what arguments would someone religious use to prove gods existance (catholic/christian)?

Jesus said that if you REALLY want to know if God is real, and that His (referring to Jesus’) teachings came from God (implying the existence of said God), then "OBEY THESE COMMANDS, and you SHALL know (one way OR the other)" (Referring to the Sermon on the Mount, beginning in the 5th chapter of the gospel according to Matthew)

This is a "litmus" test like you see in chem classes in school. If you follow the instructions (i.e. "obey these commands"), you can determine which chemical is in the test-tube. If you refuse to take the test, then you can never know the truth about it, and you have no room to talk about it.

If Jesus never existed, then nothing will happen. Are you absolutely certain that God is not there? Then they should take the challenge - if they dare!

If Jesus was a liar, then nothing will happen. Are you absolutely certain that Jesus was NOT the Son of God as He claimed? Then they should take the challenge - if they dare!

If Jesus was a lunatic, then nothing will happen. Again, they need to prove what they claim (that Jesus was not who He claimed to be) by taking the challenge Jesus gave - IF THEY DARE!

If the Bible is nothing more than the writings of some crazy bronze-aged, goat-herding cave men as the atheist mockers keep insisting, then nothing at all will happen. That's the claim of most atheists here in R & S, but they refuse to PROVE that they really believe this! They don't really believe what they claim! If they believe what they CLAIM to believe, then they should PROVE it and take His challenge - IF . THEY . DARE !

For anyone who flat out rejects this test, I have to remind them of some other words Jesus said. Jesus said that the reason people reject God is “because they are evil (their deeds are evil), and they love darkness (i.e. they love their sins and immorality), and they hate the light (i.e. they hate Truth)!” I can only conclude that they are in an ever increasing line of hypocrites who talk a good talk, but don't really mean a thing they say, and that the only reason they don't believe in God is because they don't WANT to believe in God, and for no other reason; and their theme song is "Don't confuse me with Truth; my mind's already made up!"

In his famous book “Mere Christianity”, C. S. Lewis makes the following observation: "A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on the level with a man who says he is a poached egg - or he would be the devil of hell. You must take your choice. Either this was, and is, the Son of God, or else a mad man or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us."

You can't argue the existence of the specific gods, but you could use some ontological argument to believe for some sort deistic god (although ontological arguments themselves require unsupported assumptions and have been thoroughly debunked).

But proving that the god who told a bunch of wandering nomads that shellfish is an abomination is impossible.

A lot of them rely exclusively on faith to try and prove a god exists. If you discredit faith, you pretty much topple the entire argument.

There's a lot of "everything needs a creator," and "people have died and seen heaven/god," as well as a heavy reliance on anecdotes as "evidence." A majority of your essay could just be defining what is, and is not acceptable as evidence of something, and applying it to common theist arguments.

The catholic god Is The Pope...

A Picture Of The Pope Is Your Evidence...

"hearing god" is subjective. other religious hear deities and spirits in their head and it can't be demonstrated to anyone.

Also, saying "you can't explain _____________" is not evidence goddidit

EDIT: neither is "a book with wise teachings in it attributed to a magical man proves the man is magical". Buddhism can also lead to a kind, selfless lifestyle. Nor do we know what parts in the gospels Jesus even said *himself*.

You atheists have not proved scientically how this complex orderly universe came to be. The big bang theory says "nothing exploded and created everything" based on the creation we see, we know there is a creator

every thing god created shows god and his great power

the eye witness accounts of men who experienced god