1. The existence of God

The first subject to consider with the Gospel message is the originator of the message: God Himself. Man in the 21st century has a list of objections to the existence of God. Many say, 'No one can prove that God exists, therefore he does not', but the same logic could be applied the other way, 'No one can disprove that God exists, so He must.'
If I was to say that there was no gold in China I would have to know the make-up of every speck of dust in China. I would have to inspect every tooth for gold fillings and every rock and place. In my whole lifetime I could never be sure that there was no gold in China. People who say that there is no God cannot know for certain as they don't know every single thing. In fact it is unlikely that anyone knows 0.5% of everything there is to know in the universe. Do you know how many loose rocks are on the moon? Do you know how many grains of sand there are on Southend beach? How do atheists know that there is not proof for God outside their limited knowledge? A believer has faith that God exists and an atheist has faith that He does not. Can there really be an answer? Is the believer's faith a blind faith? Not by far! Take the existence of the universe. Was it an accident? Some who believe the 'Big Bang' theory would have people believe that everything came about by an explosion. Now since when did order come out of chaos? Could a house be built by an explosion in a brick factory?
'For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.' (Hebrews 3:4)
Though the Bible is talking here of the family 'house', we could quite logically say that every dwelling place is built by men. The walls around me, as I type, were placed by skilled bricklayers. The wires in the walls were fitted by skilled electricians. The plumbing in my home was fitted by skilled plumbers. All these things needed a plan to work to, which came from a designer or architect. No random explosion could have brought about my home. Is not the universe also orderly? Does not this planet speak of an architect or designer? Why is it that some men would have us believe that the universe and everything in it came about by an accidental explosion? Where did the matter for this explosion come from in the first place? Can something come from nothing on its own? Surely these questions make us think. Though men can shape and form raw materials, ultimately 'he that built all things is God.'


In the beginning, was there a Big Bang or a Big God?

Some men not only want us to believe that all matter came from nothing, they want us to believe that life came from nothing as well. They want us to believe that some amino acids got together billions of years ago and decided to form DNA, which led to some basic one-cell lifeforms, which then evolved into loads of random creatures, male and female. This theory can raise many questions in the mind. For example:

• Which evolved first, the flower or the bee? Would not the bee need the flower and the flower need the bee? Could they have evolved at exactly the same time? How is it that they seem to be made for each other? Bees fit inside flowers like a glove and suck the nectar through a tube that seems made for the purpose. The bee has fur to carry pollen to other flowers. Does this not speak of a designer?
• Animals or insects are born and instantly know their function, usually without any guidance from their parents. They seem to be able to know how to hunt, make nests, spin webs, make hives, etc. All from birth! It's as though they are preprogrammed to perform certain tasks. So who programmed them and where did the information come from?
• How can such sophisticated animals be a result of random changes? If one believes in evolution then surely this mystical force had an end result in mind? How can anything be built without knowing the end result? A super computer takes years of engineering genius to design and build. Who would disagree that a man's brain is more sophisticated than any super computer on earth? (And smaller!) Would a human brain come about by chance evolution? The alternative, and perhaps more likely conclusion, is that there was an intelligent designer.

The questions could go on and on. All man-made theories that attempt to explain away God fall down somewhere. There is only one absolute truth and that is: God made everything as stated in the first sentence of the Bible.
'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.' (Genesis 1:1).
We also read in the Bible:
'Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.' (Hebrews 11:3)

Intelligent Designer
There is amazing order in the universe and on the earth. What are the chances that the Moon (239,000 miles from the Earth) appears exactly the same size as the Sun (93 to 95 Million miles from the Earth)? So much so, that we can observe a solar eclipse! Just think of all the animals and creatures that are fed and watered everyday on this planet. Does not this speak of order?
The strongest evidence of a creator God is under peoples' noses; it is the human body. Who can say that they understand all of the complexities of the human body? Some say we are just another animal, but man is very different to the animals. Each person has a unique personality and physical identity. Man has power to reason, knows right and wrong, is capable of love and compassion. Man is inventive and creative. Man can admire beauty, not only in the opposite sex, but in sun sets and in nature. Is man just a freak accident at the end of an evolutionary chain of random changes, or was man made in the image of God? Is man just a bundle of random molecules and chemicals and of no significance, or is man something more?

Think on these Bible verses:
'So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.' (Genesis 1:27)
'I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.' (Psalm 139:14)