Is it Bad for a Priest to Say This?

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So I was in church one day and my priest said, “Heck, we can’t even prove there is a real God.” which really got to me and I started having doubts about God’s existence. Thank the Lord I don’t have them anymore. I feel like it wouldn’t be wrong for him to say that but I thought the priest was supposed to encourage us.
Sorry if it’s a bad question.
 
He’s correct that we cannot PROVE the existence of God. “For we walk by faith, not by sight.” (2 Corinthians 5:7) We rely on faith in order to know that God exists; we can’t show God’s existence by some scientific experiment or math theorem. If there was a logical proof for God’s existence, then all educated people would believe in God the same way they believe that the Earth orbits around the Sun, a fact which has been scientifically proven. Obviously this isn’t the case.

He may have phrased this badly if it caused doubt in his listeners. What was the context of the statement?
 
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I can’t seem to remember. I’m pretty sure we weren’t talking about the existence of God. I just think about it everyday. It was a few months back though. He might have phrased it badly because the way he said was serious but not too serious and kind of like he exclaimed it. It’s hard to describe. Thank you for helping me though.
 
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Well, he is right. And perhaps he was discussing what faith is, and how it works?

Nothing wrong with honesty from a priest in this regard, but I would hope he followed that statement up with some good thoughts on why Catholics do believe what they believe (and why and how).
 
I disagree, I actually think it’s very easy to prove the existence of God, you have to start with natural law and work from there. Of course, not everyone is going to buy it, but it is proof. I don’t know what to think, because I’ve honestly heard a priest say GD, in fact two priests, but the context was, one was talking about the Ten Commandments, and the other was saying that God couldn’t do that, because that’s not really how damnation works.
 
The First Vatican Council dogmatically declared that we can come to know there is One God through reason. We are not Protestants, we do not rely on “faith alone”. Any Catholic making that argument is ignoring 2000 years of authentic development on this issue.
 
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So I was in church one day and my priest said, “Heck, we can’t even prove there is a real God.”
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Ask him, did he mean this as “we cannot prove via the Scientific method that there is a real God”? We cannot prove God’s existence in that manner, if we could there would be no need for Faith.
 
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