Does God Exist?
"Does God Exist?" -- that was the title of the Bible study I attended tonight. As I considered the question, I started to piece together the reasons for why I believe God exists. This may not be enough for everyone, but they're my reasons for believing.
1. Every action must have a cause. It is becoming widely accepted that there is evidence that the universe had a beginning. Before that, it was assumed that the universe always existed. So if even the universe had a beginning, then something must have caused it. So what caused the universe? It must have been something that is outside the physical universe. At that point what's left? Some higher power? Ya, say, God. Genesis 1:1: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." (Side note: Who caused God? If it was some higher power, then that would be God. But at some point you have to reach an uncaused cause. An eternal being. That is exactly how God describes himself in the Bible.)
2. Consider the world from a design standpoint. Anyone who looks a building will naturally conclude there was a designer. Nobody concludes that it happened by chance. That, if left long enough, under the right conditions, eventually the pieces would fall into the right places and the building would exist. Yet people are quick to ignore all of creation that screams the evidence of a creator, in favour of a theory that it all came about by chance and evolution. This to me is ludicrous. The more I learn about nature, the earth, our bodies and even the known universe, the more I am convinced there is no way any of this could happen by chance.
3. I believe God exists because there are many many accounts of supernatural occurrences, that cannot be explained by the physical laws. It's not to say that we know everything about the world we live in, but some stuff that happens defies explanation. We call them miracles. The fact that they defy the physical laws, seems to point to a conclusion that they were probably caused by something that is not bound to physical laws...as if that which caused it lives outside the physical realm. This ties in to point one.
4. Believing that God exists is simply easier than believing in a far fetched, low probability series of perfect occurrences. What you believe should have nothing to do with science or intelligence as a person. Science is simply the study of the evidence. The difference is that the conclusions we draw from the evidence. To me, the evidence points to a God. Others choose to explain the evidence assuming there is no God. They are left to come up with non-God theories. To me, both options (God or non-God theories) take some amount of faith, because science currently does not completely prove either option (and never will). So then the question is, which one do you have enough faith to believe in? I'm betting my life on God.
And if I am wrong, well then I have greatly enriched my own life with joy, peace and hope, by thinking there is a God. Even then what's the downside?
"The fool has said in his heart 'There is no God.'" (Psalm 14:1 NASB)
1. Every action must have a cause. It is becoming widely accepted that there is evidence that the universe had a beginning. Before that, it was assumed that the universe always existed. So if even the universe had a beginning, then something must have caused it. So what caused the universe? It must have been something that is outside the physical universe. At that point what's left? Some higher power? Ya, say, God. Genesis 1:1: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." (Side note: Who caused God? If it was some higher power, then that would be God. But at some point you have to reach an uncaused cause. An eternal being. That is exactly how God describes himself in the Bible.)
2. Consider the world from a design standpoint. Anyone who looks a building will naturally conclude there was a designer. Nobody concludes that it happened by chance. That, if left long enough, under the right conditions, eventually the pieces would fall into the right places and the building would exist. Yet people are quick to ignore all of creation that screams the evidence of a creator, in favour of a theory that it all came about by chance and evolution. This to me is ludicrous. The more I learn about nature, the earth, our bodies and even the known universe, the more I am convinced there is no way any of this could happen by chance.
3. I believe God exists because there are many many accounts of supernatural occurrences, that cannot be explained by the physical laws. It's not to say that we know everything about the world we live in, but some stuff that happens defies explanation. We call them miracles. The fact that they defy the physical laws, seems to point to a conclusion that they were probably caused by something that is not bound to physical laws...as if that which caused it lives outside the physical realm. This ties in to point one.
4. Believing that God exists is simply easier than believing in a far fetched, low probability series of perfect occurrences. What you believe should have nothing to do with science or intelligence as a person. Science is simply the study of the evidence. The difference is that the conclusions we draw from the evidence. To me, the evidence points to a God. Others choose to explain the evidence assuming there is no God. They are left to come up with non-God theories. To me, both options (God or non-God theories) take some amount of faith, because science currently does not completely prove either option (and never will). So then the question is, which one do you have enough faith to believe in? I'm betting my life on God.
And if I am wrong, well then I have greatly enriched my own life with joy, peace and hope, by thinking there is a God. Even then what's the downside?
"The fool has said in his heart 'There is no God.'" (Psalm 14:1 NASB)
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