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Belief in God is a matter of faith. I believe in God because I believe in God. Can I prove it, I say I can in my spirit I know He exists. I see Him in the things He created. I just have the faith that He is!

It takes faith the not believe in Him. You have to believe that things are the way they are because they are the way they are!

An excellent website on the subject is Evidence of God in Science.
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Belief in God is a matter of faith. I believe in God because I believe in God. Can I prove it, I say I can in my spirit I know He exists. I see Him in the things He created. I just have the faith that He is!

It takes faith the not believe in Him. You have to believe that things are the way they are because they are the way they are!

An excellent website on the subject is Evidence of God in Science.
Exactly. That's exactly nobody will convince anybody else that God exists if they are truly against it. You gotta have faith (not that I do, I'm just saying).
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Hello All,
Belief in God is a matter of faith. I believe in God because I believe in God. Can I prove it, I say I can in my spirit I know He exists. I see Him in the things He created. I just have the faith that He is!

It takes faith the not believe in Him. You have to believe that things are the way they are because they are the way they are!

An excellent website on the subject is Evidence of God in Science.
YES! Thank you.

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You gotta have faith (not that I do, I'm just saying).
Ah ha! I submit that you must have faith that He does not exist????
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You could put it that way, yes.

And I accidently clicked edit instead of quote, so that's why it says I edited your post.
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I have Faith in science and logic.
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I have Faith in science and logic.
(Buzzer noise)! Incorrect. You have yet to believe in some sort of God's existence--which is necessary exclusively through logic. Therefore you probably don't have too much faith in logic.
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"Faith" just what is faith?

"firm belief in something for which there is no proof" (Merriam-Webster Online)

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Hebrews 11:1 KJV

I personally do not believe you can have faith in science, because science tries to "prove" the reality of things. If there is proof then it no longer is faith it is reality.

God could prove His reality as He did in Old Testament days, but then it would no longer be faith that keeps us serving Him it would be reality.

Jesus could give us signs and proof of His divinity, but then again it would no longer be faith but reality that would cause us to believe.

Some may say that faith is just a weak persons way of belief in something to comfort them. As Obama said when times get tough we turn to God and guns. I submit we all live by faith. We plan for tomorrow because we have faith to believe there will be a tomorrow or that we will have a tomorrow. We educate ourselves to prepare for the future because we have faith to believe that we, if we educate ourselves we can have a properous future. There are hundreds of examples of faith in everyday life thar we take for granted. If you pop the top on a beer and take the first sip you have faith to believe that you will get a sip of beer not water. So it is not such a far strecth to say that I have faith that God exist and that Jesus Christ died for our sins and was resurrected to give us eternal life and that He is coming back to take us to live in a glorious place. When He does then it will not longer be faith it will be reality.

You have to have faith to believe in logic.

"interrelation or sequence of facts or events when seen as inevitable or predictable"

Gotta go daughter in accident.

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Daughter is fine, she was hit from behind while sitting at a stop light by a motorcycle. She and the rider a both fine.

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"Faith" just what is faith?

"firm belief in something for which there is no proof" (Merriam-Webster Online)

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Hebrews 11:1 KJV

I personally do not believe you can have faith in science, because science tries to "prove" the reality of things. If there is proof then it no longer is faith it is reality.

God could prove His reality as He did in Old Testament days, but then it would no longer be faith that keeps us serving Him it would be reality.

Jesus could give us signs and proof of His divinity, but then again it would no longer be faith but reality that would cause us to believe.

Some may say that faith is just a weak persons way of belief in something to comfort them. As Obama said when times get tough we turn to God and guns. I submit we all live by faith. We plan for tomorrow because we have faith to believe there will be a tomorrow or that we will have a tomorrow. We educate ourselves to prepare for the future because we have faith to believe that we, if we educate ourselves we can have a properous future. There are hundreds of examples of faith in everyday life thar we take for granted. If you pop the top on a beer and take the first sip you have faith to believe that you will get a sip of beer not water. So it is not such a far strecth to say that I have faith that God exist and that Jesus Christ died for our sins and was resurrected to give us eternal life and that He is coming back to take us to live in a glorious place. When He does then it will not longer be faith it will be reality.

You have to have faith to believe in logic.

"interrelation or sequence of facts or events when seen as inevitable or predictable"

Gotta go daughter in accident.

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It was a somewhat sarcastic comment . I don't have much faith in things that science cannot validate. There could be a god, gods, mental energy, spiritual force, etc but until science proves one way or the other I'm not particularly concerned with it. I'm glad you're daughter is okay!

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