Is There A God?

How far-reaching are the issues involved in considering the fundamental question, Is there a God?

If the answer is in the negative the origin and purpose of the Universe and of life itself must remain impenetrable mysteries. If everything 'evolved' - if blind chance set going a process resulting in the existence of objects great and small, animate and inanimate - there cannot possibly be any answers to the questions, as to how or why. In that case, man's moral obligations extend no further than his duties to fellow man. As for the future, this must remain as unknowable as the past, and the possibility of life after death must be ruled out by all natural laws. Dismal and hopeless must be the prospect for the individual, and all the nobler aspirations of the human mind must be crushed with vexation and frustration.

How different, however, is the outlook if the question, 'Is there a God?' can be clearly answered in the affirmative. Life becomes interesting and meaningful, there is scope for the expression of the highest faculties of the mind - worship, praise, thanksgiving, and hope. Moreover, there are reasonable grounds for believing in purpose in Creation, and even that such purpose could be the subject of divine revelation.

The atheist cries vehemently, 'There is no God'. That cry is a self-evident absurdity. It stems from an abandonment of all reasonable evidence. The agnostic who says 'we cannot know' is little better, because he too shuts his eyes to unassailable evidence that there is an all-powerful, all-wise Creator. The evidence is two-fold. Nature provides silent proof that God exists, and the Bible contains evidence that God has spoken; and if God has spoken, He must exist.