I believe in God. I believe that there is a higher power, and I believe that signs are provided to us if we are willing to slow down long enough to notice them and pay attention. Most people move through life so quickly that they never pause long enough to see what may be right in front of them. But every so often, something happens that refuses to be ignored. Something presents itself in such a clear and unmistakable way that it forces you to stop, reflect, and consider the possibility that there is more at work than coincidence alone.
A while back, I wrote an article titled Is Believing Seeing?, which explored the relationship between belief in God and the likelihood of God’s existence. What I discovered was both fascinating and unexpected. When examining global belief rates, near death experiences, miracle accounts, and the fine tuning of the universe, the probability of God’s existence landed at approximately seventy five percent. What made this number even more striking was that it almost perfectly mirrored the percentage of people worldwide who already believe in God. The alignment between those two numbers raised a profound possibility. What if believing in something is not simply the result of seeing it, but the very mechanism that allows it to be seen in the first place?
Recently, something happened that brought this question back to the surface in a way I could not ignore. I watched a science fiction film released in 2020 titled Proximity. The story follows Isaac, a young NASA scientist who investigates a meteor crash site and encounters extraterrestrial beings. After being abducted and later released with no memory of what occurred, he discovers that his camera captured the entire event. As he attempts to share his experience, he eventually reaches a point where he is able to communicate directly with the extraterrestrials and ask them questions.
What struck me most was not the abduction itself, but what the extraterrestrials revealed. They explained that they had been searching for Jesus, because they had determined that He represented the closest connection to the Creator. In that moment, the story shifted from science fiction into something far more philosophical. Then came a line that immediately captured my full attention. One of the extraterrestrials told Isaac, “We have found that seeing is not believing. Believing is seeing.”
Those words stopped me cold.
That was the exact conclusion I had reached in my own article, written long before ever seeing this film. Not something similar. Not something close. The exact same idea, expressed in the exact same way. In that moment, it felt less like coincidence and more like confirmation. It felt like a reminder. A sign that this idea was not meant to remain unfinished or unspoken.
And so now, I feel compelled to finish what I started.
They say the first step in solving a problem is admitting there is one. What if the only “problem” to humanity finding God is simply believing He exists? If disbelief was humanity’s fall, then belief may very well be humanity’s way to return to Eden.
When it comes to the existence of God, people usually stand at one of two extremes. Some insist that faith alone is enough. Others demand absolute proof before they will even consider the possibility. But what if there is another way? What if the chance of God’s existence can be looked at logically, by weighing the evidence the same way we would test any other question or idea? This is not about turning God into a math problem. It is about looking at what we can observe: global belief, near-death experiences, miracles, the fine-tuning of the universe, even stories of past lives, and asking what those things suggest. With all of these possibilities in mind, I challenged artificial intelligence to answer the question, “What is the probability of God’s existence?”
Let’s look at the results. Philosophers and scientists have long pointed out that the universe seems fine-tuned for life, as if its settings were carefully balanced to make life possible. That alone raises the likelihood of a Creator. Research on near-death experiences shows reports of awareness continuing even when brain activity has stopped, with many recounting actual interactions with Jesus or God. While that does not prove heaven, it challenges the idea that the mind is only chemicals firing. Miracle claims, while rare, have been examined medically in places like Lourdes, France, where some remain unexplained by science. At the University of Virginia, researchers have studied children who report memories of past lives, often with details hard to dismiss. And finally, we must consider belief itself. More than seventy-six percent of people worldwide say they believe in God or follow a religion.
When all of these factors are weighed together, using evidence-based reasoning, the probability lands at about seventy-five percent. That is not absolute certainty, but it is far from nothing. The odds say there is a three-in-four chance that God exists. What is striking is that this number almost perfectly mirrors the percentage of people who already believe. Is this just coincidence, or is belief itself part of the calculation?
That raises a deeper question. What if belief is not only a reflection of God’s existence, but part of the way He is revealed? Humanity has always carried stories that hint at this. We tell children that Santa’s sleigh can only fly if enough of them believe. Ancient cultures taught that their gods drew strength from the prayers of the people, expressions of belief. In modern stories, heroes and myths only endure as long as people place their trust in them. Behind the fiction is a deeper truth: belief has power.
