Does God Exist

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Does God Exist?

• Think with me for a moment What is the most
  important question of anyones life?
• From where did I come? Where am I going?
  Who am I?
• What is the meaning of life?
• Or perhaps, What must I do to be saved?
• While these are all valid and important, they are
  not the most important, for one question
  supersedes them all

• This one question is paramount because it makes
  all the others either relative, or irrelative!
• If God does not exist then these other
  questions are pointless to ask or answer- it
  doesnt and wont matter.
• But if God does exist, then the answers to all
  truly important questions come from Him,
  2Pet.13!

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Law of the Excluded Middle

• There is a principle in logic called the Law of
  the Excluded Middle.
• Simply stated, it says that a thing either is, or
  is not- that there is no middle ground.
• So it is with God. He either is or is not, but
  there is no middle ground.
• But many otherwise logical people cannot seem to
  really make up their minds whether or not God
  truly exists. They want to believe that He does
  exist, yet do not want to obey Him as God, cf.
  John 1242.
• Others even become agnostics and say You cant
  really know whether or not God exists.
• If He does exist, then all have a duty to believe
  and obey Him, Heb.116. If He does not exist,
  then nothing else matters- eat, drink, and be
  merry, for tomorrow we die!

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The Nature of the Proof of Gods Existence

• It is not scientific proof.
• One cannot demonstrate the existence of God to
  the human senses in the same way as you could
  prove the existence of the Gulf of Mexico-
  through experimentation and observation, Acts
  1724-29 and Isa.4012-17.
• It is Prima-Facia Proof
• This is a legal term derived from Latin which
  means .self-evident legally sufficient to
  establish a fact or case unless disproved
  (Websters New Collegiate Dictionary).
• Which means, unless it can be disproved, adequate
  evidence exists to establish the presumption of a
  fact, Rom.118-20.

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Evidence for Gods Actuality

• The Bible itself makes no formal, concerted
  effort to establish Gods reality directly- the
  fact of God is merely stated simply and
  powerfully, Gen.11.
• But the Bible does manifest Gods existence very
  logically through Cause and Effect, Heb.34.
• This principle says that where there is an
  observable effect, there is or must have been an
  adequate cause to have produced it. Things dont
  just happen- something, or someone causes them to
  happen.

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Here then is the problem

• The Universe exists. There then must be some
  adequate explanation. Three are possible
• It is eternal or
• It is not eternal, but was self-created from
  nothing or
• It is not eternal, but was created by something
  anterior and superior to itself.
• Is the Universe eternal?
• In the early 1970s, many considered Dr. Robert
  Jastrow to be the finest science writer alive.
  He wrote
• in science as in the Bible, the World begins
  with an act of creation. Only as a result of the
  most recent discoveries can we say with a fair
  degree of confidence that our Universe has not
  existed forever that it began abruptly, without
  any apparent cause, in a blinding event that
  defies scientific explanation. (Until the Sun
  Dies, Warner Books, New York, 1977, p.5)

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What does this mean?

• Remember the three possible explanations for the
  existence of the Universe
• It is eternal or
• It is not eternal, but was self-created from
  nothing or
• It is not eternal, but was created by something
  anterior and superior to itself.
• With regard to 1, Dr. Jastrow says the Universe
  is not eternal- that it began abruptly, without
  any apparent cause.
• Other scientists must agree, because any effort
  to assign an age to the Universe admits to it
  having an origin, rather than being eternal.

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What does this mean?

• Remember the three possible explanations for the
  existence of the Universe
• It is eternal or
• It is not eternal, but was self-created from
  nothing or
• It is not eternal, but was created by something
  anterior and superior to itself.
• So what about explanation for the Universe 2?
• It is absurd to think that something material can
  create itself from nothing. No material thing
  can create itself. (The Evidence for God in an
  Expanding Universe Dr. George E. Davis p.71)
• If material things could create themselves from
  nothing, wouldnt we be able to see the process,
  or at least some stage of it, today?
• With 1 and 2 scientifically implausible and
  therefore disproved, it seems were left with
  explanation 3.

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What does this mean?

• Remember the three possible explanations for the
  existence of the Universe
• It is eternal or
• It is not eternal, but was self-created from
  nothing or
• It is not eternal, but was created by something
  anterior and superior to itself.
• The only viable option is that
• Something that existed before the Universe
  created it (some eternal uncaused Cause
• Something which was superior to the material
  Universe created it, for the created cannot be
  greater than the Creator and
• Something of a different nature created the
  Universe, for the finite and material Universe of
  matter could neither create nor explain itself.

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God is the only Effect adequate to have Caused
the Universe!

• Aside from the material creation, physical life
  itself is explainable only by the realization of
  a eternal, non-physical Life Force (cf. Gen.27)
  which created life as we know it. Why?
• The scientific Law of Biogenesis states that
  Life begets life. Based on this law, from what
  other source could original life have come other
  than God?
• Atheism is forced to assume that physical life,
  at some time or another, was spontaneously
  generated from inorganic (non-living) materials.
  But all the evidence and logic denies it. Even
  evolutionists must admit that there is no
  scientific evidence to support this notion, and
  that it does not occur in any known cases!

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Conclusions

• One evolutionist estimated the probability for
  the chance formation of the smallest, simplest
  form of a living organism known as 1 X
  10340,000,000 . The entire Universe is said to
  only have 1080 electrons! You tell me which
  requires blind faith- belief in Atheism, or
  belief in God?
• There are only two options with no middle ground
• Life was spontaneously generated by accident from
  inorganic substances or
• It was purposely created by an eternal force
  called God.
• All plausible evidence indicates that life does
  not, and could not, begin spontaneously by mere
  chance.
• Thus all evidence forces us to conclude that life
  was originally created by the eternal force of
  God!

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So,

• If God is, we must worship and obey Him,
  Heb.116 Luke 646.
• He is, and we must.
• Will you?

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