Right, you cannot prove God exists beyond a shadow of a doubt or with “smoking gun” evidence. The metaphysical cannot be proven by the physical: God isn’t audible, visible, nor tangible and you cannot put Him into a test tube or under laboratory experiments. You cannot measure a pound of love nor a foot of justice either, yet you believe in them. But many things are undetectable, yet we believe in them because of their effects; like not seeing the wind but seeing what it can do or believing in the sun because you can see everything else. It’s that way with God; He opens our eyes; we see what God does! He changes lives for one thing.
But that doesn’t mean there isn’t evidence, such as scientific, historic, and experiential, legal, even philosophical—both subjective and objective. You cannot disprove God’s existence either: no one can prove a universal negative—ask a logician. You have the choice to make a decision based on faith according to the evidence you are willing to accept, according to your bias; i.e., confirmation bias says we only accept what we tend to agree with as true.
Note that all knowledge is contingent and based on faith. Everyone accepts something that cannot be proven to base their faith on, even if it’s science, one puts all his faith in the scientific method without any reference to God, the supernatural, or the metaphysical in the equation. But the point of God is that He challenges you to test Him and take the leap of faith and you will find out: “Taste and see that the LORD is good.” Thus, both sides of the equation involve “people of faith.”
Faith is the gift of God (cf. Eph. 2:8) which He gives us, while Jesus said that anyone willing to do God’s will can also know for sure (cf. John 7:17). Just because we cannot prove God to someone else we have properly basic belief, like knowing anything that cannot be proven; thus we can “believe through grace,” (cf. Acts 18:27).
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