We Christians have been “brainwashed” into believing that everything MUST have a beginning – except God. So here we are basing our so-called logical reasoning on what we as a species have experienced from the time we first trod the earth. Yet we want to exempt the notion of a God from that logical reasoning. “He,” we say rather lamely, “has no beginning and no ending; He is eternal. He is in fact Eternity.”
On thinking about it however such reasoning is not faulty. It is not lame. I want to show you how this "mountain of evidence," although wholly circumstantial, points, coolly and logically, to a God and then points just as coolly and logically to a God who could have no beginning and no ending. No created being could do what God did in His masterpiece The Creation of the Worlds.
You ask me – and I am not a great thinker, I am very “average” – “Just how real is this God you never see nor know in a ‘personal’ sort of way [more on that later] and neither see nor touch physically?”
My first reply has to be this: Take a thoughtful look at yourself, probe as best you can into how you are made and into the wonders that constitute YOU. Behold the body and You ask me present discourse.
My next answer to your question as to how real is this God we never sense in any physical way is for you to shift your attention away from what an incredibly wonderful structure you are and look at the heavens at night (which we shall also do briefly) and see the countless number of stars. Ask yourself, “How did these things happen to be? Who is their maker? How many miles away are they? Why don’t they fall to earth all at once and bury us and this planet on which we live under their crushing weight?”
These are actually not difficult questions. Any middle school student who has not been sleeping in the classroom can answer them. But can anyone of us answer the questions that these questions raise? We can cite natural laws in answer to the questions above, but who or what established the natural laws and then made them operative?
The laws themselves give us a hint of the complexity of the fields of knowledge to which they pertain. When we think seriously on these things, there are many, many queries, more than the keenest intellect among us can answer. In this little chat with you who are my intellectual peers (many of you are my superiors) we shall deal with a few of the less thorny ones.
But don’t look to me for definitive answers; I have forewarned you, I am not a brilliant scholar of either the sciences or of theology. I have no epiphanies to share with you. When it comes to such matters I am just your everyday draft horse, not a thoroughbred. But I am not alone in my ignorance: even the most illustrious scientists cannot provide us with consistent, relevant answers to these questions.
What I want to do here is to gently shake you awake to an acknowledgement that there definitely has to be a God “out there.” Furthermore I want to dash cold water on your hope there will be peace and security in our time on earth. Even if we should know no cataclysmic judgmental events in our lifetime (and we know there will be), a day of judgment will surely follow us into the life hereafter if we do not awake out of our perilous slumber.
You don’t have to be a Bible scholar; you can feel the impending judgment advancing closer and closer. If you read and/or listen to the daily news, you can sense that events worldwide are hastening all mankind toward that Great Day – the day of terrible divine wrath for unbelievers and unending unspeakable joy for those who daily are “losing [giving up] their lives” for the Savior.
Far too many people in this “Christian” nation are not sure of the existence of God, and that blows my mind. Who do they think brought into being all they see, hear and perceive by their senses, (which themselves are God-given)? I find it a thing incredible they could be so unimpressed by the wonders all around them and in them. Again I urge you to take a thoughtful look at yourself, at how you are made and at the wonders that constitute YOU. Now multiply that by the many billions of people who are living at this moment. Each person among us is a miracle walking and talking and thinking and believing (or not; the choice is yours to make).
To help make my case I want you to look at three inauspicious (and yet they are vital to our well-being) senses of the body: Seeing (the Eye), Hearing (the Ear) and the Sense of Touch (located in many parts of the body). They are such fabulous mini-wonders of creation, but as wondrous as they are, they are not alone. The human body has even more wonders and marvels within it that should say something to us about who or what brought the universe into being. First, in Part II let’s “see” what the eye can show us.
NOTE
This post has been taken from Part I (“A Few Preliminary Thoughts”) of a small booklet God Exists – It’s the Only Logical Explanation. If you want to read the full details of this “Logical Explanation,” you may purchase the 36-page booklet by clicking here: http://bit.ly/i1tS4M
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