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The Existence of God

• The Bible assumes God as a “self-evident truth”

• We believe by FAITH, but FAITH is not without evidence!

• You can’t measure God, but you measure what God does.

“Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists,

and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.” --Hebrews 11:6

• Faith is essential to please God

• Faith begins by believing in God’s existence

• Faith involves trusting God’s goodness

• Faith is earnestly seeking God

Is God playing a game of “Hide and Seek?”

• God wants to be found.

• Yet God yearns for us to want to find him.

“God did this so that men

would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.” -- Acts 17:27

The Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God

• An EFFECT demands an

adequate CAUSE

• Matter is NOT eternal

• “The heavens declare

the glory of God…”

--Psalm 19:1-2

Sing # 666

“The Spacious Firmament on High”

The Teleological Argument for the Existence of God

(Design Implies a Designer)

A happy accident or a product of intelligent design?

A happy accident or an intelligent design?

• The earth is the right

distance from the sun

• The womb is God’s unique incubation chamber

Sing # 362

“Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee”

The Moral Argument for the Existence of God (A moral creation demands a moral Creator)

• The Second Law of Thermodynamics:

Things go from order to disorder, from order toward chaos.

• God created a good world but sin has ruined it. The disorder of sin won’t be corrected naturally!

• Man’s moral nature points to a moral creator. There is a universal sense of “ought” in mankind.

• Romans 1:18-32, 2:14-15

Evidences for the Existence of God

• The effect of the universe demands an adequate cause

• The design of the universe demands an intelligent designer

• The moral nature of the universe demands a moral Creator

God’s Two Witnesses

• Special Revelation

• General Revelation

Is God playing a game of “Hide and Seek?”

• God wants to be found.

• Yet God yearns for us to want to find him.

“God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.” -- Acts 17:27