Reasons (Part 1) Does God Exist And Was The Universe Created

BANGALORE, India - Oct. 17, 2014 - PRLog -- The Bible presents God as the Eternal One, the self-existent One and as Creator.

Isaiah 40:28

We see three eternal attributes of God in the verse:

Infinite in TIME

Infinite in POWER (or strength, energy)

Infinite in UNDERSTANDING

As human beings, we are finite. So really in attempting to know God, it is the finite that is trying to wrap its arms (or brain) around what is infinite.

Genesis 1:1

Exodus 20:11

Genesis 2:1,2

There are at least two kinds of people who oppose this truth.:

ATHEIST : An atheist is one who denies the existence of God.

AGNOSTIC : An agnostic is one who believes it impossible to know anything about God or about the creation of the universe and refrains from commitment to any religious doctrine.

As Alex McFarland states :"God is big enough to handle our questions" and "God is not intimidated by the depth of our scrutiny".

Do You Really Know It All?

Atheism requires "omniscience", because the atheist is making a positive statement that there is no God. To do this is to assume that the atheist knows it all, has explored everything that is there to be explored, examined everything that is there, and has not found God, and hence has concluded that "God does not exist". Ofcourse we know that this is not possible. Hence, the emphatic statement that "God does not exist" itself has no basis.

Truth Exists

An agnostic states that you cannot know for sure whether God exists or not. Essentially, the agnostic states that truth is not knowable. The problem is that they take this statement itself as "truth", which in their own terms, is a questionable statement.

The Case for the Existence of God

#1, Cause and Effect

whatever has come into existence was caused to come into existence by something else. The universe came into existence. So, what caused it to come into existence?

Every effect must have a cause. An effect without a cause is an impossibility.

For example, if a ball comes flying into this audience would you accept it if I said it "just happened", that the ball just appeared out of non-materiality and flew across and dropped here. None of us would believe that. We would most likely go out to see if some kids were playing and accidently threw the ball in. We would go looking for the cause.

A, Whatever has a beginning, has a cause behind it.

B, The universe had a beginning.

C, Therefore, the universe has a cause behind it, for its existence.

#2, Creation Attests to a Creator; Design calls for a Designer

Romans 1:20

Psalm 19:1-3

#3, Morality and Rationality

The fact that humans beings are born with a innate sense of morality (right and wrong) and rationality (ability to use logic to reason, establish as truth/fact, etc.) points to

something more than a chance happening.

How can lifeless matter produce consciousness (mind), morality and rationality?

#4, Experiencing Supernatural Phenomena

We see answers to prayer and supernatural healing happen.

Deliverance - we see manifestation of demons. These cannot be explained away as psychological phenomena. We see demons cast out and people being restored to well-

being. This indicates the presence of demons. If demons are real, how much more is Jesus, in whose name these demons are cast out!

The Case for Creation

The following have been summarized from "The Case for a Creator" (Lee Strobel)

We will look at 6 validations that point to an intelligent design and an act of creation:

There has never been a time in history when the hard evidence of science was more confirmatory of belief in God than today.

We believe as Stephen Meyer states, "Science done right, points us to God".

#1, Evidence from Cosmology

#2, Evidence from Physics

#3, Evidence from Astronomy

#4, Evidence of Biochemistry

#5, Evidence from Biological Information

#6, Evidence from Consciousness

For detailed notes please visit apcwo.org

Response Time

Psalm 14:1

Romans 1:18-22

1 Corinthians 1:20,21

Man, in an attempt to be intelligent, often misses God or sometimes even willfully suppresses the truth and refuses to acknowledge the Creator God.

A Personal God

If we embrace that God exists and this God created everything, then we must take this one step further and understand that God must atleast be "personal" and "relational" because He created humans to be personal and relational. If God is not personal, then He is less developed than we are!

God wants to be personal with us. He wants to relate to us, creatures He made in His own image.

References:

Content for this sermon has been taken from the following resources:

1, Alex McFarland, The 10 Most Common Objections to Christianity

2, The Case For A Creator, Lee Strobel

3, www.carm.org

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