History gives us examples of how belief shapes outcomes. Civilizations have risen and fallen depending on the strength of their shared beliefs. The Roman Empire thrived when its people were united under a common vision, but once belief fractured, decline followed. The early American experiment was built on the conviction that rights were given by a Creator, and that belief held together a diverse people. In contrast, the twentieth century shows what happens when belief in God is erased. Totalitarian regimes that tried to remove faith left behind oppression, suffering, and mass death. When belief in something higher than human power disappears, the vacuum is filled by rulers who see themselves as gods. This is where we are today. But how did it begin?
In the book of Genesis, God gave Adam a direct command: “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die” (Genesis 2:17). At first, this sounds like an immediate death sentence. Yet Adam and Eve lived many years after eating the fruit. To someone new to the Bible, this might seem like a contradiction. It makes sense, though, when you realize the warning carried several layers of meaning.
Spiritually, they died the moment they disobeyed because their perfect relationship with God was broken. Physically, they became mortal, cut off from the Tree of Life, and death became certain. Symbolically, the paradise of Eden itself “died” as peace and innocence were replaced by toil, pain, and separation. In this way, the phrase “you shall surely die” was both immediate and eventual, both literal and figurative. It shows why that one act had consequences for every part of human life.
Suppose the real test of humanity is whether we can reunite in belief. The Bible shows us that the fall began with doubt. The first sin was not only eating the fruit, but distrusting the Creator’s word. If disbelief was humanity’s fall, could belief be our restoration? Could the way back to Eden be through humanity, as one people, acknowledging our Maker together? Imagine if all the world believed in God with true sincerity. Would the veil finally be lifted? Would the secrets of the universe be revealed, not because God changed, but because humanity was finally ready to see with more than just our eyes?
Some people argue that the existence of evil or the hiddenness of God lowers the odds. Yet if the Bible is true, evil itself began with humanity’s first act of disbelief, which explains why suffering exists in the first place. And God’s hiddenness is not proof against Him, but rather part of the test of faith. Faith matters because it is belief without compulsion, a choice freely made rather than forced by undeniable proof.
This possibility becomes even stronger when we think about free will. Humanity was not forced to believe, and we were created with the power to choose. That makes belief meaningful. To acknowledge a Creator is not a command that we must obey. It is a choice that we may accept or reject. That freedom is what makes the test of belief so profound. If we choose to believe, it is not because there was no other option. It is because we wanted to recognize our Creator. That choice is the deepest expression of sincerity and, perhaps, connection.
This is not about forcing faith or demanding conformity. It is about recognizing that the human story may have been written around one question: will we, as brothers and sisters under one Father, reunite in belief? If we do, perhaps the gates of Eden are not locked from the outside at all. Perhaps they are locked from within, waiting for us to turn the key of faith.
The idea that Eden could be restored through collective belief may sound like a dream, but Eden is more than a place. It is a state of harmony between humanity and God, between humanity and creation, and between humanity and one another. Original sin shattered that harmony, bringing separation and distrust. If disbelief was the spark that began the fall, belief may be the spark that begins the restoration. Humanity choosing together to acknowledge our Creator could be the act that washes away that ancient stain.
The seventy-five percent probability is not about claiming we can measure God with math. It is about showing that when you take the evidence seriously, and keep a truly open mind, the odds lean strongly toward God’s existence rather than against it. It is said that the Devil’s greatest achievement was convincing people he did not exist. Perhaps humanities greatest achievement is to simply remember where we come from.
The question remains, what if the numbers we crunched are not just statistics, but a sign of something more? Seventy-six percent of the world believes, and the probability we calculated for God’s existence is seventy-five percent. What if that alignment is not random? What if it is the Creator’s way of whispering that belief and reality are tied together more closely than we realize? If humanity can reunite in faith and simply acknowledge that our existence is the result of a divine plan, maybe the greatest revelation will not be a new discovery at all, but remembering that God has been with us the entire time, waiting for us to believe enough to open our eyes, our hearts, and our souls.
