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GOD DIED?

EXISTENCE OF GOD

Marcelo Augusto de Carvalho

 

 

PSALM 14. 1

 

- For 1700 years all the people of the countries of Europe, Africa and Asia that were reached by Christianity create without much or any contestation that God existed and end point. They believe that God was the Creator of all things, the maintainer of the Universe, the lawgiver of all moral and physical laws, as well as the savior of the world. Those who actually thought differently of this were discriminated against, removed from society and even in many cases dead.

- But the Church used and abused much of religion to achieve the petty goals of some. He began to sell salvation, extort money to enrich and persecute those who stood up against this corrupt system. This led to much rising with the support of kings and princes, protesting against the Church from 1400 until 1700, during which time the Protestant Reformation took place.

- This whole process brought tremendous discredit to religion, and people were taken to another end of reason. Due to so many lies invented by the Church and later discovered, everything began to be questioned, and for which there were no tangible, clear answers, visible to human eyes was considered charlatanism, a lie of the most offensive.

- Many scholars of that time began to doubt the origin of the Bible consequently of all His message. They said ordinary men had invented Bible stories, but they were all lies made up to deceive the people. That this thing of Jesus, heaven, hell, devil was all fruit of people's fertile imagination, but that nothing existed. And the worst; the movement "GOD DIED" was preached all over the world, saying: "Man is the one who exists. And who should direct it is his own will. And that's it."

This idea has spread throughout the world, and to this day children are born educated to deny the existence of God and to deny and detest him whenever possible.

- Indeed, few believe that God exists, and even within our church.

The question: "WHERE GOD" is classic. "Where is the God you believe in? Have you seen him? Can you show me?"

- And really this questioning is engaging. For example, the Japanese Camicases of World War II killed themselves on airplanes for their homeland. They suffered such a strong indoctrination that they died conscious of the duty fulfilled. It wasn't brainwashing. For them emperor HIROITO was divine. Did he send it? Do. Promise of a place in Nirvana.

If we were going to preach to them about Jesus, we would talk about his whole life, but in the end they ask, "Where is he? I want to meet him. Introduce me. When we explain that we serve him, but that we don't see him, they tell us that this is crazy. They prefer to serve their emperor because they see him every day.

- Do we serve an unreal God? Isn't this whole Bible story really a lie? How can I be sure god exists? Where can I put my faith? On this occasion I wish to show evidence that He exists, and that it is impossible to think otherwise.

 

FRANCIS BACOM said that a knowledge is only true when proven in the laboratory, that is, whether it can be observed, tested, analyzed at many angles and proven to exist. But you see, the method of knowing God is different from Bacom's method. I can't put God in the lab to be studied, and by the way, I can't do it, because He's too big to be studied. I need to follow the method that fits to study it and this He himself said of Himself in JOHN 3. 8.

 

JESUS said, "You will not be able to touch God or see him in His true and total greatness, for he would die, and even if he did not die, he would not be able to understand him, for He is perfect, but there is a method, the first of them, you can feel Him in your life. You can see evidence of His power, His strength, His intelligence through facts that point to the Creator. And there are many of them."

 

EXAMPLES

 

THE WEIGHT OF THE EARTH- The Earth weighs more than 6 billion tons, that is, 6 million trillion tons. It would be a 6 in a row of 24 zeros. Do you see the weight of the Earth? Of course i'm not. But not for this doubt, because without this it would be impossible to live here. You, in a way, feel it.

THE EARTH SPEED- rotates at 1500 km per hour.

GRAVITY - we don't see it, but if it wasn't for her, with all this speed of the planet spinning we'd be thrown in the blink of an eye into endless space.

The AIR - the air that covers the Earth weighs 5 quintillion tons- the 5 accompanied by 18 zeros. Do you see the air?

Why not he fails to believe that he exists, for he feels it in his way. There is such strong evidence that he exists that even without seeing him, he is not crazy to deny it.

The same is the case with the existence of God. First we need to see the evidence that He exists primarily by His influence and interference in our existence.

 

Some of this evidence

 

1. The Beauty and Complexity of Nature - ROMANS 1.20.

 

- It is interesting to note that the Bible does not try to prove that God exists before narrating what He has done.

- It simply departs from God, giving for liquid and certain the fact of His existence and Of His omnipotence.

- In fact, the Bible classifies as "foolish" what does not believe that God exists. Salt. 14.1.

- Thus we see that it is the plan of the Creator himself that we recognize him by His works.

- He exists, and he alone is God, for He is the Creator.

- Let's say you've been trying for months to manufacture a super sophisticated robot never seen on Earth. So perfect that you'll be able to live without your command. You make the list of what it will have: an internal clock, a polarized light sensor, an instrument for measuring exact verticals, a calculation equipment, a solar azimutal computer, an indicator of wind direction and speed, air and ground speed, trigonometric calculators, selector computer and extremely odor-sensitive, weather forecasting instruments, and a computer to process everything that has entered this equipment and to translate into useful information to make decisions about your daily activities.

You want to adjust all this inside a flying machine just over 1 cm long. But you can't forget to leave room for the engine and fuel as well as the cooler. Landing mechanism, and compartment for transport and luggage of objects. There has to be a self-cleaning system and a defense system against enemies. Remember, all this is in just over an inch.

* Of course it would be impossible for you to assemble a robot with such beauty and complexity, but you wouldn't even need it, because it already exists - our bee. She's all this and more. How? Everything points to a Creator who has done everything with great wisdom and power. This can only be God. We read Psalm 77:14.

* The very weight of the air already commented here is to scare. How can something not be seen, but only bad sense can be so heavy? The answer- Job 28. 24 and 25. Someone wanted him that way and this someone was God.

