Is there evidence of the existence of God in Orthodoxy? How to prove that God exists, that He exists? Read the article by Protodeacon Andrey Kuraev.

How to prove the existence of God?

A lot of them. But they are all tactful enough not to impose themselves on those who have no desire to understand them or simply lack either the experience of life or the experience of thought in order to discern their correctness.

The most traditional argument points to the intelligence of nature as a manifestation of the Creative Mind. Imagine what we found in the forest log house. Would it even occur to us to say that there are simply frequent hurricanes here and one of them tore out several trees, twisted them, hewed them, sawed them and then accidentally stacked them in such an order that a log house appeared, and the hurricanes next years accidentally inserted into it window frames and doors, laid floors and laid a roof? It is unlikely that there is such an “evolutionist”. But the structure is not only cells, but even DNA molecules are incomparable in their complexity, not only with a forest hut, but also with a modern skyscraper. So is it reasonable to persist in the belief that many, many blind hurricanes gave birth to life? It was Shakespeare's medicine man who could say: “Take a little dirt, a little sun and you will get a Nile crocodile.” But today, using reason, trying to prove that there is no Reason in the world is not a very reasonable activity.

By the way, Darwin’s “theory of evolution” proved only one thing - its boundless confidence in its own merits. What did Darwin see as the “engine of progress”? – In the “struggle of species for survival” and in “natural selection”. Both, of course, exist (although modern ecology says that species cooperate rather than fight, and Darwin was too quick to transfer the mores of early capitalist society into nature). But explaining everything by “natural selection” is the same as saying that AvtoVAZ is developing and releasing new models only because it has a technical control department that does not release defective cars outside the plant. It’s not OTK that creates new models! And “mutations” can’t explain much here. They undoubtedly exist, but if they are only random in nature, then they are nothing more than a series of hurricanes. More likely, a hurricane sweeping through an airplane graveyard will assemble a brand new superliner than random “mutations” - hurricanes at the molecular level - will create a living cell or the new kind. In the end, in “neo-Darwinism” the theory of evolution looks like this: if you punch the black and white “Horizon” for a long time, it will eventually become a colored “Panasonic”. If you beat a roach on the tabletop for a long time, someday it will develop wings and sing like a nightingale.

Does this prove that God exists? No - this only proves that you cannot say with impunity (to preserve your mental abilities) that “science has proven that there is no God.” This proves that there is a superhuman Mind at work in the world. And he proves it by pointing only to the terrible, inhuman absurdity of the opposite statement... And whether a person identifies this Reason with the God of the Bible is already a question of his intimate and completely free choice...

Or here’s another argument – ​​a cosmological one. Everything that exists has a cause, doesn't it? The world also exists. And that means it must also have a reason for its existence. What can be outside the material world? Only the non-material, spiritual world, in which there are no reasons, but there is Freedom, and which therefore itself does not need any higher reason outside of it... To be honest, this is not a mathematical proof. Rather, it is an aesthetic argument. If a person has some philosophical taste, if he feels the aroma of the words “being” and “universe,” he will feel the disharmony, the ugliness of the opposite assumption. In any case, Hegel called the attempt to build an endless series of matryoshka universes, which madly and senselessly, mechanically and aimlessly generate each other, “bad infinity.”

In general, as is easy to see, all arguments about the existence of God are built not on statements, but on reducing the opposite opinion to absurdity.

Have you ever wondered what kind of world you have placed yourself in with your own unbelief? If not, look at the people who thought about it for a long time, thought painfully: they thought not only with their minds, but also with their hearts.

“So what should we rely on? Where is that place in the universe where our actions would not be dictated to us by our cruel need and our cruel coercion? Where is the place in the universe where we could sit without a mask and without the fear of being expelled into the chilly cold of the December hour before midnight? Can there even be such a place in this world for our naked soul, where it can warm up, where we could take off all this baggage that is alien to us and finally give rest to the tired muscles of our body and the even more exhausted muscles of our face? Where, finally, is that place in the universe where we would like to die? For it is precisely this and only this that is the place where we should live.” It was in the seventies that the philosopher Nikolai Trubnikov, who had now gone into the world he sought, wrote not for the press and not for searches.

