How do you know there is God?
In order for anyone reading this piece, to answer this question, there are some basic parameters that must be observed: firstly, you can not answer, based on the Bible, or use the Bible as your reference source. Secondly, you can not cite experiences based on dreams or visions. Thirdly, you can not cite actions of the God that are not reproduceable at your will or instigation. And lastly, you can not cite incidents or events that cannot be corroborated by one or more independent witnesses.
Using the above parameters, it is safe to say that 99% per cent of humans alive today in the month of October 2020, do not know that there is God, or if God exists. Bearing in mind these follow up questions. Have you met God? When you met Him [If your answer is yes], who was there to bear corroborating witness? What is the identity of God or who is God? Where is His residence?
The Bible is similar to a newsreel, a time-stamped document on or about God. The reason for not using it in this exercise is that users tend to take bits and pieces of it and disregard certain parts. An example of this practice is observable in many religious denominations where their leaders are referred to, as father in the Lord, a conscious disobedience and disregard of the commandment in Mathew 23:9.
Dreams and visions are solitary sensory experiences. When a person is dreaming or having a vision, there is no independent witness or witnesses to that experience, and the experience is particular or specific to the individual. This could be ascribed to psychotic or hallucinatory experiences, therefore unreliable.
Experiences by an individual of God or acts of God, that are not reproduceable at the instigation of the individual, are also not scientifically admissible. If an individual claims to be able to call on God to perform an act of God, such as wake up the dead, then the individual should be able to go to any mortuary of any hospital, and make his ‘God’ wake up all the dead there, at the individual’s will.
When an individual recount an instance of meeting God in real life, whether hearing God’s voice or seeing God standing or sitting before you, there must be at least two or more independent or corroborating witnesses. If this criteria is not met, such evidence or experience is not admissible.
On the basis of all the above, most of us do not KNOW whether there is a God, and therefore can not bear witness or are not reliable witness in any court or before men of ‘sound mind’ or before a jury of our peers. However, this does not stop some of us from believing that there is a God, just as I believe that there is a man called Donald Trump who is as of today October 2020, the president of USA, even though I have never met him in person, I have read, watched and listened to him through newsreel. The crucial question is: Do I have faith in Donald Trump? And Do I have faith in God? In order to answer this question, we see that the object [Donal Trump, God] in the statement or question, is the instigator or author of my faith. The One who gives me, shapes and perfect my faith in him or it. While I am the subject in the statement or question. Is the instigator or author, truthful?, does he or it have integrity? Is he or it dependable or reliable? Who or what is he or it? Where does he or it resides?
In marketing management principles, in order for you to effectively sell a product or service, you must know and believe in the product or service. In order for you to bear witness for the Son of Man, you must know and believe in Him, most important of all, have faith [which originates from Him] in Him. The writer of this piece, submit a closing statement consisting of two Scripture texts that highlights and differentiates between believe and faith; with regards to believe, James 2:18-19; But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.” Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder. Pertaining to faith is the text from Hebrews 12:2; looking unto Jesus, the [instigator]author and [perfecter]finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Do you know God? Are you a reliable and effective witness of or for the Son of Man?
