To explain knowledge of God

[Mister Agenda]

For the ones who know me I'm not back, I left with something left unanswered and thought I would answer.
Many asked me how I could possibly have knowledge of God's existence and the answer is the NT teaches this, Christians can know and have knowledge of God. You guys want to throw out that all we can have is faith and the NT just doesn't teach that. Our faith is in the hope that God will do those things He has promised to do for Christians, this is what our faith is about and the NT teaches this very thing. So in short those who are Christians will have the knowledge God exists and will have faith that He will continue to keep His promises as he did in the past. I trust that He is not a liar and so far His record holds true. Read the NT and find these simple facts, they are there if you have the courage to look and are as open minded as you claim, which I have my doubts about the open mindedness.

GC

Welcome, Godschild. I am in favor of you making additional appearances, if you can find the time.

Being convinced that something is true and knowing it are not the same thing. For your belief that God is real to be knowledge instead of faith, it would have to be based on arguments and evidence that are convincing to people capable of intelligently evaluating the arguments and evidence and who also don't have a bias in favor of believing it. It's not like you're getting replies that amount to: I can find no fault with that argument, but I refuse to believe anyway. There's always a problem with the argument. That all the arguments in favor of God have serious problems tells me that there just aren't any pro-God arguments that aren't seriously flawed: if there was even one, there would be no need to even mention the others.

Now, it could be reasonable to believe a direct revelation you've received...or if not reasonable, unavoidable in that it compels belief. If there is a God, it is welcome to compel my belief, should it want to avoid giving me something I can actually use to convince others. If there is a God, I do want to know it, or at least be convinced of it. But I don't want to be convinced of God if there isn't one.