GOD DOES EXIST

"The Heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands" (Psalm 19:1).

Because the heavens declare God's glory, He must certainly exist. It has been said by the many that you can't prove that God exists. For the carnal mind that is certainly true, but for those who God has called and have excepted Jesus Christ as their Savior it is a matter of faith. As the apostle Paul wrote, "We live by faith not by sight" (2 Corinthians 5:7).

In the Scriptures God reveals Himself through nature we learn about His power and our finiteness. As God reveals Himself through the scriptures we learn about His holiness and our sinfulness. When God reveals himself through our daily experiences we learn about His gracious forgiveness and our salvation. Every twenty four hours we are surrounded by fantastic displays of God's craftsmanship and the heavens certainly give dramatic evidence of His existence.

The fourth commandment is difficult for most, for it states, "For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but He rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy" (Exodus 20:11). It is hard for the human mind to except that God could create the universe and all that is in it in six days. Yet that is what true Christians must believe by faith. Not to do so is to side with worldly science and reject God's word. Therefore, let us look at some evidence that proves that God indeed does exist!

Proof One: A Cause Demands A Causer: We must remember the fact that it is impossible to prove that God does not exist. Science itself will admit to this truth.

First of all let's begin with ourselves. We are the product of a cause. A man and woman came together and when the information from the man joined with the information from the woman we were conceived immediately. Our parents are the cause of our existence. We can't deny that! Given that we exist by causality, it can also be demonstrated that even the Universe must have had a great "Causer."

Everything that comes to be has a cause. Using this statement of the principle of causality, the existence of a "First Cause" can be demonstrated as follows. "Everything that comes to be is caused by another." The Universe came to be. Therefore, "the universe was caused by another." This principle of causality asserts that everything that has a beginning (and so is finite) needs a cause. God, of course has no beginning, He is Eternal. If the Universe had no beginning, then it does not need a cause of its beginning. Science itself proves by the laws of thermodynamics that the Universe had a beginning. Ultimately the universe needs a "Causer" that does not have a beginning, for the Universe cannot spring into being out of nothing! "In the Beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Genesis 1:1). This obviously refers, not to the functioning of the universe but to its Genesis.