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Is God Exist Or Not?

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At the age of four, Colton Burpo, during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He survives and begins talking about being able to look down and see the doctor operating and his dad praying in the waiting room. The family did not know what to believe but soon the evidence was clear. Colton said he met his miscarried sister, whom no one had told him about, and his grandfather who died thirty years before Colton was born, then shared impossible-to-know details about each. He describes the horse that only Jesus could ride, about how “reaaally big” God and his chair are, and the Holy Spirit “shoots down power” from heaven to help us. So, does God exist? Throughout my life I have heard different opinions as to …show more content…

Knowledge is based on demonstrable facts, verifiable evidence. It 's not just an opinion or a person 's wishful thinking. The bible says that we must accept by faith the fact that God exists “And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him. (Hebrews 11:6) If God so desired, He could simply appear and prove to the whole world that He exists. If he did that, there would be no need for faith. The fact that God is knowable is evidenced by the very gift of the Bible as God’s revelation of Himself to man. 1 John 5:20 says “And we know that the son of God has come, and has given us understanding in order that we might know Him who is true, and we are in Him, in His son Jesus Christ. This the true God and eternal life. God exists because we speak to Him every day. We do not hear him audibly hear him speaking to us, but we sense His presence, we feel His leading, we know His love, we desire His grace. God has so miraculously saved us and changed our lives that we cannot help but acknowledge and praise His existence. There is many reasons why atheist seem to not believe in God. One reason would be because faith is unreliable. A common characteristic of both theism and religion in their reliance on faith: belief in the existence of God and in the truth of religious doctrines of neither founded upon nor defended by logic, reason, evidence, or

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