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Countless people throughout time have wondered: “Is there a
God?” There are nearly as many opinions on this subject as there have been
people who have lived on this planet.
For this reason, many people feel confused or uncertain about whether or
not God exists, and if so, what that actually means for us humans.
Many people have rejected the notion of the existence of a
God or a higher being altogether. Still
others acknowledge that there may indeed be some kind of higher being who
exists in the universe, although they do not know who or what this being may
be, or what form he/she/it may take.
Others choose to reserve judgment for a number of reasons, including
waiting for more evidence (one way or another) to present itself.
The problem is that many of those who search for God tend to
reject scripture out of hand as a reliable source of evidence. I imagine that this is because they assume
that religious texts are essentially biased.
However, this forces them to look for evidence that is inconclusive at
best. There are many who point to the
workings of the natural world, and of creation as evidence of a divine
presence, but there are just as many people who point to the same evidence to
say there is not a god. There are some
who try to use a process of logic to reason their way to God, but once again
there are many who would argue that logic suggests that there is no God. Even some religious people might argue that
God is beyond our ability to grasp through human reason alone. I mention all of this in order to demonstrate
the evidentiary value that scripture can have in an honest and open-minded
investigation into the existence of God.
