Monday, July 10, 2006
How do I know that there is a God?
The very world you live in is evidence that there is a God.
Look at nature.
What causes high tide and low tide?
Why are there two tides each day?
Who created the planets and the stars?
Who created them in sync with the earth, such that the very moon we glance at night will also give a gravitational pull on our waters creating tide?
Who thought that we'd need the lulling waves to sail across?
Who thought we'd need the waning light of the moon at night, and the glare of the sun?
Who imagined the sun and gives source to its light?
Who feeds the trees and flowers?
Who imagined the cycle of respiration and photosynthesis?
Who thought that the sun would give life to the plants, and the plants would give life to animals?
Who made the cycle that gives rain from the sky?
Who made the sky blue?
Who created and chose colors and painted the rainbow?
Who placed love and its desire in our hearts?
Who moulded our fingers into shape, our faces, our personalities?
Who keeps watch over this world while we sleep at night?
Who will know where we go after we die?
Who will know what we do when we're alive?
Who remembers all that has happened?
Who knows our true purpose?
These are questions children ask! These are questions we are distracted from asking as we grow up, questions we reduce to childish. These are questions we block with the quest for status, power, money and superficial love. But these are essential questions, questions that question YOUR existence.
Why am I here? Who put me here?
Everytime you feel defeated look around you.
Outside the window trees and flowers grow with no worry for tomorrow. They live one day and wilter tomorrow. But who feeds them and watches over them? Who knows their beauty? And who will plan the new plants that creep up in the twilight?
Creation is far too amazing to be an accident. If it were an accident, there'd be 12 earths. It should have been so simple throughout the millions of years to have another accident. But if its just an incident that has happened only once, why this once? Why?
Religion exists because we can't find the answer to the simplest and most urgent question of humanity- What is our purpose?
Surely we are placed on this earth not by chance, surely we are not just numbers, surely we, being so different right down to our fingerprints and DNA, have a reason why we are put on this Earth.
Which man can know?
Only the creator will know the purpose of creation. Only one book has the story of humanity from creation to salvation written without any scientific contradiction right up to this point, and yes, it is the twenty-first century. The theory of the big bang coincides nicely with what you read in Genesis.
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.
http://www.umich.edu/~gs265/bigbang.htm:
About 15 billion years ago a tremendous explosion started the expansion of the universe. This explosion is known as the Big Bang. At the point of this event all of the matter and energy of space was contained at one point. What exisisted prior to this event is completely unknown and is a matter of pure speculation. This occurance was not a conventional explosion but rather an event filling all of space with all of the particles of the embryonic universe rushing away from each other. The Big Bang actually consisted of an explosion of space within itself unlike an explosion of a bomb were fragments are thrown outward. The galaxies were not all clumped together, but rather the Big Bang lay the foundations for the universe.
Creation is not an accident.
You're not an accident.
God is not a speculation.
debbie at 2:09 AM