From yellowrose10
How do you proof a belief (regardless of the belief)?

Example: I am Christian. I can't prove my belief to others. Posting scriptures won't help. If someone doesn't believe in the Christian God, why would they believe scriptures?

On the reverse: can an Atheist prove there is no God?

Your thoughts...

My thoughts:
I don't see any reason I need to prove my beliefs to anyone?
Why would I, they're MY beliefs?

One thing that is worthy of proving is reality.
Proving reality alleviates ignorance.
Ignorance is a barrier to enlightenment and enlightenment leads to understanding. Understanding builds knowledge.

Knowledge allows us to act today to make tomorrow better.
While belief can sometimes make tomorrow seem better it only works if reality doesn't get in the way.

I can 'believe' a woman really likes me or even loves me.
I can be happy in that belief every single day until reality shows me she doesn't.
She may have no idea who I am, yet I believe she is an important part of my life.
When reality enlightens my ignorance, I am devastated.
Knowledge trumps belief everytime.
If I base my contentment and inner peace on belief, I am basing it on a delusion, not reality.

Reality is all the things that exist and the absence of things that does not exist. To 'know' something does not exist, one must know absolutely everything that does and find absence of proof in all reality.
Since nobody knows everything about everything everywhere and everywhen, God may or may not exist and that unknown is not proof either way.

How do you proof a belief (regardless of the belief)?

Example: I am Christian. I can't prove my belief to others. Posting scriptures won't help. If someone doesn't believe in the Christian God, why would they believe scriptures?

On the reverse: can an Atheist prove there is no God?

Your thoughts...

When I was a kid, and if I remember properly I think the whole idea was that there was no proof. So therefore it’s up to you to have faith, or believe in God. At the hour of your death you will be rewarded for your belief or faith with a place in heaven.

Good question though. I wonder what would happen if God was to show himself to us. So that without any shadow of a doubt we would know there was a god. Maybe one day he/she will.

My belief in God does show me It exists. Every moment, everywhere I look.

Yes, I think similar to this myself. I actually don’t need him or her or it to show proof, I think there’s proof all around.
I was thinking what would non believers think, and where would it leave science.

Yes, I think similar to this myself. I actually don’t need him or her or it to show proof, I think there’s proof all around.
I was thinking what would non believers think, and where would it leave science.

I totally agree. My beliefs are mine. I enjoy learning different things but I don't need to defend my beliefs

...to the ignorant, unknown technology could be considered God like powers....

Or as Arthur C Clarke said: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

My belief in God does show me It exists. Every moment, everywhere I look.

It's lack of God in our everyday lives that has made the world what it is now.

personal events within someone's life is how you find proof/prove God.

outside of nature, the sculpture of this planet from water, sun, heat, time, how we are in a position from the sun where life can be sustained, how [gravity-force-electromagnetics] from our moon and surrounding planets including stars keep the earth at the right distance from the sun [SOL] [reveals this is not an accident].

how beyond our planet and solar systems we find like patterns of other galaxies throughout this vast universe explains an accident would be impossible to replicate galaxy after galaxy in similar like fashion [EXAMPLE : smash a rock or marble, do it 10,000 times with different rocks and marbles. not a single time will get perfect spheres] WHICH LEADS TO [singularity as energy annihilating in the BANG supposedly became spherical planets and galaxies] BUT YET [rocks and marbles are also energy and should be able to replicate the BANG] SINCE THIS PROCESS DOES NOT REPLICATE [makes the BANG a myth].

when you break everything down to the simplest formation, you begin to rule out the idea of an accident. this leaves the only thing left, the GOD factor.

but as a mathematician, i see the flaws within science and how they skew their theories. and typically, they fail at explaining when they try proving it with quantum mechanics. BUT, SOMEONE WOULD NEED TO UNDERSTAND QUANTUM MECHANICS TO UNDERSTAND SCIENCE IS FULL OF ****!!

If people be live God is eternal, how come the universe can't be eternal as well? Where was God before it created the universe?