A fair enough point, but it brings us back to the original question then - is there any sort of evidence that would successfully validate the existence of God?
um, original question is 'how can you prove a belief.
God does not necessarily have to be involved in this discussion.
(but I understand this really cant be discussed without bringing God into it.. but it is possible)
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its funny how ppl will justify their answer to suit their belief, IOW if they believe God does not exist, they will reinterpret the question to line up with that belief.(it goes without saying that most theists do this all the time, with the atheist its not as obvious)
its a simple question, 'how do you prove a belief?"
I argue you can't, you can prove knowledge, if someone told you 1+1=3 of course this is not a belief, this is knowledge. it is provable.
if you can't prove it, it is a belief, until such time as there is proof one way or the other, science start this way, someone says 'I believe if I combine X with Y it will make Z" then someone says 'prove it' and the scientist proceeds to test the belief of X+y=Z by conducting tests, when the tests confirm that X+Y=Z then it becomes knowledge (after the scrutiny phase, and others confirm and verify the results.) without proof, it remains a belief.
sure if they tested x+y=z and they found that x+y does not equal z, that does not mean that the scientist is completely wrong, maybe he didn't consider certain factors, maybe it is X2+y=Z, this point being just because the scientist finds x+y does not equal Z only means x+y does not equal z..this argument is for those that claim "the bible is wrong therefore God does not exist" another logical fallicy as one does not follow to the other..its more accurate to claim "the bible is wrong, therefore we cannot use the bible as the goto source for info', at this point I will express my 'belief' that the bible is not a rule book, it is designed to be questioned, to have just enough misinterpretation potential to get ppl to think for themselves, unfortunately we do have ppl in our society who would abandon reason in favor of getting ppl to believe as they do.