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The evidence for God
 
 

If the universe had a (beginning) it must have had a designer. If no one created anything out of nothing to form everything where is the logic in that?

If someone or something created nothing to form everything isn’t this more reasonable to accept?

Who made the someone is actually a better question than no one that made something. Why is there something rather than nothing at all, and why do we exist?

The scientific evidence supports that space, matter and time had a (beginning) which the Bible teaches:

Genesis 1:1

“In the (beginning) God created the heavens and the earth.”

To say if God exists outside of time, space and matter are like asking if you dwell outside of the World Wide Web. Of course, you do. You can read and observe all of the information you want without ever interacting by way of comments, and no one would ever know you were there. To write a sentence, there has to be a writer to input a sentence. Therefore, you exist outside of that means of expression, until you have expressed it. The cause must be immaterial and void of everything.

God is timeless, unchangeable, the source of all existence, imperative, uncaused, and essential being itself. God, therefore, brings forth things that possess potential into actual being, since nothing can bring its own potentiality into actuality. Richard Hawkins agrees that the universe had a (beginning) and was expertly tuned to support life. Being fine-tuned there is also a primary resonance at a frequency of about 8 hertz—eight trips around the planet per second sounds like a bell.

The average adult human cannot hear sounds above 20,000 Hertz. Dogs, on the other hand, can hear sounds as high as 47,000 to 65,000 Hz. These sound far too high-pitched for us. Some animals can see colours that humans cannot. Just because we cannot see, hear, or perceive a certain frequency doesn’t mean that it’s not there. So many scientists just flat out deny reality, when there is so much objective reality for the case of God.

Lee Strobel was an atheist and is now a believer hence, he penned the book “For the Case for Christ.” Pure science is nothing more than a reasonable method for dealing with physical things. Science looks at the painting but ignores the painter.

Scientific determinism is a philosophy that contends that all events are caused by external causes and natural laws, rather than personal will and applies to the present and the future.
This, therefore, states that there are no miracles and atheism has to be true unquestionably, yet there is no evidence for this.

Stephen Hawkins states that free will is just an illusion in his book The Grand Design?

How can our will simply be not of our own making?

How can thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes of which we are unaware and over which we exert no conscious control?

Philosophy can help many to think critically about science and goals, and to recognise that scientific progress is rooted in creative philosophical enquiry. If it can prompt scientists to ask important questions, then they could all benefit from reading more philosophy, instead of being taught a script handed down that this is true and this is not.

Science is a boon from God, but too often Christian leaders lack the assurance and knowledge to engage with scientific questions. In an age when faith is often portrayed in opposition to science, we need to create opportunities for people to connect with science and scientists, to develop well-informed, theologically grounded, practical knowledge about the world and our place in it.

Having said that there are approximately 1750 Christian scientists, 900 are based in the US. The Church of Christ, Scientist was established in 1879 in Boston, Massachusetts, by Mary Baker Eddy, author of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and founder of Christian Science.

Physicists observe objective reality and they discover what happens in the physical world, while Hawkins states in his book this does not exist?

Are we reasoning or just reacting then?

What’s really going on is a worldly scientist is just a poor philosopher, taken in by the web of misinformation to disprove God, which therefore muddies logic.

If the universe is so finely tuned, are there many universes out there and we are lucky to be in this model?

What’s interesting is that the only evidence we know about is the universe we are in that supports life so well. Everything else is pure speculation, theory and deception. It’s so easy to make up a narrative that can be easily believed by the masses through mass propaganda warfare these days.

We are living in spiritual warfare which is battling propaganda warfare to disprove a designer. All physical laws including gravity which is in fact density and buoyancy had a (beginning) therefore they need a cause. Persons can make choices, the Bible states there are three persons of the Godhead the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit that were involved in the (beginning), while impersonal forces do not think for themselves. The whole universe didn’t think for itself and pop out of nothing.

Even multi-universes top scientists admit there had to be a beginning, which points to a beginner. What’s interesting to note, most scientists don’t even care about the idea of God these days, and just get on with the material narrative that there is no God.

If the world had a beginning, was wound up and now we are winding down, this also applies to humans who had a beginning, are not evolving but actually de-involving.

We must remember that we have bought the lie that aliens constructed all the strange technological buildings that we could have not possibly built, due to us allegedly being a primitive man. If we are still evolving why the need to plug every human being into the World Wide Web to get our information?

