What evidence is there that reality includes more than the physical world?
Christians believe that there is real evidence of a spiritual world. They look first to their own experience of God: a sense of his presence, guidance in prayer, answered prayer, inner conviction and the work of the Holy Spirit in their lives.
They also look to the life of Jesus. The Gospels describe him healing the sick, performing miracles and rising from the dead. Christians believe that these events show that Jesus came from God and that reality includes more than the physical world.
Many Christians also look to what has happened since the time of Jesus: lives transformed by faith, healings, visions, answered prayer and the experiences of saints and other believers. They see these as signs that God and the Holy Spirit have continued to act in the world.
These experiences and testimonies cannot always be tested in the same way as a physical object or a scientific experiment. Some people therefore see them as evidence rather than absolute proof. Christians, however, believe that taken together they give strong reason to believe that the spiritual world is real.
Christians believe that the evidence includes personal experience of God, the miracles and resurrection of Jesus, and the continuing experiences of believers throughout history.
They see the repeated reports of answered prayer, visions, healings, transformed lives and encounters with the Holy Spirit as a continuing pattern of evidence that the spiritual world is real.