What is the strongest argument for the existence of God?

[Brightstar777]

What is the strongest argument for the existence of God?​

 

[Otterly]

The world exists.

 

[Santa Klaus]

Specifically God, not any other deity?

 

[Soup Sammiches]

I don't want to live in a world where there is no God, I've seen what humans are capable of.

That's MY argument that takes me through the day.

 

[Grog]

There is no argument for or against the existence of any god, that is the nature of religion. There will probably always be aspects of existence that human knowledge can't explain and that can be used as a justification for believing in a deity.

 

[Brightstar777]

There is no argument for or against the existence of any god, that is the nature of religion. There will probably always be aspects of existence that human knowledge can't explain and that can be used as a justification for believing in a deity.

Worthless babbling

 

[Karen of Human Resources]

The fact that, being a very bad person, they have sent @Brightstar777 to harangue me and anyone else who doesn't agree with him.

 

[Brightstar777]

The fact that, being a very bad person, they have sent @Brightstar777 to harangue me and anyone else who doesn't agree with him.

That might be true

 

[The Blue Morpho]

Most people's go to's are:
The Kalam cosmological argument
or
Thomas Aquinas' five ways

 

[I hate women (like you)]

I do not believe brightstar threads would be possible in a godless world driven by random movements of atoms and shit.

 

[Male Idiot]

None as it is not real. Just like the Tooth Fairy.

It is so over fairy bros.

 

[Spud]

The birds, bees, trees, animals that sneed and Women.

 

[Meriasek]

Everything came from something. The totality of existence must have come from something bigger than itself, lest it entirely came from itself in a cyclical fashion. But this cycle would perceptionally have to have started somewhere, too, unless you can argue that the cyclical universe simply does not have a definable starting point.
Thus it stands to reason that there is something larger than this universe that started it.

Of course, the same argument can be made about God ("who created God"), requiring the definition of an arbitrary absolute to end the argument ("Nothing created God as God is the absolute supreme").

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

There is no argument for or against the existence of any god, that is the nature of religion.

Pretty much this, atheism requires as much faith as any religion does.

For instance, if we are to believe everything originated from the Big Bang, then what existed prior to that? Something caused the bang, and something had to exist to bang. But supposedly there was nothing, but then there was something, and then that something continues to expand outwardly? But it's expanding into what? Well it's expanding into the furthest reaches of nothing, apparently.

I dunno dog, you're asking me to take a lot on faith there lol

 

[Str8Bustah]

The fact that, being a very bad person, they have sent @Brightstar777 to harangue me and anyone else who doesn't agree with him.

God's not possible of being bad or doing evil. If you feel as though @Brightstar777 has been sent to harass you, that's because our Lord and Saviour thinks you're in need of a good humbling.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

If there was no God, who would punish all those 4yos with cancer, and those African kids with famine and pestilence?

We need another crusade, the Earth needs to drink.

 

[Preacher ✝]

Jesus Christ is real and we have empirical evidence of miracles.

 

[Grog]

Pretty much this, atheism requires as much faith as any religion does.

For instance, if we are to believe everything originated from the Big Bang, then what existed prior to that? Something caused the bang, and something had to exist to bang. But supposedly there was nothing, but then there was something, and then that something continues to expand outwardly? But it's expanding into what? Well it's expanding into the furthest reaches of nothing, apparently.

I dunno dog, you're asking me to take a lot on faith there lol

What was there before? We don't know, and I don't need to believe in there being something or nothing. You're making a fallacious argument that lack of knowledge must always be filled with a belief. Atheism doesn't require faith, theism does.

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

What was there before? We don't know, and I don't need to believe in there being something or nothing. You're making a fallacious argument that lack of knowledge must always be filled with a belief. Atheism doesn't require faith, theism does.

You're describing agnosticism, not atheism. Atheism absolutely requires faith since there is no direct evidence to support there either being or not being a creator. Agnosticism just acknowledges the unknowable, which this is in fact unknowable.

There is just as much evidence to support the fact there is a god, as there is evidence to support that there isn't a god. Which is to say there is no evidence in either direction, so either position requires faith due to the lack of direct evidence.

 

[Dialtone]

The fact that you're here arguing against God proves he's not only real, but benevolent, because I would have smote this dumbass pseudophilosophical thread down along with OP.