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I want to start off by saying that I don't have a better safe than sorry attitude towards God. I just believe. I act on that belief.
Moses, who wrote the first 5 books in the Old Testament, wrote about the promise that God made to Abraham. How his descendants were to be a great nation. Moses died before that nation came about. So he wrote about somethings that were beyond his knowledge, and beyond his time.

When Daniel prophesied about the rise of the kingdoms that would become world powers and rule, it took over 600 years for the events to unfold as he described them. But the events happened just as he said they would. It's been proven that the books of prophecy had been written before the events took place. Not to mention all the tortellinis of Jesus coming and the things that would happen to Him in His lifetime.

Then there's the nature of God Himself. If there were no God, that would mean that He had been fabricated. Not even real. And that would mean that someone dreams Him up from the imagination of a mortal. But if you look at all the gods and goddesses that we know to be made up, consider their nature. Gods of all the peoples of the time had a beginning, as well as most having an ending. Stories have been recorded about people that had done great deeds and gained deity. Or how gods were born when certain events happened. And every culture in the world that had these different gods practiced polytheism. There was not another nation worshiping just one single god.

And every religion that existed at that time, has come to an end. Yet there was this one nation, the Jews, that had one God, who did not have a beginning or an end. And who was fundamentally different than any god that had been created.
That lets me know that all of the things we can grasp from the corners of our imagination are finite. They have beginnings and endings. There are explainations and reasonings. God shows no hint of being made up by mankind, and there are no stories of how He came to be, or why He has power.

And science has shown us my last point. That life can not be created from lifelesness. Life can not just spring forward from where there was no life before.
Yet, if there is no God, than that's exactly what life did.

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