Justification In Belief

             Does Ones Belief Require Evidence For Others?
             No one individual, or group of individuals for that matter, can provide a visual stimulation or a physically felt piece of evidence to give grounds for the claim of God's existence. Many occurrences or sights can be "interpreted" to be the work of the Lord but in the definition alone lays the word "individual" and therefore cannot be considered proof for everyone. The understanding that everyone will not concur on an individual's experience as evidence sets up the boundaries for disagreement between societies so that each can be compared to the other for their own conditions.
             In the Scientific realms of life the case has little question. Is there measurable evidence that such a being exists? Many say there is and use the "unexplainable" occurrences as the evidence for support. The Scientific Method however, depends upon something being "known" to begin with and without the actual evidence of God existing cannot support the case. In the pursuit of science, many things hold contrary evidence to the existence of God have come to pass. The evolution of animals, the carbon dating of the earth and cosmological happenings all provide discredit for a "Supreme Being's" existence to a point and lend no support to it thus no revelation is provided on reason.
             Search for support of God's existence throwing logical reasoning out the window is still a somewhat confusing topic. Regardless of reason from whence does the instruction of God come? A possibility may come in somewhat of an Authoritarianism point of view. Consider that an individual is raised in the Bible Belt of America in a family of 6. Every day of his life had some sort of instruction on the "ways of the Lord" and the basic routine of a Sunday never varied. Another individual was raised in Israel where every day of life is a fight for his bel
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