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Default Atheists Can You prove that God does not exist?

A lot of people do believe in God. Religious people, Christians, Catholics, etc.. Then there are those who does not believe in God. They call themselves atheists. Those who believe, can you prove that God really exists?
For atheist, can you prove that God does not exists?
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Faith is something that you can't prove in a way that would satisfy the world, it is something you know to be true in your heart because of your inner experience. If you think about it we exercise faith in very ordinary ways in every day life. You know a chair is for sitting on, but you don't know that a specific chair will support you until you try it, you believe it will so you have faith that what you believe is correct and you sit on it. You can not prove to a non believer that God exists, because it is a personal experience and he or she can only know that if he/she puts his/her trust in God.
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The whole point of believing in God is that it cannot be proven. His existence is true for you because of your faith in Him. If you do not believe in Him, then he does not exist for you.
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Talking existence of God

Well, if you believe in God and He does not exist, your fate will be the same as everyone else. If you do not believe in God and later on find out that he does exist, you could be in trouble!..

There is one moral absolute everyone agrees upon: one may never violate one's conscience. yet where does conscience come from? If from something less than me (nature).. how can I be obligated by something less than me? If directly from me (as an individual).. how can I obligate myself absolutely? Am I absolute? Can I not just let myself off? If from others equal to me (society).. Do others have the right to impose their own values on me? The only source left is something superior to me which binds my will and demands obedience - God.

Things come into being and out of being; these things do not have to be because there was a time when they were not; if absolutely nothing has to be, then there would be nothing, because if all things BEGAN to exist, then there would be a time when there was nothing; but nothing comes from nothing, therefore nothing would exist. something must have always existed and necessarily has to exist - this is God

If something exists, there must exist what it takes for that thing to exist. The universe, a collection of beings in space and time, exists. Therefore, what it takes for the universe to exist must exist, and it must exist outside of space and time. this is God

The material world is in the process of change; nothing can give itself what it does not have; results of change cannot exist before a change, what is the cause of change? God.

According to Thomas Aquinas, some things cause other things to be; if everything is caused by everything else one would go on ad infinitum (but this is illogical since things have a beginning). There has to be an uncaused cause; this cause is God.

Our limited minds can uncover eternal truths about being. Truth properly resides in a mind, but the human mind is not eternal. Hence there must exist eternal mind in which these truths reside - God

A miracle is an event whose only adequate explanation is the extraordinary and direct intervention of God. There are numerous well attested miracles. Therefore, God exists, because miracles cannot exist without Him. Do you belief in Miracles? .. well, that can be another thread. still doubting? do you need more proofs about the existence of God?.. I hope at this point you all belief that God exist.. if you are an Atheist can you proof that God does not exist?.. let's see..
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Since you are starting this thread, may I know which one are you?

The point of believing in God requires faith. If you have no faith then there is no point on arguing with you because you will never believe anyway.
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I can't prove the existence of God,still then I'm a strong believer of Him.Have you seen air !No...But you can feel the presence of air.Just like that the presence of God can be felt only.
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Well, if you believe in God and He does not exist, your fate will be the same as everyone else. If you do not believe in God and later on find out that he does exist, you could be in trouble!..

There is one moral absolute everyone agrees upon: one may never violate one's conscience. yet where does conscience come from? If from something less than me (nature).. how can I be obligated by something less than me? If directly from me (as an individual).. how can I obligate myself absolutely? Am I absolute? Can I not just let myself off? If from others equal to me (society).. Do others have the right to impose their own values on me? The only source left is something superior to me which binds my will and demands obedience - God.

Things come into being and out of being; these things do not have to be because there was a time when they were not; if absolutely nothing has to be, then there would be nothing, because if all things BEGAN to exist, then there would be a time when there was nothing; but nothing comes from nothing, therefore nothing would exist. something must have always existed and necessarily has to exist - this is God

If something exists, there must exist what it takes for that thing to exist. The universe, a collection of beings in space and time, exists. Therefore, what it takes for the universe to exist must exist, and it must exist outside of space and time. this is God

The material world is in the process of change; nothing can give itself what it does not have; results of change cannot exist before a change, what is the cause of change? God.

According to Thomas Aquinas, some things cause other things to be; if everything is caused by everything else one would go on ad infinitum (but this is illogical since things have a beginning). There has to be an uncaused cause; this cause is God.

Our limited minds can uncover eternal truths about being. Truth properly resides in a mind, but the human mind is not eternal. Hence there must exist eternal mind in which these truths reside - God

A miracle is an event whose only adequate explanation is the extraordinary and direct intervention of God. There are numerous well attested miracles. Therefore, God exists, because miracles cannot exist without Him. Do you belief in Miracles? .. well, that can be another thread. still doubting? do you need more proofs about the existence of God?.. I hope at this point you all belief that God exist.. if you are an Atheist can you proof that God does not exist?.. let's see..
Who wrote the bible? human! who once said that god exist? also human... Wait...if god exist, why such a so perfect spirit created a sooo imperfect race as us?? Remember, it was said that we are as is image...why is there is so much hate, so much war for stupidity like religion??? And why your god should be better that other religion? ahhh! because you felt inside that your right? let me explain you something... that's the goal of religion MAKE YOU FELL FINE WHATEVER IN WHAT SHIT YOU ARE. Faith, it makes a weak person become so strong and that is a great thing!! but religion also bring so much shit in your mind...God cant help you, only you and your power of mind can do it. Don't be blinded by all those fools who wrote the bible to make you believe in thing that are so false... Believe in yourself only you control your life. No heaven no hell no god no satan...only good and bad choice you can make...and lol its not god who tell you what is good or not...its YOUR mind that tells you, no one other than you! We human don't need no GOD. We only need to be smart enough to know what are and how makes the good choice....don't believe in god, believe in you.
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that last comment sounded like a bitter person ranting

Anyways, does it take faith to believe God exists? Of course. I would like to point out something that should be obvious. You need faith to believe anything. As I am typing this message I am drinking coffee. Now, I believe that coffee is there and the mug that it is in is also there. I can feel it, taste it, see it, and smell it. However, I have faith that my senses are accurately telling me this to be true. Yet, since any test requires my senses (or someone else ability to sense it) I am unable to come up with a test that does not rely on my senses to authenticate what my senses are telling me. I am left with faith. Most people who do not believe in God seem to think the empirical evidence is the only way to find truth. Since this is idea is a truth claim, I would like to ask these people where is the empirical evidence that this is true. Most people do not understand that the scientific method is a logical fallacy. (it is basically the fallacy of affirming the consequent en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent) They just have faith that this method will produce something that is true. You cannot "know" anything with out faith.
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I wonder why its always "can you prove that god does not exist?" and not the other way around.
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I wonder why its always "can you prove that god does not exist?" and not the other way around.
Seriously ? You are seriously asking that question ? Exactly what Earth are you living on ? I hear more people asking to prove gods existence than anything. Wake up man.
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My bad, i ment to say the opposite of what i said meaning people never prove how god exists. If i read all of my posts you would know that was a mistake and not what i really ment.
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My bad, i ment to say the opposite of what i said meaning people never prove how god exists. If i read all of my posts you would know that was a mistake and not what i really ment.
*If you read all of my posts*
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