We are always asked this?

The lack of evidence is good enough to assume god doesn't exist. What makes you think your god is any different from other fictional beings?

The fact is, there either is no way of knowing, or won't be for a very long time. Atheists are just as clueless as Theists, they just have an easier point to defend. And if you had proof then what would the value of faith be? If faith was easy to have, then where would the admiration be in being faithful? We can choose whatever we want to believe, but until some hard evidence comes along, it's all just open to speculation.

I could discuss for hours of course, but you get the point.

And to OSTCarmine: How do you know what is, and what isn't possible? Do you possess a book of the rules of the universe? Has one been written that nobody else seems to know about?

It Argument from ignorance, also known as argumentum ad ignorantiam or "appeal to ignorance" (where "ignorance" stands for: "lack of evidence to the contrary"), is a fallacy in informal logic. It asserts that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven false, it is "generally accepted" (or vice versa). This represents a type of false dichotomy in that it excludes a third option, which is that there is insufficient investigation and therefore insufficient information to prove the proposition satisfactorily to be either true or false. Nor does it allow the admission that the choices may in fact not be two (true or false), but may be as many as four, (1) true, (2) false, (3) unknown between true or false, and (4) being unknowable (among the first three).[1] In debates, appeals to ignorance are sometimes used to shift the burden of proofs.

#BurdenOfProof

Yes, this is the most crucial question that is constantly asked in the theological field.

It would always remain open in order to hold us responsible for 'our' own decision. Should this problem be solved for us, then we would not be free to make up our own mind about whatever we want to believe.

This does not mean that those who profess their faith in God are the only people that are saved since we are not in a position to judge others. Yet those who yearn for an afterlife are sure to need help which has to be given to us from up above. This concept ignites a search into a spiritual journey. So along this track that searches perfection guided by love people are bound to accept an Entity that created this universe.

Where's the proof that God doesn't have sex with goats every single day?

Atheists are not trained to think that way. They'd rather spout things like: "the burden of proof..." "logical fallasy" and "no true Scotsman" in their kneejerk rejection of God than to actually think things through for themselves.

no proof for, no proof against, so on those grounds we should be equal. except for the fact that what you are suggesting is practically impossible and what we are suggesting isnt.

thproof that your god does not exist is the complete lack of evidence he does. if you want us to believe your god exists, you have to show some evidence of it. now, you prove that unicorns don't exist

2000 years of *nothing* but red-faced spittle-spewing people getting upset when you demand evidence is all the proof I need.

there's a giant invisible noodle man in the sky. disprove him.