How do you know that God created the world?

Answer 1

My Answer:

I grew up in a Christian home, read The Bible, went to church... As a child I guess I just believed my parents were right and that this must be the only way. Growing up I met doubts like why only Christianity is the truth, and not feeling close to God. They deterred me for a bit but I came to the conclusion that there is something more (so much more) behind that name... Jesus. Can`t you feel it? Its crazy but if you ask Him, He'll show you. I don't feel God all the time - sometimes I feel so far away from Him - but at the end of the day Jesus is the only hope I have. Because I want Him so bad, it just proves He's there. You can't crave purpose, hope, love and Jesus if its non existent just like you couldn't crave chocolate if it never was created. Keep your chin up and seek Him. I won't promise a big BANG or what Saul experienced on the way to Damascus, but I know He's real. He has to be. He is our only hope and I mean that with every fibre of my innermost being.

I was not a believer before, but I am now. I've searched for the answer on my own you'll know Jesus is real at your most trying moment, have time to pray and talk to him you don't have to explain yourself to Jesus because he knows you from within you'll feel his presence especially with those blessed people who attach with him he might not answer your prayer today, but he'll sure will at the right time.

ANSWER

well how do you know anything is real, because there is proof, although the definition of proof is debatable anything without proof is just belief and faith.

i personally don't see how a 2000 year old book, written by humans, translated to English from several different languages

talking about something there is no proof of can prove the existence of anyone or anything in it,

unless its got photos!

read all the prophesies that have come true! how could you believe that the Bible is NOT real!

i believe that Jesus died for my sins, how about you. do you think that Jesus died and rose again without purpose?

ANSWERno one knows that Jesus is real.

they weren't there 2009 years ago when Jesus was supposed to be born to tell us all that.

even if they were they wouldn't be alive they would have died by now. plus no one knows that the bible is true they might believe that it is but they don't know for sure.

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I just don't think that someone would be soooo bored until he decides he would make a religion with a bible so thick.How do I know Jesus is imaginary or real? Well, not everything has to be explained and you have to just believe and there is something called faith. For example you can't feel, see or taste those teeny tiny germs in the air,but how do you know it is there? Because it is scientifically proven? And how do you know if they proved right? Look, I can't control your religion but I choose to have faith and believe. I don't need pictures to prove and by the way cameras were probably not invented that time. So how do you expect them to take pictures?

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Jesus Christ is as real as you want HIM to be. It's all about FAITH. God's Living Word states, "Now Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Hebrews 11:1. God's whole Word is based on Faith. I choose to have faith that God is the Alpha, Omega, Beginning and the End. I, also choose to believe that His Son Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior and that He died on the cross for my sins so that I can live for eternity in heaven with Him. You have Faith, which is not believing that He is real. I can't prove to you that He is real and You can't prove that He isn't. I've lived the sinners life and am living the Christian life now. Why have faith in something that doesn't have a happy ending or why have faith in something that doesn't fill that emptiness inside of you or that hole in your heart/soul. No matter what you try to fill it it never happens. Maybe at the time, but it doesn't last. I choose to have Faith in my God, because it fills that space and makes me feel great. I will feel that joy and peace for always. The best part is that it's FREE!!! Here's a saying I once heard, "Don't knock it til you try it".

Answer 2

We don't you either believe in him or not.

Answer:

We do know God is real... look around you, there is evidence of him everywhere. I say to the people that believe in evolution, if it is real why cant i watch some tiny little organism turn into a man??? If that is supposibly how it all happened, why doesn't it happen now??? The reason you don't see it is because its not real, evolutions is an excuse for someone not to devote there life to a "higher being" (GOD) why can people devote there life to drugs, rapping young girls, and killing people, but they cant give their life to a better cause?

Knowing the existence of god is only through faith. If you need concrete evidence on the existence of god, then your faith is lacking. You cannot get natural evidence for a supernatural being. All day, every day, we all accept things by faith. Does anyone (except an expert) know how a computer works. I sure don't, but I sure recognize it when it doesn't. Sometimes faith can be misplaced, like when my computer repair man scrubbed all my programs and data. I accepted what he said by faith and my faith was misplaced. On the other hand if one we trust proves reliable we trust them again. If they never fail us, they get a reputation for reliability.

