Is There a God?

Is there a God?

I’ll bet you didn’t realize you already know everything you need to know to answer this question. We do not need to provide any more information; we only need to point out some things you already know. First, creation is a miracle. Some would have us believe that nothing + nobody = everything; but, that math just doesn’t add up. When you see a skyscraper, it is reasonable to assume that somebody designed it. Human biology is far more complicated than any building; why would we not expect it to be designed too? The notion that rational, functional human beings evolved by random chance from unorganized chemicals without any guidance is more outrageous than a tornado sweeping through a junkyard and assembling a 747.

Second, man has a conscience that allows us to do two things unique only to humans. First, it allows us to think about where we came from. The very ability to ask, “Does God exist?” is evidence for God. Second, it allows us to make choices that are sometimes in conflict with our animal instincts. If our natural instinct is to avoid danger, why do firefighters run into burning buildings to save people they have never met? The answer is that we have a unique ability to choose right from wrong that may or may not be consistent with our instincts. The term given to the part of us that makes us different from the other animals is spirit, and since spirit is immaterial it must have originated from an immaterial source, God.

Finally, we behave, or at least attempt to behave, morally. We all know there is good and there is bad, right and wrong, things we ought to do and things we ought not to do. Health is good, but sickness is bad. It is right to play fair and wrong to cheat. We ought to be courageous and ought not be a coward. One has to ask, what is the source of the moral standard by which we all attempt to live by? Again, the only logical conclusion is God.