On Proving the Existence of God

             Should people need to prove God exists? If you ask this question, you also must ask what kind of proof would be sufficient and to whom it should be proven. When you talk about proof, you are talking about establishing some degree of certainty about the existence of God. That is where faith comes in. Faith is the assurance, confirmation, and the title deed of the things we hope for. It is the proof of things we do not see, the conviction of their reality, and it perceives as real fact what is not revealed to the senses (Hebrews 11). It takes greater faith to believe that an unseen God exists than it does to just dismiss Him because you cannot physically confirm that He is there. No-one can ever prove that God exists by scientific methods. Religion and faith in God are based on individual beliefs. This is where the problem seems to lie, because most people fail to look inside themselves for God. Instead, they are so busy looking to their surroundings and other people to prove God exist.
             Romans 1:20-23 clearly outlines what the real problem is, and that is man's rebellion and refusal to accept the evidence of nature or creation by God. "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities - his eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles." Science likes to dispel this idea by stating that religious explanations for the order of things are not real science because they are based primarily on faith and do not subject themselves to be objectively falsified, whereas science constantly tries to prove its ...

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