But for these lines, written in the late twenties, Alexey Fedorovich Losev paid with years of camps: “The only and exclusively original creativity of new European materialism lies precisely in the myth of the universal dead Leviathan, the universal dead monster. You live in the cold fornication of a numb world space and mutilate yourself in the black prison of nihilistic natural science that you yourself built. And I love the sky, blue-blue, dear-native... Incredible boredom emanates from the world of Newtonian mechanics, from the absolute darkness and inhuman cold of interplanetary spaces. What if this is not a black hole, not even a grave, and not even a bathhouse with spiders, because both of them are still more interesting and speak about something human. Then I was on earth, under my native sky, listening about the universe “that does not move.” And then suddenly there is nothing: neither the earth nor the sky “no longer moves.” They kicked me out somewhere, into some kind of emptiness. While reading an astronomy textbook, I feel like someone is kicking me out with a stick. own home. For what?"

The most interesting argument - it is called “ontological” - says simply: God simply logically cannot but exist. That is, to say the phrase “God does not exist” means to say a logical contradiction, because the attribute “to exist” is included in the logical definition of the Supreme Being... You say, you can’t prove anything like that? And you will be wrong. There are three things in the world to which such proof can be applied. First of all, it’s me. Remember Descartes’ “I think, therefore I am.”

This was precisely an attempt, contrary to total skepticism and doubt, to prove that at least something really exists and was not just a dream for me (or some space wanderer). If I doubt the existence of myself, then I already exist, for if I did not exist, there would be no one to doubt. To say “I do not exist” is to say absurdity; it means that I really exist. Secondly, this line of argument can be applied to existence as such. To say “being does not exist” is also to say something absurd. But God is Absolute Being, and to say about Him “Absolute Being does not exist” is absurdity to an infinite degree.

Earnestly? Yes, but only for a person with a culture of philosophical thinking. Einstein’s arguments are also understandable only to people with a culture of mathematical thought...

But in the end, no one can be forced to think logically and rationally...,

Now it’s time to say what the participants in the historical conversation at the Patriarch’s Ponds hinted at.

As you remember, Ivan Bezdomny, worthy representative a country in which “no matter what you miss, you don’t have it,” he advised sending Kant to Solovki for three years. The Kaliningrad thinker deserved such a harsh measure in the eyes of the Soviet poet for his “moral proof of the existence of God.”

Kant begins with a premise already known to us: nothing happens in the world without a reason. The principle of determinism (that is, cause-and-effect relationships) is the most general law of the universe. Man also obeys him. But the fact of the matter is that - not always. There are times when a person acts freely, not automatically forced by anything. If we say that everyone human act there are reasons - it is not people who should be rewarded for their exploits, but these same “reasons”, and they should be put in prison instead of criminals. Where there is no freedom, there is no responsibility and there can be neither law nor morality. Kant says that to deny human freedom is to deny all morality. On the other hand, even if I can discern in the actions of other people the reasons why they act this way in every situation, then as soon as I take a closer look at myself, I will have to admit that according to by and large I act freely. No matter how the surrounding circumstances or my past, the characteristics of my character or heredity influence me, I know that at the moment of choice I have a second when I could become higher than myself... There is a second when, as Kant puts it, the history of the entire universe as if it begins with me: neither in the past nor around me there is anything that I would dare to refer to in order to justify the meanness on the threshold of which I stand...

This means that we have two facts - 1) everything in the world lives according to the law of causality and 2) man, in rare moments of his freedom, does not obey this law. And there is one more principle: on the territory of a given state, only those persons who have the right of “extraterritoriality” are not subject to its laws, i.e. diplomatic corps. So, man does not obey the Basic Law of our Universe. This means that the person is not part of it. We have a status of extraterritoriality in this world; we are messengers. We are ambassadors of that other, immaterial world, in which it is not the principle of determinism that operates, but the principle of Freedom and Love. There is a Being in the world that does not obey the laws of matter. And we are involved in it. In general: we are free - which means God exists. Kant’s Russian contemporary, Gabriel Derzhavin, came to the same conclusion in his ode “God”: “I am, which means you are too!”

In general, “proofs of the existence of God” should not be given undue importance. Faith that is pulled out by the pincers of arguments is worth little. The existence of God, as Ivan Kireevsky wrote in the last century, is not proven, but shown.

A person becomes a Christian not because someone pinned him against the wall with evidence. It’s just that one day he himself touched the Shrine with his soul. Or - himself; or - as one Orthodox theologian said: “no one would ever become a monk if he had not once seen the radiance of eternal life on the face of another person.”

The Church does not seek to prove the existence of God. The path of her proof is different: “Blessed are the pure in heart; for they will see God.” That's what Christ said. And after one and a half thousand years, Pascal will advise a skeptic he knows: “Try to strengthen your faith not by increasing the number of proofs, but by decreasing the number of your own sins.”

