DOES GOD EXIST? (1)
(Message by Tanny Keng)
0. Introduction
a) Does God EXIST? Is FAITH the only proof of his existence? On the other hand, does he want us to PROVE to ourselves that he is REAL? The Bible says "Put me (God) to the test . . ." (Malachi 3:10). It also encourages us to test all things (1Thessalonians 5:21). Our father says that true faith is based on evidence (Hebrews 11:1). The faith we have that the sun will rise tomorrow, though we have not yet seen it, is because we have seen it rise day by day in our lives. Therefore, we have essentially perfect faith that there exists a sun and that it will be there tomorrow for us.
1. Evidence Left Behind by God
a) If someone took you to an island and told that nobody had ever been there before, what would you know if you found the following? As you reached the shore of the island, you saw a trail of bricks (like those to build a house) going off into the interior of the island. At the beginning of the trail was one brick. Ten feet away was a pile of two bricks, laid neatly together to form a square. Ten feet farther away there are three bricks, in a neat pile. Yet another ten feet showed four bricks, in a neat cubic stack. Every ten feet you see: five bricks, six bricks, seven bricks, on into the interior of the island in neat piles ten feet apart.
b) When you saw this, who could convince you that nobody had ever been to this island before? Could they convince you that the seas had roared from time to time and finally coughed up these bricks, neat rectangular solids? Those millennia of high tides had washed these bricks into neat stacks and numerically sequenced them through the millions of years. Then they would have you believe that you happened on this situation in the right decade before another storm came up and scattered them?
c) What would you know? You would know that someone does exist that visited the island. The brick trail tells you so. WHY does it? Two things give you knowledge that someone had been there:
i) Structure.
ii) Numerical Sequence.
The End ...
0. Introductiona) Does God EXIST? Is FAITH the only proof of his existence? On the other hand, does he want us to PROVE to ourselves that he is REAL? The Bible says "Put me (God) to the test . . ." (Malachi 3:10). It also encourages us to test all things (1Thessalonians 5:21). Our father says that true faith is based on evidence (Hebrews 11:1). The faith we have that the sun will rise tomorrow, though we have not yet seen it, is because we have seen it rise day by day in our lives. Therefore, we have essentially perfect faith that there exists a sun and that it will be there tomorrow for us.
1. Evidence Left Behind by God
a) If someone took you to an island and told that nobody had ever been there before, what would you know if you found the following? As you reached the shore of the island, you saw a trail of bricks (like those to build a house) going off into the interior of the island. At the beginning of the trail was one brick. Ten feet away was a pile of two bricks, laid neatly together to form a square. Ten feet farther away there are three bricks, in a neat pile. Yet another ten feet showed four bricks, in a neat cubic stack. Every ten feet you see: five bricks, six bricks, seven bricks, on into the interior of the island in neat piles ten feet apart.
b) When you saw this, who could convince you that nobody had ever been to this island before? Could they convince you that the seas had roared from time to time and finally coughed up these bricks, neat rectangular solids? Those millennia of high tides had washed these bricks into neat stacks and numerically sequenced them through the millions of years. Then they would have you believe that you happened on this situation in the right decade before another storm came up and scattered them?
c) What would you know? You would know that someone does exist that visited the island. The brick trail tells you so. WHY does it? Two things give you knowledge that someone had been there:
i) Structure.
ii) Numerical Sequence.
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