I was approached by one of the students in this class this summer with the question, "How do we know there is a God?" So I thought that would be a good way to start off this class since I haven't seen some of you in a couple of years. How would you help answer the question, "How do we know there's a God?" Discussion .
Spiritual Awareness/Awareness of God.
Let's start by asking this question: Why are humans aware of God? .
When you look at every culture throughout history, what is their one common denominator? All of them searched for a higher being (and we still do). If there is no such thing as God, if God is a big mistake, then the idea should never have existed; at least it should have been eliminated by evolution long ago. There is no rational explanation for this; but there is a rational explanation if there is a God. According to "God," we are all aware of Him because He made humans in His image and likeness by giving us a spiritual nature. With this spirit came our awareness of many things, one of which is our awareness of a higher authority, which in turn causes us to seek Him. .
In addition to our awareness of a higher being, our spirit also gives us our awareness of good and bad, of our mortality (foreknowledge of death), and of perfection (which has no meaning for humans since no human can ever achieve perfection). Another gift of the spirit we have is our "free will," which allows us to accept to reject this higher authority (God), but the lack of awareness of God is out of the question. .
Mortality.
Let's discuss some of those other things I mentioned, like mortality. Why are we aware of our own mortality (that we are going to die someday)? Discussion. .
Does knowing we are going to die somehow better enable us to avoid death? No animal needs this knowledge to sharpen their survival instincts. Even for humans, if someone breaks into our house, doesn't our adrenaline kick in causing us to either get the heck out of there or protect ourselves? In fact the knowledge that we will die someday is more a negative than a positive.
The Son, Jesus is God incarnation. God to Christians is also infinite. ... God is omniscient. ... Also if God knows everything then He must know what will happen in the future and if this is the case then He is powerless to change it. ... If this is the case then why is He unseen and will He reveal Himself, and can people actually believe in something they cant see? ...
During this period, he wrote many short stories such as God Sees the Truth, but Waits. ... Having a first look to the title God sees the Truth, But waits arouses the question why God waits as long as He sees the truth? ... After they are gone, he recalls what has been said and even his wife now suspects him He thinks that only God knows the truth and He is the only one who he should appeal and ask mercy from. ... He only prays for God. ... But now he is a well grounded and God-fearing man, he has dedicated his life to God and lives the life of saints, and well-liked by the prison authorities...
However, in most cases, God had gone back on his word. ... God did in fact go back on his original statements in many cases, however it was not because he regretted what he said in the first place or was unsure of his original decision. He did the opposite of what he announced because he forgave those who sinned and in other cases he took it upon himself to show his people how merciful he truly was. ... As demonstrated in many cases throughout the Book of Genesis, God is not unsure of himself or regretful. Rather, God is an all-powerful and merciful God who believes and entrusts himself in fo...
In these cases one is even unable to question whether god exists or not. ... These all together give us a cumulative case. This is a lot of evidence brought together to build up a case. ... This cumulative case would be able to support our claims and bring the argument closer to the side of god does exist. ... These we believe to be caused by God. ...
What is God like in the Bible from the creation to the fall? ... Perhaps God's second experiment, Eve, let God down when she ate the apple. ... God's experiment in this case was Adam and Eve. ... God was disappointed in Eve and in man. ... Maybe this was God's motive. ...
Even though all of this was happening they never lost their faith in their God, Jehovah. ... We only insist on teaching the word of Jehovah God to people. The Jehovah Witnesses made a good-faith effort to state their case, but there were some consequences. ... It said: "There is a direct conflict between your law and God's law. ... Refrain from further persecuting Jehovah's witnesses : otherwise God will destroy you and your national party. ...
Proof of God as a first cause, proof of God through conscience, and proof of a God through religious people of history are the three best to use. ... Therefore, God does exist. ... Lets say in this case the person is religious and has been praying to God and continues to pray for God. ... God is the first cause. ... God is infallible and perfect. ...
One traditional Christian view of survival of death runs, in outline form, something like this: On some future day all the dead will be bodily raised, both the righteous and the unrighteous alike, to be judged by God ; and the guarantee and model of the general resurrection (i.e., the raising of the dead in the last days) is the already accomplished resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.My aim in this paper is to explain and defend this basic view of resurrection. ... e God miraculously saves us; apart from God's intervention death would mean annihilation for us. ... If, then, neithe...
The rebels searching for their own religious identity preached and proclaimed the idea that everyone could experience God personally. ... Any argument on ethics or morality always seemed to come back to its religious foundation; for example, the cases of Charles Finney social reforms or Abraham Lincoln's personal conflict during the Civil War. ... The new interpretivist wave cues further separation concerning whether you accept the Word of God literally or not. ... After multiple law suits against the school board, the case finally reached the U.S. ... When Graham converts President Eise...
