How do you reason the existence of God?

Does God exist or not will entirely depend on how you perceive God, if you’re highly conservative and believes that somewhere up there’s a man or woman sort of sitting as an authority, judging you, then there are favored chances that such type of God doesn’t exist.(At-least my critical mind says that.)

For such sort of people, there’s a beautiful phrase said by George Carlin and I quote:

Tell people there’s an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet and they have to touch it to be sure.

But on contrary to George Carlin vast majority don’t really feel like him and a lot of people has a difference of opinion with him. The reason for the contrast is that that may be as a society we haven’t become liberal enough to question our own faith. Whereas I feel that a perfect faith is that which is flexible enough to let you question itself, the basic foundation of every ideal faith should be critical thinking.

There’s a beautiful short story which describes how critical thinking is not allowed in our society. So there’s class going on of kindergarten kids and all small kids are reciting after their teacher.

God made the man.God made the man.
God made the man.

But one of the kid started thinking the other way around and asked his teacher :

Mam, I think we’re reciting it incorrectly it should be:

Man made God?

You know what could have happened further :D teacher sort faded the argument and somehow convinced him(not completely but to an extent that he wouldn’t be asking such questions again.)

Most of the Abrahamic religions have one notion in common which says that this world is illusionary, one must not fall into this trap and do sins, one should keep his temptations calm so that he\she can live a luxurious life in neither world. Now, this is the biggest irony because physical things whose presence can be felt with the help of sensory nerves and sense organs(Given by that very God) doesn’t exist but out there is another world which nobody has seen, that exist for sure. This sounds quite contradictory in itself.

The very concept of God we have today is made by humans themselves, today among all the other species on earth humans are superior, because of which they’ve created their own authority on earth. But earth has been in existence even when humans weren’t present and earth is going to exist even after humans would cease to exist. But in that situation as well there’s a fair probability that there will be another specie which will turn out be the most superior among all in the same way in which humans are currently. Don’t you think the idea of God for that specie is going to differ a lot on the contrary to what we have?

I would like to share an excerpt from the book written by Amish Tripathi, “The Oath of Vayuputras” and I quote.

The descendants beheld Gods in what were great men of the past, for they believed that such great men couldn’t possibly have existed in reality. These descendants saw magic in what was brilliant science, for their limited intellect could not understand that great knowledge. These descendants retained only rituals of what were deep philosophies, for it took courage and confidence to ask questions. These descendants divined myths in what was really history.

Now let’s talk about another case, if you don’t perceive God the way we’ve discussed above then we have a lot to discuss.

In my case, for me, God is someone who looks after me, protects me, provide me with the resources for my survival, deters me so that I don’t become greedy and starts to walk on the path of evil, who always keeps a balance. These are the characteristics of my God whom I’m looking after, the best match so far I’ve got is the NATURE itself.

And as I had said earlier in the answer that the ideal faith is the one which lets you question itself. Having said that, nature is just the best match, not the perfect one. My journey on the exploration of the divine is still on toes.

Credit: Aditya Shrivastava, Quora.