Further to this, if someone is a reliable witness and claims to have seen or experienced something I haven't, then it ought to be worthy of serious consideration. Then if there are a whole lot of reliable witnesses all in agreement, that makes the case stronger. And even further if there are external circumstances or witnesses which confirm what the others said , that makes it better. All this adds up to a reliable Bible testimony to God being real.

In my own personal experience God has never failed me in nearly 50 years. Polycarp spoke as he went to his death of an 86 year unblemished record. God is utterly reliable and truthful. Every promise He has ever made He keeps. Those who know Him know this to be true.

Those who claim no evidence for God in their personal experience may be 100% correct in this. But at the same time, they cannot claim to know all there is to know or to have experienced all there is to experience. Then they would themselves be God. If they don't know everything, then all they can really claim is they haven't seen any evidence for God. That's all. They can't claim that for me or anybody else. I know different.

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How do you know God is real?Well How do you know your mom and dad love you?You can't see their love,you can't smell their love,but you feel it.Imagine how your parents will freak out when you say you don't believe they love you.They will try to do anything to prove it but it's hard.But imagine how God will react when you deny him?"Seeing is Believeing" is stupid.I believe you can't see God because you have to have faith during your lifetime,he'll know you believd in him and let you enter heaven and see him.

Another Answer:

Missy I agree God has made my life so easy and thats why i will always believe in my God who has made me and who loves me.

Another Example:

Once this spaniard profit came to my church ane we never new him before it was our first time i ever seen him. anyways he called my moms name and i new it was God telling him my moms name. WHEN U LOVE GOD U GIVE UP EVERYTHING TO FOLLOW OUR LORD THE ONE WHO CREATED US AND HE LOVES US MORE THAN ANYTHING

Another View:

The bible quotes God saying "seek me and you will find me if you seek me with all your heart". Jesus also says that "everyone who seeks finds". I think our problem is that we are raised in a culture that doesn't seek answers any more. We just get our answers instantly from Google. The idea of searching and seeking is just too oldschool for us these days.

Answer 3

You don't. Nobody can prove it. You have to believe it, or not. It is difficult if not impossible to prove the existence of God or of gods, so it's up to an individual to determine for themselves whether they believe in God.

Answer 4

If by evidence, you mean "tangible, scientific data"...or course there is none. Nor can there be (at present day) by science, though this may change within the next century, because today, quantum physics has at least established the fact that our reality is affected at the quantum level by our very own Will upon it, leaving many scientists torn, and questioning the possibility of "God's" existance. It is too complicated to go into here, however, the Dalai Lama himself is an ardent follower of the developments in quantum physics ( as I am), and has written many books that explain how he believes Science and Religion will soon be unified.

With or without any tangible, scientific data to prove God's existance, however, is a moot point, because the belief in God is a choice in faith, and if you really want to strengthen the case for the existance of God, search your soul, and watch life, people, the power of prayer, the undeniable fact that there was a Jesus, and despite what has been recorded in the Bible, which was first established and it's contents influenced by Constatine, "Truth" is a spiritual awareness. Not "fact", for fact are limited the what can be seen and measured and proven by scientific means, which means facts are applicable to our physical world, forces, and reality.

God exists, and if you choose to believe that, you will suddenly start to perceive" many things that have always been there, but not seen, because you weren't looking.

My best recommendation is to research the life of Edgar Cayce, and the contents of the Dead Sea Scrolls, both of which have not been tampered with (except in the case of the Scrolls, we are forced to rely on human interpretation", so there may be some readings that are not entirely accurate. But Truth can be found in the essence of the scrolls' contents, and by their very existance.

Answer 5

Roman Catholic AnswerWe know that God created the world, because He revealed it to us in the Scriptures, and because the world could not have come out of nothing on its own power!

