Why do you think god is real?

Question

and don't say "because the bible says so" that's BS .

Answer 1

I know God is real because one day forty years ago, when I was strung out on drugs and at the lowest point in my life; God revealed Himself to me by a simple word spoken into my heart saying "Maybe Jesus really did die for yours sins". That word was like an explosion inside of me that continues to radiate out of my life to this day. The moment I believed it, I felt a sense of love and peace and joy and understanding come into my heart like I never knew existed. it was like having all the big question i had in life answered all at the same time - like i had found the Master Key to life. Somehow I knew without a doubt God was real, and Jesus was real, and my sins were forgiven, and I had peace with God; and that it was going to go well with me from then moment on. Forty years later, I am not at all disappointed.

When it happened, I had never heard of such a thing. No one had been preaching to me. It just totally blew me away that God would love me even when all my thoughts towards God were always hostile, critical and rebellious. His love seemed irrational; but undeniable.

I learned later when I began reading the Bible that it was in there all along - what had happened to me. The Bible calls it being "born again", or born of the Spirit. Some call it "getting saved" - but its all the same thing. I realized then it was the God of the Bible who saved me, and ever since I have learned to take the Bible for what it claims to be - the word of God; and I have reaped ten thousand benefits through it.



listen why some others believe.........



http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3682855866783766146#



http://www.freecdtracts.com/testimony/Mickey_Robinson.html



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEc5wodqu4g&feature=player_embedded



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Answer 2

The question you pose is a difficult one to answer in this type of forum but I will try. First you have to look at the probability factor of this earth and the resources it has ,first I will began with water in its liquid form on this planet. The probability of finding this much water in this form in the universe is a number none of us can fathom. The air we breathe the right mixture of mostly nitrogen at 71% and oxygen at 21% and the other gases make up the rest is another number that we cant put are arms around also. Now that is just two things that tell us that we live not by some fluke but a higher power designed this for us. Now the big bang theory is not right because there must be the same amount of matter and an equal amount of antimatter and there is not. So that is the Scientific proof I can provide the rest is a matter of faith, and in my humble opinion yes God is real.

Answer 3

Science in action! All life today is only possible because of the relation between nucleic acids and proteins! Anyone trying to solve this puzzle immediately encounters a paradox. Nucleic acids are synthesized only with the help of proteins, and proteins are synthesized only if their corresponding nucleotide sequence is present. It is extremely improbable that proteins and nucleic acids, both of which are structurally complex, arose spontaneously in the same place at the same time. Yet it also seems impossible to have one without the other. And so one must conclude that life could never, in fact, have originated by chemical means.



I'm not saying any god did this, just what science says.

Answer 4

But I do not since I know the truth and live in reality!



Academia states that in the absence of proof of the existence of something it must be deemed not to exist until verifiable proof is found - thus god is held not to exist pending some sort of verifiable evidence.



The bible is what is called "Faction" A fictional story set in a factual time and place. Thus the time, place and real historical characters are all correct but the fictional characters and stories are not!



There is not one single mention of Jesus in the entire Roman record - that is right - not one! At the same time as he was supposed to have been around there were a number of Jews claiming to be the messiah - all of whom are well recorded!



There is not a single contemporary record from any source and even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!



He was supposed to have been a huge problem to the Romans and produced wonderful miracles but still not one contemporary record?



Even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!



Pilate is recorded in the Roman record as a somewhat lack luster man but no mention of a Jesus, a trial or crucifixion that would surely have been used to make him look brighter!



At best he was an amalgam of those others but almost certainly never existed!



The Roman Emperor Constantine produced the bible and he was a pagan not god! He took the Jewish religion and basing it on the Mithras religion, organized it into Christianity and then into the Holly Roman Catholic Church!! Not in Israel or any of the countries of supposed origin but entirely ITALIAN!



Not one word of it is contemporary with the period and was not written until several hundred years after the period the story is set in!! How did the apostles write their books more than a hundred years after they would have been dead?



What a wonder full disinformation and deception campaign he waged against his Jewish enemies by turning them into his invented Christianity - so good in fact that Christians are still following the deception to this day!



The first person to provide a shred of verifiable evidence for God will become world famous and mega rich!! Ain't happened yet and it never will!



So how does this primitive belief survive? The answer is simple and very down to Earth



Acceptance of a supernatural claim tends to promote cooperative social relationships. This communication demonstrates a willingness to accept, without skepticism, the influence of the speaker in a way similar to a child's acceptance of the influence of a parent. By encouraging this kind of behavior where the most intense social relationships occur it facilitates the lack of skepticism and deters more open minded thinking.



They are christian, Muslim or the other religions depending where they were born simply because they were indoctrinated by their parents as very young children. They will go on to indoctrinate their own children and those will go on to indoctrinate their grandchildren!



Atheists have the intellect to see through the conditioning and escape into the real world!



Agnostics have the intellect to see through the conditioning but lack the courage to throw of the conditioning entirely.



Sadly Christians are still held firmly prisoner by the self perpetuating brainwashing!

Answer 5

Because my God, the creator of the universe, has revealed Himself to me in so many ways. I have seen true miracles, true ones. I feel God's presence with me so many times, I cannot explain this feeling to you if you haven't experienced it. God's presence is so awing and so humbling. It feels like you have sooo much joy in your life through God that you are completely sold out and on fire for God. My God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die on cross for MY sins. The creator of the universe cares for me! You are probably thinking miracles? That's crap. No, I have seen true miracles. I had mono a couple years ago, and when your spleen can enlarge the most during these weeks, I fell down about 5 steps, completely missed the first one, pitch black outside and didn't see them. I landed on the ground 7 feet out from the stairs and didn't hit a single thing, no steps no nothing. If I wouldve hit the steps, I wouldve probably hit my spleen and it wouldve ruptured and i would be dead. I BELIEVE God seriously picked me up and moved me. This is just one of the many experiences God has revealed HImself to me. Just one.

Answer 6

So you think the Bible is just a pack of lies? Written 1,000 of years ago? That changed our whole calendar from bc to ad? Get reaL! Jesus is/was the greatest man who ever lived. Period. You will have a different story to tell when you are bowed down to Him. Remember those words. God teach you.

Answer 7

I know my gods are real - by faith, tradition, and personal experience - which are the only things which will speak to the divine.



Texts don't give a reason to believe - only ways of defining and refining belief. Evidence is subject to interpretation, and there will probably never be "proof" of gods.

Answer 8

Because of Love I honestly Truthfully DEEP down in my Heart and Soul Believe that it's the ONLY thing Scientists can not fully EXPLAIN or Understand

Answer 9

Because even though sometimes I still say "What the heck?" I have become accustomed to his presence in my life, have had too many a-ha moments for them to be coincidences and can look behind me and see how far I have come in every way since I broke down and asked him to come into my life.



Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.



Saint Augustine

Answer 10

Lets start with Science.



Modern Astrophysics has proven the existence of God beyond a reasonable doubt.



Newton's Third Law of Motion states "For every action there is equal and opposite reaction." Every action in the universe was caused by a prior equal and opposite reaction.



If we logically follow each and every action and reaction back to the beginning then logically there has to be a first action without a prior equal and opposite reaction. Modern astrophysicists call this event the Big Bang.



This first action was completely independent of outside forces. This action was God, the un-caused cause, creating the universe.



By the way, it was Georges Lemaître (1894–1966), a Belgian Catholic priest and professor of physics and astronomy, who proposed what became known as the Big Bang theory of the origin of the Universe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre



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Another proof:



A universe in which life has a chance to exist can only happen in where a couple of dozen universal constants coincide, including:

+ Minimum interval of space

+ Minimum unit of time

+ Planck's Constant

+ Maximum velocity

+ Gravitational Attraction Constant

+ Weak Force Coupling Constant

+ Strong Nuclear Force Coupling Constant

+ Rest Mass of a Proton

+ Rest Mass of an Electron

+ Electron or Proton Unit Charge

+ Minimum Mass of the Universe

+ Total Visible Rest Mass

+ Boltzmann's Constant

+ Hubble Constant

+ Cosmological Constant

+ Cosmic Proton/Photon Ratio

+ Permittivity of Free Space

+ Electromagnetic Fine-Structure Constant

+ Weak Fine-Structure Constant

+ Gravitational Fine-Structure Constant



A couple of percent difference in any one of these constants would make the universe completely uninhabitable. Roger Penrose, a peer of Hawking, calculated that the chance of a universe capable of supporting life as we know it as one part in 10 raised to the power of 10 raised to the power of 123.



