Ever heard atheists argue that there just is not enough
evidence to prove the existence of God? Some go as
far as saying "God is omnipresent and is everywhere,
then show me God in order to believe he exists". Well,
the bible says God is a Spirit so I can't literally show
you God (I haven't seen him either) but that doesn't
prove that he doesn't exist. Simply because I can't
show you air doesn't mean that it doesn't exist in the
room you occupy right now. However, I can show you
the influence of this 'invisible' air when it knocks down
a 'visible' object or flips open the pages of a book. here
is an attempt to candidly show that God has made
himself evident for man to perceive.
1. God reveals Himself through nature
If you are a nature-lover or have ever taken the time to
appreciate the beauty of the natural world around you,
you can see the handiwork that points to an incredibly
intelligent creator and designer. Look at the beauty of
the sunset, the awe you experience watching the
earth's polar lights in the sky (aurora), the glory of the
night sky with all the stars, the dawning of the day with
the blades of grass glistening like diamonds as the
sunlight bounces off tiny water droplets of dew, you
would ask yourself questions like "would mindless and
impersonal physical forces or a chain of chance-like
events need or care to make something this beautiful
that man can appreciate?" One would have to be
willfully ignorant to attribute all the intricacies found in
nature to random chaotic events. A close look at nature
reveals an intricate level of design that points
undeniably to an intelligent Designer (Psalms 19:1-4).
Nevertheless, some still live in denial.
2. Our Planet Earth .
The perfection of the Earth in relation to it's support of
the billions of life in it never seizes to amaze. Earth is
the only known planet equipped with an atmosphere of
the right mixture of gases to sustain plant, animal and
human life. This is attributed to it's perfect size and
corresponding gravitational pull which causes it to be
able to hold the right amount of oxygen and nitrogen
adequate for life. If the earth were larger, it would
contain an unreasonable amount of free hydrogen in its
atmosphere. If it were smaller, it may not have an
atmosphere large enough to protect the planet from
solar and cosmic radiations from space. Still think this
is co-incidence ? Let's look at the Earth's position in
space as well.
NASA places the diameter of our solar system at a
humongous 288,000,000,000 km. Dispersed within this
wide space are 8 planets (including Earth). The distance
from Earth to the sun is at about 150,000,000 km which
is the perfect distance for Earth to be inhabitable. If the
Earth were any further away from the sun, we would
freeze. Any closer and we would burn up. With 8
planets dispersed within such a wide range of our solar
system's diameter, you can calculate for yourself the
probability of luckily finding a planet at that exact
distance from the sun (that is not too far and not too
close), then you decide for yourself if we were just
ridiculously lucky or it was placed there by intent. Even
a fractional variance in the Earth's position to the sun
would make life on Earth impossible. The Earth remains
this perfect distance from the sun while it rotates
around the sun at a speed of nearly 67,000 mph. It is
also rotating on its axis, allowing the entire surface of
the Earth to be properly warmed and cooled every day.
3. Complexity of living organisms
From all I learned in biology classes, it would require an
unreasonable level of faith to believe that highly
complex biochemical reactions like oxidation
phosphorylation, photosynthesis, enzymatic breakdown
of ingested food, our amazing immune system,
transmission of nervous impulses through the body,
e.t.c, resulted out of mere chance. Even if I came into
the world yesterday, I can't look at the twin towers and
attribute them to forces of nature, thinking to myself
"the wind, after several years, must have pushed all
these blocks into place". These are amazingly complex
and inter-linked reactions going on in us daily of which
I'm sure that the best of scientists can't think up or
create such a system so complex and independent.
