“Do you believe, and how do you know God is out there?”

Yes, I believe in GOD.

How do I know GOD is out there?
1)
All life and things I see around me are the product of conscious design and building/creation OR reproduction from one or two conscious living things. Thus to me, it seems there must have been a conscious starter/creator of the universe.

2)
In the past, scientists believed in a steady state universe – i.e the universe just always was – no beginning or end. This was not compatible with the creation story since in that story, there was a point at which the creator said “Let there be….”
Now, by calculating back from the current position of bodies in the expanding universe, scientists believe that everything in the universe started from one point. As you can see, this is compatible with the idea of God’s conscious creation of the universe.
“Let there be…”
The start is now called “THE BIG BANG.”

Thus, if life and the universe is finite, and everything comes from a conscious creator, the initial creator must be infinite.
Think about it, if the “first” creator was finite, then it wasn’t the first, there was one before it to create it, and so on and so on backwards, if the creator is finite.
Thus it is impossible to be first creator and finite at the same time.
I may be wrong, but I think the initial creator must be then infinite.

Thus, logically I can start to understand a conscious, infinite creator which I believe in as GOD.
I don’t know so much about GOD, but I am trying to learn more about GOD.

As Ninja said, blessing to all of you today –

In life, it seems virtually all our problems with others originate from one person’s expectations of how another should act.
I see that virtually all atheists are so at least in part because they have some particular expectations of how GOD should act. When those expectations are not met, they choose not to believe. It is very interesting.

Please, Kristin123, I just want to beg you not to put your own human expectations on GOD who we barely know and who we do not, and maybe cannot, understand. It just doesn’t seem wise.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by manbuddha.