Answer 6

There are tens of proofs for God's existence. These have been recorded for centuries and are easy to look up. However, this subject ultimately becomes one of personal belief, since our possession of free-will mandates that it be possible to put forth arguments (fallacious or not) against every one of the proofs.
Here are a few.
1) Teleological Argument: The universe has definite design, order, and arrangement which cannot be sufficiently explained outside a theistic worldview. (This is how Abraham, without benefit of teachers, came to reject the chaotic world-view of idolatry and the possibility of Atheism.)From the complexities of the human eye to the order and arrangement of cosmology, the voice of God is heard. God's existence is the best explanation for such design. God is the designer.Is there evidence against Evolution

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2) Anthropic Principle: The laws of the universe seem to have been set in such a way that stars, planets and life can exist. Many constants of nature appear to be finely tuned for this, and the odds against this happening by chance are astronomical.

3) Sensus divinitatus: The innate sense of the divine exists within all people. People and cultures of all time have, by instinct, sensed a need to worship something greater than themselves. No ancient societyever existed that did not believe in a supernatural power.

4) Tradition: There are events in human history which cannot be explained without God. Many people have their subjective stories that bend them in the direction of theism, but there are also historical events such as the Giving of the Torah to over two million people at Mount Sinai, which are underpinnings for the belief in God.

5) Pascal's Wager: Belief in God is the most rational choice due to the consequences of being wrong. If one were to believe in God and be wrong, there would be no consequences. However, if one were to deny God and be wrong, the consequences are eternally tragic. Therefore, the most rational choice is not agnosticism or atheism, but belief in God.

6) Logic. Why is there reality rather than nothing? Aside from God's creating it, there are only five options:
a) The universe is eternal and everything has always existed.
- Even atheists have abandoned this possibility, especially because it would violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

b) Nothing exists and all is an illusion. There is no reality; there is only nothing.
- This possibility, it should be obvious, is completely self-defeating. In order to even make such a proposition, the subject has to exist in some sense. If all is an illusion, where did the illusion come from? Even the solipsist, who does not believe in the existence of other minds, has to explain the genesis of his own mind.

c) The universe created itself. This is the idea that the universe and all that is in it did not have its origin in something outside itself, but from within.
- Like with the previous two, this makes a logical absurdity. It would be like creating a square triangle. It's impossible. A triangle by definition cannot be square. So creation cannot create itself as it would have to pre-date itself in order to create.

d) Chance created the universe. The odds of winning the lottery are not very good; but given eons of time, everyone will win. While the odds of the universe spontaneously appearing are not minuscule, could it happen, given enough time?

- This option is a dishonest sleight of hand that, like "survival of the fittest," amounts to nothing, because it implies that "chance" itself has quantitative causal power.
The word "chance" refers to possibilities. It does not have the power to cause those possibilities. It is nonsense to speak of chance being an agent of creation, since chance is not a force. "What are the real chances of the universe being created by chance? Impossible. Chance is incapable of creating a single molecule, let alone an entire universe. Why not? Chance is no thing. It is not an entity. It has no being, no power, no force. It can effect nothing because it has no causal power within it. It is a word which describes mathematical possibilities which, by the curious flip of the fallacy of ambiguity, slips into the discussion as if it were a real entity with real power, the power of creativity." (R.C. Sproul, Not a Chance. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1999.)

e) The universe is created by nothing. Simply put, nothing created the universe.
- The problem here is that it is either a repetition of option "a" (the universe is eternal) or fails due to the irrationality of "d." In our current universe, the law of cause and effect cannot be denied by sane people. While we often don't know what the cause of some effect is, this does not mean that there was no cause. When we go to the doctor looking for an explanation for the cause of our neck pain, we don't accept the answer "There is no cause. It came from nothing."

Now, the other side of the Question: why might people notbelieve in God?

1) Peer influence. In high school, for example, the one or two religious believers in a class may be subject to ridicule.

2) Convenience; desires. No one wants "bothersome" rules, or limitations to their personal pleasure. We see how lack of self-discipline has led to epidemic obesity, drunkenness, divorce rates, violence etc.

