God Is Real

^{Romans 1:18-23 [ESV] "18} For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. ¹⁹ For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. ²⁰ For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. ²¹ For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. ²² Claiming to be wise, they became fools, ²³ and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things."

There are many logical arguments for the existence of God. Many careful thinkers have done a lot of very good work to show logical and philosophical proofs for the existence for God. I am familiar with many of these, and maybe someday I'll explore some of them, but today I want to ask, are these arguments critical? I would answer no.

One of the aspects of God's creation is that it makes it clear that God is real, and that God did create everything. As we see in the Romans passage above, God has made Himself known in Creation. In fact, He has made it so clear that people who do not believe are without excuse.

The problem is that people do not want to believe in God as He is, yet they know that He is real, and so, thinking themselves to be wise, they conjure up all kinds of bizarre ideas of what God is like, or invest what can be clearly seen of God into silly objects that they make with their own hands, or worship the moon, or the sun, or trees, and so on.

While creation is sufficient to let people know that God is real, and shows enough for us to know much about Him, it certainly doesn't tell us all we need to know. Fortunately, God did not leave us hanging when it comes to what we need to know. He has spoken through His Word, the Bible.

Of all the religious ideas and books in the world, only the Bible is compatible with what we clearly seen in His creation. The problem is not that God has been ambiguous about what He has revealed about Himself, in fact, it is perfectly clear, and can be seen all around us, but people don't want to believe because they do not want to be responsible to Him, and do not want to give up their own unrighteousness, and so they suppress the truth, and either outright deny the existence of God at all, thereby attempting to make themselves into some form of god, or choose to worship some object or person instead of the one true God.

I'm not saying anything bad about those who have spent time thinking about all of the proofs that creation does offer of the reality of God. In fact, so many people are so deceived in this day and age that they often do not see the clear reality of God, and it may well help to have someone come along side and show it to them. What I am saying is that God is real, and that a person can know this very well and truly without ever hearing one of those arguments because the reality of God is clearly seen in His creation.