christians, how can you have a relationship with a god that you can't prove exists?

Question

christians, how can you have a relationship with a god that you can't prove exists?

Answer 1

i don't know.

Answer 2

The relationship one has with God, is very much in the realm of how it feels when you know you love someone. It's not tangible and it's not a physical force of any sort.



It is a feeling...it is an experience. But to pinpoint moments in time when you "fell in love" with God (as you would in a relationship with someone else on earth), is impossible.



It is an exchange that is felt in the heart and it is imprinted in the mind to never forget. The moment a person gets their affirmation that God is true and real - it is a feeling that is beyond description. It is a sensation that only someone can experience themselves.



Imagine if you studied for a test, and you just knew - without knowing what answers where on the test, that you would pass and get 100%. You just know it because you did your homework and you did it with the goal to not only pass, but to reach the perfect score.



Imagine that feeling of "knowing," and multiply that by a million and infinity. It's a feeling that not any Christian can deny - even under the compulsion that if we don't do so, we'd be executed.



It's not the god can't exist - it's that you have to experience it yourself, or you don't. And with that - no one is asking for you to lean on my experience to "save" you. It really is something you should do for yourself because you want to. But with receiving this confirmation - you really have a lifestyle change to follow Jesus Christ all your life.

Answer 3

Isnt this the same for any religion? Everyone has different beliefs. For example a Christian may believe in God because of their prayers being answered or a miracle happening to themselves or someone close to them. Also some Christians believe in the Cosmological arguement which is that everything in the universe has a cause and that first cause is God therefore God exists. Even though you may say the Big Bang theory proves that wrong some Christians would argue that God caused the Big Bang as he is the first cause for everything in the universe. Hope this helped o.o Hayley x

Answer 4

First, I am an atheist. But I allow others to believe as they want. So I can see quite clearly how christians (or any religious person) can have a relationship with their god. If they believe their god exists, then he does exist, if only in their minds. That belief in no way affects me. So let's step back and let them have their pleasures. As long as they allow me to believe as I want.

Answer 5

Thats the thing. People out of religion cant see what Christians have. If I could show you what we have all would be believers. But its Gods will that its that way. He knows the hearts of all people. Its amazing having a relationship with the Lord and all those who do, know exactly what I mean.

Answer 6

We know he exist through our relationships. Its really hard to know unless you actually have a relationship with him or starting to build one, though it isn't impossible. It's not impossible because we have the Bible, history, and personal experiences. Some people like to blurt out that its brainwashing, or delusional, but that's only because certain things haven't clicked together just yet.

Answer 7

Just because we can not prove that he exists, it doesn't mean that he doesn't exist. we know he exists therefore we don't need to prove it to anyone else in order for us to have a relationship with him.

Answer 8

The same way particle physicists can conduct experiments and "discover" things that they can't prove exist.

Answer 9

Only true Christians would understand what I meant when I say this.

Though scientifically we can't prove our God to you, there are times when the holy spirit just feels so near to you and it is such a feeling of joy and comfort that can only be explained supernaturally. Jesus loves you!

Answer 10

Faith. A person who has faith holds to a belief because of how they feel with or without facts. Sadly most people feel the same way, certain behaviors, values and preferences are the same for all human beings. Those who would embrace selfishness and destructive ways often attribute their nihilism an selfishness to a lack of proof.

Answer 11

We cannot go to God!

It's IMPOSSIBLE!

We cannot cross that chasm to where God is.

He can ONLY come to us.



And God will not come upon a person UNLESS that person professes a faith in God!



You have made your choice to NOT have a relationship with God. Therefore, it will NEVER happen!

You have made your choice.

Answer 12

Same way I can have a relationship with my husband, and you can't prove it exists.

Answer 13

It's called faith. Usually most atheists/agnostics are more knowledgeable about religion even if they don't believe in it. And even if they aren't that is a pretty well-known word.

Answer 14

Imagination is a powerful thing. Its pretty much the same as a japanese person believing that old dead aunt bertha is watching over them.

Answer 15

I am moving to planet Atheist its just 20 light years away, bye bye religious land.

Answer 16

How can you trust in a science that you can't prove? I'll take my God over your science any day. I regret all the time I wasted on all mans lying science.

Answer 17

we cannot have a relationship with christ unless he draws us to him you have to be an ELECT he chooses, we don't

Answer 18

Simply by being delusional.

Answer 19

You wouldn't understand...

Answer 20

Have you ever met the head of the IRS? Yet you still pay taxes.....