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[QUOTE="GameGuy642003"] Well my biblical answer would be that the best evidence is Jesus Christ Himself as known in the scriptures. As well as the testimonies of witnesses throughout the centuries. A person's testimony about their conversion as well as their life change. This I believe is the best proof of God. Perhaps Mindstorm can elaborate, he can probably provide a much better explanation than I.
GameGuy642003
Well, people can be convicted today sometimes with eyewitness testimony, sometimes later such testimony turns out to be a misidentification and the conviction overturned. So, I am unsure I should be convinced by witness testimony.
I have heard anecdotes on both sides, finding religion, losing religion - so I'm unsure this is compelling evidence.
Often I wonder the question 'what would a proof of God look like?'
Let me go to scripture and see what God has to say about this.
ROMANS 1:19-23
19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world,[g] in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools,23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
The problem is this. You know God exists, the proof is everywhere. You don't need more head knowledge, what is needed is a heart change, the problem is with your heart. The thing is you don't want to believe, you deny the evidence that God has put in front of you. This section of scripture is pointed at people who have never even heard of the Bible or Jesus Christ, but since you have heard of Jesus and the Bible you are really without excuse. Verse 20 is speaking about God's attributes as it is seen in nature, the trees, birds, mountians, clouds, all of creation including his prize creation... humans.
I see, "the fool hath said in his heart there is no god". This is a cop-out. Surely it is no surprise that the bible self-reinforces?
Quite honestly I don't know if God exists. In over ~23 years of wondering about this problem and keeping my eyes and ears open I still haven't seen any compelling evidence for God. I can get naturalistic explanations for very close to everything. Wiseboy has mentioned the 'god of the gaps' argument, and that's fine if someone wants to replace unknowns with God, I choose to leave them as unknowns.
A heart change? My heart is just a pump which moves a transport medium (blood) about my circulatory system.
I am not interested in excuses. I am interested in reasons. What is the reason for believing in any God/s? I don't need excuses to not believe in the Judeo-Christian God the same as how I don't need excuses to not believe in Zeus, Thor, or Hobbits. If there were sufficient evidence for God then I'd change my views to make them congruent with reality. Is there anything in the scripture with which you can make a prediction about reality?
You talk about God's attributes in nature, the trees, birds, mountains, clouds, all of creation including humans. Well, we have explanations for a great many things in nature, plant biology including photosynthesis, avian biology (Bats are birds according to the bible), plate tectonics and volcanoes etc, weather systems, and a massive body of evidence for human evolution.
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