Or maybe we once were highly intelligent beings, taller, lived longer, and were plugged into the blessings of a designer, not the web?

If we are out of the blessings of God, not living longer, subject to mutations, disease, and curses, then maybe the painter does not want humanity to continue to corrupt the canvas He designed, until His painting is restored to wholeness?

The Bible teaches that we gained knowledge we were not supposed to have. If spiritual knowledge was lost, the paint to the designer, isn’t it any wonder that today we are trying to discover more knowledge than we need to have, but still, the paint is cracked and not whole?

The book of Genesis 1:1 states the creation of the world out of nothing.

The human body is mutating as we have already discussed, and we will never get a new body until we are saved and with Jesus. Life is woven with genetic information, and the information in the cell points to a designer with a mind. 3.2 billion letters make up the human DNA in every one of our trillions of cells. Human DNA is like computer software far more advanced than we have in production today. If there is a program it had to be programmed, if it’s a code it has to have a coder. If there’s a message there has to be a messenger. Binary code only comes from something that is intelligent with a mind. Messages can’t come from natural forces. The structure of cells is far advanced to handle information and contain the designer’s signature to live and flourish.

The best explanation for acts of radical altruism is the existence of God. Altruism means the principle or practise of unselfish concern for or devotion to the welfare of others. Humans also experience direct religious experience.
You feel the presence of God when you are with a person who radiates qualities such as joy, peace and love. Others may exemplify holiness, not just in a single act or moment but throughout their whole life.

How can physical atoms and molecules, for example, create something that exists in a separate domain that has no physical existence ie the human consciousness?

We need to ask ourselves is the material world all there is?

There are signs of God’s existence everywhere yet we are too blinkered to see it. Why does anything exist in the first place?

Everything that exists has an explanation for its existence in the Bible by external nature or by cause. God tells us that He created man in His image and likeness granting us part of His nature with human nature.

There is also a cause for man bringing sin, death, disease, and evil into the realm we live. We exist (necessarily) to worship and glorify God, yet the (cause) of not being in the will of God has led humanity to further abuse his free will.

Numbers, sets and abstracts prove God’s existence. How could two distant objects in the solar system be drawn toward one another, acting according to a precise mathematical law?

The universe exists and has an explanation of why it exists. It exists by an external transcendent, personal cause that is God in the Bible. The (cause) of the universe must be greater than the universe itself and must be mindful of His own glory.

The (cause) must be beyond space and time therefore it cannot be physical or material only spiritual with an intelligent mind or an un-in-bodied consciousness.

Humans have a bodied consciousness to interact with the un-bodied consciousness of God while we are separated from Him through sin. This consciousness can be honed better by the Holy Spirit which dwells in the human heart if we accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. The universe can’t be just eternal and un-caused. If the universe never had a beginning like it states in the book of Genesis, then past events in the universe are infinite. The infinite is nowhere to be found in material reality, and will only be discovered once we are saved and with the Lord.

The cause will grant believers an immortal body, to house an immortal soul free from sin, suffering and disease, while we live out an immortal existence infinitely with the designer. Those who reject salvation will lose their mortal body, but their immortal soul will be cut off from God forever, to live out eternity with regret at what they could have had. Past events will be with that soul for eternity. For all matter and energy, even physical space came into being in the past from a cause. Therefore it came from an un-cause, changeless, timeless immaterial, personal being with a mind.
How else can a timeless cause give by to a temporal effect with a beginning like the universe?

The fine-tuning of the universe points to intelligent life.
Complex beings and animal kinds exist within a finely tuned earth, created just for them and no one else. Intelligent life is balanced on a knifes edge on the earth and in space relying on conditions that cannot come from a random nothing. When the laws of nature are expressed mathematically constants are discovered like buoyancy and density. These constants are not determined by the laws of nature.

Constants and quantities form a range of life-permitting values that a designer grants. Even a small change would disrupt the balance of life.

So is it physical necessity, accident or design?

The most plausible is design. We are supposed to be embodied observers of the universe, connected to the designer giving Him glory and honour within the dominion of the earth, that was created and finely tuned for us as stewards. We care for the earth and act in ways that will restore and protect the environment. Who gave all the animals names?

