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Prove god is real if you can?
I would like to see someone logically try to prove god. Heard it all and still don't believe
16 Answers
- ?Lv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
We know God is who He claims to be because He’s done what He said He would do. That’s the whole point of prophecy and why studying it is so important to us. It’s God authenticating Himself.
For 6000 years He’s been describing things before they happened, so when they did His people would know that He was telling us the truth. Everything He said would happen in the past has happened, so it makes sense to believe that everything He said would happen in the future will happen.
There are over 135 historically verified, fulfilled prophecies in the first 35 verses of Daniel chapter 11 alone. God called King Cyrus of Persia by name in Isaiah 44:24-45:6 as His agent for freeing the Israelites from Babylon 150 years before he was even born. Daniel 9:25 prophesied Jesus' entry into Jerusalem on what would be the first Palm Sunday, to be 483 years after the decree to rebuild Jerusalem was given by King Artaxerxes Longimanus of Persia. That one was fulfilled to the very day. The decree was given in 445BC. The prophecy was given in 535BC, 90 years earlier. Alexander the Great refused to invade Jerusalem after the Temple High Priest showed him in the book of Isaiah the very dream he recently had that was written hundreds of years beforehand. You just can't make this stuff up.
There are over 300 Old Testament prophecies, all of them a matter of public record hundreds of years before the fact, predicting the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus the Christ. The abundance and specificity of these prophecies demolish any notion of chance, exceed the requirements of statistical analysis, and prove more conclusively than any other fact of history that Jesus is the Son of God. In fact there is more hard evidence to prove that He is Who He claims to be, than there is that you are who you claim to be.
This is the unique and truly beautiful thing about the Bible. It stands alone among the so-called Holy Writings of the world, in its self-validating ability. Only the Bible tells the future with 100% accuracy. God knew we would be skeptical, unbelieving children. So early on, He began telling us things in advance of their occurrence so when what He said came true, we would be willing to believe Him. In this way we can be assured that our faith is justified.
In fact in Isaiah 44:6-8 God challenged anyone who claimed to be like Him to a two part test. Part 1 is to accurately recount the past and part two is to accurately proclaim the future. Only God, who knows the end from the beginning can do this.
Anyone who will put aside their pre-conceived notions and undertake an unbiased study of Old Testament prophecy can prove God’s existence beyond a shadow of doubt within a few hours. As God had Isaiah write, “I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come.” (Isaiah 46:9-10) No other so-called deity can make that claim. No other so-called deity has ever tried.
When you study Bible Prophecy and World History side by side it doesn’t require much faith at all to believe the Bible. The evidence in fulfilled prophecy is just too overwhelming. But don’t take my word for this, try it for yourself. The truth converts emotion to logic, adds knowledge to zeal, and makes your faith unshakable. Someday soon that kind of faith might well come in handy.
- 8 years ago
Good sir or madam, I will not undertake such an endeavor, as to do so would be a complete waste of my time. If you want something proven, there must be tangible scientific or mathematical evidence for its existence. We know that they are true because their dimension of existence does not transcend that which we can cognitively process. God, on the other hand, exists in infinite dimensions and cannot be recognized as extant in any of them separate from one another unless the being that is viewing God can perceive in infinite dimensions.
Any way, proving God's existence from a scientific or logical perspective is like asking a plumber to fix you a five-course meal. The questions related to science and reason are "how?", the questions related to religion and spirituality are "why?"
- BarthaynLv 68 years ago
The God of Israel (the Christian God) has chosen to prove Himself to humanity via prophecy. He chose to use prophecies such as: the exile of Israel, the sudden increase of knowledge, the Holocaust, and the return of Israel, to prove Himself because only God can know the future. It is through this that humanity can be certain that the God of Israel is the living God because it is impossible for any living thing could have guessed the future thousands of times without error.
- 8 years ago
Ah, R&S section, I have missed you so. (Not really.)
51:47 - And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander.
If you don't believe me that the last Arabic word in that verse translates to 'expander', put it into Google Translate and you'll get 'stretcher', which is a synonym.
25:53 - And it is He who has released [simultaneously] the two seas, one fresh and sweet and one salty and bitter, and He placed between them a barrier and prohibiting partition.
If you didn't know this, look up a picture. It's awesome.
6:125 - God will open the hearts of whomever He wants to guide to Islam, but He will tighten the chest of one whom He has led astray, as though he was climbing high up into the sky. Thus, God places wickedness on those who do not accept the faith.
How would an Arab living in the middle of the desert know what high altitudes do to the human body?
Ah, just watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d16CpWp-ok
See the difference between you and me is that you're taking a risk. If I'm wrong, I haven't lost anything. If you're wrong, you have lost everything.
C'mon, man, if you let go of a little bit of that stubbornness and pride, can't you entertain for even a moment that God exists?
And as for you asking me to prove that God is real, you just have to look at the world around you. You can't honestly believe that it all came from nothing. Entropy increases. It doesn't decrease and somehow lead to complex organisms forming from random accidents. I gave you random scientific miracles from the Quran, there are a heck of a lot more, along with historical miracles, as well.
And here's a quote from my AP Bio textbook: "Science seeks natural causes for natural phenomena. This limits the scope of science to the study of structure and processes that we can observe and measure, either directly or indirectly with the help of tools such as microscopes that extend our senses."
Note the dependence on observations part.
All I can do to prove God to you is to point out signs and let you reflect on it for yourself.
I'm done here.
And yeah, I know that Yahoo messed up my formatting and chewed up the spaces in between my paragraphs.
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- Mommy HoneyLv 68 years ago
I won't even try to use logic to prove God. Thats like saying prove love exists logically, or tenderness or all those intangibles. You need the Holy Spirit to prove God exists. Simple as that.
- Dave DLv 78 years ago
It has already been proven to ME. The proofs that made it clear for me would never be proofs for you because you did not have my experiences. The only one who can prove God's existence to you is yourself.
- 8 years ago
No one can logically prove God to anyone for he does not exist. Think about it. When's the last time you saw rocks turn to bread or saw a live man spit from a whale's mouth? Last time you saw a burning bush speak to you? Don't tell me to read the Bible. I've read the Bible, that's WHY I'm atheist.
- Light and TruthLv 78 years ago
Its never going to happen. He reveals himself to a specific quantifiable skill set of people. Prophets.
- highlanderLv 58 years ago
Proof is for science and math.
Faith is for spirituality and religion.
They are two side to the same coin. They complete the reflection of the universe inward and out.
You are free to be half a person.