“Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind”
Albert Einstein
Let’s take a look at the universe to see if there are any clues as to whether God exists or not. Romans 1:20 states “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-His eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen.” Several days ago we shared a quote from a Russian cosmonaut. Within months of his flight, an American astronaut remarked after orbiting the earth that “he could not see anywhere that God had not been”. However, back to our story.
We see the life of Jesus, healing the sick, raising the dead, walking on water and he himself coming back from the dead. Throughout history, God has been showing himself through nature but also suspending all the rules about nature so that his will be done a.k.a. parting of the Red Sea, stopping the sun for a period of time, you know that kind of thing the science community comes up with all the time. I quoted from Albert Einstein in the beginning and he discovered the theory of relativity. Really that’s all the science community can do is discover what God has put in place.
So much of belief is centered around the ability to see something or someone. We accept things that we cannot see everyday. The warmth of the sun (coming soon I hope), the love of another person, the wind, actually anything that we have seen the evidence that something or someone has been moving or been there.
Let’s look at some evidence that God has left for us to discover Him and His plan.
You’ll see the design. This earth works like clockwork with its seasons, the earth’s rotation, the tides of the seas, the predictability of an eclipse, sunrise or set, the delicate balance of the salt content of the oceans, the changeability of the weather, all work together to keep this “big blue marble” in perfect harmony. Take a look at your hands. No one ever has had fingerprints exactly like yours. How does your eye work? It is amazing.
You’ll find morality. Is there evil in the world? Sure, but within all of us there is an innate sense of morality. In all civilizations from the beginning of time, there are certain, absolute morals such as murder, theft, adultery and hatred are all seen as unacceptable things. Is that the result of a society that polices itself or the reaction to a holy God.
You’ll discover spiritual need. If this world provided everything we needed, there would be mass outbreaks of people being satisfied with life. That however is not the case. All people discover that sometime in their life, there must be something they are lacking. It has been said that we all have a “God-shaped void” in our life that only God can fill. People are looking for love in all the wrong places. The needs of your soul run deep and will not be satisfied by the things of this world.
As we look around us, the evidence that we are not here by chance and that a grand, invisible Someone is running the whole thing, is all around us.
What evidence is most convincing to you?
Read Genesis 2:7
1 comment:
Before I was saved I was alot like Joe on the treadmill in the video from week 1. I did everything in my power to keep that treadmill from stopping and those questions from catching up to me. It's kind of funny now though when I think back to that time it was so obvious, as it is now, that He was/is all around us. Put aside the flood and parting of the Red Sea and those kinds of "big" miracles. The simple fact that we are here walking, talking, eating, breathing, caring, helping, loving... How could any of that be chance? It can't! The only way you could come to any other conclusion than "it all came from God" is by not stopping the treadmill and truly opening your heart and mind to the possibility.
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