If you can't see God, how do you know that He is real?

[klear]

I'm a Christian, but I would like to know how you guys would answer this question to nonbelievers.

Any Bible verses good to use along with what you have to say?

"If you can't see God, how do you know He exists?"

 

[Rafael]

Romans 1:19 ¶ For the truth about God is known to them instinctively. God has put this knowledge in their hearts.
20 From the time the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky and all that God made. They can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse whatsoever for not knowing God.
21 Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. The result was that their minds became dark and confused.
22 Claiming to be wise, they became utter fools instead.

Everything we see, experience, and feel comes as a gift of life from God. He speaks volumes to us everyday, yet do we listen to what life says as the greatest language ever? Does life speak of beauty and intelligent design marred by sin and death by mankinds actions? Yes, and the Bible goes into detail about how much God loved His creation in man and gave His own life manifested in the flesh of a man in Jesus so that we could have back the eternal life we once started out towards having.

 

[Emmy]

klear, we can only say what we feel and see all around us, God is there for all to see, where does the wind come from? where each day? the same as all other days? morning, noon and night? The seasons, always in the same order? the moon and stars, so beautiful and orderly? Where do we come from? who made us so complicated, yet beautiful and capable and alive? We can see, we can wonder, HOW? Then we open our eyes, we realise that all is wonderfully organised, and directed. It cannot be the result of any big bang and chaos, surly not. Then we meet others like us, anmd we KNOW, there is a Creator, there is a God, and we feel that we are important and loved, we just KNOW. I say this humbly and lovingly, klear, and send greetings. Emmy, sister in Christ.

 

[Davis]

I use the wind statement as well.
You can't see it nor can you tell where it comes from. But you can see its effects on its surroundings.

 

[Merlin]

It's like air.
You can't see it, but there is such a thing.

 

[~Beauty_from_Pain~]

One thing I would just like to say is: You can't see the wind...how do you know that it exists? The answer is because you can't live without air and because you see the effects of the wind.

Same thing with God. We can't live without Him and we see the effects of God in our world.

 

[calidog]

or electricity?

 

[BelindaP]

My answer is that I've had too many things happen in my life and the lives of those I love that make it clear to me that there is a God. If they inquire further, I share some of those things.

 

[prez]

Gen-Rev.

 

[Rafael]

Another verse I like is Hebrews 11:3 where it tells us that all things we see are made of the unseen. So why the surprise that God exists in the unseen as well as the seen through Jesus?? The invention of the microscope and electron microscopes helped us know this verse as true, as the Bible also told us that the earth was round in the Old Testament... God knew these things long before we did have knowledge of them.
I suppose it takes a bit less faith to understand that all we see is made of the unseen and we are just reflections of light - God's light.

Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the entire universe was formed at God’s command, that what we now see did not come from anything that can be seen

Isa 40:22 It is God who sits above the circle of the earth. The people below must seem to him like grasshoppers! He is the one who spreads out the heavens like a curtain and makes his tent from them.

 

[Uphill Battle]

Because human existance makes absolutely positively no sense without God.

 

[InnocentOdion]

You can feel his presence, the Holy Spirit.

You can see, hear, touch, taste, smell, and just in general feel his creation.

Try sitting outside and looking at a flower in detail. God exists and made all of that. He's an artist.

 

[gratis]

Because too many things have happened in my life, that can only point to God. Coincidence just doesn't explain, because it is logically impossible!

 

[GregoryTurner]

I once used the earth. I was teaching a youth class and someone asked the very same question. He knew the wind thing and I asked him, "How do you know the earth is round?" He said because people have seen it from space. I said have YOU ever seen it? No. Well, until you yourself have actually seen the earth and know with your own eyes that it is round, you just have to believe it from the astronauts experiences.

He asked about the pictures. I said, well anyone can make a picture look very real. I am an airbrush artist and have seen people take things from their imagination and make things look very real when in fact they are not.

Just humble thoughts to a very thought provoking question.

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[The Virginian]

I'm a Christian, but I would like to know how you guys would answer this question to nonbelievers.

Any Bible verses good to use along with what you have to say?

"If you can't see God, how do you know He exists?"

You can't see air, but you know you need it to live. You can't see carbon-monoxide but you know it's potentially lethal to breathe. So not being able to see the latter of the two, how do you know....

 

[malckiah]

Hello friend, take a moment and look outside during the day.... as you look out you can see the bright sunlight shining across the trees and land.... but how do you know that the sun is out? If while you are in your house you cant see the sun itself? Well, you know that the sun is out because you can see the effects of it... right,
well the same is true for our Lord.... you may not be able to see The Lord with your physical eyes but you can see Him through the changes and miracles that He works in your life! You can feel His presence with you also. These are things that come after someone truly gives there heart to Jesus. He will open your spiritual eyes to see him clearly! Remember how The Lord kept telling the saducees that they who say they see have become blind and yet they didnt lose their physical eyesight, he was speaking of their spiritual eyes. I see Jesus because i see all of His wonders throughout my days. God Bless You! amen.