DOES GOD EXIST?
THIS IS A VERY INTERESTING QUESTION, BUT DID YOU KNOW,
THAT IT'S NEVER ASKED BY ANYONE WHO HAS DIED. THIS QUESTION IS ONLY ASKED BY
PEOPLE WHO ARE STILL LIVING. YOU SEE, PEOPLE NOW DEAD KNOW FOR SURE THAT GOD IS
GOD - ALWAYS WAS GOD AND ALWAYS WILL BE GOD.
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW THE QUESTION SCREAMED IN AGONY BY
EVERYONE WHO HAS DIED AND GONE TO HELL?
"WHY, OH WHY, DIDN'T I BELIEVE IN GOD AND RECEIVE
JESUS CHRIST AS MY SAVIOUR?"
In this paper, we'll give you NINE REASONS to
believe the God of the Bible. If at the end of reading this, if you still don't
think there is a God, it's not because you can't believe but because you
won't believe.
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“... for l
am God, and there is none else; l am God, and there is none like me, Declaring
the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet
done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and l will do all my pleasure.” (Isaiah 46:9-10)
1. GOD - WRITTEN
ON NATURE
"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his
handywork. "
Psalm
19:1
Now here's a
little test for you:
Just suppose you took hold of an
old-fashioned watch (you know, one with cogs, screws, wheels, bits and pieces
etc) and dismantled it into all its separate parts - lets say there are three
hundred at a guess - and you place them in a shoe box and sealed the lid.
You then shook the box for two weeks
then opened the box. Would the watch be back together again? No?
Question: "How long would the box have to
be shaken for the watch to be returned to its original self and in perfect
working order? It's ridiculous to think that it could ever be re-assembled this
way.
But should a watchmaker appear, then
that would be a different story. Now the universe is far more complicated than
a watch and we are told (by those who won't believe in a Creator) that it
happened by chance! These people would also have you believe that a Concise
Oxford English Dictionary could come about from an explosion in a printing
factory.
2. GOD - WRITTEN
ON CONSCIENCE
"Which
shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing
witness..."
(Romans 2:15)
It's amazing isn't it - you could go to
every race and tribe on this earth and you would find that there are the same
rules of right and wrong, good and bad. For example, not stealing from someone
else is a universal law, telling the truth is
another and so on. How did these laws come into being? The Bible tells us that
God placed them in everyone's hearts. That's another reason to know that there
is a God.
3. GOD - WRITTEN
ON STONE
"And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into
the mount, and be there: and l will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and
commandments which l have written... " (Exodus 24:12)
Historical fact: God gave Moses the law
on tables of stone, carved out by His hand into rock which Moses then took back
to the Israelites.
4. GOD - REVEALED IN CHRIST THE LIVING WORD
"In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the word was God. And the Word was made flesh,
and dwelt among us ... " (John1:1,14 a)
There we have
it! Absolute proof that there is a God.
The Jews were inflamed because Jesus
said he was God when he uttered the words "Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.
" (Luke 5:20). You see, only God could forgive sins. So
right here, either Jesus was a liar or He was telling the truth.
Also when Thomas was talking to Jesus,
he said “...My Lord and my
God.” (John
20:28). Here, Jesus never refuted Thomas and so
claimed He was God.
5. GOD - REVEALED IN THE ENTIRE SCRIPTURES "The words of the LORD are pure
words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt
keep them,
O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from
this generation for ever."
( Psalms
12:6,7)
Jesus is speaking when He also says "Heaven and earth shall pass away,
but my words shall not pass away. " (Matthew
24:35).
Right here in these two passages we have
the promise of God and Jesus (who is God) claiming to preserve His words. This
has been done in the inerrant King James Bible.
6. GOD - WRITTEN
ON THE HEART “...saith the
Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts:
and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people..." (Hebrews 8:10) Here God states His intentions by saying that He will
place Himself into the hearts of His people. This is borne out by history time
and time again as God rescues them and will be shown yet again as history is
poised to enter the Great Tribulation of seven years. This will be marked by a
seven year Peace Treaty between Israel and surrounding nations.
7. GOD -
REVEALED THROUGH CHRISTIANS AS LIVING EPISTLES
"Ye are
our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: Forasmuch as ye
are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written
not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone,
but in fleshy tables of the heart. "
(2 Corinthians
3:2-3)
Indeed at one time in the early
centuries when the Christians were undergoing intense persecution and torture
by the Romans, one in ten people in the
known world, were Christians.
