I'm interested to hear from all the theists on here who believe in a personal God or a creator God, what are your favourite arguments for theism? Excluding your personal experience, are there any intellectual/philosophical etc. ideas or ideas from your scriptures that confirm God's existence for you? Not looking for miracles etc.
How about mystical experiences? Essentially 100% of individuals who have near-death experiences (NDE) come back acknowledging some kind of eternal being or higher reality, and the accounts are astonishingly consistent. Granted, this is not God in the conventional dogmatic sense. It's God in an
extremely personal sense.
One qualifier here. By "near-death experience", I'm referring to something very specific. It does not refer to a "close call" or "near miss". This would be grandma who has a cardiac arrest for 10 minutes, and then has a vivid experience of leaving her body, traveling through a tunnel and entering a timeless dimension where a supreme eternal being graces them with love and compassion that is total. A hallmark of the experiences is receiving what's become known as a life review, where all the interpersonal events of their life are re-experienced, often from the perspectives of the individuals whose lives they've touched (for better or worse). It's a rapidly expanding area of research, as medical science is literally bringing people back from the dead.
What's particularly worthy of note is that these people often describe their NDEs as being
more vivid and
more real than this life. That is to say that the sensory experience is much fuller and clearer.
