C. S. Lewis once said, “God is not the sort of thing that one can be moderately interested in.” This implies that if God exists humanity ought to find the best way to relate with Him and if God does not exist then there is no need to be interested in God at all. Most theist and atheist philosopher like Camus and Sartre agree that the answer to the question of whether God exists makes a huge difference for man. For example, if there is no God then life ends in death, and therefore our existence is inconsequential. On the other hand, if there is a God, then there a chance/possibility of knowing and relating with Him as part of His creation. This paper therefore seeks to provide reasons that assert the claim that God exists in addition to responding to the popular atheistic theory of theodicy which claims that the problem of evil proves that God does not exist and if He does then He is not good and omnipotent.
One of the arguments that theists use to prove the existence of God is the one of the origin of the universe. It relies on the widely popular assertion that the there was a time when the earth was not there. For centuries, human beings have seen themselves faced with the question of why we have everything instead of nothing. Atheists claim that the universe we live in is eternal with no beginning or end and that is all. Surely, that claim is not reasonable. If there is beginning point for the universe then the actual number of events that occurred in the past is infinite. However, infinity cannot be said to exist in reality because it is just ban idea in our minds as illustrated in mathematics whereby whenever we try to deal with infinity we get unsatisfactory and self-contradictory answers. Subtracting infinity from infinity provides a good illustration of this. Infinity therefore fails to provide a basis for rational thinking only playing the sole role of an idea. Since we know that past events are real and not mere ideas, then their series can’t be assumed to go back forever without a beginning point.
To date there are a number of discoveries in astrophysics and astronomy that seem to suggest that the universe is not eternal. Scientists have accumulated evidence pointing to the fact that the universe began about 13 billion years ago. They claim that from nothing a cataclysmic event, which is referred to as the Big Bang, caused the existence of the universe. This however does not make any sense because out of nothing, nothing comes. This therefore brings us to a point where we find it necessary to conclude that at one point the universe began to exist and therefore had a cause. This cause itself must have been uncaused, immaterial, timeless, and changeless. It is immaterial because it created space (therefore transcends it), it is changeless as a result of being timeless, is timeless since it created/ caused time, and must have been uncaused since as we earlier concluded, the number of causes has to be finite.
It can also be argued that God exists based on the fact that this is the only view that can make sense of the existence of objective moral values in the world. Without God there could be nothing like ‘objective moral values’ and therefore nothing could be judged to be right or wrong independent of what a person who has done it or the one that is judging believes. Even Friedrich Nietzsche in his claim that ‘God is dead’ understood that the death of God signified the end of all value and meaning in life. However this is not to say that we can’t act morally without believing in God nor is it similar to claiming that we are unable to identify objective moral values if we don’t believe in the existence of God because those two are possible. Without God human morality cannot be objective since human beings would just be accidental by-products of nature that exist somewhere in a mindless and hostile universe and are doomed to perish in a relatively short amount of time. The atheistic view would therefore be in exception of the social consequences, there would nothing wrong with actions like rape. This proves that without God our conscience cannot claim absolutes when it comes to the question of right and wrong.
A problem arises here because deep down we all know that objective moral values exist. A person who thinks that it is morally acceptable to rape or torture little children for their own amusement would just be as mistaken as if he had said that, 3+3=5. Similarly, things like true love for others and self-sacrifice are equally good. Therefore, if it is impossible for objective morality to exist without God, and objective values do exist then we can logically deduce from this that God exists. Moreover, another reason to believe that God exists is that He can simply and immediately be known and experienced by us. As Professor John Hick puts it, the people from the Bible’s Old Testament knew God as an experienced reality rather than an inferred entity. The experienced reality of God is as a result of this different to an idea adopted by the mind and was therefore able to give real significance to their lives. Belief in the existence of God is thus grounded in experiencing Him just like we form beliefs on existence of physical things around us by sensing them through sight, touch, hearing and feeling.
The teleological argument/intelligent design theory claims that special features of universe, plants and animals are explained best by an intelligent cause that followed a particular design rather than an undirected process such as evolution, the big bang or natural selection. The complexity and order of the universe we live in points out that it was all designed. The designer not only created the universe, but also sustains it. This theory claims that the universe follows a pattern of design with clear rules that enable it to function in a specific way so as to guarantee support for plant and animal life. This orderliness and correlation of things in the cosmos exhibits an intended purpose ruling out the possibility that everything is the way it is just because of a sheer chance. The earth for example was made in its perfect size has a corresponding gravity that which is able to hold a fifty miles thick layer of gases mostly nitrogen and oxygen that provides the ideal conditions for the existence of life on earth. If the earth happened to have been smaller, its gravity would not be strong enough to hold any gases just like Mercury while if the earth were larger its atmosphere would also contain free hydrogen like the case of planet Jupiter. The earth is thus the only planet whose atmosphere provides a right combination of gases in the right percentages to sustain plant and animal life. Such an arrangement despite being one that exudes a lot of purpose could not have occurred considering it has an almost insignificant mathematical probability. Thus it is safe to conclude from this point that the perfect size of the earth and its perfect distance from the sun represent an intentional design of the giver and sustainer of life rather an accident of nature.
The argument for miracles is another one that seeks to provide evidence for the existence of God. If you were to conduct research then you would come across a huge amount of reliable testimonial evidence in the world that cuts across time, culture, race and geographical region. All these people will agree to the fact that miraculous events exist and some will claim to have witnessed them at one point of their lives despite their different backgrounds. Given that a miracle has its only explanation in the extraordinary and is a therefore a result of direct intervention from God, we then conclude that God exists.
One of the oldest and most popular argument perpetuated by atheists is the one about the problem of evil. About two centuries ago David Hume attempted to summarize in the following statement: “Assuming God exists, if He is willing to stop evil but unable to then He is not all-powerful, if He is able but unwilling then He is not good and if He is both willing and able then why does evil still exist?” By asking this the atheist assumes that a good God would want all His creatures to be perfectly happy and since He is omnipotent then He would be able to do that. It then derives that all creation is not happy at all times then Good is either not good, or all-powerful or both.
The question however has been adequately answered by theist Christian apologists using the free will defense. Fallen mankind and not the creator is responsible for the existence of suffering and evil. God desired to create rational beings and gave the freedom to choose on whether to obey Him. The vast majority of evil and suffering is therefore caused by man himself rather than God. If God chose to intervene every time an individual was about to hurt another then we would be able to exercise the free will that He wishes for us. God allows for suffering to cause us search for His presence which brings peace and fulfilment. By suffering we are reminded that God is the one in control and not ourselves.
After considering all these arguments I inescapably come to the conclusion that God surely exists. He is supreme and independent of the universe that He created, is self-aware, eternal, doesn’t change and can accomplish anything He desires to. Even from a logical point of view the best arguments ever laid down points out that it is more reasonable to believe in him than disapprove His very existence.

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