By Marilyn Adamson

Just once wouldn't you love for someone to simply show you the evidence for God's existence? No arm-
twisting. No statements of, "You just have to believe." Well, here is an attempt to candidly offer some of the reasons which suggest that God exists.

But first consider this. When it comes to the
possibility of God's existence, the Bible says that
there are people who have seen sufficient evidence,
but they have suppressed the truth about God.

On the other hand, for those who want to know God if he
is there, he says, "You will seek me and find me;
when you seek me with all your heart, I will be found
by you."

Before you look at the facts surrounding
God's existence, ask yourself, If God does exist,
would I want to know him? Here then, are some
reasons to consider...

1. Does God exist? The complexity of our
planet points to a deliberate Designer who not
only created our universe, but sustains it
today.

Many examples showing God's design could be
given, possibly with no end. But here are a few:

The Earth ...its size is perfect. The Earth's size and
corresponding gravity holds a thin layer of mostly
nitrogen and oxygen gases, only extending about 50
miles above the Earth's surface.

If Earth were smaller, an atmosphere would be impossible, like the
planet Mercury. If Earth were larger, its atmosphere
would contain free hydrogen, like Jupiter. Earth is
the only known planet equipped with an atmosphere
of the right mixture of gases to sustain plant, animal
and human life.

The Earth is located the
right distance from the
sun. Consider the
temperature swings we
encounter, roughly -30
degrees to +120 degrees.
If the Earth were any
further away from the sun,
we would all freeze.
Any
closer and we would burn up. Even a fractional
variance in the Earth's position to the sun would
make life on Earth impossible. The Earth remains this
perfect distance from the sun while it rotates around
the sun at a speed of nearly 67,000 mph. It is also
rotating on its axis, allowing the entire surface of the

Earth to be properly warmed and cooled every day.
And our moon is the perfect size and distance from
the Earth for its gravitational pull. The moon creates
important ocean tides and movement so ocean
waters do not stagnate, and yet our massive oceans
are restrained from spilling over across the
continents.

Water ...colorless, odorless and without taste, and yet
no living thing can survive without it. Plants, animals
and human beings consist mostly of water (about
two-thirds of the human body is water). You'll see
why the characteristics of water are uniquely suited
to life:
It has an unusually high boiling point and freezing
point. Water allows us to live in an environment of
fluctuating temperature changes, while keeping our
bodies a steady 98.6 degrees.

Water is a universal
solvent. This property of
water means that various
chemicals, minerals and
nutrients can be carried
throughout our bodies and
into the smallest blood
vessels.

Water is also chemically neutral. Without affecting
the makeup of the substances it carries, water
enables food, medicines and minerals to be absorbed
and used by the body.

Water has a unique surface tension. Water in plants
can therefore flow upward against gravity, bringing
life-giving water and nutrients to the top of even the
tallest trees.

Water freezes from the top down and floats, so fish
can live in the winter.
Ninety-seven percent of the Earth's water is in the
oceans. But on our Earth, there is a system designed
which removes salt from the water and then
distributes that water throughout the globe.
Evaporation takes the ocean waters, leaving the salt,
and forms clouds which are easily moved by the wind
to disperse water over the land, for vegetation,
animals and people.

It is a system of purification and
supply that sustains life on this planet, a system of
recycled and reused water.

The Human Brain ...simultaneously processes an
amazing amount of information. Your brain takes in
all the colors and objects you see, the temperature
around you, the pressure of your feet against the
floor, the sounds around you, the dryness of your
mouth, even the texture of your keyboard.
Your brain
holds and processes all your emotions, thoughts and
memories. At the same time your brain keeps track of
the ongoing functions of your body like your
breathing pattern, eyelid movement, hunger and
movement of the muscles in your hands.

