Questions - Week 12: Does God Exist?

Does God exist? The Bible has described this as a reality for thousands of years.  Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
    ⁃    There was a beginning
    ⁃    There is a God
    ⁃    God created everything

This is looked at as a religious belief, but it is increasingly a scientific fact as the scientific world sees that the creation had a beginning.
    ⁃    Natural knowledge of God
    ⁃    Nature - Romans 1:20 “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities - his eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.”
    ⁃    Teleological argument - “Design requires a designer.” It is obvious there is incredible design which requires a designer.  
    ⁃    DNA - “DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.” Bill Gates.  “The coding regions of DNA have exactly the same relevant properties as a computer code or language. We know books and computer codes are designed by intelligence, and the presence of this type of information in DNA also implies an intelligent source.” Stephen C Meyer, PhD.   “What I think the DNA material has done is that it has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce life, that intelligence must have been involved in getting these extraordinarily diverse elements to work together.” Professor Anthony Flew.  There is a creator because DNA is so complex it requires a creator.
    ⁃    History - “I’m a lapsed atheist… I go to church every Sunday, precisely because having been brought up as an atheist I came to realize my career as a historian that not only is atheism a disastrous basis for a society… but also because I don’t think it can be a basis for individual ethical decision making”  Professor Sir Niall Ferguson.
    ⁃    Conscience - Romans 2:15 “They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.”  The conscience bears witness to a Creator, to a God who is:
    ⁃    Transcendent
    ⁃    Immaterial
    ⁃    Timeless
    ⁃    Powerful
    ⁃    Personal
    ⁃    Brilliant
    ⁃    Caring

To simply know that God exists is good, but to know God - that is what is necessary. And that requires that God reveals Himself to us - the revealed knowledge of God - showing Himself and drawing us to Himself.

    ⁃    Revealed Knowledge of God
    ⁃    Bible - profound unity of what it tells us. Read and listen to His Word and allow it to speak into our lives.
    ⁃    Jesus Christ - The Living Word - Savior, Redeemer, our only Hope. God is love and gave Himself for us all.  Forgiveness and new life.  John 1:18 “No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.” The Old and New Testaments testify to Jesus. He died, He rose and He is returning.
    ⁃    Holy Spirit - John 14:26 “But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.”

It is one thing to know that God exists but it is most important know God and to know to the Love of the Father through Jesus His Son and to walk in the power of the Holy Spirit who brings us to faith and who nourishes and guides us as we live a life of faith.

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