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Evidence God Revealed That Proves He Exists
Contributed by Dr. Craig Nelson on Feb 11, 2022 (message contributor)
Summary: 16 Proofs from Nature and Secular History
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"For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities - his eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." (Romans 1:20 NIV)
As a young teenager, I came to the logical conclusion that nothing can create something, so the Universe had to have been created by a Supreme Being. It seemed far more reasonable to believe that God exists than not to believe He exists.
When someone makes the emphatic assertion that there is no God and no one can know that, that statement cannot be proven absolutely. Whether a person does or does not believe that God exists, no one has yet to explain honestly what caused the existence of what is perceived as the starting point of the Cosmos.
The Bible reveals why there is an existing universe rather than a non-existing one. It has yet to be proved and requires the element of faith to believe. Without faith, "it is impossible to please God because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him" (Hebrews 11:6 NIV).
When I became a Christian, I met the one true God through faith, but one of the questions I could never get past was, "Where did God come from?" I could relate to Jesus as God, the Son, who came to earth as a human, and somewhat understand the Holy Spirit as God, but my brain would begin to fry circuits when I tried to comprehend God, the Father, as always existing with no beginning.
"By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible." (Hebrews 11:3 NIV)
I learned that my reasoning was irrational and nonsensical by contemplating the origin of God, the Father because it implies that He lives within the Time, Space, and Matter continuum of the finite Universe He created into existence simultaneously, which can't be independent of each other. The Bible explains how that happened.
"In the beginning (TIME), God created the heavens (SPACE) and the earth (MATTER)." (Genesis 1:1 ESV)
God instantly created Time, Space, and Matter as a trinity of trinities. Time is past, present, and future; Space has length, width, and height; Matter has solid, liquid, and gas. God is outside of them and not limited or affected by them because He is a spirit with no material body (John 4:24).
The truth is that God has no beginning - He IS! (Exodus 3:14). The Bible tells us why the Universe exists and proclaims that Jesus is the divine Designer who created it with a purpose and maintains all things by the word of His power (John 1:3; Hebrews 1:2-3; Colossians 1:16-17).
After speaking the Cosmos and Earth into existence, He created the first human beings.
"Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:26-27 ESV)
God instantly created human beings with a brain that has independent reasoning processes and thoughts and not just a random collection of chemicals formed by chance over a billion+ years.
Since Adam and Eve, God has revealed Himself to every human being in the beauty of the heavens, "for since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities - his eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse" (Romans 1:18-20 NIV).
A person who makes the bold assertion that there is no God and no one can know if there is cannot prove it, which logically opens the door to acknowledging the idea or possibility that God may exist. Proving that God does not exist requires faith or the ability to travel the entire Cosmos and examine every quantum particle to qualify and have the authority to make that assertion which would make them God!
"By faith, we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible." (Hebrews 11:3 NIV)
The study of the Bible requires faith that comes via special divine revelation that only the Bible reveals (John 15:26; 2 Peter 1:19-21). Faith is active trust in God, who made Himself seen in His Creation. The Bible says that it is Jesus who supplies the infinite amount of energy that holds all things together and sustains the entire Cosmos. It is the revealed general revelation of "His invisible qualities" - His "eternal power and divine nature" that "have been clearly seen" [and] understood from what has been made" by God, which makes evident within the mechanical workings of nature the existence of God and any observer accountable to Him (Romans 1:20 NIV). However, the study of Nature or the Cosmos cannot unequivocally prove the existence of God even though the Bible declares that it was through Jesus Christ that all things originated from Him (John 1:3; Colossians 1:16; Hebrews 1:2).