The easiest way to know that God exists is to simply watch and marvel at nature. All of God's Divine attributes, His power, His majesty, and His glory are reflected in nature (Romans 1:20). God bless
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mukk_in,
The late Francis Schaeffer used to say:
1. “When people refuse God’s answer, they are living against the revelation of the universe and against the revelation of themselves” (
The God Who Is There, The Complete Works of Francis A Schaeffer, vol 1, p. 180).
2. Schaeffer put it another way:
The strength of the Christian system – the acid test of it – is that everything fits under the apex of the existing, infinite-personal God, and it is the only system in the world where this is true. No other system has an apex under which everything fits. That is why I am a Christian and no longer an agnostic. In all the other systems something “sticks out,” something cannot be included; it has to be mutilated or ignored. (He Is There and He Is Not Silent, vol 1, p. 339).
The
revelation of the universe is stated clearly in:
Romans 1:19-20 (ESV), “For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.”
The
revelation of themselves is clear in:
Romans 2:14-16 (ESV), “For when Gentiles [non-Jews], who do not have the law [of God], by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the work of the law is
written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus."
Schaeffer stated:
”At times I get tired of being asked why I don’t just preach the "simple gospel." You have to preach the simple gospel so that it is simple to the person to whom you are talking, so it is no longer simple. The dilemma of modern man is simple: he does not know why man has any meaning. He is lost. Man remains a zero. This is the damnation of our generation, the heart of modern man’s problem....
"It is the Christian who has the answer at this point – a titanic answer! So why have we as Christians gone on saying the great truths in ways that nobody understands? Why do we keep talking to ourselves, if men are lost and we say we love them? Man’s damnation today is that he can find no meaning for man, but if we begin with the personal beginning we have an absolutely opposite situation....
"Only one fills the philosophical need of existence, of Being, and it is the Judeo-Christian God – not just an abstract concept, but rather that this God is really there. He exists. There is no other answer, and orthodox Christians ought to be ashamed of having been defensive for so long. It is not a time to be defensive. There is no other answer. . .
"Christianity is not only true to the dogmas, it is not only true to what God has said in the Bible, but it is also true to what is there, and you will never fall off the end of the world! It is not just an approximate model; it is true to what is there. When the evangelical catches that – when evangelicalism catches that – we may have our revolution” (Francis A. Schaeffer, He Is There and He Is Not Silent in Complete Works (Vol. 1), pp. 285-287, 290).
G. K. Chesterton once stated that "hell is the greatest compliment God has ever paid to the dignity of human freedom." (in J. Kerby Anderson, ch. 8, "Our lives beyond death," p. 167).
What about others outside of Christ? C. S. Lewis offered the challenge: "If you are worried about the people outside [of Christ], the most unreasonable thing you can do is to remain outside yourself." (C. S. Lewis,
Mere Christianity, p. 66).
Since I dialogue with a considerable number of secular Australians, I've found we need to deal with one other issue that comes in this kind of question: 'You say God says in the Bible there is evidence of God's existence in creation and conscience. I'm not convinced the Bible consists of reliable documents. You can't assume such nonsense'. Then follows some typical Aussie expletives.
How many on this forum could demonstrate the Bible consists of reliable documents? Here's a starter:
2,500 Year Old Jewish Tablets Discovered in Iraq | HuffPost
Blessings,
Oz