The human brain
processes more than a
million messages a
second. Your brain
weighs the importance of
all this data, filtering out
the relatively unimportant.
This screening function is
what allows you to focus and operate effectively in
your world.
The brain functions differently than other
organs. There is an intelligence to it, the ability to
reason, to produce feelings, to dream and plan, to
take action, and relate to other people.

The Eye ...can distinguish among seven million
colors. It has automatic focusing and handles an
astounding 1.5 million messages -- simultaneously.

Evolution focuses on mutations and changes from
and within existing organisms. Yet evolution alone
does not fully explain the initial source of the eye or
the brain -- the start of living organisms from
nonliving matter.

2. Does God exist? The universe had a start -
what caused it?

Scientists are convinced that our universe began with
one enormous explosion of energy and light, which
we now call the Big Bang. This was the singular start
to everything that exists: the beginning of the
universe, the start of space, and even the initial start
of time itself.
Astrophysicist Robert Jastrow, a self-described
agnostic, stated, "The seed of everything that has
happened in the Universe was planted in that first
instant; every star, every planet and every living
creature in the Universe came into being as a result
of events that were set in motion in the moment of the
cosmic explosion...The Universe flashed into being,
and we cannot find out what caused that to
happen."
Steven Weinberg, a Nobel laureate in Physics, said at
the moment of this explosion, "the universe was
about a hundred thousands million degrees
Centigrade...and the universe was filled with
light."
The universe has not always existed. It had a
start...what caused that? Scientists have no
explanation for the sudden explosion of light and
matter.

3. Does God exist? The universe operates by
uniform laws of nature. Why does it?

Much of life may seem uncertain, but look at what we
can count on day after day: gravity remains
consistent, a hot cup of coffee left on a counter will
get cold, the earth rotates in the same 24 hours, and
the speed of light doesn't change -- on earth or in
galaxies far from us.
How is it that we can identify laws of nature that
never change? Why is the universe so orderly, so
reliable?
"The greatest scientists have been struck by how
strange this is. There is no logical necessity for a
universe that obeys rules, let alone one that abides by
the rules of mathematics. This astonishment springs
from the recognition that the universe doesn't have to
behave this way. It is easy to imagine a universe in
which conditions change unpredictably from instant
to instant, or even a universe in which things pop in
and out of existence."

Richard Feynman, a Nobel Prize winner for quantum
electrodynamics, said, "Why nature is mathematical
is a mystery...The fact that there are rules at all is a
kind of miracle."

4. Does God exist? The DNA code informs,
programs a cell's behavior.

All instruction, all
teaching, all training
comes with intent.
Someone who writes an
instruction manual does so
with purpose. Did you
know that in every cell of
our bodies there exists a
very detailed instruction
code, much like a miniature computer program? As
you may know, a computer program is made up of
ones and zeros, like this: 110010101011000. The way
they are arranged tell the computer program what to
do.
The DNA code in each of our cells is very similar.
It's made up of four chemicals that scientists
abbreviate as A, T, G, and C. These are arranged in
the human cell like this: CGTGTGACTCGCTCCTGAT
and so on. There are three billion of these letters in
every human cell!!
Well, just like you can program your phone to beep
for specific reasons, DNA instructs the cell. DNA is a
three-billion-lettered program telling the cell to act
in a certain way. It is a full instruction manual.

Why is this so amazing?
One has to ask....how did
this information program
wind up in each human
cell? These are not just
chemicals. These are
chemicals that instruct,
that code in a very detailed
way exactly how the
person's body should develop.
Natural, biological causes are completely lacking as
an explanation when programmed information is
involved. You cannot find instruction, precise
information like this, without someone intentionally
constructing it.

5. Does God exist? We know God exists
because he pursues us. He is constantly
initiating and seeking for us to come to him.

