How do you know God is Real?

Posted on May 16, 2008 by sheyduck

A young woman asked me “How do you know God is real?” earlier this week. She was on her way one direction, I on my own in another.

How would you answer this question?

I’ll post mine later today or first thing in the morning.

Filed under: Youth Ministry, ministry, personal

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2 Responses to “How do you know God is Real?”

  1. sheyduck, on May 17th, 2008 at 5:05 pm Said:

    I thought about her question, “How do you know God is real?” for quite a while that afternoon. The main thing I wondered was what provoking her question. Was she doubting God? Was she curious about my thought processes? Was she reacting to having been placing in residential care by questioning God’s reality?

    We talked later; she showed up early for our Wednesday evening gathering. I asked what she meant by the question. She said that she had been active in church, and was, in fact, in confirmation classes before abruptly moving here.

    She further explained that she wasn’t so much doubting God’s existence or goodness; it was more that things of God seemed a bit distant. She wondered.

    I shared that many of us understand confirmation as being for, among other things, offering young people an opportunity to claim the faith for themselves that had been that of their parents.

    She said we would talk more Sunday. We will. I’ll share here.

  2. Kim, on May 18th, 2008 at 1:51 pm Said:

    There are many ways I could approach this question: the intellectual, which would pull in arguments by people like Josh McDowell (and many others); the experiential, which would document all the times I’ve experienced otherwise-unexplainable interventions in my life; the emotional, which would explain all of the times I “felt” the presence of God in my life …

    The Reality of God is so fundamental to my reality that the only true thing I can say is that a world permeated by the Presence of God is the only way I can possibly understand existence. And not just a Divine Presence, but the Divine revealed in Scripture. WIthout that Reality, my reality falls apart.

    I know that I know that I know. Who was it that wrote “The Idea of the Holy”? Can’t remember at the moment. Talks about the Holy transcending explanation. That’s it.

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