"With the Lord a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like a day."
Who is God?
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Mortal knowledge is circumscribed by mortal ignorance, and mortal comprehension is circumscribed by spiritual reality. It is unwise for mortal man to attempt the understanding of that which is beyond his conception, for there lies the road to disbelief and madness. Yet man is man and ever fated to reach out beyond himself, striving to attain things which always just elude his grasp. So in his frustration he replaces the dimly seen incomprehensible with things within his understanding. If these things but poorly reflect reality, then is not the reflection of reality, distorted though it may be, of greater value than no reflection at all? There are no true beginnings on Earth, for here all is effect, the ultimate cause being elsewhere. For who among men can say which came first, the seed or the plant? Yet in truth it is neither, for something neither seed nor plant preceded both, and that thing was also preceded by something else. Always there are ancestors back to the beginning, and back beyond to there is only God.
“When we put limits on Who God is, we limit His work in our life. If our image of God is deficient, our pursuit of Him will be deficient as well”
The evidence that God exists, is not historical, it's philosophical. You can see the order and design, which point to a designer. You see a moral absolute, an objective moral. This points to a lawgiver.
The Basic Proof
"There must be at least one uncaused reality that exists through itself."
1. If there were not at least one uncaused reality in “the whole of reality,” then “the whole of reality” would be constituted by only caused realities – that is, realities that require a cause to exist.
2. This means that the whole of reality would have to have a real cause beyond itself in order to exist (without such a cause, the whole of reality would not exist – there would be nothing in existence).
3. This state of affairs is intrinsically contradictory. How can there be a real cause beyond the whole of reality, if “the whole of reality” exhausts everything that is real? Obviously there can’t be such a cause.
4. Since “a real cause beyond the whole of reality” is intrinsically contradictory and since the whole of reality is not nothing (i.e. something does in fact exist), we must conclude that the whole of reality cannot be constituted only by caused realities (which would collectively require a cause for their existence).
5. Therefore, there must be at least one uncaused reality in the whole of reality. This uncaused reality must exist through itself.
If one denies this conclusion, then one will have to say either that there is nothing in existence (contrary to fact) or that there exists a real cause “beyond the whole of reality” (which is an intrinsic contradiction).