Does God Exist
Essay by bguzman • October 28, 2017 • Essay • 680 Words (3 Pages) • 834 Views
Does God exist remains questioned, even though the Bible contains compelling evidence that God does exist, it does not mean we can prove nor say he doesn’t. The bible encourages us to build faith in God, not by just believing religious assertions, but by using our “power of reason” and “mental perception.” Nature is another of the ways in which God has revealed Himself to humanity. Nature looks up to God, the trees, mountains, the sun shines down on us, the world is full of amazing miracles; The creatures are complex in how they are made and look, each one being different from the other. As for Jesus is the third reveal of Gods existence.
As for one of the main reasons human beings have believed in God has been the marvelous they saw all around them in nature. We all know that words can’t do justice to the beauty and grandeur of the natural world. Whether it’s the depth of the blue sea, the power packed into a hurricane, or the colorful hues of the simplest sunset, there is something jaw dropping about the world in which we live. There’s nothing like driving outside the city to look up at the stars without a gazillion headlights dimming your view. The vastness of space and the microscopic world is phenomenal . A single grain of sand is made up of billions of molecules, atoms, and electrons, whirling around each other like a tiny solar system. Also our bodies, we often don’t think about the incredible way all the systems and organs of our bodies work together flawlessly. We weren’t built but robots or humans so we must have been created by God.
In the Bible, God reveals Himself to us in a way that allows us to have a better understanding of Him than we could ever gain through nature alone. As convincing as they are, the evidences for God in nature can be misunderstood. In fact, that has often been the case. Throughout the ages, men and women have seen God in nature, but all too often they have confused the two. They have thought that nature was God and that God was nature. That’s why they began worshiping the sun and the seasons. That’s why they began imagining all kinds of deities that controlled rainfall and crops and sickness. Without God revealing Himself to us more fully in the Bible, we would never be able to know Him as He wants us to. Jesus’ life on earth reveals His Father’s existence and tells us what God is like. Of all the ways in which God is revealed to us, the greatest
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