I was an atheist at one time. And like many atheists,
the issue of people believing in God bothered me
greatly. What is it about atheists that we would
spend so much time, attention, and energy refuting×
something that we don't believe even exists?! What
causes us to do that? When I was an atheist, I
attributed my intentions as caring for those poor,
delusional people...to help them realize their hope
was completely ill-founded.
To be honest, I also had
another motive. As I challenged those who believed
in God, I was deeply curious to see if they could
convince me otherwise. Part of my quest was to
become free from the question of God. If I could
conclusively prove to believers that they were wrong,
then the issue is off the table, and I would be free to
go about my life.

I didn't realize that the
reason the topic of God
weighed so heavily on my
mind, was because God
was pressing the issue. I
have come to find out that
God wants to be known.
He created us with the
intention that we would
know him.
He has surrounded us with evidence of
himself and he keeps the question of his existence
squarely before us. It was as if I couldn't escape
thinking about the possibility of God. In fact, the day I
chose to acknowledge God's existence, my prayer
began with, "Ok, you win..." It might be that the
underlying reason atheists are bothered by people
believing in God is because God is actively pursuing
them.

I am not the only one who has experienced this.
Malcolm Muggeridge, socialist and philosophical
author, wrote, "I had a notion that somehow, besides
questing, I was being pursued." C.S. Lewis said he
remembered, "...night after night, feeling whenever
my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the
steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so
earnestly desired not to meet. I gave in, and admitted
that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps,
that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in
all of England."

Lewis went on to write a book titled, "Surprised by
Joy" as a result of knowing God. I too had no
expectations other than rightfully admitting God's
existence. Yet over the following several months, I
became amazed by his love for me.

6. Does God exist? Unlike any other
revelation of God, Jesus Christ is the clearest,
most specific picture of God revealing himself
to us.

Why Jesus? Look throughout the major world
religions and you'll find that Buddha, Muhammad,
Confucius and Moses all identified themselves as
teachers or prophets. None of them ever claimed to
be equal to God. Surprisingly, Jesus did. That is what
sets Jesus apart from all the others. He said God
exists and you're looking at him. Though he talked
about his Father in heaven, it was not from the
position of separation, but of very close union, unique
to all humankind. Jesus said that anyone who had
seen Him had seen the Father, anyone who believed
in him, believed in the Father.
He said, "I am the light of the world, he who follows
me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light
of life."
He claimed attributes belonging only to
God: to be able to forgive people of their sin, free
them from habits of sin, give people a more abundant
life and give them eternal life in heaven. Unlike other
teachers who focused people on their words, Jesus
pointed people to himself. He did not say, "follow my
words and you will find truth." He said, "I am the way,
the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father but
through me."

What proof did Jesus give for claiming to be divine?
He did what people can't do. Jesus performed
miracles. He healed people...blind, crippled, deaf,
even raised a couple of people from the dead. He had
power over objects...created food out of thin air,
enough to feed crowds of several thousand people.
He performed miracles over nature...walked on top of
a lake, commanding a raging storm to stop for some
friends. People everywhere followed Jesus, because
he constantly met their needs, doing the miraculous.
He said if you do not want to believe what I'm telling
you, you should at least believe in me based on the
miracles you're seeing.

Jesus Christ showed God to be gentle, loving, aware
of our self-centeredness and shortcomings, yet
deeply wanting a relationship with us. Jesus revealed
that although God views us as sinners, worthy of his
punishment, his love for us ruled and God came up
with a different plan. God himself took on the form of
man and accepted the punishment for our sin on our
behalf. Sounds ludicrous? Perhaps, but many loving
fathers would gladly trade places with their child in a
cancer ward if they could. The Bible says that the
reason we would love God is because he first loved
us.

Jesus died in our place so we could be forgiven. Of
all the religions known to humanity, only through
Jesus will you see God reaching toward humanity,
providing a way for us to have a relationship with
him. Jesus proves a divine heart of love, meeting our
needs, drawing us to himself. Because of Jesus'
death and resurrection, he offers us a new life today.
We can be forgiven, fully accepted by God and
genuinely loved by God. He says, "I have loved you
with an everlasting love, therefore I have continued
my faithfulness to you."

