But I'm still curious. Can any theist here try proving the existence of God?
In order to answer that big question Philosophy professor Peter Kreeft proposed 5 questions that we must first answer with regards to this question of existence of God.
-First, is the question whether something exists or not. Can a thing exist whether we know it or not.
-Second is the question of whether we “know” it exists. In order to answer this affirmatively is to presuppose that first question is also answered affirmatively. Although a thing can exist without our knowing it, we cannot know it exists unless it exists.
-Third, is the question of whether we have a reason for our knowledge.
-Fourth, is the question whether these reasons amount to proof. In most cases reasons are not proof, but are probabilities.
-Fifth is the question if there is proof, is the proof a scientific proof or a philosophical proof which is just as valid.
Based on the 5 question we can answer in the affirmative to first four but not on the fifth. Simply put God exists, we can know that He exists, we have reasons and those reasons amount to proof, but not scientific proof. Proving something that exists doesn’t always has to be scientific proof…..There are many arguments that favor the existence of God. Like arguments from cause and effect, from history, from conscience or man’s unending search for reason and purpose, from existence of moral values and my favorite arguments from existence of design!
It’s impossible to disprove that God is real……because we have yet to see or know of anyone who has proven that God doesn’t exist! In addition there is absolutely no way to know that He “doesn’t exist”. Thus the opposite is also true…….if God does exists, then it must therefore be possible to prove it or to know it.
Aside from all those arguments for the existence of God that I’ve mentioned there is another way to know that God exists and is real!
And that is by having a real, living, personal relationship with Him! Mutual existence is a prerequisite for a relationship. To put it in another manner; we know our parents exists or existed, we have a personal relationship with them and therefore we know they exists! So I wouldn’t have to prove or disprove their existence…we implicitly know they exist because of our relationship.
So given the two options whether God exists or not, it’s ultimately a person’s personal choice…..it’s that thing called Free Will and faith (or lack of it) that determines his fate.
