Does God Exist? - A Look At Atheism, Agnosticism, And Theism

The agnostic responds with 'I don't know' and 'no one knows,' which is actually an affirmative answer that has never been established, so the question is meaningless because they are not direct answers.

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THE BEGINNING OF ALL THINGS

Many scientists believe that the entire Universe came forth from a vacuum state which underlies everything within it and is the foundation of existence for all things because virtual particles are both spontaneously emanating and being absorbed back in continuously without end.

Every event has a cause. There is a growing consensus that it was within a concentrated ball of light that appeared out of nowhere during a rapid and cataclysmic explosive expansion or 'inflation,' all energy, space, and time came into existence together in what is known as the 'Big Bang.' This happened in only about a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth (10 to the minus 35) second! It then immediately started to cool, leaving behind a faint pattern of temperature fluctuations on the edge of the observable Universe. Before the Big Bang, there was no time or space. The belief that the Universe is eternal and in a steady state was put to an end by the Big Bang because it posits that the Universe had a finite point of beginning, and the increasing speed of expansion suggests it will have a cold final death.

It is theorized that ripples of time, known as primordial gravitational waves, were generated by the Universe of time and space as they worked together with gravity on the same scale as particles and other forces.

As a young teenager, I came to the logical conclusion that nothing can create something, so the Universe had to have been created by a 'Supreme Being' of some sort. It seemed far more reasonable and more straightforward to believe that God exists than not to believe He exists. The Bible reveals why there is an existing universe rather than a non-existing one.

A person who makes the absolute emphatic assertion that there is no God and that no one can know if there is simply cannot prove it absolutely, which logically opens the door to acknowledging the idea or possibility that God may exist. Proving that God does not exist requires either faith or the ability to travel the entire Cosmos and examine every Quantum particle to qualify and have the authority to make that assertion, which would obviously make them God!

It would appear that it does take more faith not to believe than believing. The Bible says, "Without faith, "it is impossible to please God "because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him" (Hebrews 11:6 NIV).

I made that decision many moons ago, and I have never looked back, even through thick and thin, heartache and sorrow. I grew up in the occult, seeing and experiencing things I could not explain naturally. Then, I had a radical encounter with God that changed everything, and I started to be transformed from the inside out. Some say I was brainwashed, but it needed washing!

The one thing I still can't wrap my head around is the paradox of how, through every tragedy and loss of loved ones, including my wife, I experienced profound peace in the midst of my confusion and pain. So, because of that, even if the promise of Heaven is a lie, it's been worth just having the Jesus of the Bible in my life.

The Cosmos is intricately balanced and tailor-made for life and yet is both profoundly complex and chaotic. At the macro level, the Cosmos appears orderly, like a clock, but at the sub-atomic level, matter behaves chaotically. If gravity were infinitesimally different, everything in the Universe would change.

Whether a person does or does not believe that God exists, no one has yet to honestly explain what caused that existence, which is perceived as the starting point of the Cosmos. It has yet to be proved and again requires the element of faith to believe.

It is irrational and nonsensical reasoning to contemplate God's origin because it implies that He lives within the space-time continuum of a finite universe He created. The truth is that God has no beginning - He IS! The Bible tells us why the Universe exists and proclaims that Jesus is the divine Designer who created it with a purpose and maintains all things by the word of His power.

God's existence is axiomatic. Arguing about the existence of a Creator is intellectually demeaning, which is why the Bible says, "The fool has said in his heart, There is no God" (Psalm 14:1,53:1). The Bible also says that God has clearly revealed Himself to every human being since time began in the beauty of the heavens,