A Case for God

Case for God.

Here is a quote I like,
“Think about that. How is it possible that over ninety percent of all human beings who have ever lived usually in far more painful circumstances than we, could believe in God? The objective evidence, just looking at the balance of pleasure and suffering in the world, would not seem to justify believing in an absolutely good God. Yet this has been almost universally believed.”
                      Peter John Kreeft PH.D. 
                      as quoted in The Case for Faith by Lee Strobel.
I agree with Kreeft. Logically with all the pain and suffering in the world you would think the God we construct would be an evil one. Yet we see Him as a God of love.
Kreeft goes on to say,
“The evidence is that God is all-powerful. The point to remember is that creating a world where there’s free will and no possibility of sin is self contradiction and opens the door to people choosing evil over God, with suffering being the result. The overwhelming majority of pain in the world is cause by our choices to kill, to slander, to be selfish, to stray sexually, to break our promises, to be reckless.”
God could have chose to build us like robots with no personality, no free will. But what good would that have been.
Martin Luther King jr said in a prayer to God.
“...help us to realize that man was created to shine like stars and live on through all eternity.”  
God created us to have fellowship with Him. He did not want a programable robot. He wanted someone who could think and reason with Him. Someone he could call his friends. Even his children.
From the very beginning as he was creating the world he chose to give man the right to choose knowing full well that man may just choose to do evil.
God laid on the hearts of all mankind what is right and wrong. Then he said in essence the choice is yours.
Throughout history God has showed himself to man. The culmination being in sending His one and Only Son Jesus Christ to this earth.
He watched as evil men, men used by the devil himself put Jesus on the cross to die. Something that his enemies thought would end the matter.
But evil was overcome by good. Jesus rose from the grave victorious proving to all who would believe that He was indeed the Son of God. That his words are true.
Jesus said,
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 
John 14:6
The apostle John writing,
Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—  children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God. 
                             John 1:12,13.
This is what God had intended all along for all of mankind to come into a close intimate relationship with him.
This is the kind of relationship he wishes to have with you who are reading this.
Ultimately believing in God is an act of faith but it doesn’t have to be blind faith. I don’t think God wants that. He prefers informed faith.
The Bible lays down who God is and what he wants for our life.
The new testament in particular shows His love for mankind and what he wants for our lives as individuals.
     Will you consider reading at least the New Testament with an open mind. Would you consider asking God in prayer to show you that he is indeed real.
Think about it.