I BELIEVE GOD EXISTS (2 OF 4)
by Joey Rodgers
Scripture: Genesis 1:1, Psalm 53:1
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I Believe God Exists (2 of 4)
Series: Call Me Crazy
Joey Rodgers
Genesis 1:1 and Psalm 53:1
I put my faith in Christ when I was 12 - but at the ripe old age of 18, while attending Bible College, I experienced a crisis of belief. I went through a period where I questioned God's existence and life's purpose. I questioned that if God was, then how was He to be known - after all, w/ all the world religions, surely, they are not all correct? By default, having been raised in a semi-religious, part-time church-attending family, I assumed God existed and some form of Christianity was the correct way. But when I began to question everything I did and didn't believe - I found my head spinning and my heart swooning - so I began a short quest to find an answer to bring peace to my soul. The 1st question I had to answer - Does God exist?
The simple truth is the vast majority of people in our world believe in some sort of Supreme Being - and while I realize popular opinion is no means to measure actual truth, it's a great place to start. Why? B/c WE ARE! So either we're a colossal accident of universal nothingness that somehow became to be or we're the product of Divine Design.
Now, b/c we're sitting in church on a Sunday, I have a sneaking suspension we all share a belief in God's existence; but just for grins, let's pretend we're not in church and we haven't a clue what each other think of God - then what?
Where can't we begin - w/ the Bible! But isn't the Bible the key to our faith? Yes! But to use the Bible to prove God's existence would be self-serving - circular reasoning.
Example - a man who believes in Islam might say he knows Allah exists b/c the Koran says so and then if asked about the authority of the Koran responds by saying, ''The Koran is Allah's Word.'' If you substitute God for Allah and the Bible for the Koran - you get the point (Gilmore).
This doesn't mean the Bible avoids the issue - from the start the Bible assumes God's existence ...
Series: Call Me Crazy
Joey Rodgers
Genesis 1:1 and Psalm 53:1
I put my faith in Christ when I was 12 - but at the ripe old age of 18, while attending Bible College, I experienced a crisis of belief. I went through a period where I questioned God's existence and life's purpose. I questioned that if God was, then how was He to be known - after all, w/ all the world religions, surely, they are not all correct? By default, having been raised in a semi-religious, part-time church-attending family, I assumed God existed and some form of Christianity was the correct way. But when I began to question everything I did and didn't believe - I found my head spinning and my heart swooning - so I began a short quest to find an answer to bring peace to my soul. The 1st question I had to answer - Does God exist?
The simple truth is the vast majority of people in our world believe in some sort of Supreme Being - and while I realize popular opinion is no means to measure actual truth, it's a great place to start. Why? B/c WE ARE! So either we're a colossal accident of universal nothingness that somehow became to be or we're the product of Divine Design.
Now, b/c we're sitting in church on a Sunday, I have a sneaking suspension we all share a belief in God's existence; but just for grins, let's pretend we're not in church and we haven't a clue what each other think of God - then what?
Where can't we begin - w/ the Bible! But isn't the Bible the key to our faith? Yes! But to use the Bible to prove God's existence would be self-serving - circular reasoning.
Example - a man who believes in Islam might say he knows Allah exists b/c the Koran says so and then if asked about the authority of the Koran responds by saying, ''The Koran is Allah's Word.'' If you substitute God for Allah and the Bible for the Koran - you get the point (Gilmore).
This doesn't mean the Bible avoids the issue - from the start the Bible assumes God's existence ...
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