Still, scientists wouldn't admit the intelligence behind
these processes. Let's look at blood clot formation for
example. The reason why animal's don't bleed out till
death after they get a cut is simply because of this
complexly designed process. A cascade of events
involving 12 different factors ensues when a blood
vessel is broken. This linked events all lead to the
formation of a clot at the site of bleeding in order to
occlude the opening in the vessel. If just 1 of these 12
factors were missing, blood clot formation would be
impossible and it would be a normal phenomenon for
one to bleed to death after having an accident as minor
as a paper cut. Yet all 12 factors (not 7,8 or 11) are
currently present in the blood to initiate this reaction
when needed. What's even more amazing is that these
factors are present in your blood as you read this, yet
they don't start forming the clots within the blood
vessels because that would potentially kill you. They
only initiate this process when you have a cut. That's
just amazing if you ask me. This is just an example out
of thousands of intelligent systems in nature. Do you
really think such systems were built by chance or a
highly intelligent being?
4. Theist Scientists
Most atheists often have this wrong ideology of "God
VS Science". This is totally absurd because God himself
is a scientist (the best at that) as we've seen in the
above mentioned points. God made all scientific and
universal laws and was in fact scientific in all his
creation. God was actually leaving clues of his
existence by showing his brilliance and intelligence in
the works of nature and his intent was for man to
search them out and acknowledge him (Proverbs 25:2).
Many of the smartest human geniuses that have
worked the earth were theist. These were really smart
people who had knowledge of scientific laws and based
most of their works on facts and scientific evidences.
Yet, they didn't think it foolish to believe in a superior
intelligent being. Why? Because they couldn't help but
recognize God's signatures dispersed in the details
along the quest of their research works. Some of these
theist scientists include: Gregor Mendel, Galileo Galilei,
Louis Pasteur, Michael Faraday, Isaac Newton, Blaise
Pascal and even famous Albert Einstein to name a few.
The more we go deeper in scientific discoveries, the
more of God we see. It's however unfortunate and sad
that most current scientists have refused to
acknowledge this glaring truth (2 Corinthians 4:4).
5. God exists because he impresses this fact in the
heart of men
The bible says the truth of God has been made known
to man instinctively, for God put this knowledge in their
hearts. Yet, some push the truth away from themselves
(Romans 1:18,19). This shows that God made it
unavoidable for man to see or feel his existence. God
did not leave us to wander alone, aimlessly hoping that
somehow we would stumble across the truth, which He
intends for us to recognize. God wants us to find Him;
therefore, He reaches out to us. Sometimes you wonder
why the atheist goes through so much trouble just to
discredit the bible or refute the idea that a God he
doesn't even believe in exists. The atheist probably
doesn't yet realize that the reason the topic of God
weighs so heavily on his mind is simply because God is
impressing it. God wants to be known. He made man
unique from other creatures with the intent that we
would seek and know him. He not only surrounded us
with evidence of himself but He keeps the question of
his existence squarely before us. God is presently
nudging the hearts of people so that they might realize
their sinful condition, the inevitable coming judgment,
and their need of a Savior (John 16:8-11). The
underlying reason atheists are bothered by people
believing in God is because God is actively seeking
them.
I know many atheist would go through this post in
order to refute the ideas highlighted, but I'm not here
to disprove atheism. I'm just here to cause the reader
to really think for himself in an unbiased and neutral
manner on these things. Regardless of what you may
have heard, the truth the bible teaches is that God
intensely loves you unconditionally. He is not going to
love you more if you convert to a believer. He already
loves you intensely, that's why he was willing to come
in form of man and personally receive the punishment
on the cross for the sins you've committed in the past
or would ever commit in the future (John 3:16; Romans
5:3-8 ). The misconception that God punishes people in
hell because they sin or refuse to love him is not the
truth of the bible. Rather, the bible teaches that though
we are guilty of many sins, God justifies us anyways
and gives us eternal life if we accept and receive it
through faith in Christ's sacrifice (Romans 5:16). The
reason why anyone would go to hell fire is not because
of this person's numerous sins. No!, it has been
established that everyone (including the Christian) is
born a sinner and commits sin. Yet, People are only
judged guilty because they refused to receive the
justification and eternal life freely given to them by
Christ. It would really be shameful and agonizingly
regretful to see yourself in hell not because you were
morally the worst person on earth, but because you
were too prideful to receive the gift of life that was
already given to you freely by Christ. Choose life today
if you haven't. God loves you.
