Here we continue the “Eight Evidences for the Existence of God”. Our last post presented the first four.

5. The Moral Argument

C.S. Lewis was among those who have said that people everywhere have a sense of what’s right and wrong. Somehow (the Bible says because we are image-bearers of God), we know inside of us what we ought to do. God has put a moral law within all of us that governs the universe. If there is no God how do you explain that?

6. Love and Emotion

If there is no God, what is love? Again, the Bible offers answers for the theist: 1 John 4:8 says, “God is love.” Is the Author of love and all love ultimately springs forth from God. If there is no God what are our options? A chemical reaction? A biological drive? An animal instinct? If God doesn’t exist then love is reduced to an evolved emotion that comes only from matter and energy. Is this possible? The Bible teaches that Jesus revealed that reality is bigger than matter and energy. Reality includes a supernatural God who is love and created us with an innate ability to love and have emotion. The moral argument for the existence of God appeals to the existence of moral laws as evidence of God’s existence. According to this argument, there couldn’t be such a thing as morality without God. To use the words that Sartre attributed to Dostoyevsky, “If there is no God, then everything is permissible.” Because there are moral laws, then, (that not everything is permissible) proves that God exists. In Mere Christianity C.S. Lewis wrote, “The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play; our instincts are merely the keys.” The Bible tells us that we have “suppressed the truth in unrighteousness” (Romans 1:18) and have rebelled against the greater tune that we are to play and desire only to play our own tune. Even still, God has given us a sense within us that there is right and there is wrong. He has placed this Moral Law within us, as a gift, so that we would respond to the Giver of it all.

7. Jesus Christ

The Ultimate proof of God and His existence is that He, Himself, came here and told us that He exists. He showed us who He is and what He is like. Hebrews 1:1-3 says,

“Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power.”

God has taken initiative throughout history to communicate with man. Christ is the final proof of, not only the existence of God, but of the exact character of God. Jesus was God in the flesh (John 1:1-4, 14) reconciling the world to Himself.

 8.  Changed Lives

Another proof that God exists is His clear presence in the lives of people today and throughout history. Millions have been changed by His transforming power through a relationship with Jesus Christ. We’ve noted that you are the best argument for the existence of God because you exist and you are also the best argument for the existence of the God of the Bible because of your changed life. If you were to give “changed lives” as evidence for God’s existence, what personal evidence would you be able to offer?

 Of the eight evidences presented above, choose three that would be most helpful with your friends and family. Discuss in your small group, your family, or with a friend.