
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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