re: What good reason is there to believe in God?

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This is the absolute truth. The sense of peace and euphoria and “rightness” you feel when you earnestly accept Christ and call out to him is indescribable.

It’s a lot like drugs. You can explain the feelings from them all you want but experiencing them is a whole different thing.

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When you finally give up and accept that you are not going to be a captain of industry, you ain't going to pen the great American novel and you ain't going to play Carnegie Hall you are likely to arrive at a place of deep satisfaction given that you are no longer thrashing against reality. This is exactly the feeling of contentment that arrives with having real faith....you simply accept that you have faith and that is all you need. It does not stem from some outside source...it is internal to your heart and mind. You have released your personal doubts and anxiety...it is liberating no doubt....it has nothing to do with anything outside of your deep and unquestioning faith....it is a very admirable quality and one that should not be dismissed with notions of outside forces....it is the human mind accepting its limitations with the simple of idea of hope....hope that there is more, and that ain't no small thing, that is a fricking brilliant and beautiful concept...

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Your premise isn't scientific in any way. You are creating a hypothesis with no way of falsifying it. We don't know what creates life. If it exists everywhere in the universe, why don't we see life all over the place?

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Earth is one of 8 planets in our solar system. They revolve around a star called the Sun. There are 400 millions stars and 100 billion planets in the Milky Way - a galaxy. There are estimated to be 2 trillion galaxies. Do you honestly believe that Earth is the only place in the universe where life exists?

I struggle with the realism of it all. I grew up never questioning it, and just believing what I thought everyone else did. My problem is just the reasoning behind it all. Why would our god condemn people to Hell if they never had the chance to know him? I still believe in Jesus Christ and try and be a good Christian, but I think sometimes it just doesn’t make sense. I guess to question faith is somewhat normal. My whole deciding point comes down to how the world works. There has to be a creator on a creation. Science my arse

I don’t know which version of God is correct, but I do think that all of this happening accidentally is much more preposterous than some sort of intelligent design. Generally speaking, I think most religions provide a moral framework that helps to guide people through their life’s journey which results in a net positive for society as a whole.

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Do you honestly believe that Earth is the only place in the universe where life exists?

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Again, y'all are starting from a false premise that you know how life is created. Please explain how life is created if that is your stance.

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We don't know what creates life

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yes we do

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Well, please explain then. Happy to read published reviews for how life is created.

I think because sometimes it just makes you feel better to believe there is something more after this life.

You should set out on a quest to disprove God.

Then, like CS Lewis, or more recently, the founder of Wikipedia, something amazing will happen.

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There is no evidence of Jesus healing the blind- correct?

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Eye witness testimony isn't evidence? You should let the US Justice System know that.

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What's the definition of god?

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That is the question that philosophy and theology has tried to answer since the beginning of time.

From a Biblical perspective, the definition was given in Genesis... "I am that I am". The belief is that God simply is and that everything that exists is of God.

Of course, it takes faith to believe that.