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Let us begin by not using any book, nor any documented reference first.
Is there a God, or is there no God? If you will ask the atheists, they will definitely deny God’s existence. They neither believe in God, nor in satan. They do not believe in anything supernatural. Their belief is confined only on the physical, or the material. But let us presume that we do not acknowledge any God either. Let us presume that we are not certain either if there is a God, or not. Let us play neutral first. Let us presume that we neither have any religion, too. Actually, even during the time when there was no Bible yet, there had already been similar talks. And to prove this to you, let us read Malachi 3:16--
“Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD …”
There was an incident in the past when God heard and listened to those who feared Him as they spoke to another. This shows us that, even if the Bible was not available yet, there were already talk about God. Let us presume that we are living in those times. We have no Bible; we are not certain whether, or not, there is God; we do not acknowledge any God. We are not saying that there is no God, only, we are not sure if He exists, or not. We neither have any religion, too. This is our opening scenario. We are all neutral, and we are all just beginning to learn. And in the studies that we will make, we will not use any book first.
Let us begin with this question: Who created you? Do you agree that you were created by somebody? Nobody in his right senses would claim that he was not created by anybody. Take the case of a chair, for instance. A chair became a chair because somebody created it. Otherwise, it would not have become a chair, right? The question is: Who created you? One time, when one person is asked the same question, somebody answered that, he was created by his mother and his father. At first glance, we may consider his answer as valid because, had his mother and father not mated, he would not have come to existence. But the question is, if his mother and his father were his creators, why is it that other husbands and wives could not produce any child? If his mother and his father were able to create him, it should follow that all other husbands and wives should beget children. But how come, there are couples that are childless? In other words, we cannot consider it to be a general truth that our respective parents are our creators, or makers.
But granting that it was, indeed, our parents who created us. The question is, why didn’t they make you good-looking? Why did one mother give birth to a lame child? If that baby was, indeed, created by his parents, definitely, they should have created him without any deformity. If your parents were the ones who created you, they should not have given you the physique of a man and a heart of a woman. Why did they make you a homosexual? If they were your makers, then, they should also have to power to repair your deformities!
Isn’t it that a carpenter who made the table can also repair that table should it gets broken? You are limping when you walk, why didn’t your parents give you legs of equal length, if they were your creator? And because they didn’t have power to do that, we are now led to a great and irrefutable conclusion that man is not the creator of man! If man is the creator of man, then, all men should be able to create man. And if man is the creator of man, he should have made a perfect man. But should his creation be defective, he should be able to repair the defect. But the glaring truth is, man is not created by man. There is “Somebody” else who created man. Every object that we see around us is made by man. The chair and the microphone were made by man. But the user of that chair and that microphone was not made by man. There isn’t any available proof that man created man.
In fact, there was one laboratory in America, which took one cell from man. They studied it very well. They tried to find out what that cell contained, and they copied it. They took little water, little iron, little mineral, and they combined them all together. Until they succeeded in imitating a human cell. But there arose a problem – it was lifeless. So, they decided to stop. They had proven that, they can only imitate a human cell, but they cannot make a real one.
Our physical appearance can be copied. A sculptor can make you a life size statue; he can also depict a specific facial expression. With the aid of modern technology, a sculptor can make your statue look real. But still, it is lifeless!
A flower can also be imitated. But no matter how well imitated it was, does it have any fragrance? None! Man can imitate anything that he sees, but he cannot make it as perfect as the original. And this only proves that another being must have created man. A man cannot create man. There is a higher, greater, mightier, more compassionate, and more merciful “Being” that created man. Why did I say that this Being is compassionate? I say that Being is compassionate because He is aware that, in this world, there are tiny creatures that give itch to man. And to prepare him for this, He equipped man with fingernails, which he could use in scratching the itchy part of his body.
That Being knows that man will find it very difficult to dig the ground, so, he created a carabao, which will aid him in doing that job. All that he has to do is hold the plough firmly, and it’s up to the carabao, now, to drag it. Did you see the wisdom behind the creation of the carabao? I’m sure nobody will disagree with what I said. Remember, we are not using the Bible yet. I have learned to convince people in the existence of a powerful being, without using the Bible, but only thru physical evidences.
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Who
is the God of the Bible?