It certainly wasn’t scientists, but the Bible teaches in the book of Genesis it was Adam. Adam was given objective moral values just like we were to be good loving persons but can also identify evil.
If we can identify good and evil, have a choice to go in either direction, but have a moral conscience that is immaterial but affects our decision making, this showcases a moral cause for life and a standard-bearer to imitate.
God’s boundaries or rules make people free not restricted, without any affective authority people do exactly what they desire. God gives us the freedom to be enjoyed within His boundaries out of His love for us to keep us safe.

If there are objective values it makes the existence of a higher being more probable. The historical facts, life death and resurrection point to the existence of God. Jesus came on the scene with unprecedented authority and knowledge. He stood as God housed in a material body for the purpose of fulfilling the sin problem from the kingdom of God.

Jesus carried out a ministry of exorcisms. and miracles and was raised from the dead.

There are three established facts about the resurrection of Christ. The empty tomb, His post mortem appearance and the origin of beliefs in His resurrection.

Woman followers discovered the tomb empty and the stone rolled back. This is widely accepted by scholars today as fact on historical grounds. On several occasions, groups of people saw the risen Jesus after His death. These appearances were not only witnessed by believers but by non-believers, sceptics and enemies of the faith. Millions of believers including all bar one of the disciples died for the belief that Christ was God willingly. Either all these people are mad or rather something took hold of their souls that led them to the existence of a higher bring.

The stolen body and Jesus were not crucified have been universally refuted even by sceptics and atheists alike today, hence believers are justified in believing these historical facts. The personal experiences of God by millions of people worldwide attest to the Bible, and how early believers encountered God. A higher will interacts with your own will, that roots into the heart, affecting motives, actions and thoughts, and showcasing divine reality. The worship of a God is not an idea that just popped into the head of one person one day.

God has always been there while humanity de-involves losing its past history to lies and deception of corrupt scholars who say there is no God. The Bible says draw near to God snd He will draw near to you, yet many today like to debate about God trying to disprove He exists without drawing near, so never get any personal experiences that may challenge their views. DNA similarities are evidence of a common designer, not a common ancestor.

Similar structures come from the designer’s blueprint. There is natural selection that is changing to relative densities of population, which gives the impression of evolution to one variety which is adaptation. Darwin’s finch beaks changed with the weather changes when drought was upon the land to dig deeper for water, but we need to ask the question, where did the finches come from in the first place and who gave them their name?

For most organisms there has to be a male and female in the same place at the same time. So how did the first ones get here?

How did they transition into make and females with an intelligent designer?

All humans are descended from one woman. Age using the pedigree method on molecular clock 6000 years ago. Y-chromosome Adam. All men inherited the Y-chromosome from a single male ancestor-Adam. Sequencing the Y-chromosome revealed a lack of Y-chromosome diversity. Lots of scientists have personal agendas:

Romans 1:19-20

“Because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are (without excuse).”

The entire existence of the universe hangs on just six mathematical constants which are so precise that the probability of any combustible source of energy around them is minuscule. The existence of life itself from inanimate matter goes against the fundamental principles of entropy I.e losing energy and order. So powerful we’re the ideas of the Bible they inspired other religions. People can argue that religion is dying out, yet it’s stronger than ever with 2.38 billion Christians, 1.9 billion Muslims, the Bible and the Quran have many similarities. 30 million Sikhs, and 1.2 billion Hindus. If there are 7.7 billion people and we haven’t even mentioned other faiths, the world believes in higher intelligence and atheism is actually just a small minority of people. Abraham, Moses, John the Baptist to Jesus are the most life-changing people in history to have drastically altered the whole world.

Every redemptive freedom that has been brought into modern society has been based on the teachings of the Torah and the Bible, hence God’s instruction book whether translated or adapted by other religions has stood the test of time. Specifically, it is stated that the probability of a single person (Jesus) fulfilling only 48 of over the 300 messianic prophecies is 1 in 10,157 (i.e., 1 at 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)
*** Peter W. Stoner, Science Speaks Scientific Proof of the Accuracy of Prophecy and the Bible, Moody Press, Chicago 1963, online: http://www.sciencespeaks.net/ what we should be doing is not questioning that God does not exist, but embracing His being and everything He created, and stop believing in the lies and misinformation that brainwashes each generation.

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