How do you know God exists?

[truseek]

How do you know God exists or does not exist? What has brought you to your conclusion? Life experience? Science? Philosophy? Environment? all of the above?

Yours in Christ

Truseek

[Catsmeow]

Allow me to answer you with a question. How does one know the wind is blowing?

All we can do is discern what we experience when we perceive the force of it upon our bodies and see it's impact on our environment.

In like manner, I can't see God but I can feel His impact on my life and lives around me as strongly as I can perceive the winds of a storm.

[truseek]

Interesting answer, catsmeow, but I think that we can do better than that for the existance of God. Here is my reasoning, hopefully I will get some more input on this topic.

First Cause

1. Nothing cannot cause something.

2. Nothing can cause itself, for it would first have to exist in order to create itself.

3. Anything with a beginning had to have a beginner.

a. according to the laws of thermodynamics, the universe began

4. We cannot have an infinite series of causes.

a. We would never have arrived at

Edited July 7, 2004 by truseek

[Catsmeow]

I didn't know you wanted an essay.

[Guest Called]

awesome truseek!

[truseek]

lol, I dunno if I would say that I wanted an essay. I just think that the evidence pointing to, at the very leat A god is overwhelming, and that it is important for us believers to understand.

Yours in Christ

Truseek

[Green Darner]

How do you know God exists or does not exist? What has brought you to your conclusion?

An honest study of Bible prophecy and history is what convinced me that God exists. When I realized God does, in fact, exist, THEN my need for a Savior became very apparent. It was only after accepting Jesus as my Lord that scripture really started to make sense. It was like blinders had been taken from my eyes and a fog lifted from my brain. Now I have many experiences to keep me in the faith.

Well, that's my spiritual journey from complete atheist to ardent believer in Christ. The super-condensed, Reader's Digest version, anyway.

[truseek]

Green, I think you make an excellent point. I do not think it possible to truly understand scripture but through messiah-tinted glasses if you will. I have seen this evidenced in myself, as well as some of myt friends who have recently come to Christ. I think that John the Baptist makes a similar point when he contrasts hid baptism (of water) with Christ's baptism (fire). The baptism by water is an outward symbol, a sign of your rebirth, while the baptism of christ, the holy Spirit, is one of fire, instantly transformative, a baptism which neccessitates and catalyzes a very real change in the indivudual.

Yours in Christ

Truseek

Edited July 9, 2004 by truseek

[Guest christain_chick_4_ever]

I know god is real i have had so many things happen in my life that i know only god can either heal or save it.

[senerhu]

Who else, but God, could fulfill prophecies?