This is the most important decade of all history!
Never has it been more urgently necessary to
answer the question,
"Does God Exist?"
Atheists, scientists and historical geologists
assume He does not! Church-goers and some
Christians assume He does! It's time to quit
assuming! Its time you see the proof for
yourself.
There is a delusion gripping the minds of more
people today, it holds them in its sway, deluding
and deceiving them, making them veritable slaves!
It is the concept of "no God."
The grandson of Sir Julian Huxley once stated:
"There is no longer either need nor room for
supernatural beings capable of affecting the
course of events in the evolutionary pattern of
thought. The earth was not created, it evolved.
So did all the animals and plants that inhabit
it, including our human selves."
Is there "no longer any need for a concept
of God"? Is the Bible merely a collection of
Hebrew fables, or is it the dynamic living word
of an intelligent, all-wise Creator Being?
Don't you think that these questions demand an
answer? Our very life, the lives of our loved
ones, and the future of this world hangs in the
balance.
Is the Bible totally out of harmony with all
science? Do these modern-day discoveries in the
sciences render a Christian helpless to reconcile
his belief with the "enlightened age"
in which we live?
In this article you will read of seven proofs
that God does indeed exist. This first positive
proof of the existence of God is so broad, so all
encompassing, so diverse in its many ramifications
that it is possible only to barely scratch the
surface in this article.
There can be no clearer way to substantiate this
proof than to quote from a typical college
textbook which discards the Bible record. In the
foreword material, the authors offer various
explanations as to the origin of the earth:
"Our own galaxy, when we remember is but a
tiny part of the universe, has probably existed
a million, million years. "But some progress
has been made in the attempting to explain how
and when the sun and its planets came into being.
The study of the solar system gives us at least
a clue to the origin of that part of the universe
most important to us, the earth.
By the 1900s T. C. Chamberlain and F.R. Moulton
of the University of Chicago formulated a theory
called the Hypothesis Dynamic Encounter. In brief
it suggests that our solar system had its birth
when the sun was approached by another huge star.
The latter, through the operation of the law of
gravitation, detached from the sun great masses of
flaming gas. The orphan masses from the parent
sun gradually cooled and crystallized to become
the planets today. These continued to revolve
around the sun, held in their orbits by the
gravitational pull of the parent body. The
evolution of the earth to its present state was
very gradual. (Civilization Past and Present,
Vol. I, Page 31, Wallbank and Taylor.)
Now notice some of the words that these men
used, words like "probably, some progress
has been made, attempting to explain; at least a
clue; explanation commonly accepted; Hypothesis;
and it suggests."
What a collections of words! As you can see these
men have numerous "attempts" to
explain, "some progress" being made,
at least a "clue," and the "
suggestion" of an "hypothesis" the
word itself means "WE GUESS"!
But let's analyze further. Let's get to the very
trunk of the tree of this very vital first proof
of the existence of God! In the very beginning
the writers, even though beginning with many at-
tempts to explain, clues and guesses, admit the
existence of our solar system, a "sun,"
another "huge star," the "operation
of the law of gravitation," great "
masses of flaming gas," and admit that
these gases "gradually cooled!"
Now they also mention how these gases "
crystallized" and then continued to "
revolve around the sun, held in their orbits
by the gravitational pull of the parent body!
"
What an imagination! Here is a whole solar system,
a huge sun, the operation of certain definite,
immutable, unchangeable LAWS, here is a supposed
collision between gigantic huge astral bodies
resulting in the supposed formation of our
present solar system. Think of it! All of these
myriad laws, of heat, light, energy, motion, the
rotation of astral bodies the laws of gravity,
the principle of isostasy, which demands that
every orbital body must gradually assume and
maintain a near round shape, and myriad other
laws, entirely too numerous to mention, are
admitted to exist.
Now there are other theories, such as the "
Steady-state theory (the universe has always
existed ), then there is the "Oscillating-
universe theory, (It incorporates major aspects
of both the big-bang and steady-state theories.)
Now back to the trunk of the tree. Where is the
place to begin? Is it an attempt to explain the
existence of our present solar system? Decidedly
not! Scientists and astronomers tell us that our
solar system is only one of many such systems in
our great galaxy call the "Milky Way."
However, even our galaxy is only one of myriad
galaxies, which form only a part of the vast,
limitless expanse of the universe
Now, you begin to comprehend? By what LAW did one
star approach another? By what LAW did heat
gradually cool? By what LAW was there a "
gravitational pull?" By what LAW was there
the existence of the "operation of the law
of gravitation"?
In dissecting and looking carefully into the
statements of some of the preposterous hypotheses
which have been advanced, you begin to see that
in every case the writers have begun with an
orderly, LAW-ABIDING, universe, governed by
irrefutable laws.
The existence of LAW, unchangeable, immutable,
irrevocable, unseen and yet active, absolutely
DEMANDS the existence of a GREAT LAWGIVER! "
There is one LAWGIVER who is able to save and to
destroy" (James 4:12). That lawgiver is GOD!
That is proof Number One.
