Do We Have to Prove That God Exists?

The Burden of Proof and the Design of Creation

Carl Sagan once said that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. You know what? We agree. Though not in a way that an atheist might think. If it could be said that an atheist thinks. The burden of proof is more on an atheist to show there is no creator than it is on the Christian to prove that there is.

Why? Because all human beings inherently understand design. This is referred to as empirical adequacy. Pick any object and you inherently know it was created. But no atheist will ever be able to refer to anything coming into existence without cause or creator.

Even if he were to cook up some example of random processes, he runs into what is called the implied creator paradox because he had to create his example of non-creation. The statement made earlier about how atheists don't think, we aren't trying to be derogatory, we're simply following their logic.

Human Reason, Accidental Processes, and the Limits of Materialism

If we're nothing but the result of accidental processes, then human beings are just walking sacks of chemicals. And chemicals cannot reason. They only react. That's a pretty good description of some atheists.

Romans 1 and the Universal Knowledge of God

Romans 1 .19 -21,. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived ever since the creation of the world in the things that have been made.

So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. There's no reason to have to prove God's existence because everyone inherently knows.

God's Reality and the Sufficiency of His Word

God is real and his word is true. All of the evidence is already there when we understand the text.