8. PROPHECY PROVES GOD EXISTS
The following chart shows the prophecies of the Old Testament concerning Jesus Christ & His fulfillment in the New Testament. As we shall see, the odds of this happening by chance are impossible.
Gen 3:15 |
Offspring of woman- Eve |
Gal 4:4; Lk 2:7; Rev 12:5 |
Gen 18:18; Gen 12:3 |
Offspring of Abraham |
Ac 3:25; Mt 1:1; Lk 3:34 |
Gen 17:19 |
Offspring of Isaac |
Mat 1:2; Lk 3:34 |
Num 24:17; Gen 28:14 |
Offspring of Jacob |
Lk 3:34; Mt 1:2 |
Gen 49:10 |
Descend from Tribe of
Judah |
Lk 3:33; Mt 1:2-3 |
Is 9:7; Is 11:1-5.
2Sam 7:13 |
Heir-David's throne- his son |
Mt 1:1; Mt 1:6 |
Mic 5:2 |
Place of birth |
Mt 2:1 Lk 2:4-7 |
|
Time of Birth |
Lk 2:1-2; Lk 2:3-7 |
Is 7:14 |
Born of Virgin |
Mt 1:18 Lk1:26-35 |
Jer
31:15 |
Slaughter of infants |
Mt 2:16-18 |
Hos
11:1 |
Escape into Egypt |
Mt 2:14-15 |
Is 9:1-2 |
His Ministry in
Galilee |
Mt 4:12-16 |
Deut
18:15 |
As a prophet |
Jn 6:14;1:45; Act 3:19-26 |
Ps 110:4 |
A priest like
Melchizedek |
Heb 6:20;5:5-6;7:15-17 |
Is 53:3 Ps 2:2 |
His rejection by the
Jews |
Jn 5:43; Lk 4:29 |
Is 11:2; Ps 45:7; Is 11:3-4 |
Some of His
characteristics |
Lk 2:52;4:18 Jn 1:1 |
Zec 9:9; Is 62:11 |
His triumphal entry |
Jn 12:13-14; Mt 21:1-11 |
Ps 41:9 |
Betrayed by a friend |
Mk 14:10 Mt 26:14-16 |
Zec 11:12,13 |
Sold for 30 pieces of
silver |
Mt 26:15 Mt 27:3-10 |
Zec 11:13 |
Returns thirty pieces
of silver buys Potters field |
Mt 27:6-7 |
Ps 109:7-8 |
Judas is replaced |
Acts 1:16-26 |
Ps 27:12; 35:11 |
Falsely accused by witnesses |
Mt 26:60-61 |
Is 53:7; Ps 38:13-14 |
Silent when accused |
Mt 26:62-63; Mt 27:12-14 |
Is 50:6 |
Struck and spat upon |
Mk 14:65;15:19; Jn19:1-3 |
Ps 69:4; Ps109:3-5 |
Hated without cause |
Jn 15:23-25 |
Is 53:4-5; 53:6,12 |
Suffered vicariously |
Mt 8:17. Rom 4:25. 1 Corinthians 15:3 |
There
are 845 quotes from the Old Testament in the New Testament of which 333
especially refer to Jesus Christ.
There are also 456 details of Jesus
Christ's life that are predicted in the Old Testament, which were
fulfilled to the letter at His first coming.
It has been worked out that the
chance of just 8 prophecies about Jesus Christ coming true is 1 in 10,000,000,000,000,000.
This is the equivalent to getting a blindfolded man to select a secretly
marked dollar coin out of all the dollar coins that would cover the State of
Victoria, Australia to a depth of 600mm (2 feet).
9.
PROVE THAT GOD EXISTS YOURSELF
How
can you do that? Simply receive Jesus Christ as your Saviour. "Whosoever
shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved" (Romans 10:13).
Do you know what will stop you doing
this in the immediate short term? Your pride, your love of sin or your love
of your own plans. No-one in their right mind wants to have eternal torment
in hell when they die and so I believe most people would like to be saved .....
and they're going to do it .......one day! Don't delay one minute more, call on
Jesus Christ to save you. Pray something like this:
"Dear God. I'm a sinner and I deserve your eternal
wrath in hell. But I believe that Jesus Christ died for my sins.
I can't save myself only you can.
Please save me now. Thank you."
“DOES GOD EXIST?” Part 2
TWO FURTHER PROOFS THAT GOD
EXISTS ARE
IRREFUTABLE!
Harley Hitchcock
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