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Can anybody give me any evidence that God exists (edit)?
Atheists or agnostics, do not answer.
Specifically Christians, can you do the above, without:
a)Copying a wall of text
b)Going over 100 words
c)Quoting the Bible or teachings of the Bible for evidence (It's not enough proof)
d)Logical fallacies
e)Ignorance
I am curious as to what belief you people have.
Oh yeah, and:
f)No capitalizing 'Lord' or 'Jesus', e.g. "and the LORD said to JESUS be righteous".
It's annoying.
Edited bit:
Alright, all the responses were 'prove he doesn't'. This is against part d)Logical fallacies. It is a negative proof.
(TL;DR: He is not Godly, therefore he is not God, so God doesn't exist)
I could say 'Then the flying spaghetti monster exists by your reasoning!'.
However, God is not God. What defines God is mainly omnipotence and benevolence. Let me pull out a quote: "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?". Reaction? 'master plan'; filling the crack with religion. This is something that was made so that if people couldn't understand something 'God' did or didn't 'do', they would just say 'Oh, there's a reason for that. He knows exactly what he's doing, letting bad things happen. It's beyond human comprehension.' And he 'knows' we'll be content 'knowing' that, due to omniscience. I think not. So 'it' is not God, so God doesn't exist.
(Basically, stop saying 'prove he doesn't ' as said above)
TL;DR for next bit: where's your God, then?
Why would you even need a God? Morals? No, people can do fine without needing a reason. Help in your life(prayer)? If it's not part of God's plan, he won't do it. If it is, he's already going to do it. So no need to contact him. Making the world a better place? Look around you. Check the news. All's well? Nope. Creating things(life, earth etc)? Nah. Disproved. Helping it along? Now you're getting desperate . And no, none of that either. Doesn't need 'divine guidance'.
26 Answers
- ?Lv 49 years agoFavorite Answer
How did the universe get here?
1) Big Bang
a) Something/someone must have put the things required for the "Big Bang" to happen in order for the "Big Bang" to proceed.
2) Evolution
a) Something/someone had to put the first life form in order for it to complete evolution process.
You don't have an answer do you? Abiogenesis is merely a theory. Theories =/= Truth
How could the planets align themselves perfectly. How could 8 planets be perfectly spaced out amongst themselves where none would collide?
How could there be one planet with sustainable life. Perfect for life of all types. With a perfect atmosphere/conditions for life to thrive?
You are very deluded.
- David GLv 49 years ago
I suspect you are asking for "scientific" evidence in which case your request/expectation is illogical because God is not a naturally occurring phenomenum - He is the Supernatural Creator of the Universe - Science only deals with the natural world so in effect you are asking us to demonstrate how the Supernatural God is naturally occurring ie illogical.
However - that is not to say that God isn't Self Evident. That is God is the only logical explanation for the origin of the Universe. That is - there is no ultimate physical explanation for the universe ever imagined. The closest science comes to origins is the Big Bang - which IS NOT an explanation as it requires preexisting matter and energy. So THERE IS NO scientific theory or even hypothesis that provides a logical explanation of the Universe. Though God is not TECHNICALLY provable by science depending on what you count as proof - God is at the very least a LOGICAL explanation for the Universe.
At this point most Atheists say "AHA - but who created God?" Again putting forward an illogical question - Of course God by definition is infinite - maybe not(for argument sake) provable but neither is it illogical anymore than infinity is illogical - So it is illogical to ask how an Infinite being is in fact finite as many do.
Point is God is self evident because His is the only LOGICAL account of origins extant. There is no extant competing origins hypothesis imagined by science or by any other form of literature.
- 9 years ago
Life if very complex. Just a single cell is impossible for science to create out of nothing. If an intelligent person cant do it, why would blind chance be able to? The chances of life spontaneously happening in just a single cell is 1 in 10 to the 350th power. I see complexity in design, therefore the need of a designer. Life could not have risen from non-living materials. There is no proof of that ever happening. I can site many scientists who agree that evolution is an impossibility, but when I do, an atheist will argue that these scientist are "tainted" because of their wold view. I submit that the same is evident in scientist that push neo-darwinism and deny the existence of God. Proof of God is very hard in the eyes of someone who is hell bent on believing that there isn't. You are inbred with the non-belief in God, therefore proving it to you is impossible.
- 9 years ago
it's called faith and If you have faith in what you believe it doesn't matter what you try to say to disprove his existence now I truly believe that after you die that it isn't it and that you move on to something better. Now for science so according to science the creation of the universe is from what's known as the big bang theory so it all started with that explosion now if that's true what was before the explosion and how did space get there same concept when it comes down to it you believe that's what happened but can you truly know?
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- 9 years ago
Proving the existence of a necessary being (God) using logic and reasoning
Introduction
Every matter and issue is compromised of two things: a subject and a predicate. A subject is the being and the predicate is what has been applied to the subject. For example: the chair is green - chair = subject, green = predicate.
To prove the predicate for the subject, the subject has this predicate either from essentially (from its own self) or externally (from something else). Take for example the following issue: the food is oily. The subject, food, must either be oily essentially (from its own self) or externally (from something else). Oil is essentially oil, the food is externally oily. Light is essentially bright, objects become externally bright. Something cannot be bright neither from itself or neither from something else.