Theology is an experimental, experimental science. A believer differs from an unbeliever in that the circle of his experience is simply wider. So different is a person who has ear for music, from a person who cannot hear the harmony of consonances. This is how a person who has visited Jerusalem himself differs from a person who claims that this cannot happen, because Jerusalem and what is told about it is a myth of ignorant medieval barbarians.

If a person has the experience of the Meeting, how much changes in his world! And if he loses it, how many things fade. One young man wrote at the dawn of the 19th century: “When a person has been granted this virtue, union with Christ, he meets the blows of fate with calmness and inner silence, courageously resists the storms of passions, fearlessly endures the fury of anger. How can you not endure suffering if you know that by persisting in Christ and working hard, you glorify God Himself?!” Then, having renounced Christ, the author of these wonderful lines about union wrote only about alienation for the rest of his life. This young man's name was Karl Marx...

1. K. Marx. The union of believers with Christ according to the Gospel of John (15:1-14). Graduation essay from high school (cited by G. Küng. Does God exist? 1982, p. 177).

Deacon Andrey Kuraev. Does it matter how you believe? M., 1999

Does God Really Exist – Evidence? Sooner or later, every thinking person asks himself this question. If you are thinking about this, you are not alone. After all, this question has been the main question of philosophy from ancient times to this day (“What comes first? Consciousness or matter?”).

Based on the answer to the question “Does God exist?” The world of people is divided into 3 categories:

• Some people are believers– believe that God exists and they do not need evidence of his existence.
• Others are atheists- believe that the world is material and do not believe in the immaterial God, as the main Designer and Creator of this world.
• Still others are agnostics- believe that discussing the question of whether God really exists is pointless, since it is impossible to prove the existence of something that cannot be “touched” or “seen.”

One way or another, but the answer to the question of whether to believe or not to believe in the existence of God is influences our entire future life. You will learn exactly how this influence occurs in this amazing 3-minute video.

Proof of the existence of God. VIDEO

So, today, both believers and non-believers believe that it is impossible to rationally prove the existence of God. Only the reasons for thinking so are different for both.

Believers believe that God reveals himself only in purity of heart, and not with the help of a proud and arrogant mind. Non-believers believe that only science is objective and once it is impossible to measure and record the fact of God’s existence, it means he does not exist.

But few people know that since the times of medieval philosophy there is a tradition and practice of proving the existence of God. The philosopher and scholastic theologian Thomas Aquinas wrote works in which he provided 5 proofs of the existence of God. Also, proof of the existence of God was given in his works by the philosopher of those times, Anselm of Canterbury.

Strictly speaking, the question, “Is consciousness or matter primary?” is the fundamental question of philosophy. This question can be formulated in other words like this: “Is there a God?”, “Who created matter?”, “What happened before the big bang?”, “Could life on Earth have arisen by chance? and so on.

If you want to know in detail all 16 proofs of whether God really exists, derived by philosophers, you can contact to this article. This list includes, among other things, 5 Proofs for the Existence of God by Thomas Aquinas.

Here I will give only a few of them - the most indisputable and obvious evidence of the existence of God from life itself, noticed by Aristotle and other philosophers.

"Existential proof" of the existence of God

This proof is formulated as follows: for any structure to exist, continuous expenditure of energy from the outside is required. As soon as the flow of energy from outside stops, the structure collapses.

Let's look at examples. To build a house, you will spend energy on designing it, building it, and then maintaining the house. If you stop maintaining the house, it will fall into disrepair. One more example. If you want to have your own garden, you will need to spend energy preparing the land and planting plants. As soon as you stop putting in your work, your energy, the weeds will destroy your garden.

Our entire world, including not only the Earth and solar system, but also the entire Universe and the microworld, is much more complex than a house and a garden. So why do such complex structures still exist? Undoubtedly, due to the fact that they were created by Someone and have been maintained by Him since then.

“The Anthropic Principle of the Universe” as proof of the existence of God

Most likely you noticed that in Lately, science and religion, which have been in conflict for a long time, have recently begun to come closer again. After all, research, for example, in the field, shows that the world is not as “material” as we previously imagined it to be.

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But let's return to the Anthropic principle of the Universe. Modern science suddenly found out that the emergence of life on Earth, as well as the development of civilization, became possible only thanks to paradoxical to an unlikely combination of extremely harsh conditions. Among them:

And many of the proportions and relationships of our the most complex world. Scientists say that the interconnectedness of all these factors is such that the possibility of their coincidence is completely excluded.

