This week Jason taught middle school about how we can know that God exists. Although there are many ways that people have tried to prove that God exists, the one we focused on has been around for thousands of years. One of the more recent ways of explaining the argument goes like this:
1. Everything that began to exist has a cause.
2. The universe began to exist.
3. Therefore the universe has a cause.
Basically this cause must be God, so God must exist. While it is still hard to understand how God could exist throughout all time, it is easier to think that God exists throughout all time because he is different from the physical universe. The Bible also tells us that God existed from before the beginning of the universe, and this argument helps us to understand why we should believe that God existed before the beginning of the universe. In spite of this argument and many other reasons for believing in God, we still need faith. Hebrews 11:1 says, "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." Even with this and other arguments we do not see God; we still need to have a belief in things that we do not see. We still need to be willing to do something scary and sacrifice for the sake of God. That might mean sharing our faith which can be an intimidating experience. With the argument about the existence of God, however, we have one more thing we can try and explain to our friends that do not believe in God. Also we can give up our time and our comfort to do something for God. We can spend our time reading the Bible, which at least at first might seem like a chore rather than something that we are excited about doing. Over time, we should want to read the Bible, but at first this might be a bit of a sacrifice of our time. In sharing our faith and reading our Bible we can continue to develop our faith and live out the faith that we have.
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