Thank-you Mia for your sincere response.

You and Mattias have proposed that the question of truth cannot be answered.

I on the other hand submit that knowledge of truth (not just belief) is possible.

Let's take your statement, "To affirm that God exists or not is impossible, one cannot prove it..."

Is this a statement of what you know to be true or something that you just believe (your faith)? If it is knowledge then you should be able to communicate your thoughts and experience whereby that knowledge has been acquired.

No one is too interested in what someone simply believes but if they know something it is worth talking about. I know that God exists. I know more than that about God but let’s limit our discussion to this for now. Proving this statement is not difficult. Here I will present some thoughts that lead to this conclusion and you can tell me if you agree or if you think I have made a mistake.

First it is necessary to define what we mean by God. We are not talking here about the God of the Bible or the Koran or some other religious tradition although those traditions may not be opposed to the God that we are speaking of.

We live in a cosmos where much of what we observe follows the laws of physics(science). Now imagine that as you are drinking coffee one morning you look through the window and you see a leaf drop to the ground. If you are in a contemplative mood you might try to consider the string of events that led up to the particular event that you observed; the falling of a leaf. In this exercise of thought you attempt to trace back to the first thing that happened in the sequence of causes that led to the dropping of that leaf. The initial cause that started the sequence must be non-physical. For lack of a better word we will call that “God”. It(God) must be non-physical because if it was physical it would just be another physical cause as a result of previous physical causes.

In response, someone might propose that the sequence leading to the event that you observed is infinitely long (i.e. that there was no initial event); no event that is not simply the result of a prior infinite sequence of physical causes. This idea, however, is easily debunked. If there were an infinite number of prior physical causes in the sequence that led to what you observed, then you would still be waiting for that infinite sequence to arrive at the present event that you observe. It would not have happened yet. That is the nature of infinity.

This has proved that God, defined as the non-physical first-cause of the event that you observed, exists. It has not considered what God is like other than that he is not physical (we might use the word spiritual). If we are interested we will try to learn more but we will no longer question the existence of God.