Does God exist?

God exists. But not for the reasons you think.

I. A New Answer

Math is in our implementation; we are capable of counting (number sense). Math is sustained by utility; we do it every day. Math is productive; it helps us build our bridges and computers.
 
But has anyone ever seen or experienced a number? No, because numbers are imaginary.

I could show you one apple and two oranges and explain the concept. I could carve a statue of 1. However, I cannot put a 1 on the table and say “here”, as I could an apple. Does 1 then not exist? That’s kind of how God works. We associate a symbol with a pattern, then find it to be useful. It is in utility that they become real.

Symbols become real when they gain real consequences. We enact numbers. We enact God.

Reality is constructed through enaction. God is just as real to a priest as numbers are to a scientist. A scientist can show you his bridges, his computers, his particle accelerators, but to someone who is illogical and cannot count, they will only appear magical. The Pope can show you his churches, his followers, his books, but to someone with zero spirituality immune to profoundness or divinity, they will only appear deceptive.

Everybody believes in something invisible. Emotions and thoughts are invisible. Numbers and physical laws are invisible. Borders and constitutional laws are invisible. Love is invisible. What these have in common is that they always begin with a decision. Regardless of whether we believe them to exist, or we believe they should exist, we decide to empower these concepts to have real consequences in our lives. This decision is the act of enaction. Whether or not something physically exists, is true or false, is right or wrong, are all secondary attributes that can only be associated after enacting them into existence. This raw newborn existence, however controversial or ambiguous, is precisely all we require to compose a reality and an experience. It cannot be any other way.

What we see is what we already believe. Those of us who deny God cannot see him, and those of us who see numbers see them because we accept them. Our predispositions determine experience.