RE: What would convince you that a god exists?
May 9, 2013 at 4:14 am
(This post was last modified: May 9, 2013 at 4:15 am by paulpablo.)
It wouldn't take much for me to believe, I'm quite open minded.
Things for me that would point to the existence of the christian or muslim god existing would be some of the following things.
1. Evidence of gods word being spread divinely as opposed to the word of god being spread by mans conquests throughout the world, for example if the first pioneers had found a quran or bible in America or Australia or Papa New Guinea or in the absence of a book if they even followed to same type of rules as muslims or christians or had the same religious signs.
2. In the same sort of theme as the first point I'd also expect there to be less variation in religions, and for there to be less cultural divides among religions. If god has revealed himself to the world and the revelation is so obvious and evident then why are most people indoctrinated into religion by the nearest authority figure within that culture for example parents or charity givers or colonial rulers.
3. Again in the same theme as the last 2 points in the theme of cultures I would consider the concept of god to be more likely to be real if there weren't so many gods that no one believes in.
The fact is any maniac, layman and average joe can invent an imaginary friend in the form of a god, and every culture has. Some mexicans even have a god of drug smuggling, the aztecs had a god that needed human sacrifice, the romans, greeks and vikings had many gods.
It would be more believable if humans didn't seem to have the natural tendency to make up imaginary friends when they don't know what's going on, don't understand something traumatic or just want good luck with something.
4. Angels visiting every decade upon the entire earth telling people not to forget to keep up the muslim or christian faith. You may ask how would you know these aren't aliens, you wouldn't know but you would know someone very powerful wants you to be a muslim or christian so its highly likely there may be something to following a religion.
5. I would expect there to be less vague clutching at straws types of proof of god that exists. Also less outright cons. For example evangelists conning people for money, muslims asking for money for prayers, muslims on websites saying things like "the quran mentions metal and sound, this is god predicting radar technology so he must exist" or "the quran says we are made from water in parts, a lot of us is water, this is a miracle".
Things for me that would point to the existence of the christian or muslim god existing would be some of the following things.
1. Evidence of gods word being spread divinely as opposed to the word of god being spread by mans conquests throughout the world, for example if the first pioneers had found a quran or bible in America or Australia or Papa New Guinea or in the absence of a book if they even followed to same type of rules as muslims or christians or had the same religious signs.
2. In the same sort of theme as the first point I'd also expect there to be less variation in religions, and for there to be less cultural divides among religions. If god has revealed himself to the world and the revelation is so obvious and evident then why are most people indoctrinated into religion by the nearest authority figure within that culture for example parents or charity givers or colonial rulers.
3. Again in the same theme as the last 2 points in the theme of cultures I would consider the concept of god to be more likely to be real if there weren't so many gods that no one believes in.
The fact is any maniac, layman and average joe can invent an imaginary friend in the form of a god, and every culture has. Some mexicans even have a god of drug smuggling, the aztecs had a god that needed human sacrifice, the romans, greeks and vikings had many gods.
It would be more believable if humans didn't seem to have the natural tendency to make up imaginary friends when they don't know what's going on, don't understand something traumatic or just want good luck with something.
4. Angels visiting every decade upon the entire earth telling people not to forget to keep up the muslim or christian faith. You may ask how would you know these aren't aliens, you wouldn't know but you would know someone very powerful wants you to be a muslim or christian so its highly likely there may be something to following a religion.
5. I would expect there to be less vague clutching at straws types of proof of god that exists. Also less outright cons. For example evangelists conning people for money, muslims asking for money for prayers, muslims on websites saying things like "the quran mentions metal and sound, this is god predicting radar technology so he must exist" or "the quran says we are made from water in parts, a lot of us is water, this is a miracle".
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