Evidence for the existence of God

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Phendrana said:

chriscox1121 said:
Have you all forgotten what the Bible prophesied that the hearts of many would wax cold in the last days. Knowledge will be a big contributor to many peoples hearts waxing cold. Alot of people's God on this website is their "intelligence", which is deceiving them and they don't even realize it. We live in a world where the Devil is the prince of it. The Bible calls him the "Deceiver" Revelations refers to him as " the one who decieved the nations" Alot of you are following in your Father's footsteps (the devil). Why was he kicked out of heaven, because he rebelled against the authority of God and wanted to put His throne above God's. " I will ascend above the most high" And you here today are reflecting the same actions by putting yourself above God. Belittling Christians because you are "above our thinking". Because God is "beneath you", and it's only for the ignorant and unlearned and weak minded. But, he said in His Word the he uses the foolish things to confound the wise and the weak to overcome the strong. He his a revealer of secrets. No amount of this world's wisdom and understanding can obtain it. But it's only through the power of His spirit. For it is written "eye has not seen nor ear has heard nor has it entered into the heart of man, unless it be revealed by the spirit of God." (true wisdom and understanding) Paul said if you want to be wise, become a fool for Christ. Please seek him while it's still day, because night cometheth when no man shall be able to work.

In Him

So intelligence and knowledge are negative things? I'm not looking down on anyone for their beliefs, but when religion starts telling me to take blind faith over critical thinking, I have a problem. If I were trying to sell you a dog, but I said it was invisible and impossible to detect it in any known way, would you buy it? That's what organized religions seem like to people who don't follow them. It's hard to convey why you don't believe in something someone else does without sounding arrogant. I'm sorry if any of this sounds like belittling to you. It's not meant to. 

Unfortunately, this is where most of the misunderstanding comes from.  The difference in faith and blind assumption. 

The Christian God does not demand that a potential convert take a blind leap into assumption.  What He does want is that the person submit themselves to Him via the revelation they already have of Him. Christian theology does dictate that, in some form, all people have a knowledge of God which they cannot deny  (an example of which would be the universal moral law, which is supported in Christian theology.  I'll give an exegesis of it if wanted). Herein lies God's problem with above-mentioned empiricism ( secular evolution-science, effectively (to distinguish from just science in general, which doesn't contradict Him)).  To rely on one's senses, one's own understanding, is to rebel against the inherent knowledge of Him, is to think that you could somehow trust yourself more than He.  Therefore, when God accuses us of a lack of faith, he is not condemning those who do not assume His existence, but those who do no trust him. 

By the way, the scienctific method, by itself, can't actually prove anything.  Need I mention The Matrix?  Taking our senses as truth is just as assumptuous as the situation presented in the above post.  Not that I'm saying science, from  a Christian perspective, is useless, as it can be used to help others remove their other objections.