Richard Dawkins said "The kindly God who lovingly fashioned each and every one of us and sprinkled the sky with shining stars for our delight -- that God is, like Santa Claus, a myth of childhood, not anything [that] a sane, undeluded adult could literally believe in. That God must either be turned into a symbol for something less concrete or abandoned altogether."
The atheistic community prides itself on logic and reason, holding those who embrace a belief in God to be weak, ignorant, unintelligent, and misleading to individuals. I have heard it said concerning the evidence for or against the existence of God that “what you start off believing, the evidence for it you will find.” Both theists and atheists bring presuppositions to the evidence pertaining to this question; both sides have at their disposal the same data, yet arrive at completely different conclusions. What can we make of this? Maybe both sides are true? This is impossible, two fundamentally opposed stances cannot both be true at the same time, either one is true and the other false, or both are false. This is the law of noncontradiction. It is not possible that something be both true and not true at the same time and in the same context. We find however, in researching this question, an enormous amount of information in favor of God’s existence. While this reality is encouraging, the most important evidence we have is contained in the Word of God.
It’s interesting, the Bible itself assumes the existence of God, never arguing for it, as the Book of Genesis says: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” We find, however, within the scriptures, the revelation that God indeed does exist and that He has revealed Himself to us in His Word and through His son, Jesus Christ.
The true battle for the existence of God is not found within the “facts,” but rather, within the heart. We can provide all the evidence in the world for God’s existence, but ultimately, the rejection of God rests in the work of Satan and the fallen, rebellious nature of man. Just as the Jews and Romans witnessed firsthand the miracles of Christ, culminating in His nature defying resurrection, so too does man reject God and His message of salvation through Christ today.
We find in 1 Corinthians a picture of this reality, and the ultimate futility of man’s fallaciously placed logic and reason:
“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written ‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.’ Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has God not made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom. But we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.”
We, as God’s creation have at our disposal true logic and true wisdom, and where evidence falls short, the word of God has the power to transform and open the darkened hearts and minds of mankind; “For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.”
