Re: What\'s leads you to believe what you believe?
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Ok. Maybe I'm finaly about to learn something here.
Without referring to any book or scripture, please tell me what "evidence" there is that proves the existence of a God? I missed it.
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First of all, I didn't say "proves". The OP said that the only evidence was a book, and that is not true. There is plenty of evidence that makes belief in God reasonable.
This has been discussed several times in other threads, but I have yet to hear a sufficient counter-argument that would make me believe otherwise.
One example of such evidence is as follows:
There are only three possibilities for the existence of the universe. (A fourth being that it's all an illusion, but this view isn't widely held).
1. The universe has always existed.
2. The universe created itself.
3. The universe was created.
As for #1, nuclear fusion tells us that this cannot be. Our universe does not contain an infinite amount of hydrogen, and thus, it must have had a beginning.
This leads us to option #2. There are no other examples under our laws of physics where something has come from nothing, especially not on such a large scale.
Therefore, the creation of the universe must have occurred from outside our laws of physics. This leaves #3.
Again, there are counter-arguments to this. Personally, though, I find them so far-fetched that they require more faith to believe than God.
It's not 100% proof, but contrary to the OP, this is reasonable evidence in the existence of God.
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