If any atheist would think seriously and logically about the concept of being for five minutes, it would be the end of his atheism. It is an inescapable fact that no one in this world has the power of being within himself, and yet we are here.
So, somewhere there must be One who does have the power of being within Himself. If there is not such a One, it would be absolutely scientifically impossible for anything to be.
If there is no supreme being, there could be no being of any kind.
If there is something, there must be something that has the power of being; otherwise, nothing would be. It’s that simple.
When the great Apostle Paul spoke to the philosophers at the Areopagus in ancient Athens, he mentioned that he had seen many altars in the city, including one to “the unknown god” (Acts 17) He then used that as an opening to speak biblical truth to them: “What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and everything in it … gives to all mankind life and breath and everything … for ‘In him we live and move and have our being’” (vv. 23b–28a).
Excerpt from the book: Does God Control Everything ? By R. C. Sproul.
I recommend obtaining and reading this book. On the internet it is free or near free.
( from Digital Anvil )
Final Thought:
As is common in the 21st Century,most who read the above shall switch off their understanding and interest at the mention of his name. The term " God" is manisfestly understood to refer to a mythical being,sky -daddy or non - existant something that people believe in who are insane, crazy and poor-minded persons who need help figuring out 'fact from fiction.'
Yet the person who believe those defintions are often the same people who believe that life came from non- living matter. That the whole infinite universe came from nothing existent. That life in the womb is "nothing" just a 'mass of cells,'so can be terminated willy- nilly even though they know that their Mum and Dad actually " created " them. That each parent was necessary for life-- them -- to be born.
They know that instinctively,intellectually and intuitively.
Absolutely without question.
For the person who thinks that way, we call ' modern and sophisticated and enlightened.' A cosmocitizen, a globalist or a- woke person.
Who is who ?
Ancient vs modern. Person vs Lump. Being vs None. Life vs Nothing.