The predicate for every subject is either impossible, possible, or necessary. 1+1 = 3 is impossible. 1+1=2 is necessary/definite. "I am sitting under the tree" is neither impossible or neither necessary - hence it is possible. I could be sitting under the tree or I cannot be.
If a subject essentially is predicated, it is referred to as necessary. If a subject is externally predicated then it is referred to as possible. Example: The table can be oily or not, bright or dark , in other words, it is possible for it to be bright or dark, oily or not oily.
The existence of a certain predicate for a certain possible subject means that there must be a necessary subject. Example, if the table is oily, it is definite that there must be something that made it oily. We say the oil is the cause and the table the effect.
Existence as a whole
From learning the above, lets consider the following scenario:
"Existence of things". Either existence is impossible, either possible or either neccessary. We know its not impossible because there is existence. So we are left with the following:
Either everything must exist, ie every being is a necessary being and has their existence essentially.
Or every being is a possible being where they get their existence from something else (externally).
Or either existence is a mixture of necessary beings and possible beings.
Let's consider again:
We said necessary beings essentially exist. If everything essentially existed, then nobody should be needy of anything to exist because simply their existence is from their self. But we humans are very needy of other things to exist. And we got our existence from our parents at least, if it wasn't for them, it won't be us here and now. Hence we are being that need something need to exist and hence our existence is achieved externally. And we must conclude that the theory that everything is a necessary being is invalid.
If everything was a possible being, it would mean everything needs something else externally to exist. You need your parents, your parents their parents, you grandparents need their parents and etc. We faces an infinite of chain of cause and effect. Where our parents are the cause and we are the effect. An infinite chain of cause and effect does not make sense. Its like this scenario: We are in a race, and everybody decides that they will not start the race until someone else starts and that person says the same thing to himself and will not start until the first person starts. What do you face is a race that will never be started. Same in here, if there is a infinite chain of cause and effect, then there should be no existence, you cannot have infinite chain of need.
By falsifying the above scenarios it comes to stand the last must be correct. For if we exist, then there must be a stop in the chain of cause and effect to a being which has its existence from its own self and is not needy of anything - what we call GOD.
Conclusion
Therefore the conclusion comes to stand that there must be necessary being out there or we would have not existed.
That was the hard way of saying: if there is an artwork, there must be an artist. if there is creation, there must be a creator. lol, but no its a useful and unfalsifiable argument. you can ask questions if you get stuck somewhere, because i get stuck heaps. do forward, it might help someone in the infinite chain of senders :P
- simaaaaaLv 49 years ago
It's called "faith" for a reason. There is no proof in God but that doesn't mean that he doesn't exist. You and whoever else wants to can make fun of that reasoning but I don't care. If you believe that he exists you'll find "proof", if you don't believe than nothing will make you.
Source(s): btw I'm not christian, I'm Jewish, will you accept this answer? - Josh6Lv 69 years ago
It is very simple, but I doubt if someone would do it if they did not believe. Just ask Jesus into your heart and make Him Lord of your life and endeaveor to serve Him alll the days of your life - then see what happens. No takers?
- NousLv 79 years ago
"Atheists or agnostics, do not answer"?!
What do you not understand about this being an open forum?!
Surely you lack the tolerance and intellect to discuss and debate on a public forum - so feel free to leave!
But why not stay, learn some tolerance, grow your intellect and in the process become a much better person!
- 9 years ago
DNA
and the list could go on a very long time, with the bible on that list of things that prove Gods existence
- brandtLv 45 years ago
ok. i've got faith in God because of the fact He has informed some million human beings over the an prolonged time that he's real (or She, if it floats you boat. i in my opinion decide to think of of God because of the fact the eternal mom of all existence.) What the whats up am I talking approximately? properly, over the centuries, many, many human beings have have very own reviews with God in multiple varieties, and many of those human beings have devoted their reviews to writing. i've got faith in God because of the fact hundreds of hundreds of human beings have testified with their blood that they suspect so firmly in this writer of all that they are keen to dare to die for that perception. they have confronted torture and dying. all of it began with the unique apostles, in accordance to traditions of the Church, yet which may be legend. besides the incontrovertible fact that, all of us understand from cutting-edge debts that many human beings have been placed to dying by potential of Rome, in some extremely inventive procedures, because of the fact they have been Christians. in case you desire to benefit people who testified to their business enterprise perception in God, purely Google martyrs you will locate that Christians have not got a corner on the martyr biz, by potential of ways. God has spoken -- and remains talking -- in lots of diverse procedures. a real tale, yet lots greater moderen: Google the Martyrs of Uganda. Or study the existence of John Myrick Daniels. He grow to be a seminary pupil (Episcopal Church) who felt called to pass to the deep south to assist interior the events the place Blacks have been suffering to get undemanding rights. throughout a disagreement, he observed a guy component a shotgun at a Black woman, and he threw himself in front, taking the finished blast. He died rapidly. We undergo in recommendations him each August thirteenth. The Bible could be a team of misunderstandings, i assume, yet there is no question on the topic of the shed blood. maximum of human beings, with so little or no to earnings, ventured each thing, and gave each thing away, and -- that's the section that gets me, and it extremely is been many times affirmed by potential of witnesses -- they have often times long gone making a music to their deaths. That to me is a helpful assertion that something greater that idle concept, having a pipe dream and fairy thoughts is right here. that's what does it for me. needless to say your mileage would variety.