Why Can't Skeptics Accept The Fact That God Lives?

@Graylight
I've never seen it but that doesn't mean it's not there. The only answer I could give is that I believe the possibility that the monster exists.

@GodSpeed63 Okay, fair enough. I too, like to believe just because I haven't seen something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

So let's take a look at these Nessie groupies. They possess some controversial material suggesting there's a monster in the lake. This, and their understanding of the world around them, will propel them toward investigation to find the truth. Nothing wrong with that. But they have problems and to get to the truth, they need to address them. We know footage previously thought to be evidence is either explainable or falsified; there's no large food source in the loch to sustain multiple creatures of that size; it's a regularly traveled throughway for ships, military campaigns and exercises and settlements. That's a lot of potential witnesses. And then there's the fact the loch was never connected to any oceans. The lochs are formed by glacial movement and melt, and Loch Ness wouldn't connect to another channel until the 19th century.

Does all that mean the monster doesn't exist? Nope, and it may. But right now, there's no good evidence for such a claim. So is it with proving God. Belief, hope, hunches and education all inform someone's decision, but if that conclusion is as of yet unproven, then it's incumbent on that person to prove it or keep it in the arena of faith. In science, it's very hard to prove a negative.

Does Nessie exist? Does the God of your description exist? I don't know, you don't know, the evidence isn't pointing to it at the moment, but which stories are the nicer to believe? The point is, there is no certainty in this area. To assume such is folly.

@Graylight
Back up a bit. I know that my Redeemer lives and evidence of His work is all around us. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it's not there. God's Spirit lives within me just like He can with you, if you'd let Him. Jesus said that we must be born again in order to see the Kingdom of God. You've had a physical birth, now you need a Spiritual birth. This is what I mean by becoming born again. Okay?

@GodSpeed63 Nope. The rules on one court are the rules on every other court. If you can't prove a mythical creature without hard evidence, then you can't prove God without hard evidence.

@Graylight
There's only one God, Yahweh, who lives forever and His Word is Truth. The hard evidence you claim that you can't see is still there and is immovable. You claim you don't believe that God lives, do you think that your unbelief in Him alters the fact that He does live? What God says about Himself is what I share on here.

@GodSpeed63 Hard evidence" can be repeated. Vetted. It's documentable and observable. These are not goals, these are the rules of the Scientific Method of study and exploration. We don't convict people because we got a really strong feeling; we don't pull cars off the road because one drive thinks he heard a noise; we don't legislate and discuss the non-tangible, non-provable within academic circles.

If evolution is "just a theory" as many of you claim and isn't able to produce sufficient evidence for its belief, then the same applies to your concept of God. Just a theory, and not even a scientific one. I'm not saying a God doesn't exists. I'm not suggesting there's no intelligent design at work. The point is, I don't know. You don't know. Einstein and Hawking didn't know.

You have faith. Treasure it as unshakable faith. Don't diminish it by holding it up to standards it was never meant to meet.

@Graylight
You got that right. The hard evidence keeps pointing to God as do science itself. The scientific methods keep proving this time and time again. The only reason you can't see His handiwork is because you're blind to it and not because it's not there.

@GodSpeed63
And therein, your argument collapses on itself.

@Graylight
How's that?

@GodSpeed63 It's a contradiction. A failed paradox. You cannot state something has been proven again and again and then state the evidence can't see seen.