Introduction

To begin our study in the Bible doctrine(those that are just starting to study the bible), we ought to begin with God. We are constantly challenged by atheists, skeptics and hecklers to prove that there is a God.

It is dufficult for natural man to believe in something that he cannot see, Touch or feel. The problem fot the Christian is solved in the first verse of the bible "in the beggining God created the heaven and the earth" Genesis 1:1

The Bibile is not a textbook that attempts to prove the existence of God  --- the bible opens with a positive fact that God does exist. It did not occur to any other writer of the Bible to prove this fact.

The Bible plainly states that it is the fool who denies the existence of God

Psalm 14:1 "the fool hath said in his heart, There is no God." Anyone with any inteligence would acknowledge the evident fatct of a living God.

The gratest proof apart from the scriptureof the existence of God is our daily fellowship with Him in prayer.

I know that there is a God because I talked to Him today and He heard and answered the prayer of my heart though it was only whispered silently.

1 Proof From Srcipture

Psalm 19:1 "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmanent shows His handiwork. "The beauty and glory of the heavens speak loudly saying, "God exists."

Romans 1:20  goes farther and suggests that creation even teaches about the eternal power of the Godhead, "For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power adn Godhead; so that are wothout excuse."

The man who accepts Scripture will readily acknowledge the existence of God. In addition to the argument from Sripture, we may consider seven other pwerful "proofs."

2 Proof from Consience

Man is born with a universal belief in a supreme Being; no tribe has been discovered that lacks this. They know that some Being creates and controls.

Romans 2:15 "who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their consince also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else them." The existence of God is written in the human concience.

Some atheists may claim that their conscience does not tell them about God. It is doubtful if genuine atheists can be found, for at best they are men who silenced their conscience by blatant unbelief.

Some men are so blind that they may deny the existence of the sun exists, rises and sets each day.

No one are so blind as those who refuse to see. te honest man will find that the inner still small voice says that God exists and is alive today.

Men deny the existence of God not because they cannot find him, but because they are afraid to face the responsibility of being accountable to him after death.

Atheism is one of the devil's tools to put men to sleep without accpeting salvation.

If there is no God then I am not responsible to anyone and I can live and die as I please. But in the quieter moments of reflection the consience of every man whispers, "there is a God, " and only fools deny it. To look uup into the heavens and say that there is no God, simply because we cannot see Him, is as rdiculous as seeing a pland and saying that theplane is pilotless beacause we cannot see the pilot.

Few of us have ever seen our brains, yet we believe that we possess them because of a centralized control system in the body. Because we see creation, we believe in God.

3 The Argument from Cause (Cosmological)

The world is here. It must have come from somewhere. Somebody or something must have caused it to come into being at one time or another.

Here is a book. Someone must have written it. No printing press can itself produce a book, be it ever so modern press with the latest electrical gadgets.

Someone built this building. Someone created the trees. Someone operates the universe. If all the pieces of a watch were placed in a can and the can shaken gently for a million years the watch would not be "accidentally" put together and running. The only sensible answer to the problem of the existence of the world is the existence of an intelligent Being whom we call God.

4 The Argument from Design (Teleological)

A watch not only exists but it has a designer. It was planned for a specific purpose. A watch was not designed for mosquitos to live in. It was designed by a keen mind for the purpose of accurately telling the time. An examination of the world and the things large and small shows that each is designed by an intelligent mind for a specific purpose in life.

The colors of a bord and means of defence of the animals are not accidents. They are the result of a plan of a superior planning mind of the originator.

5 The Moral Argument (Antropological)

Man has an intellectual and oral natureshowing that the Creator must not be merely an inanimate force but aliving, intelligent moral Being.

Genesis 1:26 "let us make man in our image, after our likeness."

Genesis 1:27 God created man in the image and likeness of God, that is patterned after Him.

Conscience teaches man roght and wrong, good and bad; for the Creator is a moral being that is holy, and loves righteousness but abhors evil

6 The Life Argument

Life comes from life and the original life must have come from Being possesing eternal life, that is , life that existed before physical life was created.

Where can such life be found? It can only be found in God, who posseses eternal life: Psalm 36:9 "for thee is the fountain (source) of life."

THe apple tree gets its life from the parent tree, te lamb from the mother sheep, but where did they get life from? We go back to the original creation.

All life proceeds from God. the theiory of spontaneous generation has been proven false and completely unaceptable to authoritative science. Life must have a beginning. The logical answer is that the beginning was with God.

7 The Argument From Congruity

The theory of atheism solves no problem but onlu multiplies unsloved mysteries.

The acceptance of the exstence of God as Creator of the world is like a magic key that fits all the facts of Scripture, revelation, knowledge and science.

This irrefutable doctrine is held tenaciously by multitudes of souls who are willing both to live and die in the consolation of this assurance