Why I Believe In God

Why I believe in God

For my adult Catholic trying to lead the Christ-life, it is useful to recall the reasons for believing. It is helpful to review why we know that God is exists.

Is there a God? Is there a God above and beyond us all? Above our life and death, above our joys and sorrows, above our world and space program? For thinking people, this is really the important question. Is there a God?

People have been asking this questions for as long as people have been thinking, but now so much more is known about this world and about us. There are answers and ideas never known before. The great think, Thomas Aquinas, lived in the 13th century. Not until the 17th century did man discover the microscope, cell structure, the circulation of the blood, etc. Much of what is known about the world has been learned in recent scientific studies.

For me, the strongest reasons for believing in God are shown by the human body. Modern medical science says much about the remarkable design of that body – a design that in many thousands of ways advertises that the most careful, amazingly intelligent planning. In asking yourself whether there is a God, think about that design—for cleverer than the design of any automobile, a watch, and any piece of machinery. You own a body. Think – really think --- about it.

Here are some reasons why your body is a product made by a most Intelligent Designer:

Your skull and brain

The human brain is the control center for the senses and nerves. It is the place for reasoning, memory, and decision-making. The skull protecting this brain is made of tough, hard bone. Light but strong, it is shaped into a design that makes architects and engineers admire its strength, scientists do not yet understand how a pers...

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...als, the instincts of us humans, the enormous variety and beauty of it all .we have everything for human lift. Nothing is missing. In the Biblical sense, it all is God.

Believe is God? Considering the incredible design of this human body, the believer is the logical person. It is the agnostic or the atheist who has problems. He cannot understand, cannot explain, and cannot move ahead any further to know what it is all about. For all this design to happen, by chance is similar to a mindless ape striking at ape striking at random the keys of typewriter and accidentally typing the entire Encyclopedia Britannica.

These first words of the Creed are “ I believe in God”, in modern times you can and should say it, mean it and have no apologies for it. And if you believe in God, you can move on to further steps in building your house of religious faith on a solid foundation.