What is the definition of people who need to see proof of God's existence?

Answer 1

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People who needs to see the proof of God existence are people who lack understanding. The proof of God existence is written in Romans 1:20 "For the invisible things ofHIM from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even HIS eternal power and Godhead;......."

Answer 2

People who need to see proof of God's existence could be considered sceptics or realists, depending on your point of view. Sceptics because they do not wish to believe in something for which there is no proof, or realists because they realise that there is no proof, and can be no proof, for the existence of God.

Answer 3

Apparently most people need this.

• The religious (theists) need it ,,, and apparently find it in their religious texts and teachings and then back it up with their observations of the world. They are theists.
  
• The non religious (atheists) review their science and observations of the world and find evidence of god lacking. They then do not believe in a deity.
  
• The non religious (agnostics) look for proof one way or another and never find it
• The secular types who don't see the god/no god question as worth their time ignore the whole issue

Answer 4

Seems you are referring to agnosticism - someone who isn't sure 'God' exists. However, the atheist requires proof that 'God' exists at all. A shade of grey/doubt exists here. Commonly during the Age of Enlightenment when false religious teachings were revealed by new scientific exploration, many discounted the truth in The Bible in its entirety and began looking for alternatives. The greatest 'theory' to become widely acceptable was Evolution.

The manmade idea called the Theory of Evolution had its heyday in the Age of Enlightenment of the 19th and 20th Centuries. With advancements in the fields of science, however, this theory is being challenged on multiple fronts. Today, there is much debate on fundamental laws governing the entire universe. This is the Anthropic Principle: Many in the fields of mathematics and physics agree that from the very beginning - the Big Bang of some 15 billion years ago - these fundamental laws had to already be in place, and set exactly, to allow our universe to exist the way it does in our time - with us humans here. Indeed, mathematically, it is beyond improbability that this universe of ours would randomly come into existence with just the right properties to allow humans to exist. Life therefore requires a Lawgiver.

On the biological front, scientists are finding that intelligent design exists in everything they examine. In my school days, the simple cell was just that - an organism of matter with some vaguely identifiable parts within. Today, under very strong microscopes, we can see that the cell is a complex information-processing machine with tens of thousands of organelles and vastly complex protein molecules, each arranged in finely-tuned algorithms of communication and synthesis. And our human bodies contain some 60 trillion of these, which store information in DNA, replicated also in various forms of RNA, following the mathematical laws of information. To many, this shows Intelligent Design requiring a Designer and not random evolutionary change.

Just consider the human eye, which Charles Darwin, who fathered the modern theory of evolution, admitted that such complex organs as the eye would be difficult to explain using his theory. Or how about creating life from non-life as scientists have been attempting for decades now. Most have come to the conclusion that the law of Biogenesis is correct. Life can only come from life and requires a life-giver or Creator.

To conclude, one should also ask, how does evolution explain the mystery of human consciousness? Why do we know we know? Or how about dreams/visions or even the modern phenomenon of NDEs - near death experience. Without taking into account the God-given "Spirit in Man" (see Job 32:8 and 1 Corinthians 2:11), it is impossible IMHO. Yet rest assured, there will always be some scientists who, not wanting to believe in God, will remain determined to come up with some explanation which excludes Divine creation. Believers call these "fanciful theories" which attempt to explain the complexities of life. Reading most/all of these simply requires a huge leap in logic as they assume a mathematically improbable event "just happened to happen." For me then, Creation has the much stronger case. The Apostle Paul was inspired to speak about those needing proofs this way:

Romans 1:20Contemporary English Version (CEV)20 God's eternal power and character cannot be seen. But from the beginning of creation, God has shown what these are like by all he has made. That's why those people don't have any excuse.