Can God's Existence Be Absolutely Proven?

I took this from SwordandSpirit.com, a great Chrisitanity study site. Use this information whenever you find yourself in one of those "conversations" or maybe just for your own personal review.

What I want is absolute proof for the existence of God. Why can't any Christian give that to me?

Absolute proof requires complete knowledge of something. Philosophers would say, for example, that since we cannot know everything about the chairs we sit on, there remains a basis for doubt - however slight - about their actuality. So, sorry! We humans, confined as we are to the 4 dimensions of time and space, cannot possess absolute proof of anything. There's always that inherent limitation.

However! There is ample practical proof of the existence of chairs. That is, there is so much evidence to support the belief that they are there, that, by faith in those evidences, we sit. So what we are more realistically seeking in life's great mysteries is practical proof, not the forever-elusive absolute proof.

As to the existence of God. evidence from 1) discoveries about the origin and design of the universe, 2) the origin of life itself, and 3) the fulfillment of biblical prophecy, all show us that for these to have happened by accident or "coincidence" are much less than 1050. (1050 is one followed by fifty zeroes, odds a lot worse than your local lottery and a long-shot by anyone's standards!) I bring those odds up because they are considered "miraculous" even among scientists.

Though not absolute proof, this is more than enough practical proof that the universe, life, and the words of the Bible have not come together on their own but by the intervention of God.