What was the most convincing argument you've ever heard for the existence of god?

If God is infinite, then there is not a spot that God is not, including entirely within you and me.

If God is love, then the fullness of love resides entirely within you and me.

If God is life, then the life within us is the life of God.

There is nothing we cannot do, nothing cannot contemplate and enact, if the fullness of the unconditioned love of God resides within us.

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I would say right now that Israel is a pretty good argument. Somehow today, some 2000 years later, the middle east is the world's center of concern, just as the Bible says it would be. I guess you could say that it's just a coincidence that oil is there.

I guess it is also just a coincidence that the universe is inherently orderly. An orderly physical universe testifies that there is a God. If you could show me something completely unexplainable and ruled by chaos, now that would perhaps cast a doubt.

The different trinities that seems to exist in the universe also seems to reflect the nature of the triune God. Whether it is space, time and space examined collectively, or each one examined on its own; space - x, y, z, time- future, present, past, or matter - energy, motion, physical phenomena, it all says God. Even the trinities that exist in man, beauty, ethnics, ... (do yourself a favor).

The most *convincing* I have heard are no stronger than coincidental incidents of people who challenged God like the character who portrayed superman, etc, or some told stories with no solid base or evidences and credibilities of such.

Sorry that is the case for me. I believe in God, yet I cannot prove it at all,,,

Sum up all the facts there is to know (and I mean ALL). Now, how much does the average human being know out of 100%? Probably less than 1%, but let's give them 2%. So that means there's still 98% of the facts to learn - what makes you think God isn't in that 98% of those who have not found Him?

Not really an argument, but one that goes against a whole literal interpretation of the Bible.

I was watching a video of a priest who criticized creationists for their literal interpretation of the Bible. In his words, the Bible is not a book but a library (as it's clearly a collection of different books). His analogy was that in a library, you take the non-fiction section literally (his example for the Bible was the first 4 gospels) but not another section like the poetry section (his analogy was the 7 days of creation in Genesis). Obviously I know too much to believe in any of this anyways, but I thought his interpretation works well in modern society and was rather clever.

The BEST argument I know is the complexity of the universe, where even if one physical law was only a few percent different, our form of life would be impossible.

And even it is not a very good argument.

I don't get into arguments about God. I teach the importance of prayer to him. Jesus His only Begotten Son is a Healer. My wife and I and one of the kids have been healed in many ways. Arguments don't win on any subject. Without God there would be no earth and the rest of the universe.

God is the universe or nature. No deistic creation claims, no universal consciousness claims, no claims of supernatural attached to nature. It's the, "Look all around," argument, but then it ends with, "...and that's what it is."

I would have to agree with such a god existing. Gnostic theist in such a case. But the argument for its existence has nothing to do with the argument for its deification. "Why call it a god?"

Well before I was a believer, I was listening to Walter Martin over the radio explain many, many prophesies in the Bible that had already come true--written hundreds of years before they were fulfilled, especially Psalm 22, Isaiah 53, and many other prophesies about Jesus way before He came to earth. Even God telling the descendants of Jacob in Isaiah 48:2-5: you who call yourselves citizens of the holy city and claim to rely on the God of Israel—the Lord Almighty is his name: I foretold the former things long ago, my mouth announced them and I made them known; then suddenly I acted, and they came to pass. For I knew how stubborn you were; your neck muscles were iron, your forehead was bronze. Therefore I told you these things long ago; before they happened I announced them to you so that you could not say My images brought them about; my wooden image and metal god ordained them.’ Seeing prophesy after prophesy being already fulfilled, and many of them recorded by secular historians--then the thought came to me, if all these prophesies already came true that means the rest will come true--about hell, and so based on historical accuracy of fulfilled prophesies I asked the Lord Jesus to save me from the coming wrath of hell that I was headed to. As it turns out there are around 2,000 prophesies in the Bible, and as of now, most have already been fulfilled because God who wrote them in the Bible is the One who fulfills them. But since then I have done the research to see the accurateness of the Bible in more places than I can count, and the reliability continues to increase with Middle Eastern archaeological finds as well as manuscript evidences continue to back up the Bible as a document that historians rely on.

Well I am an atheist myself and let me give you one argument.

We all know science is progressing,right ?

And one day man will be able to totally stimulate a new world inside a computer,which can think by itself.

Obviously the size etc of this virtual world would be dependent upon the capabilities of the computers available then.

(Some what a very very complicated version of secondlife.com which can sustain itself )

Do you believe that is true?obviously it is. Technology is moving at a very fast speed.Right.

Now this virtual world would be totally not in the same dimensions as we ourselves.

Can they go inside that world?No,just like god.

Can they come out to your dimension?No.

Obviously i am an atheist.I just thought of this.No one gave this to me.But still,interesting isn't it ?

"It's in the bible".

Seriously, that is the *most* convincing argument. And since it is worthless, that pretty much explains why I am still an atheist.