Does a form of God exists?

These are religions that probably are followed by 3/4 of the world's population for centuries:
  • Christianity (31%)
  • Islam (23%)
  • Hinduism (15%)
  • Buddhism (7%)
The remaining 1/4 consists of 15% of the people who do not believe in any particular religion, and then another 10% who believe in other religions or flavours. Source: Wiki

Christianity and Islam believe in an existence of a god. Hinduism believes in an existence of multiple forms of god(s). Buddhism does not have any form of god.

A god refers to a form or concept of a form that exists to perform tasks that are beyond what a human is capable of doing.

Let's assume that human beings are by nature truthful and faithful, and believers of religions have had experiences that corroborates their faith, hence preach and share their beliefs with others. Let's also assume that Christians who believe that a god exists, at some point in time in their lives, have had their prayers/wishes answered by what they can only conceive to be an intervention/action of a god. If a non-believer of Christianity also have had his hopes/wishes answered by what he can only conceive to be an intervention/action of a god, he either attributes it to luck or an existence of a god.

Now, let's assume that the god that Christians believe in does not exist. We then ask ourselves what could then convince 31% of the world's population to believe that a god exists. Could it be luck? Why would a Christian choose to believe in a god instead of luck? What would have convinced the Christian to believe that a god really exists? Although the New Testament serves as documentary proof that Jesus Christ existed, and Jesus mentioned the existence of a god, would a history book then be sufficient to convince people to believe that a god still exists today? A god could have existed at that time when Jesus was alive, but the same god or a variant of the that god might not exist anymore. There must be something that convinced the Christians to believe in Christianity, instead of Islam/Hinduism/Buddhism/something else. This something could be a figment of imagination, and if so, would need to be a very coordinated act to convince 31% of the population to believe in the god defined by Christianity. If such a coordinated act is too unrealistic to be orchestrated by human beings, then perhaps, a god of some form exists.

Let's assume that Muslims who believe that a god exists, also have had some experiences that corroborates their faith. The fact that history books documented Muhammad existed and he mentioned the existence of a god, also couldn't have convinced 23% to believe that a god exists. Similar to Christianity,  a god could have existed at that time when Muhammad was alive, but the same god or a variant of the that god might not exist anymore. Jesus and Muhammad could have referred to the same god or variants of the gods. Why would a Muslim believe in Islam but not Christianity or any other religion? What did the believer experience to make him believe that the god is the god in Islam but not luck or some other god?

Collectively, half of the world's population believe in the existence of a god of some form. Assuming the respective gods still exists now, there will be minimally two gods. If there are two gods, then any non-believer of Christianity and Islam, can potentially encounter either of these two gods, but have we ever heard anyone mention about their narrative experiences with both gods? How is it possible for the gods to not cross paths if both interact with human beings on the same planet Earth and possibly same dimension too? Having believers of different religions meet their respective god/gods in different dimensions could be a plausible explanation. Assuming the dimension hypothesis holds, human beings would then have the ability to access all dimensions, to experience/contact the various god/gods, to affirm their beliefs, hence human beings are unable to have all the gods seated together for a panel interview. Therefore, either both gods exist, or only one god exists, or none of the two gods exist.

If two gods exist, maybe just these two gods exists, or maybe the Hindi gods exist, where Jesus saw one of the gods, and Muhammad saw another, but there were many other gods.

If only one god exists, then all religions would be different flavours of the one god.

If none of the two gods exist, it would be difficult to be convinced that no form of god exists at all.

For those who do not believe in the existence of a god would likely attribute any life event to human-triggered actions, miracles, luck, coincidences, etc. For the exact same events that could have happened to a believer of some form of religion, the event would have been attributed to the religion. In a match where human beings are racing against each other, would the individual's religion have an impact on the outcome? For example, if we have a Christian, Muslim and atheist in a match, would we then foresee two gods helping out in the race and possibly competiting to see which god wants to reward its follower? We would never know for sure if godly interventions happen. For all the miracles, luck and coincidences that could happen, these events are by itself godly in nature -- science and human-triggered actions would not be able to explain these. Non-believers acknowledge the existence of certain events in life that are impossible to have been performed by a human, hence, it would be possible to also believe that a form of god exists, but it is not formally acknowledged by the non-believers.

Therefore, it is highly plausible for at least one form of god to exist. Just like the parable of the blind men and an elephant, what human beings perceived, observed, documented about the respective gods and messenger of gods might not have described the true nature of the form of god encountered.

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