When do you know that you believe in god?

Answer 1

There is intellectual belief in God, and there is emotional belief in God. One can

read religious manuscripts, religious fiction and nonfiction, and various tracts provided by various religious institutions, giving the characteristics of their

beliefs. Reading and agreeing with these religious publications and their tenets and beliefs could bring one to an intellectual belief in God.

However, there is also emotional belief in God, which is supported not only by

intellectual belief, but also an impassioned, strongly emotional personal belief in him.

It has been said that no one can be brought to genuine belief in God by a theory, that true belief must be through personal experience or personal belief, supported and enforced by some sort of encounter with God, or your sense

or feeling of his presence with you, or your sense of love from him and his closeness to you.

One could attend religious services from kindergarten through old age but still

not necessarily become close to God. If a person feels he is not genuinely close to God, then he should continuously read his religious books and attend services and associate with peers whom you know to be true believers and followers of God.

Pray continually. When you pray, ask God to lead you to a genuine closeness and personal belief in him and in his son Jesus Christ. Jesus said, "Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and the door shall be opened to you." Don't necessarily expect a divine miracle. The exact time when you come to believe in God might not be apparent, but when you feel his presence and his love with you, then you know that you do believe in him.

Pray that God will guide you to become even closer to him and that he will lead and direct you to know and do his will, to help your fellow men, and to study and advance in his word, being always pleasing and obeying to him.