How a dice can show(almost certainly) that God exists

Like I always say it pretty much boils down to this for many...

"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." - St. Thomas Aquinas

because with Eucharistic miracles etc etc and they still don't believe, pretty much nothing will convince them which basically plays inline with that quote above. the world just does not like the truth so they reject it.

The Herald Erjen

I have always heard Faith is a gift from God. but I always wondered why some have it, like myself, and others do not or struggle to believe (but at least these types are better than those who more vehemently deny Him). because just looking at myself... even in the 12 years or so I did not go to Mass etc (roughly around 2000 til I came back to the Catholic church in late 2012) I pretty much always had a basic belief in God as there might have been a slight time during about my late teens or early 20's I had a little doubt about God's existence but overall I pretty much always believed in God.

another thing that could help for those struggling to believe... pray regularly (as in daily and ignore any feelings of doubt as you pray) and maybe ask God for the gift of Faith etc. NOTE: like I mentioned before as a general rule... regular prayer is not optional but required if one is going to grow closer to God, and with that grow in holiness. with that said, I realize it's a long process that's not easy because we have to fight against our fallen nature and all etc.

still... for those of the 'maybe God exist' type, there is stuff in the world to at least suggest He's real if they can see (which I pretty much already mentioned which can help boost ones Faith)

Yeah, it's pretty much going to take some divine intervention to change their mind.

but I guess even for say you and I talking about God here and there around here trying to promote Him... in the end, belief in God can't be forced as it must be freely accepted otherwise it would be false and it's pretty much going to take God's grace for some to change over.

but like I was kind of saying above... those who more vehemently deny God seem to be worse (almost like a active/continual rejection of Him) than someone who struggles to believe or someone who just goes through life thinking maybe God exists, maybe He does not sort of thing as you might be a bit more likely to get through to these types etc.

lol ; but I got to admit I was actually laughing after reading her comment.


goz

That was funny (I actually got a pretty good laugh out of that. I literally laughed after reading it (no offense).)

but on a more serious note... there is evidence to suggest God is real but many just don't want to hear it (i.e. Eucharistic miracles etc) which further comes inline with my usual St. Thomas Aquinas quote with 'no explanation is possible'.

NOTE: some info and Q&A on The Holy Eucharist (there is quite a bit to read there so I don't really expect you to read it)... www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/the-mass/order-of-mass/liturgy-of-the-eucharist/the-real-presence-of-jesus-christ-in-the-sacrament-of-the-eucharist-basic-questions-and-answers.cfm ; which in short God is physically present in the Eucharist once a priest consecrates It at Mass. so while Eucharistic miracles (that we can physically see) don't happen much, you could basically say a miracle still occurs once the priest consecrates It at Mass, it's just not sense perceptible to us, like when you see a Eucharistic miracle were the Host bleeds. but sure enough, Christ is physically present in the Eucharist. I realize this takes some faith here to (although there is less faith required when one can physically see the bleeding Host for those more science types of people since there have been tests done), but just trust me on this one

or it says this about The Holy Eucharist in the Catechism of the Catholic church (which is official church teaching) under CCC #1374...

source = www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p2s2c1a3.htm (which is right from the Vatican's website)

And this is precisely where faith brainwashes the believer; brainwashes them so thoroughly, in fact, that they can be convinced that their ceremonial hoodoos are de facto 'proof' of the existence of the Divine. For them, that is absolute evidence, so compelling that it becomes a literal impossibility for them to conceive that this 'fact' does not exist for all. If you fail to see the self-evident miracle, in their view it simply indicates that you, the non-brainwashed, non-believer are in fact the one who is blind to actuality.

Faith utterly destroys the ability to see the objective reality of a wafer of bread and a cup of grape juice as being exactly those particular things and nothing more. And it further destroys the ability to take in the idea that those who see these things in their actual, objective form are anything other than deluded objects of pity for being unable to invest those objects with what are, for the believer, their self-evident miraculous 'real' composition.

You also put that very well; although I would say that contemporary partisan politics seem to run neck-and-neck with religious zealotry as being probably the most divisive factor operating in many Western societies today, it can at least be said that politics per se are not aggressively anti-intellectual in the way religion is. That's not to say that politics doesn't benefit hugely from a platform of an unthinking and unreasoning public--we can easily see that the Right in general and Trump in particular could barely exist or hold power without that base of the uninformed, mentally apathetic, poorly educated groups who almost actively resist having any broader degree of knowledge than that they already possess thrust upon them.

But a large percentage of that uninformed mass got that way--willfully ignorant and resistant to the introduction of any new ideas onto their mental horizons--via early religious inculcation. Religion of course has to exclude wider knowledge and learning in order to flourish--the history of most religions includes a black underbelly of deliberate suppression of 'freethought' education and learning, both among the faithful and extending that suppression out into as much of the secular society as will tolerate it--and in so doing has managed to create fertile ground for precisely the type of ignorant bigotry and hatred of non-traditional ways of thinking and participation in a rational manner in the broader society that the partisan Right requires in order to push their agendas.