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In order for us to have free will in deciding what is good or bad according to Gods word, there has to be a leap of faith. So if a proof of God's existence was found , there would be no need for faith etc. This is true of both the physical & metaphysical worlds, as God made everything, I think he would be more than able to cover his tracks!
So my personal view is that God exists and shows us his presence in the message & the effects if we choose to follow it.
I agree with that.
Faith in God comes from personal experience, not science. However there is tones of scientific evidence that proves many stories from the bible, like the story about the flood.
There is a great 30 minute documentary that searches for evidence to prove the flood story. You can search for it on youtube under the title "flood geology - part 1". you should easily be able to find part 2 as well.
If you like this one I can give you names of other good Christian documentaries like the one I mentioned.
Some examples The bible is scientifically accurate:
Job 26:7 - earth suspended on nothing
Ecclesiastes 1:7 -the streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place from which the streams flow, there they return so as to flow again
Isaiah 40:22 -circle of the earth
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We can relate this to the air we breath. We scientifically know that we breath in oxygen in order to live correct? But is oxygen something we can see with our eyes? We have proof that shows that God exist through the many creations we see. The Bible shows that all creation comes from God himself. Gen 1:1 even says that "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Another example is the wind. We can't see the wind but we do see leaves blowing and trees moving. So although we can't physically see God we can have faith in him just off of the wonderful creations he has made for mankind.
No rational man can imagine a manufacture without a manufacturer, if we look at anything in life that is formed after it wasn’t there; we realize that it must be invented by a scientist and made by a worker or an engineer, or how can we imagine a building without a builder?
Can we imagine any tool or machine like a car or a plane or a cell phone or a television or even a pen without a maker made it or an inventor invented it?
And the same with everything we use at our homes or our societies or our laboratories or our hospitals or our wars and so on, it’s an endless list, no one ever can count.
This marvelous universe with all its galaxies, orbits, stars, air, water, people, animals, birds, insects, fish, plants and all other creatures, can a wise man attribute all this just to coincidence? What is a coincidence? And how can a coincidence invent and innovate thing?
These organized continuous creatures is the biggest evidence that there is a creator created this universe and formed its creatures and pictured them, He is God, Glory to Him, who created all things from nothing, and He has no equivalent and nothing is like Him, He is not mixed with anything, He is as He described Himself in the Koran:
“There is nothing whatever like unto Him, and He is the One that hears and sees (all things)” Surat Ashoura, Verse 11.
You, yourself, are proof that God exists. Look at how wonderfully made your physical body is. Zero in on your marvelous brain for a moment. Simply put, Scientists are still trying to figure out the complexity of our human brain, and the workings of this magnificent "universe" within our head.
It seems that the more scientists learn about our brain and our human body, the more questions they have about life and it's beginning.
The Bible gives us a beautiful, poetic-like, dignified, simple explanation, as well as a description and picture of how life is brought about within a mother's body.
Psalms 139:13-16 says:
(vs 13) "For You produced my kidneys, You kept me screened off in my mother's womb.
(vs 14) I praise You because in an awe-inspiring way I am wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful, I know this very well.
(vs 15) My bones were not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven in the depths of the earth.
(vs 16) Your eyes even saw me as an embryo. All its parts were written in your book regarding the days when they were formed, before any of them existed."
Please read Romans 1:20. This beautiful verse in the Bible helps us to discern that Jehovah God's existence is proved by His creative works, those that are visible and invisible, animate and inanimate. God's creative works prove His "eternal power and Godship". In your spare time please read the first 2 chapters of the Bible book of Genesis. These two chapters explain in simple words and simple sentences, how life and the universe came about.