4 Truths to Combat Atheism’s Lie
2. We are made to think of our Creator.
The second proof of God’s existence is our ability to consider God. I call this a God-consciousness. This God-consciousness is universal. It is inside of every human being. The Bible explains why we think of God at all. It says, “Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being” (Gen 2:7). The description is beautiful. God took something of Himself (Bible use the pronoun Him to refer to Himself1) and puts it into humans. By doing so, humankind is made in the image of God. He and she has something inside of them from God. This is God’s connection to humankind.
It’s similar to Google’s iCloud. All your data is stored and reserved in a much bigger computer. All computer devices connected to iCloud are connected to something beyond their own computers. There is a connection from each computer to a much larger computer “in the cloud.” Do you get the biblical imagery?
God put a connection of Himself into human beings, so they would be able to think about Him. The fact we can contemplate God’s existence at all is proof that He exists and wants to be connected with us.
God gives humans the freedom to deny the divine connection. That is what atheists do: they say that God does not exist. But God does not give them the freedom to not think about Him or have a consciousness of Him. They cannot help it. Even atheists think about God, they just don’t want to think He exist.
Anthropologists have often concluded that humans appeared hard-wired to believe in God. It’s as if they cannot help it. It is difficult to be an atheist. One has to try very hard to deny the inner consciousness of God.
Animals, on the other hand, do not think of God at all. They are not atheists; they are “non-theists.” That is, they do not think one way or other about God. They neither say “yea” or “nay” to God. They don’t contemplate God at all. The Bible gives us the reason: Animals were not made in God’s image. God did not breathe into animals the breath of Himself. He did not put a divine connection inside of animals.
What is the chance that every animal on the planet are “non-theists”; yet humans are theists by nature?
The reason we can believe in God is because we alone have the power to speak words. We can communicate intelligently. This should not surprise us, because being made in God’s image means we should, to a certain degree, be able to imitate God. The most important fact of creation is that our Creator made everything by speaking words. “And God said.” Then after making us, we have the ability to speak words like the Creator. The first thing Adam does, according to the Bible, is name the animals. This involves logic and speech. It is the ability to speak words that creates within us the consciousness of God.
We are the only creatures on the earth that talk. This is another connection we have from God and also contributes to our God-awareness.
3. The creation is a moral universe, thus confirming a moral God.
The third proof of God’s existence is the fact that He made a moral universe. Morality is divine. Morality is unchanging. There is a right and wrong; good and evil. C.S. Lewis, who was an atheist turned Christian, argued that a moral universe proves a moral God. As an atheist, he had wondered how he got the concept of good and evil. There could only be one logical explanation: The universe is moral. Not only does morality prove God’s existence, but it reveals the kind of God He is.
I suppose the greatest failure of atheism is a denial of morality. You see, if there is no God, there is no right and wrong, good and evil. The only ethical system for atheists are those that are created by society. For an atheist, it is only wrong to kill if society makes it illegal.2 For them, it’s not wrong simply because it is intrinsically wrong. It is wrong because society says it’s wrong.
