Does God really exist?

I will start my reaction paper on asking a question. Does God really exist? I believe that we don’t need to convince each other that God indeed exists, because the only person that can convince our self is our own spirit. We should open our mind and heart and believe in Him. But the big problem is what if our spirit does not accept God? Who will now makes us believe that God really indeed exists. I am a Catholic since birth, I studied religion almost for 10 years and the biggest fear of my life has come. A person will ask me if I believe in God. So why should believe in something that I cannot see nor feel?

According to Blaise Pascal, “it is the heart which perceives God and not the reason that is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason." If humans are imperfect and God is perfect, how can perfection begets imperfection? There is a famous saying that no one is perfect, is God included in that saying or is He a special case? Nothing imperfect can come from a perfect being. In a passage in Matthew 7:17, “Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit”. If we believe that this are all true, that a perfect God created this perfect world and perfect universe, then everything is perfect, but the fact is humans are imperfect! So to say that God is not perfect or imperfect at all, but perfection is one of the characteristics of God. Humans are not directly from God, the 1st human in a catholic bible was Adam who is created through dust, and from his ribs came out the 1st female. God created the universe perfectly, but what make it imperfect is humans like us. Because of us, it was put into imperfection. It is our faith that convinces us that God really exist. In one of the stories in the bible, the doubting Thomas in particular, Jesus told Thomas, his apostle, "you only believe because you saw me and you were able to put your fingers through the hole in my hands, but blessed are those who believe in me though they do not see me." We never see God, never touch His hands, nor feel Him.

I’ve read this argument on a forum. It is about an atheist telling that If God is Omniscient then is he is all-knowing, God gave man the freedom of choice, If God is all knowing then He would know what a man would choose and if He knows that beforehand then there is no freedom of choice, if He knows that what a man would actually choose to act/think then there is no real choice after all. God does know what we will choose, does not force us into that choice which we choose ourselves. That is freedom of choice. He may know what we will choose but doesn’t tell us, thus giving us options to choose from. We are the ones who make our decisions, not God. it is still our decision.

I believe in God, for he has created everything in this world. Just look around us, these things are all created by God, we humans just use them to create another thing. No ordinary man can create these wonderful stuffs, and that means that there is God. LaSallians believe by saying “keep the faith”, while Ateneo believe in God by saying, “we believe”.

I believe that there is no need to prove that God really exists, because proving is only done when one is in doubt or uncertain. I can say that I cannot give evidence that God really exists, but I can say that God is almighty. We should not question God for it is against His will to question him.