 

2- THE GRANDEUR OF THE UNIVERSE AND ITS DAILY MAINTENANCE.

 

- We said yesterday that the universe is really too big. There are millions of galaxies with billions of stars and suns, all functioning in perfect condition and order. None of them come out of their pre-established system to wreak havoc in the Universe. Only the Earth has at least 33 different types of movements, but they are so well driven that it harmonizes with all the movements of all other planets and stars.

And see that this is immensely complicated, because we have in the Universe far more than 1 octillion of stars - the number l accompanied by 28 zeros.

Who sustains all this in perfect order? Job 9.7.

- The fact of the "intelligible" natural phenomena in the world indicates an "intelligence" that caused them.

 

3- BY THE VERY EXISTENCE OF MAN

 

- All living things need a Creator to explain their origin. The Bible says that they were created by God, each to his kind, but man was the only one who had no species already established by God. But since all animals have their original species, we have ours that is in Gen. 1.26.

Made in His image. We are similar not only in mental aspect, but physical, personality, character, ability and will.

- The fact that there are individual personalities in the world capable of feeling emotions indicates the existence of a great Person who, as a Cause of those, loves, angers and exercises His will.

- The fact that all human beings have an innate notion that "right" is better than "wrong" testifies that the cause of this instinctive consciousness has to be a holy Creator.

- The scientific law that says that no effect can be greater than its cause shows the logic of having a supreme Being above man.

* If you want to see strong evidence of God's existence, just look at yourself in the mirror. Just as it is impossible, illogical, irrational to claim that a street boy who never saw his father or mother never had them or never existed, the same happens if we affirm that man did not have a father to generate him at the beginning of the world.

 

4. PRAYER

 

- In a natural cavity in the mountains of Puerto Rico is the ARECIBO radio telescope. In this you not only look, but listen. They are 30 m in diameter, 1000 tons of aluminum and steel, 13,000 cubic meters of concrete and cost millions of dollars in order to receive messages from space. It is equipped to understand thousands of different languages. Without hearing any message, in 1974 scientists sent a that lasted 2 minutes and 49 seconds informing about humans. But to this day no message has arrived in Arecibo.

* Different is when we want to talk to God. Although we do not see him or hear His voice, when we pray to Him something different happens. He comes and manifests himself in our lives. He responds to our requests, interferes in our lives, speaks to our hearts, and conducts our existence spectacularly.

If we have no sense that God is real, the definition does not exist, but that we stop seeking him.

For the promise is Jeremiah 29: 12 and 13.

 

But the greatest proof that God exists has ever been given. And it is recorded in John 1:1-14.

HE CAME TO EARTH, LIVED AMONG US, HIS CONTEMPORARIES SAW HIM AND HEARD HIM, AND ABOVE ALL, HE PROVED TO BE THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE

 

In the beginning it was God. You created all the things you wished to do. You gave the man freedom, but he missed. He then came to the planet he had created.

 

1- He showed himself to be God at birth.

 

It was raised as Adam, only using Mary's womb not to scare the people of her time. But it wasn't generated like men. He became a man let's say recreating himself.

 

2- He has shown himself to be God, the Creator living and executing all the moral laws that exist in the human being. It was perfect in all things being tried at all. HEBREWS 4. 16.

 

He showed the Wisdom of God from his childhood with the rabbis, for there was nothing He did not know, whether religious, natural, or historical.

 

3- Showed the ONISCIENCIA of God predicting the future of various people, nations, and even the world in general, all of which were fulfilled. It was God, for he even knew what people thought, felt, planned, and the history and life of each of them. JOHN 2. 25.

 

4- He showed the OMNIPOTENCE of God and proper to the Creator, for nature has always obeyed him in everything.

 

- He calmed the sea, contained the storms, ordered animals to serve him, and nature recognized him as creator at the time of His death. He healed everyone who came to him.

 

5- He CREATED and RECREATED, a capacity of only the Creator.

 

- It transformed water, a lifeless substance in itself into wine, a substance that comes from something alive - the grape. The same He did in the multiplication of fish and bread.

- He showed himself to be the Creator of man, for when he saw the sick, they were not operated by Him, but they returned to have a healthy and perfect body as before. They were transformed.

- However, His greatest demonstration of power was to resurrect Lazarus, already decomposed, killed three days ago. He made the dead to life, and as it was before the disease- healthy.

He himself was killed, but he was resurrected by His Creative power bringing hope to all who trust in Him.

Do you want proof that God exists? Do you wish to see him? Talk to Him to believe that He is real?

 

A young Christian worked on a ship that crossed the oceans. He was the only Christian on the entire crew. His friends always annoyed him by telling him that what he was doing was crazy. One day, his superior the captain of the ship called him to the bow and wearing a binocular, looking at the immense sea, finally told him:

- My good boy, I have traveled for many years through the seven seas, and I have at this time sought to find God, but I have not succeeded. I use these binoculars to help with the search, but it's no use.

The young man replied: But his binocularis very weak Captain.

How's that? It's one of the most powerful of all.

He's too weak. The only one that works is this: Blessed are the clean-hearted, for they will see God.

Are you clean of the prejudices of the world? Are you cleansed of the sins that make you far from God?

It exists and is real to those who seek it. Find it for you.

 

APPEAL: SPEAK TO JESUS, NOW. HE'S WAITING FOR YOU!

 

SOURCE

Adventures of Creation. Dr. Haroldo G, Coffin. Casa Publicadora Brasileira, Tatuí-SP, Brazil. 1993 edition.

Youth Inspiration. Casa Publicadora Brasileira, Tatuí-SP, Brazil. Editions from 1977 to 2005.

 

 

Pr. Marcelo Augusto De Carvalho - April 1997 São Paulo SP Brazil