How can we know there is a God?

by defd 47 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  onacruse

  It's all in the emphasis of a particular word:

  How can we know there is a God?

  How can we know there is a God?

  How can we know there is a God?

  The last is the most important: personal experience. However, it's also the most unprovable. How can one human, even the most prominent of the Biblical prophets, or even Jesus Christ himself, prove that he had an interaction with God? If he can't prove it, then the experience, though valid in its own right, remains strictly a personal one, and provides no basis as proof to another human being.

  defd, are you asserting that you have had such a personal experience with God?

  If not, then you are simply spouting the assertions of others.

  If so, then please explain that experience, in terms that the rest of us mere mortals (no offense intended) can apprehend.
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  defd

  Onacruse

  I have in this thread. I look at creation, and it screams to me, DESIGN! It appeals to my reason.
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  Big Dog

  There is a difference between believing and knowing.
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  ButtLight

  What if the bible hadnt been written?
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  defd

  But it has been. If not Jehovah would have done something else. He wants us to be informed.
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  Big Dog

  That's cool if you believe it, just lots of people believe something different than you do.
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  ButtLight

  Actually, I have to agree that God created everything. It would have taken someone very intellegent to create such wonders!
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  defd

  Big dog that is cool too. I cant FORCE people to believe. I can just present my ARGUMENT for why I do.
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  onacruse

  defd:

  I have in this thread. I look at creation, and it screams to me, DESIGN! It appeals to my reason.

  That's not an answer.

  Has God said one word to you, in your entire lifetime? One word, just one simple word, clearly enunciated, even a simple Hello?

  btw, in case you don't already know this, I do believe in a Designer/ Prime Cause, because it also appeals to my reason. But I don't delude myself, or attempt to delude others, to imagine that this constitutes proof of anything; it's just appealing, rather like the taste of a crisp apple or a ray of sunshine dancing off the leaves of the trees in fall.

  At least, those things I have experienced.

  Maybe God got tired after all that talking with Moses?
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  defd

  onacruse

  My understanding God speaks to us THROUGH his son Jesus and in turn he speaks to us through the pages of the bible. That is all we get. I hope and just maybe God will make an exception for you.