This is God, in action.
Does God exist? If you want to know, investigate
Jesus Christ. We're told that "God so loved the world
that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in
him should not perish but have eternal life." 18
God does not force us to believe in him, though he
could. Instead, he has provided sufficient proof of his
existence for us to willingly respond to him. The
earth's perfect distance from the sun, the unique
chemical properties of water, the human brain, DNA,
the number of people who attest to knowing God, the
gnawing in our hearts and minds to determine if God
is there, the willingness for God to be known through
Jesus Christ.


If you want to begin a relationship with God
now, you can.

This is your decision, no coercion here. But if you
want to be forgiven by God and come into a
relationship with him, you can do so right now by
asking him to forgive you and come into your life.
Jesus said, "Behold, I stand at the door [of your
heart] and knock. He who hears my voice and opens
the door, I will come into him [or her]." 19 If you want
to do this, but aren't sure how to put it into words,
this may help: "Jesus, thank you for dying for my
sins. You know my life and that I need to be forgiven.
I ask you to forgive me right now and come into my
life. I want to know you in a real way. Come into my
life now. Thank you that you wanted a relationship
with me. Amen."

God views your relationship with him as permanent.
Referring to all those who believe in him, Jesus Christ
said of us, "I know them, and they follow me; and I
give them eternal life, and they shall never perish,
and no one shall snatch them out of my hand."

Looking at all these facts, one can conclude that a
loving God does exist and can be known in an
intimate, personal way.

Source: www.everystudent.com/features/isthere.html

Interesting , Ymodulus come read this .

We need evidence not possible reasons.

Op nice post.

None of that points to a "god"...complexity is evident of itself...a cell is evident of itself...and the earth is evident of itself...this is just another method of labelling everything as "god did it"...

Elantracey:
Interesting , Ymodulus come read this .

Nothing interesting. I have lost count of the number of times I have read this BS.

hifaif:


Nothing interesting. I have lost count of the number of times I have read this BS.

still looking for where I mentioned hifaif in my post .

Elantracey:



still looking for where I mentioned hifaif in my post .

I am sorry.

Besides OP failed to tell us which of the many Gods he copied and pasted those long sermon for.

ifeness:
Besides OP failed to tell us which of the many Gods he copied and pasted those long sermon for.

Haba!!! Bro wat is dis suppose to mean isn't it obvious the God am talking abt cuz if its nt 2 u den please get some glasses and read tru again

ooman:
These same series of evidence proves the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Allah, Zeus, Fairies and other imaginary being exist, not just Yahweh.

Hmm so do u now believe der is a God since u said it proves d existence of...... not just God (Yahweh) . So in a way u just admitted 2 der being a God

God will only exist wen he appears to me.

Sultan5:


Hmm so do u now believe der is a God since u said it proves d existence of...... not just God (Yahweh) . So in a way u just admitted 2 der being a God

Oh dont force your god on me. I meant they are all imaginary. Simple.

God is real...I make bold to declare it..thanks OP for sharing...thank you Jesus you reign foreva!!!

ooman:
These same series of evidence proves the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Allah, Zeus, Fairies and other imaginary being exist, not just Yahweh.

GBAM!

bassette:
God is real...I make bold to declare it..thanks OP for sharing...thank you Jesus you reign foreva!!!

ok here is a question... Why do you think yahweh is real and amadioha and zeus are not real?

In any case the earth's distance from the sun is always changing. Its orbit is elliptical, not circular, and we don't notice the difference. I didn't read any further.

I've read dat article bf. Anyway nice write up,coming from a logical thinker. Any genuinely honest thinker will arrive @ the conlusion tht life didnt just jumpstart itself.

hifaif:


I am sorry.

lol , no need to be story , you took my post the wrong way.

ooman:


Oh dont force your god on me. I meant they are all imaginary. Simple.

com on bro am nt forcing anytin on u am just saying wat u said. Simple.

