"Is There A God?"

by W.H. Stewart | Category: For Young Believers | Dec 1953

This question has arisen in most minds, and perhaps the general answer has been, Yes. No matter how far men search into the past they find that people believed in a supreme Being who was greater than themselves and whom in various ways they sought to worship. But this does not satisfy the enquiring mind to-day. What others believed is one thing, but the question remains-Can it be proved that there is a God who is the Beginner, the Source of all things? Can we have the assurance in our own minds that God is?

One of the early writers set forth several arguments to prove the existence of God which should commend themselves to all thinking persons. Here are three of his points-

(1)" It is certain and evident to our senses, that in the world some things are in motion. Now whatever is in motion is put in motion by another. Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a first Mover, put in motion by no other; and this, everyone understands to be God."

(2)"Whatever is made is made by another-that is to say, every effect has a cause. There can b~ no' cause without a first cause. The conclusion is that there is a first efficient Cause which all men call God."

(3)"Design implies an intelligent designer. World design implies a world designer. There is an Intelligence that governs the universe, to which men give the name of God."

Again, in the realm of science one does not travel far until he realizes that all things are bound by laws. Where there is law there must be a law-maker. But those laws are beyond men. Men did not, could not, make them. Therefore there must be One infinitely greater than man who made those laws. This One we speak of as God. If the foregoing be quietly pondered it should suffice to prove to

honest hearts that God is. In the Bible we read:

"The heavens declare the glory of God;

And the firmament sheweth His handywork" (Psalm 19.2).

Also in Romans 1.20 the apostle Paul declares, "For the invisible things of Him, since the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even His everlasting power and divinity."

Moses, the leader of the Israelites, to whom God revealed Himself, confessed :

"Before the mountains were brought forth,

Or ever Thou hadst formed the earth and the world,

Even from everlasting to everlasting Thou art God"

(Psalm 90.2).

God is, has always been and ever shall be. He is the First Mover, the uncaused Cause, the Uncreated Creator, the Original Designer and the Eternal Law-maker. How wonderful that He should say:

"Look unto Me and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth; for I AM GOD, and there is none else" (Isaiah 45.22).

W.H. Stewart | Dec 1953
For Young Believers