This fine tuning of the universe, while not an absolute proof of God, can be used to help prove the existence of God beyond a reasonable doubt (which is my claim).



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I also suggest you read Robert Spitzer's new book "New Proofs for the Existence of God: Contributions of Contemporary Physics and Philosophy" http://www.amazon.com/New-Proofs-Existence-God-Contributions/dp/0802863833



http://www.magisreasonfaith.org/



With love in Christ.

Answer 11

I just like to believe in God when I'm in trouble and when I need a miracle.

Answer 12

There is a God, that's sure. However, Religion is just man's way of trying to explain God. Sorry if that didn't make sense....

Answer 13

Thanks for your question,

But the point here- if you allow me- is much bigger...and more dangerous ...

It is true that you deny the Existence of God The Almighty The Creator of the Heavens and Earth and all what is in Between ...but that doesn't mean My Friend that you don't have a god...and I don't mean the Devil...No...I mean: Your own thinking, ideas, the power of nature, or something which you have created and named as a god. We do all need to submit ourselves to some one or something....no one can deny this fact. But it depends on whom you are going to submit yourself to...

And Remember: When ever you have faced, or you will face (hopefully it won't happen) an agony, a disaster in your life....no one has saved you and no one would save you except Him: God The Almighty.....yet a person forgets the lessons which life teaches as soon as he or she is no longer in pain. People tend to ignore the fact that Allah: (God The Almighty) has given them relief. They attribute this relief to their own efforts as I said before, or the power of nature, or something which they have created and named as a god.

According to the Noble Qur’an, Allah has been acknowledged as the one and only God, Who should be worshipped by every human being.

Allah says in the Noble Qur’an:

“And when harm touches you upon the sea, those that you call upon vanish from you except Him (Allah Alone). But when He brings you safe to land, you turn away (from Him). And man is ever ungrateful.” (17:67)



“Is not He (better than your gods) Who responds to the distressed one, when he calls on Him, and Who removes the evil, and makes you inheritors of the earth, generations after generations? Is there any ilah (god) with Allah? Little is that you remember!” (27:62)



“ He it is Who enables you to travel through land and sea, till when you are in the ships, and they sail with them with a favorable wind, and they are glad therein, then comes a stormy wind and the waves come to them from all sides, and they think that they are encircled therein. Then they invoke Allah, making their Faith pure for Him Alone, (saying): “If You (Allah) deliver us from this, we shall truly, be of the grateful.” “But when He delivers them, behold! they rebel (disobey Allah) in the earth wrongfully.” (10:22-23)

He or she might not know that the name of this god is “Allah”; however, Allah knows all his Creation. The individual prays and calls Him. Allah listens to cries of agony, and consequently, removes suffering, yet a person forgets the lessons which life teaches as soon as he or she is no longer in pain.....



Thanks again for your question...

And please follow these links to know more:



http://islamnewsroom.com/answers/49-life1

http://islamnewsroom.com/news-we-need/1563-is-he-really-god

Answer 14

Because some 2000 year old book written based on some older stone-age myths says so...

Answer 15

If you experience God in a personal and individual way.....

it will confirm His reality for you.



Blessings~*

Answer 16

Because the guy in the robe who wants my money said so. So therefore it must be treue.

Answer 17

a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree. does it not make sence

Answer 18

Look around yourself.......

Is it possible for any human being to create such a gigantic universe with sun, moon & planets etc. perfectly placed/revolving around their axis.



Is it possible for any human being to create that ???

These are signs of God, proving his existence.

Think about it........

Answer 19

I know He is real because I know Him, and it would be irrational to doubt the existence of someone you know.