Is There a God?

One of the first questions that comes to mind when talking about faith is simply, Is there a God? Interestingly enough, the Bible never tries to prove that there is a God. It states very simply, NKJ Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

Why is that? Because without God, it would be impossible for you to ask the question or find any sense in a response. The proof of God's existence is that without it, you cannot prove anything. God is the pre-condition of all intelligibility.

We look at our universe and it works in a uniform, law-like fashion. What would have to be true in order to make sense out of that? The answer? A Sovereign God.

When you talk with someone about the laws of logic which are abstract, universal laws, how is it possible to have such things which are neither matter nor motion? The answer? A Sovereign God.

What about the idea that we have just evolved from nothing? Doesn't everybody believe that is true? Even the scientific community is raising some serious questions about origins. You might have asked them as well: How does order come from disorder? How does life come from non-life since life is not just a more complex form of non-life? What caused things to become more complex? Or, if everything came form the same identical primordial soup, where does variety come from? Then, what caused those non-intelligent life forms to jump to intelligent ones? How did the inarticulate move to being articulate? And then these language using life forms which did not have any trace of morality, how did they begin to have moral notions?

Those, theories are fragile at best. What is the answer? NKJ Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Such a beginning accounts for the uniformity of nature, how we can account for things not seen or physical in nature. NKJ Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

Where did your personality come from, or your ability to put words together in a coherent fashion, or your ability to distinguish between right and wrong.? How is it that you feel differently about stepping on a cockroach than you do another person's toe? If we are no more than a complex of biochemical factors that are controlled by the laws of physics, why is it that we go home and kiss our wives and tell our children that we love them? The answer? There is a Sovereign God who has personality and has made man in His image. That is where all these qualities come from.