Is There A God?

By Marilyn Adamson

Just once wouldn't you love for someone to simply show you the evidence for God's existence? No arm-twisting, no badgering. No statements of, "You've just got to believe." Just the simple, straightforward reasons that would lead one to conclude there is a God?

This article is an opportunity for you to take an honest look at the possibility of God. This will attempt to answer the question, "Is there a God who is powerful, personal and loving? Does such a God exist?"

Perhaps a little surprising, many people believe in God not out of desperation or wish fulfillment, but as an honest response to the compelling facts before them.

Before you look at the following facts, however, consider this. If a person opposes the possibility of there being a God, then any evidence can be rationalized or explained away. Just like if someone is dead set against the idea that people walked on the moon, then no amount of proof is going to change their thinking. Satellite footage of the astronauts walking on the moon, moon rocks of foreign composition, the testimony of the astronauts, written reports from their mission . . . all the evidence would be worthless, because the person has already concluded that people cannot go to the moon.

When it comes to the possibility of God's existence, the Bible says that there are people who have seen sufficient evidence, but they have suppressed the truth about God. (1) On the other hand, for those who want to know God if He is there, He says,

"You will seek me and find me; when you seek me with all your heart, I will be found by you, says the Lord."(2) So before you look at the facts to prove God's existence, it is valid to ask, "If God does exist would I want to know Him?"

Here, then, are some reasons supporting God's existence:

1. Throughout history, in all cultures of the world, people have been convinced there is a God. Could one say with any sense of confidence that all those people have been mistaken? Billions of people, who represent diverse sociological, intellectual, emotional, educational make-ups . . . all came to the same conclusion that there is a Creator, a God to be worshipped.  "Anthropological research has indicated that among the farthest and most remote primitive people today, there is a universal belief in God. And in the earliest histories and legends of people all around the world, the original concept was of one God, who was the Creator. An original high God seems once to have been in their consciousness even in those societies which are today polytheistic."(3)

2. "Anthropological research has indicated that among the farthest and most remote primitive people today, there is a universal belief in God. And in the earliest histories and legends of people all around the world, the original concept was of one God, who was the Creator. An original high God seems once to have been in their consciousness even in those societies which are today polytheistic."(3) The complexity of our universe, our solar system and our planet Earth all point to a knowing, deliberate Designer who not only created our universe, but sustains it today. Pages and pages of examples showing God's design could be given here, possibly with no end. But here are a few: