By
Ada Brownell
After the recent solar
eclipse many Christians were fired up.
“How can anyone deny
God is there when he sees how exact God created the universe?
That the moon exactly
fit over the sun even when they are different sizes and so many miles apart
caught many people’s attention. They also were awed remembering how the whole
universe revolves in sync under the guidance of somebody—who must be God.
But some people want
proof God is there.
1. The first reason you can’t prove God is there is because
millions of people have decided to believe something else—even when it’s more
preposterous that Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning God created the heavens and
the earth.”
Despite looking into their own eyes every day
in the mirror, they believe sight and everything else about the human body and the
whole universe just happened. Faith is a decision, and they decided to believe
in those who say God isn’t there.
They
forget that the first law of thermodynamics says matter can’t be created or
destroyed. Or that the second law says essentially that everything eventually
falls apart—just the opposite of evolution. Every time you see an old house or
barn falling in you have an example of this second law.
The
story goes that God and the devil were having a discussion.
“I
can make anything you can,” Satan said.
“All
right,” God said. “Make a man.”
Satan
bent over and started scraping up dirt. God tapped him on the shoulder.
“Use
your own dirt.”
2. Another reason you can’t prove God exists is because too
many people refuse to believe in the supernatural. Even though humankind can’t
explain the origins of life, which the Bible says came from the breath of God,
they won’t believe.
Even when they witness or hear of a miracle,
such as the lame walking, the blind seeing, deaf ears hearing, and the sick
healed, they deny the miracle because they’ve put their faith in something or
someone else.
They believe in
scientists because God gave some people ability to do amazing things. Their
works might be called miracles, but they aren’t true miracles such as my
friends saw after their pastor went to the State Home where their daughter with
hydrocephalus (water on the brain) had been admitted shortly after birth.
X-rays showed Becky had almost no brain. After prayer the home’s doctor called
the couple.
“Come
and get your baby. There is nothing wrong with her.”
The
next X-rays showed a normal brain. Becky graduated from high school, has some
college, and is marrie— still normal more than 40 years later.
3.
The biggest reason
humans will never prove God exists is because faith is necessary for salvation. We read in Hebrews
11:3 “By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command so
that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.”
The
chapter goes on the say in verse six, “Without
faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must
believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him”
Over
and over we’re told in the Bible, even in the Old Testament, that people had to
have faith to connect with God. John 3:16 tells us our only way to heaven is
through believing: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only
son that whoever believes in him
shall not perish, but have eternal life.”
Those
were the words of Jesus when he talked to Nicodemus after the man asked about
getting into the kingdom of God.
The
Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 10:9-10, “If you confess with your mouth ‘Jesus is
Lord,’ and believe in your heart God raised him from the dead, you will be
saved. For it is with your heart (the heart of who you are) you believe and are
justified (just as if you’d never sinned), and it is with your mouth that you
confess and are saved (from sin and death). (Words in parenthesis mine).
CONCLUSION: Of course when you believe
and confess, and experience God’s power, joy and peace in your life, you KNOW
God exists.
©Copyright Ada Brownell 2017
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