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“The fool has said in his heart there is no God (Psalm 14:1).” There must be many fools in the world because there are plenty of people who say they do not believe in any God; it isn’t just that they reject the God of the Bible, they reject the idea of any sort of higher power. Over the years Christians have offered several proofs for the existence of God. 

 

One argument points to morality. The human race is a moral race, even though there is plenty of immorality. The very fact that we classify immorality as the opposite of morality speaks to our general moral compass. While some issues are up for debate, there is a universal understanding that some things are definitely wrong. Murder is wrong in every culture. Taking someone’s personal property is wrong in every culture. We operate by a moral code from a young age. When you hear a child say, “That’s mine,” or “I had it first,” they are appealing to a universal standard of right and wrong.

 

How could this morality have evolved? Morality is not something tangible. Darwin’s survival of the fittest means we would actually be inclined to take another’s property—even his life—if it helps us get ahead. Its why the lion kills and eats the gazelle. Romans 2:15 says God’s law is written on human hearts. The fact that people are moral points to the existence of God. The atheist may claim to be “good without God,” but God defines what is good. The universal code of morality can only be explained as coming from the God who created humanity. 

 

Similar to morality, human consciousness is also an intangible characteristic of mankind that cannot have evolved. Consciousness is one of many proofs of the second argument for God’s existence, the argument from design. Trying to make the case that life created itself is an exercise in futility. Even if that somehow happened (it couldn’t), how did it evolve consciousness? That isn’t something made up of atoms or chemicals. Our ability to reason points to an Intelligent Designer. Descartes famously said, “Cogito, ergo sum (I think, therefore I am).” We can tweak his comment to, “Cogito, ergo Dues est (I think, therefore God is).”  

 

Another argument for the existence of God is known as the ontological argument (ontology refers to being). Anselm of Canterbury defined God as “that than which no greater can exist.” The strongest being we can conceive of is, by definition, God. The wisest being we can conceive of is also God by definition. The argument from ontology says that existing in reality is greater than existing only as a thought, therefore, God must exist. If God were nothing more than abstract thoughts, rather than an existential being, then you and I would be greater than God because we are real. If God is the greatest thing in the universe, then He must be real because existing is greater than fantasy. 

 

Saying there is no God is simply an illogical position. Or as David put it in Psalm 14, it is a foolish position. Don’t reject the arguments for the existence of God. He created you and wants to be in a relationship with you. 

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