PROOF NUMBER TWO
Before seeing this next amazing, irrefutable
proof, it is first necessary to state, in the
simplest terms, the meaning of the word
"evolution." Of course, there are many
processes called "evolution." The
process of development of music from simple to
complex is, in a sense, an "evolutionary
" process. This, as is true in all
technological inventions, has perhaps led many to
assume such a development is also true in
organic, living material. Evolution is the
gradual development from the simple, unorganized
condition of primal matter to the complex
structure of the physical universe; and in like
manner, from the beginning of organic life on
this earth, a gradual unfolding and branching
out into all the various form s of beings which
constitute the animal and plant kingdoms.
Did you notice that evolution theories from the
beginning of organic life, already having LIFE
with which to begin! It does not now show, nor
has it ever shown, nor will it ever be able to
show how life came into existence. The theory of
evolution states simply, that all life forms that
we know today, including mankind all plant and
animal life in all of its myriad species, have
gradually evolved from the most simple life forms
to the complex, intricate, interdependent species
we see about us today, each having its own
peculiar cyclical life character, each reproducing
according to its own kind.
Evolution states that this life evolved in a
"gradual process," by "resident
forces" into the complexity of life today.
Evolutionists, geneticists, biologists, and
scientists in any field whatsoever have never
been able to demonstrate, nor to offer the
slightest proof that the living can come into
existence from the non-living. It is true that
certain laboratory experiments have taken place
in which supposed "dead cells" are said
to have been "revived" and brought back
to life by the means of certain chemical
compounds! This, however, is a far cry from "
spontaneous generation."
There is a broad, gaping, yawning chasm of
separation between life and death. The great gap
between the not-living and the living is so
broad, so insurmountable, so unfathomable by man,
that the evolutionist can only "suppose
" and "guess," offering vague,
ethereal, nebulous "theories" as to how
life might have begun.
However, on the other hand, there is an absolute,
demonstrable law of science which comprises the
second major proof of the existence of a
life-giving God! That is the law of "
Biogenesis!
"Bio" means life! "Genesis"
means beginning. This law, then, is a law
concerning the beginning of life! This law,
simple stated, is the absolute law that life
comes only from life. That the non-living can
never give rise to, give birth to, or produce the
living. There is perhaps no law known to science
that can be any more firmly and easily
demonstrated than the law of biogenesis. The very
existence of LIFE demands a LIFEGIVER!
God states dogmatically, "And the Eternal
God formed man of the dust of the ground and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life,
and man became a living creature" (Gen. 2:7).
Almighty God, the Life Self-Existent, the One who
has life, who IS LIFE, who was before all things,
imparted life to the first man, and set within
man, the animals, and all plants, the cyclical
character of life which enables them to reproduce
according to certain set laws! God is the Great
Life Giver!
PROOF NUMBER THREE
Now many of these amazing proofs of the existence
of an Almighty God "Overlap." That is,
each is, to a degree, interrelated with the
other. The third major proof of God can be
stated quite simply from the quotation you saw
under proof number one.
You will notice that evolutionists, in trying to
substantiate their theory, always begin with an
orderly universe, and the existence of matter.
Now notice the so-called theory of evolution
begins with matter, laws, and simple life!
Just what is matter? Matter occupies space and has
weight. It is not always necessarily seen, since
certain gases, and even the air which you and I
breathe, are also classified as matter. Until
recently, scientists talked of the law of the
"conservation of matter." However, with
the discoveries in nuclear physics, and following
Madame Curie's experiments with radium, scientists
have now found there is a certain amount of
disintegration in matter.
This deterioration of matter is a scientific
fact! Uranium (U 238) gradually disintegrates
through many intermediate stages into lead, (Pb
206). Uranium, as you may know, is radioactive and
gives off energy in the form of radiation.
Gradually over a period of seemingly limitless
years, this radioactive material disintegrates
into lead! There is no new uranium coming into
existence today.
What does this mean? Simply stated, science has
proved that this earth is gradually running down.
The earth and the whole universe, is like a
great, giant clock, which at one time was wound
up. It has been gradually "running down"
ever since, and is not by any process known or
observed or measured being "wound up"
again.
It is as if man has arrived on the scene in the
midst of an orderly universe which is gradually
running down. Observe even the fields,
mountains, valleys, and various topographical
features about you.
Science has firmly established, then, there has
been no past eternity of matter.
Matter must have at one time come into existence.
Since matter by its very nature has had no past
eternity, it had to have been, at one time,
brought into existence.
Creation, then, the very existence of things,
demands and requires a Creator! That which is
made requires a Maker. That which is produced
requires a Producer. Matter, it has been firmly
established, has been made, it did not just
happen and has no past eternity. Therefore, the
third great proof is that the creation requires
a great Creator.
PROOF NUMBER FOUR
The One who is quoted in the first person as
being God said, "Let the earth bring forth
the living creature after his kind, cattle, and
creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his
kind, and it was so. And God made the beast of
the earth after their kind, and cattle after
their kind, and everything that creepth upon the
earth after his kind, and God saw that it was
good" (Gen 1: 24-25).