Anyways tho i hv gven u some gud points wish u did admit proves sumtin frm ur earlier post.

My question 4 u is hw can a world dat is made out of pure chance (i.e. the big bang) be so accurate and precise in everything even down to d cells dat in ur body hw is dat possible dat out of no where d earth was position in d best possible place to ensure life. u've got to admit dat all this tins did nt just occur by chance. Even scientist r baffled by hw precise d world is.

Lastly this post was written by a former atheist. U wuld no dis if u read it to d end. I culd gv u some real lyf story hw my neighbors son wo hv lived almost al his life fighting sickness after sickness bcuz he was born SS. He got healed last 3 months or so ryt der in his house without any pastor praying 4 him. Bt i will stop here since i no u would nt take my word 4 it so ders no point in me trying.

Again i respect ur decision nt 2 believe in God and dis post again is nt 2 force God on u bt 2 lay b4 u some facts wat u do wit dem is up 2 u. So pls non of that talk of me forcing something on u. I can't force u to believe dat der is a God the person wo wrote dis post found that out by herself. Just my 1cent

Sultan5:


com on bro am nt forcing anytin on u am just saying wat u said. Simple.

Anyways tho i hv gven u some gud points wish u did admit proves sumtin frm ur earlier post.

My question 4 u is hw can a world dat is made out of pure chance (i.e. the big bang) be so accurate and precise in everything even down to d cells dat in ur body hw is dat possible dat out of no where d earth was position in d best possible place to ensure life. u've got to admit dat all this tins did nt just occur by chance. Even scientist r baffled by hw precise d world is.

Lastly this post was written by a former atheist. U wuld no dis if u read it to d end. I culd gv u some real lyf story hw my neighbors son wo hv lived almost al his life fighting sickness after sickness bcuz he was born SS. He got healed last 3 months or so ryt der in his house without any pastor praying 4 him. Bt i will stop here since i no u would nt take my word 4 it so ders no point in me trying.

Again i respect ur decision nt 2 believe in God and dis post again is nt 2 force God on u bt 2 lay b4 u some facts wat u do wit dem is up 2 u. So pls non of that talk of me forcing something on u. I can't force u to believe dat der is a God the person wo wrote dis post found that out by herself. Just my 1cent

everything is not accurate and precise.

Marilyn Adamson :
But the concept of God was something I couldn't get off my mind

from http://www.everystudent.com/wires/atheist.html

Maybe she once lived in doubt, but saying she was an atheist is an overstatement.

johnydon22:


ok here is a question... Why do you think yahweh is real and amadioha and zeus are not real?

Theres absolutely nothing to think about it...i know..i know for real that God is real plus i never stated comparisons in my post

bassette:
Theres absolutely nothing to think about it...i know..i know for real that God is real plus i never stated comparisons in my post

No u dont get it do you?..... i asked yahweh and amadioha. that word"GOD" all of them bears that title...
so tell me why you believe yahweh is real and amadioha is not

I am shocked that Nigerians are claiming that this is a nice post!!!........................................The guy called "ONETRACK" has already debunked the first point with just one simple sentence, and I may be forced to repeat it again. If the course of the sun around the Earth is elliptical and not circular, then how can any human on earth, claim that if we are 10 meters closer, we shall burn, and if we are 10 meters further, we shall freeze?............................................................I am sorry to tell the OP this, but your post is filled with scientific illiteracy and lies......................................................@OP, In other words, you are guilty of "SCIENTIFIC BLASPHEMY"!!

@OP, these are your words........................................................................"Water freezes from the top down and floats, so fish
can live in the winter.
Ninety-seven percent of the Earth's water is in the
oceans. But on our Earth, there is a system designed
which removes salt from the water and then
distributes that water throughout the globe.".....................................................................................But you forgot to mention that rain did not fall for 400 years in the Atacama desert in Chile, and yet you are here claiming that the fresh water is distributed evenly?...............................................................This is why Atheists, Freethinkers, Rationalists, Skeptics, Theothanatologists, Misotheists, Apatheists and Autodeists do not take religious people seriously!!!