"Cosmological proof" of the existence of God

This proof was formulated by Aristotle and was later used by the medieval philosopher Thomas Aquinas as one of the 5 proofs of the existence of God. Most often it is formulated as follows:

Every thing in this world, including the Universe, has a reason for its existence and it is impossible to continue the chain, the sequence of reasons indefinitely. Eventually we will come to the First Cause.

Today not only philosophers, but also other scientists talk about it (“What happened before big bang?). The answer to the question “What is the first cause of the Universe?” suggests itself. This is God, he is not material, but “ideal”, “spiritual”, like a thought, and is rather not the Cause, but the Creator of the Universe and its Laws.

Is there a God - the opinions of scientists

Moving further and further into the microcosm and macrocosm, scientists are increasingly saying that science and religion do not contradict each other at all. Previously, before science and religion diverged, many scientists, such as Newton, were theologians.

Isn't it exciting? Would you like to know the answers to these questions: - Why are the secrets of the universe, the laws of physics, and solutions to problems in mathematics revealed only to selected geniuses? What is their secret? - and p why ancient Greek philosophers in the Golden Age of civilization there were revelations about the universe, but now they don’t visit us? Read the answers to these questions in this useful and informative article

Summary

I would really like the article “Does God Really Exist – Evidence” to be useful to you. The main conclusion that can be drawn by carefully observing the world around us is that Someone created and decorated this world for us. This Someone constantly supports him and without Him the world could not exist for even a moment.

I wish you all joy in learning new things and inspiration in all your endeavors!

Especially for Sergei.

Evidence based on the laws of thermodynamics

A very common point of view is that existence of God it is unprovable by rational and logical means that His existence can only be taken on faith as an axiom. Believe it if you want, believe it if you want, it’s a personal matter for everyone. As for Sciences, then it is most often believed that her job is to study our material world , study using rational-empirical methods, and since God immaterial, then the science has nothing to do with Him - let him, so to speak, “be concerned with” Him religion.

In fact, this is just not true - namely the science provides us with the most convincing evidence of the existence God the Creator everything around us material world.

Already in 9th grade high school students have an idea about some fundamental scientific laws, for example, about Law of Conservation of Energy(also called the 1st Law of Thermodynamics), and the Law of Spontaneous Growth entropy, also known as 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. So, the existence of the biblical God the Creator is a direct logical consequence of these two most important scientific laws .

Let us first ask ourselves the question: where did the things we observe around us come from? material world? There are several possible answers to this:

1) World slowly evolved for many billions or trillions of years from some " primordial matter" At present this is, so to speak, the “generally accepted” point of view. It's as if there once existed a complete chaos, which then, for unknown reasons, suddenly “exploded” ( The Big Bang Theory), and then slowly " evolved" from " primary broth"to amoebas, and then to humans.

2) Material world has always existed, forever, in the form in which we see it now.

3) Material world it just came out of nowhere a certain time ago.

4) World was created God some time ago in the form primordial chaotic matter, and then evolved To modern look for many millions of years, but not “by itself,” but under the influence of the same God. This is the so-called theory theistic evolution”, which is also quite fashionable now.

5) Material world was created out of nothing God a certain time ago in a completely completed form and since then to the present has been in a state of gradual degradation. Is this a biblical concept or creationism.

Now, armed with the 1st and 2nd Laws of Thermodynamics, let's try to answer the question, which of these concepts is correct, or, more precisely, which of them is this laws At least it doesn't contradict.

The first of the above concepts clearly contradicts 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, according to which, everything natural spontaneous processes are going in the direction of increase entropy(that is, chaos, disorder) systems. Evolution How spontaneous complication natural systems is completely and absolutely unequivocally prohibited 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. This law tells us that chaos can never, under any circumstances, establish itself order. Spontaneous complication any natural system is impossible. For example, " primordial broth"never, under any conditions, in any trillions or billions of years could give rise to more highly organized protein bodies, which, in turn, never, in any trillions of years could" evolve"in such highly organized structure, As a person. Thus, this "generally accepted" modern view of origin of the universe is absolutely incorrect, since it contradicts one of the fundamental empirically established scientific laws – 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.

The 2nd concept also contradicts 2nd Law. For if our material world was eternal and had no beginning in time, then it is quite obvious that, according to 2nd Law, He degraded would by now be up to full level chaos. We, however, observe in the world around us highly ordered structures, which, by the way, we ourselves are. So, the logical consequence of the 2nd Law is the conclusion that our Universe, everything around us material world had a beginning in time.

