Has anyone ever asked you to prove God to them? Prove God exists? If you are a Christian and other people know, you have probably been presented with this question. If you haven't been asked, chances are you will be asked eventually. I was asked just tonight.
So, please tell me, how do/would you respond? I really want to hear your ideas. PLEASE COMMENT!
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The problem isn't that you can't prove God exists. The problem is you can't prove I exist!
JP Moreland gives an excellent example of the intractable "problem of other minds." One of those places is in one chapter of Lee Strobel's The Case for the Creator.
Problem of other minds
Ah... the rabbit hole.
I get it but is that really how you would respond to such a question?
A person who asks you to 'prove God' is really trying to shut you up. They are not asking an honest question. They are not hoping to actually consider what you have to say... they are trying to keep you quiet. They already know that God exists. They are trying hard to ignore the nagging, haunting feeling inside. They are tired of running from Him... so they throw around statements like this. "Show me and I'll believe!" The problem is... even if one were to come back from the dead, they would still argue and fight. They don't want to really know. They want to pretend their feeble answers somehow reassure them... but they don't. In the dark of night, when all the world is sleeping, they toss and turn. Don't answer their question, tell them the gospel in all its beauty and simplicity. His word never comes back void.
Rest in the truth.
~SW
I think that I would would go straight to Jesus:
- Fact: Jesus is a real historical person
- Fact: Jesus said and did things:
- Forgave sins, spoke new laws, etc - Things ONLY God is allowed to do.
- Healed bind, lame, lepers; raised the dead.
- This is history, not mythology.
- Fact: Jesus was crucified on a real Roman cross on the charge of blasphemy (claiming to be God)
- Fact: The body was missing from the grave. No one has proposed a viable, natural explanation for that.
- Fact: 500+ people claimed to see him risen from the dead, many of them died because they would not retract that testimony and all of them died without retracting it.
You can't just wish that away. There must be an explanation.
Interestingly enough, if you've shared that with them, you've shared the Gospel with them.
You have a lot of argument that have been used to prove God's existence.
1. Moral Law/ Moral Law Giver (everyone has a sense of wrong and right).
2. Ontological Argument
3. Cosmological Arguement, etc.
But what I am starting to learn toward now is presupposition apologetics. saying that we both do NOT stand on neutral ground but that each of us have a presupposition into the argument. It's really getting to the nitty and grit of their worldview and what it's truly based on. How could he even make a statement that God doesn't exist without having some type of presupposition in which he make that belief and statement in. Cornelius Van Til is the one who came up with Presupposition Apologetics check it out.
I say - just look around you. The earth, the universe, the human body. God created all of it. You can not prove God to someone. So much of a relationship with Christ is FAITH. The bible is not just a story. I feel sorry for the ones that doubt, and don't have that faith to keep them strong.
AMEN .....DIANE SAID IT ALL....
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