You guys are going to make me cry. The rambam says you have to *know* Hashem. One can only know him when you can prove with an undeniable proof that Hashem exists. This is the first principle of the 13.
How did you people make it so far without being able to prove Hashem exists?
Proof #1 – The only religion in history to have had millions of people witness the giving of the Torah. Could you image millions of people all of a sudden claiming God came down to them and gave them the torah? No other religion can claim this. Could you image today – an entire nation suddenly saying they saw God? It’s ridiculous and would never happen – you would have at least a handful of people from that nation claiming it never happened and that everyone is lying!
Proof #2 – Back in the old days people were certain there were only a couple of thousand stars in the sky. Yet in the gemara it has a ridiculously large number with something like 18-ish digits. This is before Galileo and his discovery that there were in fact many more stars. How in the world could anyone have known this without seeing it? The only answer is obvious, it was given to us by Hashem.
Proof #3 – Bris milah. Modern day doctors have discovered that 1 day out of an entire persons life the body produces an extreme amount of vitamin K(this vitamin can only be created by your body). Vitamin K is the main cause of healing in your body. It it coincidence that this one day in your entire life is the very same day that we do a bris milah on? We didn’t have microscopes back then, there was no way of knowing about this. Doing this on any other day in a babies life would cause potential death from bleeding. You think anyone could have just guessed this out of the blue like this? Heck no. Without doubt this had to come from a divine being.
Proof #4 – The lunar cycle. Just a few years ago Nasa released the exact amount of times that each lunar cycle lasts. Down to something like 7-8 decimals past the seconds. It was something like .0000002 seconds different than the gemara states. Not too long after that some german research group released a revised number, it was .0000001 different than the gemara. It’s impossible to have been so accurate back when the gemara was written. Give or take a few more years and I bet it will be exactly like what the gemara says. Totally impossible to have known this without a divine being.
Proof #5 – The red cow. Few know but the only way of knowing if a red cow ever worked (which would make it unfit for a sacrifice in the bais hamikdash) was to check it’s eyes to see if they were cross eyed and if a 1 hair in their back was standing up straight. So if say the cows owned put something on the cow, like his bag for 2 seconds so that the cow would carry it. Immediately the eyes would be come crossed and the hair would straighten up. You could go on a stretch and say ok the cross eye thing we could catch, but who could possibly think to look for a single hair on the back???
Proof #6 – Torah codes. Stuff like aids, wars, dates, names, events all near each other in appropriate places in the torah that are relevant to those events. For example you can find the name of every fruit or vegetable in breishis via torah codes. Or stuff like the first person who discovered aids, name, year etc, in the torah. Many people say that yea sure anyone can take a giant book and find torah codes but the fact is that the chances of finding a “code” in other books without messing up the whole story in it is as likely as 1000 monkeys bashing a typewriter and eventually coming up with shakespear. Or a tornado coming over a house and restructuring it into an airplane. If the torah had only a handful of torah codes then you could say yes ok it was just chance. But to find thousands and thousands of them with the story still intact is impossible in any other book no matter how large it is.
There are so many other proofs that make it obvious that no simple man could have written the torah, not even the greatest genius(s) in history could do it without divine assistance.