God Exists

God Exists

How well do you know your Creator? Do you really believe in our Creator and all that He is? Did God create everything or are we living in chaos by random chance?

If we simply look around us at all that “nature” offers, we see evidence that everything indicates there has to be a creator. Yes, there is a high degree of pandemonium in this world. Certainly, there are storms. For sure, some suffer from famine. Yes, there are murderers, thieves, and evils swirling all around us. But the interaction of all Earthly facets and our perfect positioning within the universe proves we are engaged in a divinely led, interlocking cohesiveness. All this speaks to the providential power that has been and is still being directed by the will and the spoken word of our God.

Ever since Galileo, the brilliant astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, and engineer, was convicted of heresy in 1633, there has been controversy over our world's creation.

Do you remember Galileo's crime? The Catholic Church had decided the idea that the sun moved around the Earth was an absolute fact that could not be disputed, despite the reality that scientists had proclaimed for centuries that the Earth was not the center of the universe. Ever since the 17th century, the disparity between religion and science has continued to vary. The main discord revolves around the origin of the universe.

Some argue that God does not exist. Many scientists contend that the entire universe's creation was because of a sudden, giant explosion in an empty void that occurred 14 billion years ago. Just as a short side note: Did you ever attend any fireworks extravaganza of giant explosions that created any water? Can you, as an ordinary person with reasonable intellect, see the defects within the concept of Big Bang theory?

The start of the universe, as the Big Bang theory describes it, is a representative example of trying to deny God's plan and power. According to the Big Bang theory, the expansion of the observable universe began with the explosion of a single particle at a definite point in time. As Christians, we can totally agree with that. Except for Who caused everything. Without God there was nothing.

The term “Big Bang” was sarcastically coined in 1949 by Fred Hoyle, a physicist in a BBC radio broadcast. Unknown to many, the Big Bang theory was actually formulated by a Roman Catholic priest in 1931. His name was Georges Lemaître. He was devoted to theology, as well as the astronomical and mathematical sciences. In the early 20th century, the Aristotelian conception of our universe was that it was static and unchanged. When Lemaître proposed the model of an expanding universe, he was ahead of Albert Einstein, Edwin Hubble, and other influential scientists of that time.

But the next questions we must tackle are these. If an eternal Creator exists, and the Bible records that He does, what kind of Creator is He? Is He the source of all the incredible interactions affecting our world? Can we positively deduce His many characteristics? In other words, can we understand God's role by the origin of our universe and its symmetry of continuance? The answer is an emphatic yes. Yes, we can. So let's discuss the following topics.

Our God is supernatural, He created time, space, and all things within.

Our Bible tells us in the very first line of Genesis: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. I personally take this to mean the entire universe. John 1:1-3 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.

Also, Psalm 33:5-11 The LORD loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love. By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth. He gathers the waters of the sea into jars; he puts the deep into storehouses. Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all the people of the world revere him. For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm. The LORD foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the peoples. But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations. God made everything and controls the plans of man!

Our God is exceedingly powerful and wise.

Jeremiah 10:12 It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.

Our God is everlasting.

Psalm 90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.