3rd concept, according to which world arose out of nothing “by itself” a certain time ago in a ready-made highly ordered form, and since then slowly degrades, – of course, does not contradict the 2nd Law. But... it contradicts the 1st Law ( Law of conservation of energy), Whereby, energy(or matter, because E=mcc) cannot arise by itself, out of nothing.

The 4th concept, fashionable now, according to which evolution exists, but not “by itself”, but under “ controlled by God", also contradicts 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. This law, in fact, it makes absolutely no difference whether it happens evolution"by itself" or "under by God's leading" He simply speaks about the fundamental impossibility of occurrence in nature evolutionary processes and records the presence in it processes directly opposite - processes of spontaneous disorganization. If evolutionary processes of self-complication existed in nature (regardless of whether under the influence God, or without Him), then 2nd Law simply would not have been open and formulated science in the form in which it now exists.

And only the 5th, biblical concept, creationism, completely satisfies both fundamental scientific laws. Material world did not arise by itself, it was created by the immaterial God– and this corresponds Law of conservation of energy (1st Law of Thermodynamics), Whereby matter does not arise by itself out of nothing. Wherein 1st Law records the absence of occurrence matter (energy) from nothing at the present time, which also corresponds to the biblical statement that “in 6 days he completed God his work and rested,” that is, that from that time God no longer creates new ones matter. Mentioned in Bible"curse" imposed God on material world, just corresponds to the action 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.

Thus, one can calmly and boldly, without any exaggeration, assert that creation material world proven by science, since this fact is an obvious logical consequence of two fundamental, empirically established scientific laws – 1st and 2nd Laws of Thermodynamics.

Another thing is that science you may not believe it. For example, various kinds of inventors " perpetual motion machines", in essence, do not believe in the truth 1st Law of Thermodynamics – Law of Conservation of Energy. That's why they are trying to invent a mechanism that would create energy"out of nothing." Likewise, those who believe in the truth theories of evolution, in fact, do not believe in the truth 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, which clearly prohibits the possibility evolution How self-complicating process- and in the same way they try to “invent”, come up with a “mechanism” that supposedly exists in nature or law, according to which there would be processes of self-organization of matter.

Often called "Apologetics".

Did some being really create the universe? Does it know how it did it, and does it have the strength to possibly do it again? Has this being revealed itself to humanity through the person of Jesus Christ and continues to rule the world through the Holy Spirit as the Bible claims? Is the God of the Bible the best possible explanation for existence? These are the main claims of Christianity, and this article will allow you to provide convincing evidence that all of the above reasoning is indeed true.

Steps

Use the Bible as a narrative, faithful, and poetic source for understanding divine intervention (influence) in everyday events (but not coercion) and the development of Judaism through early Christianity, and that it is also a spiritual road map of creation and reveals God's ultimate purpose and plan for humanity. introduction The Bible says: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1) Question: “Who or what can say who or what really started the universe?” Modern science - although it is not absolutely sure what, when and how: ~ State scientific theories that postulate that the known universe actually began with what is called the “Big Bang Theory.” It makes no logical sense to say that "absolutely nothing" could have produced that initial explosion or anything else: "something existed" and "caused it" - creating the things we think it all started with.

Ask those who do not believe in God to consider the accuracy of the Bible, i.e. that is, that:

Show a picture of God, whom the Bible describes in words as the revelation of the only God. He is omniscient (knows everything, observes everything and experiences everything), omnipotent, having an image but not having ordinary physical flesh and blood, omnipresent, eternal, unchanging, indivisible, giving freedom of choice (freedom) with many ensuing consequences/rewards, and all of his cares are the cause of his perfect love. The Bible says, “God is spirit...” (John 4:24), and it says, “God is love...” (1 John 4:8), and that “perfect love casts out fear.” Reverent interdependence/relationship and amazing grace fill the entire universe, suggesting a planner, a creator, a superhuman architect of unlimited knowledge and power. It takes time and perhaps eternity for the minds of humans to learn what the original mind (the divine mind) actually accomplished in creating the universe and all that it contains. The Bible says that God created mankind in His own image (Genesis 1:26-27), and it is logical to realize that the human mind is able to advance more and more in understanding the universe because the human mind has similarities to the divine mind.