3) Lack of proper information. People have inaccurate notions about God, religion and belief. They've picked up tidbits, jokes, and "sound-bites," and on such solid authority they dismiss the entire topic.

4) Unfortunate experiences. Many have had personal hardships, or a harsh religious upbringing or education, and as a consequence may retain an unhappy feeling towards belief, without realizing that emotions and proofs are two different things.

5) Many think that science, and specifically Evolution, have proved that there is no God. They don't comprehend that even if Evolution was an unquestionable fact, it would not automatically follow that God isn't there. They also seem unaware that there are a significant number of highly-qualified scientists who do not believe in Evolution.

6) Intellectual laziness. Many people have simply never delved into the subject, to see if God's existence can be convincingly demonstrated.

7) Stereotyping. People call us "religious nuts," "Bible-thumpers," etc.; so the average layperson may get a negative feeling toward all belief, not realizing that he/she should first look into the existence of God in principle, before necessarily looking into religion.

Answer 7

We do not really know that God exists, although it is virtually impossible to prove a negative and therefore prove absolutely beyond doubt that he does not exist. In the same way, Bertrand Russell said that if he claimed there was a perfectly formed teapot in solar orbit between earth and Mars, no one could disprove his claim, but no one would believe it either. There is no objective proof that God exists, so theologians over the centuries have devised a range of arguments that they hoped would justify belief. These arguments support faith for those who wish to believe, but they are certainly not proof.

Answer 8

There are tens of proofs for God's existence. These have been recorded for centuries and are easy to look up. However, this subject ultimately becomes one of personal belief, since our possession of free-will mandates that it be possible to put forth arguments (fallacious or not) against every one of the proofs.
Here are a few.
1) Teleological Argument: The universe has definite design, order, and arrangement which cannot be sufficiently explained outside a theistic worldview. (This is how Abraham, without benefit of teachers, came to reject the chaotic world-view of idolatry and the possibility of atheism). For example, theoretical physicist and popular science writer Paul Davies (whose early writings were not especially sympathetic to theism) states concerning the fundamental structure of the universe, "the impression of design is overwhelming" (Davies, 1988, p. 203).From the complexities of the human eye to the order and arrangement of cosmology, the voice of God is heard. God's existence is the best explanation for such design. God is the designer.Is there evidence against Evolution

God's wisdom seen in His creations

More about God's wisdom

2) Anthropic Principle: The laws of the universe seem to have been set in such a way that stars, planets and life can exist. Many constants of nature appear to be finely tuned for this, and the odds against this happening by chance are astronomical. Professor Russel Stannard (a particle physicist) states: "The universe has been bent over backwards in order that intelligent life should exist...must have known we were coming."

3) Sensus divinitatus: The innate sense of the divine exists within all people. People and cultures of all time have, by instinct, sensed a need to worship something greater than themselves. No ancient societyever existed that did not believe in a supernatural power.

4) Tradition: There are events in human history which cannot be explained without God. Many people have their subjective stories that bend them in the direction of theism, but there are also historical eventssuch as the Giving of the Torah to over two million people at Mount Sinai, which are underpinnings for the belief in God.

5) Pascal's Wager: Belief in God is the most rational choice due to the consequences of being wrong. If one were to believe in God and be wrong, there would be no consequences. However, if one were to deny God and be wrong, the consequences are eternally tragic. Therefore, the most rational choice is not agnosticism or atheism, but belief in God.

6) Logic. Why is there reality rather than nothing? Aside from God's creating it, there are only five options:
a) The universe is eternal and everything has always existed.
- Even atheists have abandoned this possibility, especially because it would violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

b) Nothing exists and all is an illusion. There is no reality; there is only nothing.
- This possibility, it should be obvious, is completely self-defeating. In order to even make such a proposition, the subject has to exist in some sense. If all is an illusion, where did the illusion come from? Even the solipsist, who does not believe in the existence of other minds, has to explain the genesis of his own mind.

c) The universe created itself. This is the idea that the universe and all that is in it did not have its origin in something outside itself, but from within.
- Like with the previous two, this makes a logical absurdity. It would be like creating a square triangle. It's impossible. A triangle by definition cannot be square. So creation cannot create itself as it would have to pre-date itself in order to create.

d) Chance created the universe. The odds of winning the lottery are not very good; but given eons of time, everyone will win. While the odds of the universe spontaneously appearing are not minuscule, could it happen, given enough time?

