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.
- Even atheists have abandoned this possibility, especially because it would violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
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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.
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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.
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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 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 odds of the universe being created by chance? Impossible. 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 a curious flip of the fallacy of ambiguity, slips into the discussion as if it were a entity with real power, the power of creativity." (R.C. Sproul, Not a Chance. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1999.)
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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?See also the other Related Links.
By "the holy text", I assume you mean the Bible, which contains the earliest knowledge and experience and relationship with God, as human experience and memories.
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There is only one version of The Holy Quran . The Quran which people have today is the same Quran which was revealed 1400 years ago. It was revealed to the Last & Final Messenger Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H) who recited it. His recitations were written down and compiled by his followers who were concerned that otherwise the text might become corrupted. Not one word has been changed since. There are different pronunciations of Quran but all of them have the same text of Quran. by different versions of it is meant different texts it is false and no such thing exist. but if it is meant different different pronunciations yes this exists.
Two very good examples of religious text being set to music are the songs, "The Lord Is My Shepherd", which is taken from the 23rd Psalm, and Handel's "Messiah"'which is from the book of Isaiah.
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You would need a 'speech to text' application for the phone - if one exists !
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