Discuss how one man known as Jesus fulfilled many of the Old Testament messianic prophecies and did things that no a common person couldn't do it. It was written that Jesus was born in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2) from the tribe of Judah (Genesis 49:10), and came to the temple (Malachi 3:1) and rose from the dead (Isaiah 53:11). Historical sources and archaeological evidence establishes the legitimacy of Jesus of Nazareth as a real person, as real as any other known historical figure. The books called the gospels document the life and teachings of Jesus, as well as the existence and spread of Christianity as a major religion, showing Christ's purpose to give free access to all miracles through his support/intercession.

Develop a theme about an imperfect world, but one where the ability to focus on a “good” (or optimal) outcome is markedly greater than the hopeless life anyone could imagine, perhaps much worse - if it were simply random or unintentional and dependent on the grace of the material non-living aspects of the universe. It is characterized by decline, extinction, breakdown, destruction against amazingly self-healing forms of life and human existence, which can be visualized, give hope, build and improve many things. While the material universe provides us with everything we need to maintain, improve and enjoy life, there are also fine luxuries that are not necessary for survival and reproduction, such as knowledge: art, music and constant emerging technologies. Is this a sign of an indifferent cosmos, or is it an indicator of the existence of someone very friendly to self-learning people? It seems reasonable to conclude that the universe materialized due to the presence of an intellectual force/source. When one takes the time to learn how so many things work right for us to be here, and how difficult it might be to explain how none of these interdependent things will work wrong without appealing to God for or against it (or to beliefs). It also seems as if the universe was invented for humans, considering how phenomenal creatures they are with rare ability“to be successful” in order to maximize the partially hidden potential of the universe.

Explain that there are many examples that show the existence of God, but you need to be able to look at them and realize their truthfulness. Accept them instead of doubting them, try to see them instead of closing your eyes, and you will believe that God exists. Discuss how the usefulness and attractiveness of human-made things when presented have no accidental qualities, but are the result of our intellectual nature and our natural admiration for order, balance, and beauty. Likewise, it would be unreasonable to say that the exceptional usefulness and attractiveness of things in nature is accidental, but it is probably more reasonable to conclude that they are the result of the existence of a superior intelligence that also admires order, balance and beauty. Creativity is the basis and pinnacle of existence of all living and nonliving things, and it is the business of every individual to try to explain his or her natural reverence for this known state of affairs. The Bible says that God created everything and was completely pleased with his work.

Plans, prescriptions acquired only during life:

1. Encourage people to look around and see the world. Does he or she see only the trees and not the interconnected forest? It is obvious that God exists because His creation is not only one thing, but also instructions for all life in the biosphere of the world, for the galaxy in which the world is located, and the universe in which the galaxy is located - and He is driving force all this. Living cells that have been designed and engineered to be self-replicating cells or organisms.

   • Each system is mixed and interconnected with others. The “Universe of Life” operates in accordance with complex and precise instructions for the formation of trillions of cells in order to correctly construct one life, for example, a person. Who or what developed the concept and formulated these interrelated instructions? The Bible indicates that God is the being who spoke the first words and that God is the source of all life (which contains all the plans, genes and living cells necessary to carry out the plans).

2. Show how these natural, interdependent systems point to God when you look at the little factories needed in a cell to build and run one of them (or from other cells in the body and nowhere else in nature). For example, trace the interdependence of the sequence of events when proteins assemble exclusively in a living cell (which came first: the cell or the laws that work only inside it and nowhere else).

   • These proteins, as they should be, become part of the structure of the body and perform many functions, but their formation requires the step-by-step processing of nucleic acid substances called “nucleotides”, sugar plus nitrogen and phosphates - that’s where they come from. They were all produced by a single cell (or interacting cells of a multicellular organism), following very specific plans.

3. Discuss where the important plans (purposeful instructions) for life to exist came from: in “living” cells. The instructions only make sense when processed by existing "living" cells, and they only have effect there.

   Realize that complexity does not matter, only the interdependence of materials and instructions (plans) functions for a particular system. Why? Dead/non-living cells do not need or use plans, no processes, nothing constructive (cannot read and follow genetic plans).

