Originally posted by howardgee
This is a sincere question for everybody out there who believes that God exists.
It is a thought experiment for you, so give it a good shot and please admit it if you cannot think of anything at all, as this is all a part of the exercise.
The question for you to try to answer is this:
"What evidence would be sufficient to persuade you that God does not exist?"
Irrefutable evidence.
Way back in my early 20's, before I knew God, I developed a mental exercise I would go through each night as I fell asleep. You see, I was determined to know whether or not there was a God, so I began to think.
I thought, here I am in this material universe, in space. There are three things there. Matter, the space that matter exists in, and God.
In my mind I would systematically erase or subtract each thing.
First I would imagine everything gone except the space and God. Then I would imagine that the space that all things were in is gone.
But no matter how hard I tried I could not conceive of what would remain if I imagined no God.
It seemed to me that it is impossible for there to be absolutely nothing.
Now you could say that all there is is space and matter and that these two could exist without there being a God, and if that were the case then try to imagine a realm were space and matter did not exist.
I don't think it can be done. Nor do I think that such a realm can be.
So, where did everything come from. The only answer is that everything was made.