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07-18-2008, 07:04 PM
Proving God of the Bible is the Only Uncreated Creator
First you have to prove the uncreated Creator exists. You do that by being logical. Since nothing in nature happens all by itself, nature can't cause itself; ergo, given trillions of cases of things with a cause and no scientific evidence for something that is without a cause in nature, that's powerful evidence the universe was caused by that which is uncaused Whom we call God. No matter how painful it is for your brain to accept the conclusion from the evidence, it must be so. That is what it means to be humble and not full of pride in one's own ideas.
Next, who is the uncreated Creator? Well the first requirement is He has to reveal Himself in Person in the likeness of flesh as personal and He has to say He is God, the uncreated Creator. Once He does this (and by the way, I don't know anyone who does this but Jesus), He has to prove it with a substantial enough proof that it is undeniable. How does He go about doing this? He says by the proof of His resurrection, you can know unequivocally that He is God. Ok, fair enough, but does the evidence for the resurrection match up with His claim? Indeed.
Most (almost all) scholars on the resurrection of Jesus, both skeptics and non-skeptics, agree on some things related to the Bible (66 books). One of those things is that they truly believe, given all the evidence known to humankind about history and court-type evidence, that Paul of Tarsus was being genuine when he wrote Gal. 1 & 2, 1 Cor. 15. In those earliest writings since the cross, Paul said he met with the apostles Peter, James and John on more than one occasion soon after the cross in which they agreed not only they saw Jesus resurrected in various group settings, but that they understood the purpose of His resurrection, mainly because Jesus told them originally when He was with them for more than 3 years when He walked in the likeness of flesh (i.e. He became a man so as to be fully God and fully man to men in order to atone for their sins on the cross and give eternal life).
Since modern psychology is unable to explain this way as merely hallucination, because there is no such things as group hallucinations (they are experienced individually and differ with each person) and nobody can come up with an alternative explanation, it must be true.
What closes the lid on the Case for Christ, Faith, the Real Jesus and Creator is that on top of all this, the Apostles who saw Him and were more well documented than anything in history, never changed their view. They went to their deaths as martyrs for their testimony in seeing the resurrected Jesus, walking with Him, eating with Him, touching Him and speaking with Him. Even doubting Thomas for all you skeptics out there. Even Paul for all you outsiders of the faith out there. Even James, brother of Jesus, for those raised in Christian homes. The brother of Jesus did not believe his brother Jesus was God until after He was resurrected and appeared to him. Paul had absolutely no reason to turn to Christ for he had high standing and was going places in Judaism. He indicated no sense of guilt whatsoever as he was doing a good job as a Pharisee and was well commended.
The lawyer in the Guinness Book of Records who won the most court cases in a row (245), said the death, deity and resurrection of Jesus is the best evidential case he has ever seen. In a court of law, he said, he would easily win proving Jesus is God.
You don't need to worry about anything else except these minimal facts; you don't even need to claim the Bible is inerrant. That's what makes the proof for God and Jesus being God and God being uncreated so special. It is not that complicated. Even a young child can understand it, so you are without excuse and need not go to hell, for rejecting God's love in His only begotten Son shedding His blood for you to give you eternal life. Eternal life is not just eternal blessings for the new city and new earth, but it is also for the the first time an ability to know God when you regenerated by the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
First you have to prove the uncreated Creator exists. You do that by being logical. Since nothing in nature happens all by itself, nature can't cause itself; ergo, given trillions of cases of things with a cause and no scientific evidence for something that is without a cause in nature, that's powerful evidence the universe was caused by that which is uncaused Whom we call God. No matter how painful it is for your brain to accept the conclusion from the evidence, it must be so. That is what it means to be humble and not full of pride in one's own ideas.
Next, who is the uncreated Creator? Well the first requirement is He has to reveal Himself in Person in the likeness of flesh as personal and He has to say He is God, the uncreated Creator. Once He does this (and by the way, I don't know anyone who does this but Jesus), He has to prove it with a substantial enough proof that it is undeniable. How does He go about doing this? He says by the proof of His resurrection, you can know unequivocally that He is God. Ok, fair enough, but does the evidence for the resurrection match up with His claim? Indeed.
Most (almost all) scholars on the resurrection of Jesus, both skeptics and non-skeptics, agree on some things related to the Bible (66 books). One of those things is that they truly believe, given all the evidence known to humankind about history and court-type evidence, that Paul of Tarsus was being genuine when he wrote Gal. 1 & 2, 1 Cor. 15. In those earliest writings since the cross, Paul said he met with the apostles Peter, James and John on more than one occasion soon after the cross in which they agreed not only they saw Jesus resurrected in various group settings, but that they understood the purpose of His resurrection, mainly because Jesus told them originally when He was with them for more than 3 years when He walked in the likeness of flesh (i.e. He became a man so as to be fully God and fully man to men in order to atone for their sins on the cross and give eternal life).
Since modern psychology is unable to explain this way as merely hallucination, because there is no such things as group hallucinations (they are experienced individually and differ with each person) and nobody can come up with an alternative explanation, it must be true.
What closes the lid on the Case for Christ, Faith, the Real Jesus and Creator is that on top of all this, the Apostles who saw Him and were more well documented than anything in history, never changed their view. They went to their deaths as martyrs for their testimony in seeing the resurrected Jesus, walking with Him, eating with Him, touching Him and speaking with Him. Even doubting Thomas for all you skeptics out there. Even Paul for all you outsiders of the faith out there. Even James, brother of Jesus, for those raised in Christian homes. The brother of Jesus did not believe his brother Jesus was God until after He was resurrected and appeared to him. Paul had absolutely no reason to turn to Christ for he had high standing and was going places in Judaism. He indicated no sense of guilt whatsoever as he was doing a good job as a Pharisee and was well commended.
The lawyer in the Guinness Book of Records who won the most court cases in a row (245), said the death, deity and resurrection of Jesus is the best evidential case he has ever seen. In a court of law, he said, he would easily win proving Jesus is God.
You don't need to worry about anything else except these minimal facts; you don't even need to claim the Bible is inerrant. That's what makes the proof for God and Jesus being God and God being uncreated so special. It is not that complicated. Even a young child can understand it, so you are without excuse and need not go to hell, for rejecting God's love in His only begotten Son shedding His blood for you to give you eternal life. Eternal life is not just eternal blessings for the new city and new earth, but it is also for the the first time an ability to know God when you regenerated by the Holy Spirit.
Amen.