Scientists have attempted to show the evolutionary
pattern by "Comparative embryology," by
a study of selective breeding, genetics, and
various other aspects of biology. However,
without taking the tremendous amount of space
necessary to even faintly scratch the surface of
such a broad subject, suffice it to say there is
an absolute, irrefutable, immutable, unchangeable
LAW, which absolutely prohibits a jump from one
kind to another kind. DNA will not allow for
cells to mutate.
There are hundreds of different varieties within
certain species, and while there may be small,
tiny dogs, such as the Mexican Chihuahua and also
great huge dogs such as the St. Bernard and the
Great Dane, they are still dogs. They are not
fish, cats, horses, nor are they even beginning
to show a gradual trend toward developing into
another species. They are all of the same kind.
Now comparative embryology tries to point out
that the beginning embryos of fish, polliwogs,
and humans look very much alike. This is true. But
it proves absolutely nothing for the case of
evolution, but does offer a stronger proof of the
existence of God. Scientists are defied to attempt
to make the embryo of a fish turn out to be a
polliwog, a man, or anything other than a fish
from the exact same kind of fish which laid the
egg in the first place.
Scientists have attempted to prove their
evolutionary theories by "selective breeding
" and the studies in "mutations."
Again the DNA Code in cells will not allow for
mutations.
These do not prove evolution! They prove, rather,
the existence of absolute, unchangeable LAWS
governing the reproduction of all animal and plant
life, and that those laws function within certain
limited bounds that cannot be transcended or
broken!
While we are able to breed and cultivate today
new varieties within a great kind, they are still
of the same KIND and not a new species of life.
This absolutely proves, not only the existence of
a Law Giver, but that there is, alive, acting
right now, a Great Sustainer of all that is.
These laws are upheld, sustained, kept in
action. How? By the Sustainer, who is God.
PROOF NUMBER FIVE
Now look about you! You live in a highly complex,
intricate and interdependent world! It is a world
of Great Design. Haveyou ever seen an ugly
sunset? You have ever seen an ugly scene in the
desert, in the mountains, at sea, or anywhere on
the surface of this entire earth, unless it were
a scene made ugly by man. All is in harmony.
Life, as we know it, is entirely interdependent
upon other forms of life. Nothing lives or dies
to itself. The question to the evolutionist is:
Which "evolved first, the corn or the bee?
Did the bee evolve slowly for thousands, millions
or billions of years independent of the corn
stalks, the flowers and the pollens from growing
things which are his life source?
Did the flowers, grasses, trees, and grains all
"evolve" slowly and gradually over a
period of million or billions of years independent
of the little bee, upon whom they must rely for
their very continuation of life?
This total interdependency of all life forms, the
tremendous design within this universe shows a
common Beginner, one main Architect, one great
Designer with an over-all framework of a plan of
creation into which all life forms fit. Nothing
lives or dies to itself. Each living thing,
whether plant or animal, when it dies, supplies
further life for other living things.
This great universe, and the complex, intricate
earth on which you live and draw breath, is a
world of great design. It is a world of such
complex and intricate design so as to take the
very breath in beginning to investigate even the
minutest part.
The cleavage properties of minerals, the wings of
a bird or a fly, the beauty of a sunset, the
facets of a quartz crystal, and above all, the
marvelous, tremendous masterpiece of all design,
the human body, all point out that for such
intricate design, there had to be an Eternal
Designer. Design in the universe proves the
existence of a DESIGNER!
PROOF NUMBER SIX
This sixth proof of the existence of an Almighty God is perhaps the most astounding of all. It is fulfilled prophecy!
About one third of the Bible is prophecy, and while most of that one third pertains to our present day, there are many, many prophecies which have already been fulfilled, and which are presently being fulfilled.
The Great God sent His prophets hundreds of years ago to such major cities as Babylon, Elkron, Ashdod, Sidon. These prophets, simple human beings who had been commissioned with a message, foretold the decay, fall and particular type of fate which was to befall each of these ancient cities! And without fail, in every single instance, exactly at the time prescribed, all these things happened.
The very fact that God is able to foretell the future, and bring it to pass, is a great proof of His existence.
PROOF NUMBER SEVEN
This last proof is perhaps the greatest proof of all to Christians. It is the proof of answered prayer. However, since the skeptics, atheists and doubters have never prayed, and hence have never had prayers answered, they will continue to doubt.
Real answered prayer is not the mere "working out of events" as a result of concentration. Many people today seem to assume prayer is merely an accomplishment as a result of positive thinking or a psychological adjustment. This is a gross error!
Real answered prayer is a direct, divine, supernatural intervention, a completely miraculous intervention and direct answer from Almighty God! It is the result of being obedient to God's laws, asking according to His will, and then believing, in faith until the answer comes.
These seven, irrefutable, unchangeable proofs of the existence of God, represent only the minutest beginning of the subject. They are, nevertheless, proofs! It's about time people quit assuming. It's about time they begin to really prove all things!
It's about time YOU should say, with Job, "For I know that MY redeemer LIVETH, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth " (Job 19:25).
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