@OP, you claim that the Universe operates on Uniform Laws?...................................................................................This is false, and I am literally sick and tired of seeing christians repeating the same old, tired, lame and pathetic errors!!!.....................................................................................When will you guys learn for once? Gravity is not constant, never has been and never will be. There are places in Canada where by the Gravitational Pull is weaker than in other areas around the world!!! We came here to spread knowledge and anyone caught spreading false information to push a particular religious agenda, should be banned from this Forum with immediate effect!!!.......................................................http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/missing-gravity.htm

@OP , what did you mean when you said that only jesus christ claimed to be equal to god?..........................................This sentence alone, reveals ignorance on various levels of History!!!................................................................I shall give you a list of various individuals who claimed to be equal to god!!!..............................................................................................

1.In Nepal, the kings of the Shah dynasty were considered incarnations of Vishnu
2.Naram Sin,he first Mesopotamian king to claim divinity.
3.Egyptian pharaohs were kings of Ancient Egypt, and were considered gods by their culture. Their titles equated them with aspects of the likes of the hawk god Horus, the vulture goddess Nekhbet, and the cobra-goddess Wadjet. The Egyptians believed that when their Pharaoh died, he would continue to lead them in the next life, which is why his burial was grand and completed to perfection—to please him in the next life and ensure his immortality to protect his people.
4.Chinese Emperors have been deified as "Sons of Heaven" since the Qin Dynasty under Qin Shi Huang.
5.Dalai Lamas, are considered re-incarnations of Avalokiteśvara in Tibetan Buddhism. Panchen Lamas are incarnations of Amitābha.
6.Antiochus IV Epiphanes, Seleucid ruler (reigned 175-164); the only Seleucid king to claim divine honors, calling himself Theos Epiphaneus "God Manifest" and Nikephoros "Bringer of Victory." Nearly conquered Ptolemaic Egypt, the primary rival of the Seleucids among the Diadochi states. Famously attempted to impose ancient Greek religion on the Jews by persecution, leading to the Maccabean Revolt; remembered as a major persecutor in Jewish tradition.
7.Ismail I,self-claimed to be an emanation of God and was considered such by the Kızılbaş-Safaviya order, Qizilbash-Turkman subjects and Alevis.
8.Taher Saifuddin, claimed to be Elahul Ard (God on Earth) in Bombay High Court.
9.Francisco Macías Nguema, In 1978, he changed the motto of Equatorial Guinea to "There is no other God than Macias Nguema."
10.Nirmala Srivastava, Guru and goddess of Sahaja Yoga, has proclaimed herself the incarnation of the Holy Ghost (Adi Shakti), claimed that all other incarnations (e.g., Krishna, Christ, etc.) were aspects of her.............................................................................................................................And lets not forget those who had mental problems..............................................................................http://www.oddee.com/item_98878.aspx

These are all examples of a non sequitur. Water is beautiful and has amazing qualities, THEREFORE the Hebrew carpenter boy really walked on the ocean. You cannot use GAPS in knowledge to justify your holy book.

@OP, how does god pursue us?..................................Is he an armed robber or a dog?

Niflheim:
@OP, these are your words........................................................................"Water freezes from the top down and floats, so fish
can live in the winter.
Ninety-seven percent of the Earth's water is in the
oceans. But on our Earth, there is a system designed
which removes salt from the water and then
distributes that water throughout the globe.".....................................................................................But you forgot to mention that rain did not fall for 400 years in the Atacama desert in Chile, and yet you are here claiming that the fresh water is distributed evenly?...............................................................This is why Atheists, Freethinkers, Rationalists, Skeptics, Theothanatologists, Misotheists, Apatheists and Autodeists do not take religious people seriously!!!

Please read again! the word "evenly' was not used.