectual evidence for the existence of God).\n\n2. If God exits, he can perform miracles.\n\n3. Given that it is rational to believe that God exists, it is therefore rational to believe that miracles are possible.\n\n4. I choose to be consistent and rational in my world-view and in my beliefs. Therefore I believe that miracles are possible.\n\nCordially,\nJohn
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I exist.  I just burned some energy typing this response.  I received this energy by eating bacon, sausage and a egg for breakfast along with a cup of Delmar tea which originated from a place I have never visited - Ceylon.  \nNo one needs to prove God exists.  God is.  If you have faith then you know God exists and if you don't then you don't.  God never asked for proof and never indicated that proof could be found.  \nThis creation is way to complicated and special and fascinating to just have happened.\nI live in paradise.  I just heard a tui singing in my back yard that agreed with me.\nI still think you need to go out and meet some interesting people and live a bit of life.\nCome and visit New Zealand.  It will blow your mind away.
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You cannot prove that God exists. God exists IN THE BEGINNING.  With our limited knowledge as a definite being, we cannot prove the existence of an infinite being.\n\nDescartes did have some say about the existence of God. The argument goes something like this: \n1) try to imagine a perfect being in your mind. \n2) The perfect being must exist so you can imagine it\n3) A "perfect being" cannot be "perfect" if it doesn't exist\n4) Therefore, God exists\n\nThat's what I learned from philosophy class. Didn't sound very convicing\n\nHowever, there are lots of things which we can't see, feel, hear, but they do exist. For example, viruses!\nI know that God exists because He changed my life. \n\nRegarding your questions about the Bible, the Bible is written by people, but is inspired by God. So the Bible is indeed one of the tools God uses to talk to us. One of the "proves" is that, people have tried to find contradictions in the Bible, because there has to be! The Bible is written by many people, in different time, different places. It would be very hard for 3 people to write a story together and be consistent throughout even. However, throughout all these years, people have not been able to find contradictions in the Bible, and prophecies written in the Old Testament have been fulfilled many many times already.\n\nAnd no, I dont think it is a "sin" for you to write this.
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It could be, it could not be. Its one of those things you have to experience and study yourself, and come to your own conclusions. One could ask "Is God for real"? And in reality, nobody has 100% solid proof that God is "for real". You just have to believe in it yourself regardless of what other people think.
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You can't use miracles as proof of the living God.  You have to live it and show them.  They will use logic and the powers of this world to try and prove His non-existence.  The best way to show people God is to be like Christ in everything and live happily.  Happiness is contagious and people wanted to be infected so badly.  If you find true happiness in faith in God and Christianity, then they too will want to find that same happiness.