Is There A God? 

Joe's Thoughts...

A while ago...I gave a speech for seventh form English...it was a compulsory speech and I decided to do it on something different for a change...

I set about to prove or disprove the existence of a supreme being....
Something we call....GOD.

For years people of all demographic backgrounds have had various thoughts on this subject.  Many great people in history had various beliefs...I can only speak from personal experience and IMHO:   THERE IS ONE TRUE GOD.

    Having decided this I had to prove it to myself...and to the people who had to listen to my speech...

The topic of my speech had to be....The Unknown Factor.

"Think back for a moment:  You are are lying in bed - early morning hours. Pitch black outside - dead quiet. We can see the stars twinkling thought the window...We are thinking...comptemplating...wondering...

What are we doing here? Where did we come from?  Where are we going?

These question are very significant to us... they constitute the essence of our being, and are paramount to our existence.  We want these questions answered.
So we embark on a search for a reason, a force, some currently unknown factor, or maybe even a GOD.

God does exist!
Millions of people currently believe this is true. Why?  Do they have a valid reason?

The basic argument is this:  Scientists, historians, detectives and indeed some of you observe data from a situation and from it propose a theory that best explains the occurrence of what you see.  I can use this same process to propose a theory.  My theory explains everything we observe, not just some selected results or a narrow range of data. My theory explains the fact that there is a universe at all, it explains why there are scientifically proven laws to which it conforms...      It  explains why there are conscious animals and humans with complex and intricate bodies and minds. It explains why!  It uses scientifically valid methods used by scientists and logicians to reach the conclusion the there is a God who sustains everything in existence.

First...for those of you I lost at the first sentence and are saying: "What the heck!",  I will explain what I  mean by God...and what my claim amounts to.

I claim there is a God.  I shall call this claim theism. Now...what does this claim mean?

Theism claims there is a God who has the power to create, conserve, or annihilate anything, big or small.  To use a technical term - God is omnipotent, he (for lack of a better pronoun) can do anything that is logically possible.  This excludes making 2 + 2 = 5 or the universe exist and not exist at the same time, or making a shape round and square at the same time.

God is omniscient - he knows everything that it is possible to know. God is not influence by desire, he is impartial or perfectly free.
God is eternal, he exists outside of time, God is everlasting - Not Created!  It follows from all these attributes that God is perfectly good. This is because a perfectly free being, with perfect knowledge, will choose the overall best action in any given situation.

Now that we know what God is, we can set about to prove (His) existence:

Aristotle in 300 BC, Plato, Socrates...all great philosophers of the past, all had their proofs of the existence of a God.
    Proof of Motion:  according to Newton's laws of motion (which are the basis of physics) when an object is at rest it will not move until it is moved by some force.  All around us we see motion.  What started it all?  God the Mover.
    Cause / Effect: We experience various effects, and to each we can assign a cause: a statute caused by a sculptor... the sculptor by his parents and so on in a long series. Eventually we would trace this back to a First Cause: God.
    Existence: Everything comes either from something or nothing. Obviously you can't get Something from Nothing, and if Something is caused by Something Else this would mean things come from each other, which is also absurd. There must be something that is alone from itself and causes things to be - We call this God.

In Conclusion, logic and science dictate there is a supreme being, a God, and while I may have only converted you from agnostic to atheist, next time to begin to wonder, have a reason, a name to call the Unknown Factor in the equation."

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Hi! This is Blair, One of  Joe's friends, I think!
Anyway I became a Christian in 1996.
And boy! when i did my life was completely flipped up side down back 2 front.