DOES GOD EXIST?
Has the rain a father?
Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
From whose womb has come the ice?
And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?
(Job 38:28-29, NASV).
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) could hear in Psalm 19 all the heavenly bodies exclaiming "a glorious voice" and
Forever singing as they shine.
The hand that made us is divine.
Reason says that matter without a cause did not just appear: ex nihilo fit, of nothing, nothing is made.
An atheist and a theist camped one night in a tent on the sand of the Sahara Desert. For more than an hour, after their evening meal, they had a serious discussion on the existence or the non-existence of God. The atheist affirmed that all human knowledge comes through one or more of our five senses: hearing, seeing, feeling, tasting, or smelling. Since the theist admitted that he had never heard, seen, felt, tasted, or smelled God, the atheist insisted that his friend could not logically affirm the existence of God.
The next morning the atheist stepped outside the tent door, and called back to his friend in the tent, "A camel passed here during the night." The theist asked, "Did you hear, see, feel, taste, or smell the camel?" "No," responded the atheist, "but only a camel leaves such tracks in the sand." "Right," said the theist,
and only God leaves such tracks in the universe as your hearing the song of a bird, as your seeing a bird fly, as your feeling the touch of a loved one, as your tasting an apple, or as your smelling a rose.
Logically then it follows that atheists "are without excuse"
because that which can be known about God is plain among them, for God has made it plain to them. His unseen things—his eternal power and divine nature—are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being understood by the things that are made, … (Romans 1:19-20).
No atheist can say that he saw the men who built the White House, the home of our presidents. But all atheists will admit that the White House did not build itself. Consequently, indisputable logic says that "Every house is built by someone, and he who built all things is God" (Hebrews 3:4). The evidence for theism is so convincing, wrote David, that one is a "fool" who "says in his heart, ‘There is no god’" (Psalm 14:1; 53:1).
Overwhelming then is the evidence that God exists, but no one knows how he came to be. If everything known to us has a cause, how could there be an exception? A causeless Cause? We shall have to wait until we get to heaven for a solution to this difficulty.