THE
EXISTENCE OF GOD
God is there, and He is not
silent. This reminds me of Francis Schaeffer, who wrote the book, The God who is There. He wrote this book in
1968 and Schaeffer has gone to be with the Lord. It is interesting to note
that today people still want to see or know whether God is active in the world. When you go out of your house and you
examine nature, you realize that God is still at work. His
fingerprint is all over creation. Not only that but also when you
read the incarnation of Jesus, you come to the realization that
God is active today as He was during the time of creation and the day of
redemption of humanity when Jesus said it is finished.
God is always at work. He is at work today. Those who know Him and those who are seeking Him can see that He is at work. "With the turn of the twenty-first century and more years of research and understanding, the data pointing to an intelligent Designer has only increased (Gary R. Habermas and Michael R. Licona, The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus, 177).
God is always at work. He is at work today. Those who know Him and those who are seeking Him can see that He is at work. "With the turn of the twenty-first century and more years of research and understanding, the data pointing to an intelligent Designer has only increased (Gary R. Habermas and Michael R. Licona, The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus, 177).
The Psalmist was right when he wrote, "The heavens declare
the glory of God and the firmament shows His handiwork" (Psalm 19:1). When
you step out of your house and you gaze at the sun, the moon, and the stars,
you know that the galaxy is not a happenstance. You acknowledge that these
things were orchestrated by an intelligent Designer. That Designer is God, who
is active today as He was on the time of creation.
When you look at the stars, the sky, and the moon,
they reveal the finger of God in creation. They demonstrate that their
existence is not by accident. They were initiated
and brought into being by an intelligent Designer.
I believe that
many people who dismiss and oppose the existence of God do so from some pain or
setback in their lives. They would argue that if there was God, why
would He allow suffering? Why would He allow my son, my daughter to
suffer and die? Why would a loving God allow my son or daughter to die in a
car wreck? I sympathize with parents who lose their loved one through any
form of suffering. However, they forget that God has provided us the answer to human suffering and death
through the atoning death of Jesus on the cross. The death and
resurrection of Jesus is God's answer to sin, suffering, and death.
Therefore, instead of
allowing bitterness to build up in one's heart, one should look up to God
to provide the solution to human suffering and death through Jesus
Christ, who offers us eternal life.
In his book, The Reason for God: Belief
in an Age of Skepticism, Timothy Keller writes, "The
philosopher Alvin Platinga believes that there are no proofs of
God that will convince all rational persons. However, he believes that there are at least two or three
dozen very good arguments for the existence of God" (Keller, 132). He
states the Mysterious Bang and poses the question, "Why is there
something rather than nothing?" "The Regularity of Nature,” "There is something about nature that is much more striking and
inexplicable than its design." The truth is that "if there is no God,
and everything in this world is the product of 'an accidental collection of
atoms,' then there is no actual purpose for which we were made--we are
accidents" (Keller, 138).
