God Exists…and You Know It
God has made everything (Col 1:16; Heb 1:2; 3:4); and everything has something to say about God. Not only has God not left Himself without a witness; everything bears witness about its designer and producer.
Even the atheist has something to say about God. To deny the existence of someone or something so obvious makes people think about it all the more. When others think about God, they conjure their own thoughts. The Bible helps us because it simply assumes God’s exists. This suggests that various arguments regarding the existence of God are not altogether necessary.
The assumed God of the Bible actually speaks in the Bible. There is no one and nothing higher than God to verify or validate the existence of God; so, we marvel that God would communicate to us at all…let alone in everything. Hence, we must take Him at His Word. This is exactly what Adam and Eve did not do in the Garden of Eden.
Most people who deny God’s revelation of Himself, in the Bible, have never read the Bible. Meanwhile, a good number of skeptics who opened the Bible, with the intention to disprove it, have come to faith in the God revealed on its pages. Amazingly, He was speaking their language.
Man has certainly lost his way, following Eden’s folly. What was known of God faded; and the devil helped distract people away from the true knowledge of God. He also distorted what was true. The case in point being the multitudes of cults and religions. So, the bigger issue was not atheism, but endless false gods posing as true.
The Bible exposes the devil and his work. It gives him the title, “father of lies” (Jn 8:44). That is a title ascribed to a person; and if God’s existence is denied by some, so is the devil, who blinds the minds of such unbelievers (2 Cor 4:4).
Those who do not believe in the devil and who do not believe in God, have a problem with the spiritual realm (1 Cor 2:14). Acknowledging spiritual entities, who operate as persons, is troublesome because it suggests a mind, a will, individuality, intellect, etc. Both God and the devil are portrayed with these qualities in Scripture.
So where one sources his or her knowledge of God will reveal much of what they believe about God. The common faith of the Christian originates in the Holy Bible. It is passed down to all the saints in a book that claims it is the Word of God. This revelation is what separates the born again from those who have not received the Holy Spirit (Jn 14:17; Jude 19). The Christian believes the Bible as the full and complete revelation of the one true God.
It is the illumination by the Holy Spirit that convinces the believer in Jesus that the Bible is true; and that it is what it claims to be. It is the Word of truth taught by the Spirit of truth to God’s chosen people.
The Bible, of all books, must be spiritually appraised (1 Cor 2:15). Therefore, the natural man without the Spirit cannot believe it (1 Cor 2:14). Only those who belong to Christ are granted the faith to believe the special revelation afforded them in this one book of inspired writings (Jn 10:26; 2 Tim 3:16; 2 Pet 1:20–21).
The reader of the Bible, taught by the Holy Spirit (Jn 14:26), believes the witness of Scripture regarding both general revelation and special revelation (Jn 5). The Bible assures the Spirit-led reader that all people are without excuse when it comes to the truth about God’s existence (Rom 1:20). It also reveals that sinners attempt to suppress the truth about God (Rom 1:18). They steal glory from God, even ascribing worship to dumb idols they have made with their hands and in their own image (Hab 2:18; 1 Cor 12:2).
Probably the greatest testimony, of the veracity of the Bible’s account, for who believes and who does not believe, is the case of those intellectuals, even Bible scholars, who hold university professorships in Bible, but who labor to undermine the Bible’s testimony of itself. Praise God that He reveals things to babes, while denying the arrogant who are always learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth (Mt 11:25; Lk 10:21).
The Bible reveals the Triune Godhead (Mt 28:19; Jn 14:26; 15:26). The Spirit-indwelt saint is not disturbed by the Bible’s explanation that there is one God (Dt 6:4) comprised of three Persons. Christians believe in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Throughout the Bible, the thrice holy God is revealed. Jesus explained the relationships, especially in the Gospel of John.
God is incomprehensible; but we do know what He has given us to know. Central to the true knowledge of God and of Jesus Christ is the salvation of God’s elect, redeemed, regenerated people. Salvation is revealed in the Bible as being a work of God (Ps 3:8; Jon 2:9; Rev 19:1). We simply would not know, nor obviously believe in so great a salvation, was that knowledge not granted to us (2 Pet 1:3–4; 3:18).
Christian, be assured of the grace of God that has you positioned as a believer in God and in His Word, the Holy Bible (Eph 2:8–9). Also, be assured that no one can become a believer of his or her own will or ability (Jn 1:12–13; Rom 8:7). God the Father must drag (Gk. elkuse) one to Christ (Jn 6:44, 65); who promises to keep each one given to Him by God the Father (Jn 6:37; 2 Tim 1:9; Jude 1).
The world is filled with unbelievers; and yet, the promise of Jesus is that all who were given to Him (Jn 17:2, 6, 24), He will lose not one of them (Jn 10:28–29). We know that from the Bible. We believe and know with blessed assurance because He has made us believe…that He is.
David Norczyk
Spokane Valley, Washington
August 13, 2024