- This option is a dishonest sleight of hand that, like "survival of the fittest," amounts to nothing, because it implies that "chance" itself has quantitative causal power.
The word "chance" refers to possibilities. It does not have the power to cause those possibilities. It is nonsense to speak of chance being an agent of creation, since chance is not a force. "What are the real chances of the universe being created by chance? Impossible. Chance is incapable of creating a single molecule, let alone an entire universe. Why not? Chance is no thing. It is not an entity. It has no being, no power, no force. It can effect nothing because it has no causal power within it. It is a word which describes mathematical possibilities which, by the curious flip of the fallacy of ambiguity, slips into the discussion as if it were a real entity with real power, the power of creativity." (R.C. Sproul, Not a Chance. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1999.)

e) The universe is created by nothing. Simply put, nothing created the universe.
- The problem here is that it is either a repetition of option "a" (the universe is eternal) or fails due to the irrationality of "d." In our current universe, the law of cause and effect cannot be denied by sane people. While we often don't know what the cause of some effect is, this does not mean that there was no cause. When we go to the doctor looking for an explanation for the cause of our neck pain, we don't accept the answer "There is no cause. It came from nothing."

Now, the other side of the Question: why might people notbelieve in God?

1) Peer influence. In high school, for example, the one or two religious believers in a class may be subject to ridicule.

2) Convenience; desires. No one wants "bothersome" rules, or limitations to their personal pleasure. We see how lack of self-discipline has led to epidemic obesity, drunkenness, divorce rates, violence etc.

3) Lack of proper information. People have inaccurate notions about God, religion and belief. They've picked up tidbits, jokes, and "sound-bites," and on such solid authority they dismiss the entire topic.

4) Unfortunate experiences. Many have had personal hardships, or a harsh religious upbringing or education, and as a consequence may retain an unhappy feeling towards belief, without realizing that emotions and proofs are two different things.

5) Many think that science, and specifically Evolution, have proved that there is no God. They don't comprehend that even if Evolution was an unquestionable fact, it would not automatically follow that God isn't there. They also seem unaware that there are a significant number of highly-qualified scientists who do not believe in Evolution.

6) Intellectual laziness. Many people have simply never delved into the subject, to see if God's existence can be convincingly demonstrated.

7) Stereotyping. People call us "religious nuts," "Bible-thumpers," etc.; so the average layperson may get a negative feeling toward all belief, not realizing that he/she should first look into the existence of God in principle, before necessarily looking into religion.

Answer 9

The Bible is most usually given as all the proof we need, that God is real. But if there is no God, the Bible was simply written by men and without divine guidance. For this reason, theologians have sought, since the early days of Christianity, to develop proofs that God is real. These include the Ontological Argument, the Cosmological Argument and the Teleological Argument, but all fail to provide the proof sought, for the existence of God.

The beauty of nature is not evidence of God - or for that matter of any god - it is simply evidence that we find nature beautiful. The fact that we are even here is not evidence of God, nor is the complexity of nature. There is no evidence that God is real.

Answer 10

Because of the gospel accounts and the beliefs of so many, historians believe Jesus of Nazareth probably existed as a historical person, although scholars debate whether he performed miracles.
John Ashton ('History and Theology in New Testament Studies', The Nature of New Testament Theology,edited by Rowland and Tuckett) says that historians (and others) continue to argue with one another whether Jesus was really a homespun Cynic philosopher, a social reformer or an eschatological preacher deeply sympathetic to the Pharasaic culture all around him. He says that not only Jesus’ miracles but also the amazing religious experiences attributed to him in the Gospels, his baptism and transfiguration, are generally dismissed as legendary.