Does God Exist? - A Look At Atheism, Agnosticism, And Theism

The agnostic responds with 'I don't know' and 'no one knows,' which is actually an affirmative answer that has never been established, so the question is meaningless because they are not direct answers.

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REASONING, INTERPRETATIONS, AND PRESUPPOSITIONS

A building is proof there is a Builder because buildings don't build themselves. A painting is proof of the painter because they can't paint themselves. Creation is evidence of the Creator and it is scientifically impossible for nature to have made itself.

All reasoning is based on different assumed presuppositions that cannot be conclusively proven, which becomes the basis for other conclusions. Christians and non-Christians have the same stars, earth, and fossil layers, as do animals and plants. The difference is in how facts are interpreted.

Because human beings live in the present, they cannot conclusively know what happened in the past by observation. Christians have the Bible, which is the written Word of the Creator of all things. It reveals the significant events of the past that human beings need to know, which the Christians set of presuppositions that they use to build a way of thinking that enables them to interpret present facts. Non-Christians also have beliefs and presuppositions about the world, which they use to analyze the facts of the past and present.

Both Christians and non-Christians use interpretations that are based on presuppositions about the same facts seen from different perspectives, resulting in other beliefs. The Bible is proof to Christians that God exists and is the basis for their understanding of the universe and for them to interpret scientific facts.

Truth can and should be determined independently of God. However, the Bible states, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" and "knowledge," but the "natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned" (Psalm 111:10; Proverbs 1:7;1 Corinthians 2:14 NKJV).

Every Christian must understand that those who are not Born-Again are against Jesus because their deeds are evil, and they love darkness rather than His light (Matthew 12:30; John 3:19). Those who don't believe there is a God will often refuse to hear what the Bible says, yet will use so-called contradictions taken out of context to prove it is wrong. It is not our words but God's Word, the Bible, that opens people to the truth and convicts them of their sin and need for forgiveness that Jesus alone can provide.

"For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart." (Hebrews 4:12 ESV)

The Bible tells us that God made distinct kinds of animals and plants and how the created animals increased into a wide variety of animals that exist today; about the fall of humanity caused sin to enter into the world, resulting in judgment and the curse on creation, which is relevant to geology and fossil evidence that supported by the evidence of harmful genetic mutations, violence, and death. Evolutionists and Creationists believe in natural selection and accept the science of genetics. The difference is that Creationists believe the Bible says God created separate kinds of animals and plants to reproduce their kind; therefore, one kind will not turn into a totally different kind. The Bible provides the correct basis to interpret the facts of the present, and scientific observations confirm that interpretation. It is up to the non-Christians to logically defend their beliefs with science and their presuppositions and point out where the science and logic of Christians are wrong.

Christians need to always start with the presupposition that God's Word is true in order to correctly interpret the facts of the present and show overwhelmingly that observational science repeatedly confirms those interpretations. We must constantly build our thinking on the Word of the One Infinite Creator God, who has the answers to all of the questions that could ever be asked, rather than on fallen human beings' fallible presuppositions about creation and history.

THE BEGINNING OF ALL THINGS

Many scientists believe that the entire Universe came forth from a vacuum state which underlies everything within it and is the foundation of existence for all things because virtual particles are both spontaneously emanating and being absorbed back in continuously without end.

Every event has a cause. There is a growing consensus that it was within a concentrated ball of light that appeared out of nowhere during a rapid and cataclysmic explosive expansion or 'inflation,' all energy, space, and time came into existence together in what is known as the 'Big Bang.' This happened in only about a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth (10 to the minus 35) second! It then immediately started to cool, leaving behind a faint pattern of temperature fluctuations on the edge of the observable Universe. Before the Big Bang, there was no time or space. The belief that the Universe is eternal and in a steady state was put to an end by the Big Bang because it posits that the Universe had a finite point of beginning, and the increasing speed of expansion suggests it will have a cold final death.