   • Imagine how an existing, living cell needed to use DNA and RNA (acid molecules). They work like an assembly line, according to the instructions for this "automated assembly line" (explained below), by matching the opposite nucleotides of DNA and "messenger RNA" plus "transfer RNA" along with the "ribosome" (form of RNA) that goes along the pipeline: what is messenger RNA. At every third nucleotide of messenger RNA, the ribosome stops and transfer RNA attaches amino acids as the next link in a growing chain, which will eventually come off the assembly line as one of the trillion proteins that form living systems.
   • DNA polymerase catalyzes the formation of DNA. This raises the question, which came first, DNA or DNA polymerase? This is just one of many similar functions and cycles that make up the chemical machinery found in all living cells. If any of these cycles were disrupted, life could not exist. Either instructions exist, or life does not exist. Here is another gap that cannot be explained.

Human characteristics and other thoughts

1. Mention that we are all born with the knowledge that there is something right and wrong, with many opportunities to appreciate simplicity and elegance, to communicate, analyze, synthesize and calculate - plus to design and build. So people tend to enjoy creativity rather than senseless destruction. Read the Bible and find out where the knowledge of good and evil comes from: God.

   Discuss the fact that each of us has a desire to seek love and acceptance (God is love...). Since childhood, we have been trying to fill the emptiness that exists within us. The desire to share life with another person, enjoying communication, comes from Adam and Eve, who dreamed of loving and being loved as complementary to each other and as a means to create humanity. The Christian idea that humanity is God's most valuable creation is quite logical. We need air and it surrounds the planet we call home. We need water, and it falls purified from the sky. We must consume food to live, and it comes from the earth and is found in abundance in water and land. And the family model of parents, spouses and children exists to satisfy our greatest need for love. Consider that the power, beauty and knowledge of one exist for the instruction, development and upliftment of all mankind. No other religion except Christianity argues very convincingly that life is a gift of love from God and our lives should be lived in service to humanity (and attribute this to God). If we believe that everything that happens has a cause, then if things are created, then they have a builder and inventor: the God of creation.

   Check out some thoughts, famous quotes, which can be used to prove that the Christian God exists.

• Recognize that God may exist in a form that is significantly different from what you currently comprehend, for God's ways are as high above ours as the heavens reach around and beyond the earth.
• Let them know that the miracle of receiving the power of God through the Holy Spirit is available to all who ask. (Luke 11:13)
• For a more theological/philosophical approach, check out the introductions to Clive Staples Lewis's Mere Christianity and Suffering. For a strictly philosophical approach, one should study the cosmological argument (Thomas Aquinas or later William Lane Craig, Alexander Prus and Richard Taylor) or the teleological argument (Robin Collins). The ontological argument, although it proves that belief in God is rational and reasoned arguments, tends to not convince people due to their complex philosophical reasoning (Alvin Plantinga and Robert Meidol). Beware of distorted arguments (e.g., thorns on roses are not proof that God does not exist).
• Discuss the fact that human beings seem predisposed to believe in God. The human ability to reason means that people are able to recognize the necessity of certain things in order to bring about certain others. Ask if it is in any way logical to conclude that an accidental explosion could lead to something carefully orchestrated. Is space more likely the result of intelligence and planning or blind chance?
• If you hope people will respect your opinion, respect their point of view first on the path to Jesus Christ.
• Show the absurdity of denying the existence of God. What is the probability that a tornado flying over a landfill will accidentally assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials lying there? (Fred Hoyle) What are the chances that life was formed by chance? The point is that there are certain things that irrational forces simply cannot do.
• Be humble and meek, giving clear, consistent answers.
• If people start talking about "Christian crusades(1095-1291), during which many people were killed and advanced civilizations destroyed, respond to them by explaining how these actions (although sometimes done in the name of Christianity) actually contradict Christian doctrine. All people are fallen, and thus prone to immoral acts.
• Question the idea that religion is “unscientific.” Gravity is the invisible force that explains why all objects fall to the ground, whereas God is the invisible force that explains the existence of the universe, living beings and the survival, growth as well as reproduction of organisms. Does labeling something as “natural” eliminate the need for God? Explore the mystery of consciousness. How likely is it that matter itself gave rise to mind? Many physicists believe that any theory would be incomplete if it did not take into account the existence of consciousness to some extent.
• Raise the question of why there is something rather than nothing? Asking why involves recognizing alternative possibilities. Can the universe not exist? It is illogical to assume that existence was caused because in order for something to cause someone's existence, it must exist before it, thus denying it the possibility of being the cause of existence. However, opportunity precedes everything. What is the substance of possibility? Affirm that God is the eternal source of endless possibilities.
• Understand that, strictly speaking, if you want your information to be considered knowledge or fact or truth, it must be obtained through your own observation and experience. However, there may be enough evidence relevant to the topic to convince a person to come to a logical conclusion, and in some cases the evidence may be so extreme that it can be said that it is correct to assume that an individual's point of view is accurate. In considering the available arguments, it is best for all concerned to start with the assumption that the existence or non-existence of God is a controversial issue.
• If you are criticized for your belief in God, you might point out that believing that the most incredible thing happened on its own requires more faith than believing that a superhuman force such as God created a superhuman invention such as the universe. In this regard, the question arises, who invented God? Some people are of the opinion that if God can exist without a creator, then why can't the universe? You don't have to have all the answers. The universe seems to fit a person like a glove on his hand. Ask is it possible that we could really be so lucky?
• Explain how the theories of creationism and evolution are not mutually exclusive. Discuss the dissimilarity of each individual piece of matter in the spontaneously generating universe. For example, did all the "organic" carbon compounds in the universe really arise without any help, forming by chance? This goes beyond evolution, because how did the interdependent components of the first cell come about? Evolution details how the survival of the fittest leads to the emergence of the fittest, but it does not detail the birth of the first living, self-reproducing, survivalist, purposeful organism.
• Some people may argue, “If the Christian God exists, then where are all the miracles that are talked about in the Bible?” Let them know these miracles are happening and show them examples

