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I didn't prove God exists -
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.10718395 - to offend a bunch of atheists. I did it for two major reasons:
1. The thread title seems to ask the question;
2. So that anybody who sees it will have hope that he can be saved from death.
God is extremely patient with us. Why shouldn't He be? He knows that we only last less than a hundred years. He has all the time in the universe and beyond. Nothing that we do affects Him in the least except that He allows it to.
Much of the anger that God has against people, has frustration as its base. God is attempting to save people. He went to the trouble of sending His Son to die on the cross, so that people could be forgiven for their mistakes. And people don't even want to admit that He exists. Sounds frustrating to me.
Well, people will get what they ask for. God doesn't want them to have it. But they simply won't turn and acknowledge Him. Rather, they attempt to mock Him. Oh, well.
While all of the points mentioned can in fact be good arguments to the existence of a creator of sorts, it does not lend any credence to the existence of a christian god. It certainly does not pertain to the bible in any way. The 'proof' that is mentioned could also be transported to defend the existence of the flying spaghetti monster or any other entity you wish to put in it's place.
Religion has been the cause of so much suffering throughout our recorded history. If we could all agree that fighting amongst ourselves isn't the answer then maybe we could make some real progress in this world. People don't seem to acknowledge the fact that all major religions are saying basically the same thing.
I tend to believe that while we are in fact descendants of the great apes, our DNA was in fact 'edited' to create what we know today as homo sapiens. The reasons for this are unclear, but speculations on this predate the bible by thousands of years.
When it comes down to it, we are beings of energy that inhabit a physical body. The law of conservation of energy, the first law of thermodynamics and the theory of special relativity can all be used to strengthen the argument that what we consider to be 'the self' is not a corporeal entity. Take that as you will, but it doesn't support (or deny) the existence of a creator. We cannot prove or disprove that we aren't all trapped in the Matrix.