Athiests Only: What would suffice as proof of God? (Earth, beliefs)

[Big_TJ]

Originally Posted by Comprehend

After reading everybody's responses in Katzpurs thread. I thought this would be a natural follow up.

1. So how about it, what would suffice as proof of God?

2. Would any of the bilbical miracles convince you if you witnessed them?

I think it a better thing to do is to ask question # 1 to the christians. I know that they act on faith instead of proof, but they also believe Christ will retun. So, you can ask " what would suffice you as proof that God has returned (whenever he does)?

[Malkav's Knight]

For me, I would need God to come down here and take me on a time warp and show me the beginning and the end off all things and explain him or herself in full on every issue I have with him/her. Then I would need some displays of power. You know, God would have to pull a Bruce Almighty on me to get me to believe.

[little_monkey]

Originally Posted by little_monkey

1. Showing up, for instance, at the UN, in front of cameras for the eyes of the world to see.

2. Chris Angels does a better job than Jesus.

Originally Posted by Big_TJ

That still would not help. . . even the Christians would reject that "proof".

Not if he zaps them into ants, let them crawl for an hour or two, and then zap them again into their former selves.

If he is God, showing up at the UN would mean he would really show he is what he is.

[ax0547]

Yaeh - personally I think God and science go hand in hand. That faith is dependent on knowledge, otherwise it's blind faith(or not faith at all). Miracles are no proof of god- but they do happen. Certainly I am very sceintfic person, and due to my spiritual path definitions of god there's no problem in scinece vs. god. On the other hand, I do know that there is god(no doubt), but there is one thing that even I cannot comprehend - I was actually able to see things in a small marble stone- probably some sceintific reasoning behind this for sure - but how was I able to see things that happened in past and I wasn't even there. To this day I get mind bogled - and why not future? hmm.all that I know is that I have experienced this and I do not lie!

I personally do not beleive in miracles -they are just something not yet sceintifically explained. I even talk to my parents that miracles are not needed in order to proove god- but few other thing that i have not expereineced but have no answer for - http://pakistaniat.com/2007/01/29/pa...al-guru-nanak/
sPECIFICALLY SIKHS ARE NOT TO TAKE MIRCALES AS PROOF OF GOD!
For us the name of God is "Truth" which can be found(slowly realized) through knowledge and spiritual wisdom

any sceintific explanation welcomed!

[Lincoln_the_Athiest]

To be honest, if a being came in front of me. Said I am god and I floated in the sky, I would be going to the hospital to see how i was drugged.

[Women_Of_Reason]

It depends of what God you are talking about... If you are talking about Zeus then if I see a guy with a white beard riding a cloud and firing lightning out of a staff I'd be really impressed!

So what God are you talking about?

And if you are talking about the biblical God... What biblical God are you talking about? The one that created the universe 6,000 years ago or the one that created it 13,700,000,000 years ago?

[darkendless]

Christian God - Come out come out wherever you are. If say he came out to 100 people and i was one of them and we all saw the same thing, then i'd believe.

[Doodlebug02]

Originally Posted by Comprehend

After reading everybody's responses in Katzpurs thread. I thought this would be a natural follow up.

1. So how about it, what would suffice as proof of God?

2. Would any of the bilbical miracles convince you if you witnessed them?

As others have said, the only thing that would convince me of the existence of God would happen after I was already dead. And no, none of the biblical miracles would convince me either if I witnessed them because as someone else said, they're all smoke and mirrors.

[Caladan]

Originally Posted by Comprehend

After reading everybody's responses in Katzpurs thread. I thought this would be a natural follow up.

1. So how about it, what would suffice as proof of God?

2. Would any of the bilbical miracles convince you if you witnessed them?

I think proof of God is irrelevant, I believe the whole concept of needing to believe and have proof in the fantastic is a flawed human bi-product of our primitive past. we should be seeking knowledge and experience, not fantastic dogmas.
our sub conscious contains many mysterious dimensions, we shouldn't be quick to paint it with the supernatural, we should learn it and express it instead. things that are unexplained to us at this point should not be attributed to gods.
there is so much we don't know, that it seems like a mistake to paint it with personal religious beliefs.

[Kodanshi]

I would like to see a person with all 4 limbs amputated having a lot of religious people pray for him/her, and to see that person’s limbs grow back live as they prayed.

It would certainly qualify as a miracle for me.