Does God exist? - A place for God in our world

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Generally we are fairly sceptical about most things nowadays. We often ignore "faith" issues and are only willing to believe in tangible things that we have personal experience of. Hearsay is no longer enough for most. If we can touch it, smell it, see it, taste it or hear it, then we are happy to agree that it exists. But what of the things and people we have no physical contact with? How do we know they, he, she, it, exists? For example, it is less easy to prove that God exists than say a computer monitor, isn't it?

So, how can you prove that God exists? Some people say that you can see evidence of an intelligent life form in the natural world. They feel that someone must have made or even caused the first thing to exist, someone must have caused the first light, the first wind, the first light, the first breath. Was there in fact a 'Being' behind all of this? Something who was superior to the natural world, who lived over and above it?

I believe God exists because it seems to make sense to me. My personal experience too has led me to believe in God. Have you had any experiences like that?

Me? Well I believe that 21% of the Bible is literally true, 47% of it should be taken in context, 8% is valuable, 21% we can learn from and 2&, well...

Can you think of things people have told you that you feel are true but that you have no personal experience of?

It may be difficult to accept the existence of a spiritual realm because we are too fixated on the physical world. Perhaps we simply have no personal experience of things spiritual?

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Vivien

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Vivien also asked does God exist? She is a single Mum aged 30, and is from Coventry.
"Up until the age of 23 I had no faith background at all. None. I came to the Catholic faith seven years ago and am what’s called a "convert".

The turning point came one night when I called out to God for the first time in my life.

Read more of Vivien's story

Pause for thought - an image of a desert landscape sitting under a rocky mountain

Have you ever felt God in something you've experienced? Take a moment to think about it.


	"I think that God's works are so beautiful that I am amazed that people can admire them, but deny that they have a Maker". Commissioner Catherine Bramwell-Booth. My Faith, Pan Book of Religious Quotations, page 18.

In the natural world then, can we find evidence of an intelligent creator? So much seems to be in harmony in nature, it's so inter-related and in balance. Just look at how connected everything is!

What about how the planet provides us with all the food and medicines we need? Jack Frost ice patterns look like woodland ferns, for example.

Do you think the world was born out of chaos or that it must have been created deliberately, creatively, with thought?

Does this collaboration within nature prove the existence of God or not?

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