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If God exists, God: wants all humans to believe God exists before they die; can bring about a situation in which all humans believe God exists before they die; does not want anything that would conflict with and be at least as important as its desire for all humans to believe God exists before they die; and
God has revealed himself to us in the Bible as having always existed. [6] Ray Comfort, author and evangelist, writes: No person or thing created God. He created "time," and because we dwell in the dimension of time, reason demands that all things have a beginning and an end. God, however, dwells outside of the dimension of time.
The wise decision is to wager that God exists, since "If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing", meaning one can gain eternal life if God exists, but if not, one will be no worse off in death than if one had not believed. On the other hand, if you bet against God, win or lose, you either gain nothing or lose everything.
OpEd: What impact might we have if we actually began to quietly demonstrate God’s unconditional, self-sacrificing love—full-time?
God exists in the understanding. If God exists in the understanding, we could imagine Him to be greater by existing in reality. Therefore, God must exist." A more elaborate version was given by Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716); this is the version that Gödel studied and attempted to clarify with his ontological argument.
Irreligiosity is often under-reported in American surveys; many more express lack of faith in God or have alternative views on God (e.g. deism), than those who self-identify as atheists, agnostics and the like. [33] In 2012, 23% of religious affiliates did not consider themselves to be "religious", though this is subjective.
The African American Review notes the important role Christian revivalism in the black church played in the Civil Rights Movement. [78] Martin Luther King Jr., an ordained Baptist minister, was a leader of the American civil rights movement and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a Christian Civil Rights organization. [79]
The argument from religious experience is an argument for the existence of God. It holds that the best explanation for religious experiences is that they constitute genuine experience or perception of a divine reality. Various reasons have been offered for and against accepting this contention.