Why do you think God exists?

A question I've always wanted to ask, how does God know you truly believe in the little checklist of what it takes to go to Heaven? Christians specifically seem to believe you Jesus is the son of god and then you get to go to heaven. But if you are just believing so that you don't hope to burn for eternity does that really count?

I am comfortable with the idea that if there is a God we can't begin to understand their motivations or actions. Similar to the idea that an ant can't fathom what the humans think and act like, how could we understand a God?

Maybe that's a dumb take but always interesting to hear takes on it.
 
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My gut. Also, we have mathematical proof that logic cannot describe logic, so in a sense you could argue that means the metaphysical exists
 
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it depends on what you mean by "God" do I believe in the standard Christian version of God or any of that? not particularly, no.

do I think there might be some greater force that set up the system we live in? I think it's likely, everything is just a lil too finely crafted for my liking. of course it could just be a monkey with a typewriter situation, but still. things exist that serve no natural point except spectacle. for example, you could argue the water system with condenstation and rain and all that is just monkey with a typewriter situation, but things like solar eclipses? the fact our sun is just the right size and just the right distance it can be eclipsed by our moon, which is also just the right size and right distance?

it serves no purpose other than visual spectacle. very odd that would happen how it did by pure chance.
 
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Bar anything else, I have seen WAAAAAAAAYYYYYY too many "coincidences" in my life and those of others to discount forces beyond reality at work.
Christianity specifically is the only religion that manages to ground the supernatural, without claiming to explain the entire mystery.
 
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Because there’s a sort of cosmic order to things that is too intricate, too specific. The entire concept of an evolution, over billions of years, is so staggering, it’s beyond humanity to comprehend time on that scale. Something spun this into motion.

This is a farm. Something farms this world.
You’ll never make me call it “god”, but is there a farmer?Almost certainly. And we are it’s harvest.
 
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Things like this and all of the different life forms with something similar and the synergy we all share with each other. Plus I travel on land often and have seen parts of Earth that make a believer.

If you don't believe you gain nothing and if you do believe you gain everything.
 
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Several things really.
Consciousness. Cannot be explained by any mechanism of reductive science.
The setup of the universe is too precise.
The presence of absolute evil - sounds odd perhaps but seeing the utter evil in the world has convinced me that evil is a thing in and of itself, not simply ‘an action done.’ If that’s true then there must also be absolute good. Which means there’s a God.
Embryos - ever spent a week looking down a microscope at embryo development? Doing so will reignite your belief in miracles. Self - assembling LIFE ffs. From cellular mush to structures that function and have their own personality. Mind blowing.
Can we truly know God? No I don’t think so. But Jesus was human for a while, and we can know Him.
 
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