Believe it or not

Does God exist? It's pretty actual question of all times and peoples. Of course, religion gives only a positive answer to this. If a person is not an atheist, then he believes in the Almighty, regardless of whether he exists or not! Until recently, it was impossible to prove the existence of God using mathematical calculations and physical formulas. The only and indisputable proof of the existence of the Creator was considered to be firm faith in him and knowledge gleaned from the Bible... But first things first.

"Seventh Proof"

Remember how Bulgakov’s heroes - editor Berlioz and poet Bezdomny - in the chapter entitled “The Seventh Proof” (novel “The Master and Margarita”) assured Satan himself (Woland) that neither the devil nor God exists? True, they should be given their due: they did not know who was in front of them. But Woland was not at all moved by this excuse. He did not like these atheistic speeches directed at the Almighty. Woland is evil, but fair! He firmly knows that God exists, and does not accept such speeches that refute such truths! In general, the above-mentioned literary figures were punished - each in their own way: Berlioz had his head cut off by a tram, and Bezdomny became a schizophrenic and, pardon the pun, found his home in... a psychiatric hospital. Do you see what I'm getting at? If you suddenly find yourself involved in a discussion on the topic “Does God exist?”, you should not vehemently, foaming at the mouth, deny the very fact of his existence! This could backfire on you! It’s better to get out of it with a joke, answering “I haven’t seen it - I don’t know”...

Let's take your word for it

Whether God exists or not - everyone decides for himself. Statistics say that today almost 90% of the world population believes in the Almighty. The remaining 10% are divided approximately equally among those who believe not so much in the Lord as in the existence of some higher powers, and on those who believe only in themselves, calling all talk about the Creator an invention of religious fanatics. Be that as it may, but it is impossible with full confidence prove whether God exists. In the same way, it cannot be refuted. Sacred Orthodox Book(The Bible) says that a person must accept the existence of the Creator as an indisputable fact by his very faith in the Lord, which many people do with great pleasure.

Yes or not?

So, we have found out that the fact of the existence or absence of the Creator cannot be proven from the point of view of the rational logical mind; it can only be accepted on faith. It turns out to be a kind of “axiom”. Now let's talk about something that may soon change some of our religious ideas, pleasantly surprising believers. Science has proven the existence of the Almighty!

Scientific basis for the existence of God

For a long time, pundits did not touch upon this aspect. Since the purpose of science is to study the material world using rational empirical methods, and the Lord is not material, then scientific explanations this was not stated. The question “does God exist” was given entirely to religion. However, today it is scientists who take the liberty to unequivocally assert that there is a Creator! How do they prove this?

Proof

They say that the material world was created by an immaterial Lord, which corresponds to the law of conservation of energy (the first law of thermodynamics), which states that energy (matter) does not arise independently, that is, “out of nowhere.” Indeed, at the present time there is no longer any matter other than the existing one. This correlates with the biblical statements that the Creator completed his creation in the first six days. In other words, from that time on God no longer creates new matter. The second law of thermodynamics is clearly seen in the “curse” mentioned in the Bible. The Lord imposed it on the material world.

In the form of a conclusion

It is these reflections that are given as the main argument regarding the existence of the Almighty. This is a logical consequence of two fundamental and scientifically proven laws of thermodynamics, established empirically.