Evidence of God
Did you choose what you’re wearing today? {Or did you dress yourself this morning?}
If you did I can show evidence of God to you.
The Bible has existed for nearly 2,000 years, and we believe it to be the Inspired WORD of God.
In its 1st book:
Genesis, 1: 26 & 27 we are taught that we are made in the image & likeness of God.
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth." So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them
Then is the Gospel {Meaning the “GOOD News”} of
John 4: 23-24, tells us that {our} God is:
“But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him.
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."
That God is a “Spiritual Reality”
Q: So if God is a Spirit and man is made in His Image; how can that be? “Man” is human
[1] In all of the Universes BILLIONS of stars, galaxies and planets,
only ONE can be proven to be able to support ALL of the Life-Forms that we are aware of.
Planet Earth
[2] On Planet Earth with its hundreds of MILLIONS of different living things; only ONE,
only Man can choose to love or hate,
only Man, can rationalize.
[3] In order for Man to be able to love, hate & rationalize require in an absolute sense:
A mind {not meaning our brain}
A Intellect {not meaning “I.Q.} &
A Freewill
[4]
Each of these attributes, are like God: Spiritual realities & immortal. Meaning that they can’t be killed & don’t die.
[5] If you’re doubtful? Define for me your
“FREEWILL” What is its size, weight, color & shape?
It can’t be done but only a foolish person would assert that it does not exist.
[6] Science tells us that like things originate from other “like-things.”
[7] So these “Spiritual Realities” have to have a source, other than our parents, who transmit our physical attributes; but cannot transmit “spiritual {invisible} things”.
[8} further evidence of a Power, a Source greater than man is evidenced in the
Natural Laws: Motion, gravity for example. Then there are the Sun & the Moon both which paly essential roles in sustaining Earths life forms. With many BILLIONS of stars and planets the odds that they exist in the forms NECESSARY to sustain life, and then BE in OUR Galaxy is
many BILLIUONS to One. {Impossible!} By luck or coincidence.
[8] Then add to this the Moral Laws: Good and evil too have to have a source, an origin. Because this Power, this Source that WE CHOOSE to identify as our God is Good, we can know that Goodness {LOVE} comes from God; while hate exist permitted by God, so man can freely choose good or evil.
[9] Enter into a discussion of WHY man is given these attributes: LIFE After physical death discussion
St. Thomas Aquinas:
The Existence of God can be proved in five ways.
Argument Analysis of
the Five Ways
The above is too large to cut & paste, but can also be used.
God Bless,
PJM
St. Thomas Aquinas:
The Existence of God can be proved in five ways.
Argument Analysis of
the Five Ways © 2016
Theodore Gracyk
The First Way: Argument from Motion
- Our senses prove that some things are in motion.
- Things move when potential motion becomes actual motion.
- Only an actual motion can convert a potential motion into an actual motion.
- Nothing can be at once in both actuality and potentiality in the same respect (i.e., if both actual and potential, it is actual in one respect and potential in another).
- Therefore nothing can move itself.
- Therefore each thing in motion is moved by something else.
- The sequence of motion cannot extend ad infinitum.
- Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a first mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God.
The Second Way: Argument from Efficient Causes
- We perceive a series of efficient causes of things in the world.
- Nothing exists prior to itself.
- Therefore nothing [in the world of things we perceive] is the efficient cause of itself.
- If a previous efficient cause does not exist, neither does the thing that results (the effect).
- Therefore if the first thing in a series does not exist, nothing in the series exists.
- If the series of efficient causes extends ad infinitum into the past, for then there would be no things existing now.
- That is plainly false (i.e., there are things existing now that came about through efficient causes).
- Therefore efficient causes do not extend ad infinitum into the past.
- Therefore it is necessary to admit a first efficient cause, to which everyone gives the name of God.
The Third Way: Argument from Possibility and Necessity (Reductio argument)
- We find in nature things that are possible to be and not to be, that come into being and go out of being i.e., contingent beings.
- Assume that every being is a contingent being.
- For each contingent being, there is a time it does not exist.
- Therefore it is impossible for these always to exist.
- Therefore there could have been a time when no things existed.
- Therefore at that time there would have been nothing to bring the currently existing contingent beings into existence.
- Therefore, nothing would be in existence now.
- We have reached an absurd result from assuming that every being is a contingent being.
- Therefore not every being is a contingent being.
- Therefore some being exists of its own necessity, and does not receive its existence from another being, but rather causes them. This all men speak of as God.
The Fourth Way: Argument from Gradation of Being
- There is a gradation to be found in things: some are better or worse than others.
- Predications of degree require reference to the “uttermost” case (e.g., a thing is said to be hotter according as it more nearly resembles that which is hottest).
- The maximum in any genus is the cause of all in that genus.
- Therefore there must also be something which is to all beings the cause of their being, goodness, and every other perfection; and this we call God.
The Fifth Way: Argument from Design
- We see that natural bodies work toward some goal, and do not do so by chance.
- Most natural things lack knowledge.
- But as an arrow reaches its target because it is directed by an archer, what lacks intelligence achieves goals by being directed by something intelligence.
- Therefore some intelligent being exists by whom all natural things are directed to their end; and this being we call God.
Friend a BIG part of finding God {the entire Universe exist so that YOU can, could and should}, is YOU permitting God to "find you."
May God guide our life paths,
Patrcik
