How are we supposed to KNOW there's a god????
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Can penguins talk? LOL j/k \n\nLove ya! Good night!!!!!
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Only God knows well. We are created by Him.We don't know the hidden truth of God.Best thing we can do is - Pray .\nIn the other hand modern science says - Its a natural calamity.
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Yes, if you didn't question His existance every now and then, then I would have to question whether you believe in Him or are just following what others have told you to believe. Questioning is a part of being human - curiostity, you must think logically and a lot of matters to do with good are not always logical, but I think that these matters are outside of our realm of understanding and I figure that it may be for the best. So yes I believe in God (don't really fear Him as much as some people) but I think it is healthy to question His existance to create a better, stronger belief.
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My dear friend, you have nothing to worry about because THERE IS A GOD! Oh yes!! \nHe is a father or mother to us. Just get close enough and you'll realise. You know what, sincerely ask Him to show Himself to you and it'll happen. Ask with a genuineness of heart and spirit. I shall be here to hear your wonderful story.\nAll the best
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That's more a question for the Philosophy section.  In the Religion section, you're speaking to people who believe... and are therefore not likely to believe God is anything but Truth.\n\nBut to answer the question more directly, we have no way of knowing.  There's no palpable proof of God, but no one knows if there's a God or not.  Maybe so, maybe no.  We'll either find out or blink out, eventually.  My guess is that we'll sort of be non-sentient energy that eventually goes back into something living.  But you might get to be part of a star first, or churn through a volcano.\n\nBut no one knows.  People have faith and believe they know, but no one knows for sure one way or the other.  :)
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You will know when you know God....When you know God. God is not simply  good idea. He is real and as real as anything else in your life even more so. So continue to seek God in prayer and meditation and in his word and everyday you are working on your relationship with him. No one can know God for you and you can't just accept what people tell you. It is imperative you build your relationship with him. You have God's word that if you seek him you will find him and there will be no doubt in you. God will make himself real to you, May God bless you in your relationship with him.
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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.
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Okay you say there's no God. Then can I ask how you and everything that was made exist? Everything that is made needs a maker. Nothing Just is. And no I don't have much faith in Christianity. I've been burned more times than I can count. But when I look at the sky and how many changes of color it goes through each day, when I look at the grapefruit plant that's growing in my window, when I look at the trees and the grass and the animals the roam the fields , the singing of birds, the playing of squirrels I can't say that there isn't a God. And even more amazing how we are born. Did you know that the babies soft spot in it's head is so it can compress when it's exiting the womb? The way we are put together the way we walk, we're the only species that can walk up right with great balance. And the complexity of our brain and the boundless possibilities for learning. i know that there is something bigger than me and all of us. Now my faith in that will never waver.
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You sound like a tagline for MTV's The REAL WORLD.\n\nWell-- in the real world, THERE IS NO GOD.\n\nSo, acknowledge that fact, process the information, stand on your own two feet, and start to be real.\n\nGood luck!
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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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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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If I weren't reborn and a reborn Christian, I'd say you gave the answer in your question and it was just a rhetorical question - that God doesn't exist, except for the god or goddess within each of us.  Since we already show ourselves to ourselves, we would just need to get in touch with our higher self within.  If we are it, that's why no outside God will appear.  However, I am recently reborn and believe what the Bibble tells me; it is the one true written and literal word of God.  So for me, as a Christian, God does show Himself in all His wonderful creations; and we see His glory manifested in the world as it is today.  Amen ;) .
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Peace on you...Can you prove that you exist? Yes, of course you can. You merely use your senses to determine that you can see, hear, feel, smell, taste and you have emotions as well. All of this is a part of your existence. But this is not how we perceive God in Islam. We can look to the things that He has created and the way that He cares for things and sustains us, to know that there is no doubt of His existence.\n\nThink about this the next time that you are looking up at the moon or the stars on a clear night; could you drop a drinking glass on the sidewalk and expect that it would hit the ground and on impact it would not shatter, but it would divide up into little small drinking glasses, with iced tea in them? Of course not.\n\nAnd then consider if a tornado came through a junkyard and tore through the old cars; would it leave behind a nice new Mercedes with the engine running and no parts left around? Naturally not.\n\nCan a fast food restaurant operate itself without any people there? That's crazy for anyone to even think about.\n\nAfter considering all of the above, how could we look to the universe above us through a telescope or observe the molecules in a microscope and then think that all of this came about as a result of a "big bang" or some "accident?"\n\n(see also "Quran")   May Allah bless us
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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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Whether or not there is a God I can't believe He spends all\nHis time basking in the worship of His followers,punishing\nthe sinful,and dreaming up natural disasters to test or\npunish Humanity. A Creator of the Universe might not even\nbe aware of our existence. If He was,we could seem like nothing more than microscopic beings,of no real interest.
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I dunno.  Why don't you ask the god in question yourself?