{"id":35423,"date":"2015-09-22T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/?p=35423"},"modified":"2017-10-24T14:14:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T21:14:49","slug":"believe-in-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/believe-in-god\/","title":{"rendered":"If you believe in God, life makes more sense"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sometimes I get asked why I believe in God.<\/p>\n
In the past, I used to say that I found it harder to not believe in the existence of God than to believe in His existence.<\/p>\n
To put this another way, I found it easier to believe that everything came from God than to believe that everything came from nothing.<\/p>\n
And yet … let’s be honest … saying that “everything came from God” only pushes the logical causality of everything further back one step. If I have trouble believing that everything came from nothing, and so say that everything came from God, the question is then, “Well then, where did God come from?” The Christian answer is that He didn’t come from anything; He just always was.<\/p>\n
So really, the choice is between believing that everything came from nothing, or believing that God has always existed. Neither choice is easily understood or comprehended by the human mind. However, even with these two options, I still prefer to believe in the existence of God, for at least with God, there is the recognition of a mystery that cannot be understood by human finite minds, whereas without God, the idea that something came from nothing is just pure nonsense.<\/p>\n
But recently I have come to realize something different.<\/p>\n
I don’t necessarily believe in God because I can prove the existence of God.<\/p>\n No, I believe in God because through this belief, the world makes more sense.<\/strong><\/p>\n Belief in the existence of God is the organizing principle of everything. Without a belief in the existence of God, everything is simply random meaninglessness. But with a belief in the existence of God, many of the dilemmas and confusing things of life suddenly make sense.<\/p>\n