EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
God requires faith, not proof. Therefore, many evidences for the existence of God exist. Evidences for the non-existence of God are scant.
The idea of God is not a simple idea. He is a combination of ideas, either true or false. Because God has granted freedom to man, evidences both for a true and a false combination have been provided in the former case, and allowed in the second case.
God does not desire proof of His existence. In fact, He prohibits it. God wants His children to come to Him freely and by faith. Any proof of His existence would compel men to believe. God desires that His children freely decide to love and to worship Him.
God has provided many evidences for His existence. Evidences that are designed to persuade rather than to compel. The Word of God provides the best evidences as Jesus attests in Luke 24: 44-48. Many specific prophecies in the Bible have been fulfilled exactly, especially concerning the life of Christ. Further evidence is in the witness of the Apostles, the gospels, the epistles, and Acts. Further evidence is adduced by the design in nature argument, as that in Romans 1:19-20.
The assertions of this philosophy can not amend the Word of God. God has already provided ample evidences for His existence. This philosophy merely asserts speculative evidences for the purpose of rumination.
The first speculative evidence of this philosophy is that finite duality, as "spirit," either advances toward Infinite Duality in believers, or toward absolute nothingness in unbelievers. The idea of the infinite attests to the existence of Infinite Duality, and because the idea of the infinite lies far beyond the grasp of finite duality, then this idea had to have been given to finite duality by Infinite Duality.
Because God is Infinite Duality, He possesses an infinite set of simple true ideas. This infinite set is the Word of God. Some of these ideas He incorporated into His creation of the world. He then gave to man the requisite mental powers to grasp these ideas through sensory experience, as stated in Genesis 2:19-20. The higher ideas are given directly to finite mind according to the will of God, as attested in James 1:17-21 and in Ecclesiastes 2:26. These higher ideas, such as "love," "beauty," "truth," "infinity," and many others, attest to the existence of God.
Infinite Duality constitutes the being of God. He is an infinite set of simple true ideas existing forever as objects of an infinite consciousness. Neither consciousness in-itself nor objectivity-in-itself can possess real existence. Since true infinity can not be limited, then His Word and His Consciousness must possess an absolute unity. The One must be the same as the Other. Man’s duality possesses a limited unity.
God has an infinite inner duality. It is separate from His creations, and yet, it is also everywhere within His creations. Psalms 139:15-18 and Romans 1:19-20 adduce this fact.
His infinite set of simple true ideas constitutes the reality of His attributes. An infinite set of useful ideas constitutes His "holiness." His "holiness" is also called the Logos; that is, the Word of God. John 1:1-14 avers that the Word is God, the Word is the Creator, and the Word became man in the form of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Father is the infinite consciousness of God. He is the power that makes His Word real. Just as consciousness-in-itself can not be seen, the Father can not be seen as attested in John 1:18 and John 5:37. Jesus alone can see the Father as He stated in John 6:46. This is true because Jesus, as the living Word of God, is so closely unified with His Father that He is one with His Father, as Jesus said in John 10:30.
Jesus witnessed to God being a Spirit in John 4:24. The Spirit is the infinite and eternal reality of God in every place and at all times, and even beyond. The Infinite is even beyond the beyond. Psalms 139:7-12 and Proverbs 15:3 attest to the omnipresent being of God.
The Holy Spirit also constitutes the absolute unity of the Father and the Son, as Jesus taught in John 14:15-26. The Holy Spirit dwells within the beings of those who believe in the Father and the Son, as Jesus taught in John 14:15-19. The Holy Spirit connects the believer’s finite being to the eternal being of God. This is the gift of eternal life as Jesus taught in John 3:14-17.
Some of the destructive effects of absolute nothingness in our universe result from false combinations called sin. Every individual is subject to this destruction. There can be no possible escape from sin except that God loves man, and He came to earth to rescue man from his sins and to bring him to God. Peter make this clear in I Peter 2:21-25 and I Peter 3:18.
Another evidence for the existence of God is that He is in the eternal business of overcoming absolute nothingness by His creative actions. Everything that may exist in a consciousless universe can be but equal to absolute nothingness, Objectivity in-itself holds no power within itself whatsoever to raise itself above the level of absolute nothingness and thus make itself real.
Duality is necessary for reality to exist. For these reasons, life could never have evolved in a consciousless universe. Thus, our universe has always been a real universe. Infinite Duality guarantees the reality of our universe and all other universes. God must exist to counter the destructive effects of absolute nothingness. When one of His creations, mankind, got himself into trouble with sin, God mounted a creative rescue mission, and He came to earth to provide a way, through a loving act of self-sacrifice, to restore man’s broken spiritual connection to Himself. This restoration is the new birth that Jesus taught in John 3:1-8.
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