Two or Three Witnesses

"In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established." II Cor. 13:1

If God were the author of the Bible, and He expected us to believe in Him, he should have given us witness that he was the Creator. In other words, there should be evidence. Some believe that there is no evidence of God's existence. However, this is not the case.

This website has discussed extensively the incoherencies in Evolutionary theory. But now let us examine the "Big Three" witnesses to the existence of God and why they are viable.

1. Reason / Scientific Philosophy (Rational)
Although we have touched on this topic before, let us again summarize the argument for Design. The argument for Design is fundamentally a recognition of the existence of irreducible complexity and/or information in nature. Common sense will tell one that if a Morse Code signal was received from outer space, it would have had to have been designed by intelligence. Why then is the existence of much more complex information on Earth attributed to billions of years of mindlessness? Common sense will tell one that if a computer or TV was discovered on the Moon, it would have had to have been designed by intelligence. Why then is the existence of much more amazing systems on Earth attributed to billions of years of random relativism? Certainly, the simple fact that the latter in these two examples were living is no excuse!?! Certainly, the fact that the latter two were both vastly more complex provides no cover!

What about the technical aspect? Why, rationally, would information not form by random process? Information can never be formed by random process, because information requires a sender and a receiver. If one creates a predetermined result, as in the famous Dawkins METHINKSITISLIKEAWEASEL example, one is interfering with the process. The process is therefore non-random, and does not represent the progress of Evolution. On the other hand, if one does not interfere with the process, one will never know whether the outcome provides a message or not. Thus, as the outcome cannot be interpreted and conveys no meaning, it is not information. Random processes will always produce random results. Information and irreducible complexity must be designed by intelligence.

2. Martyrs (Empirical)
This argument is quite simple. There have been millions of people through history who have been tortured and killed due to their belief in God and the authority of the Bible. Christians still are persecuted in this manner to this day. Why? If we suppose that there is no God to die for, we are forced to believe that not only are these people delusional, but they are inventing their own metaphysical existence for themselves, since these people almost never show hatred or bitterness to their enemies. But even this idea implies the existence of the metaphysical! There is no naturalistic explanation for why millions would devote themselves to a cause which most of their friends and often all of their family despise, and then die for that cause after months of hideous tortures to "bring them around," forgiving their torturers to their last breath.

A classic attempted rebuttal of this argument is the fact that other religions also have martyrs. Islamists blow themselves up on buses; Catholics go on Crusades; and so on. However, these "martyrdoms" are generally for the purpose of killing others in the meanwhile. And do we ever hear of a Muslim or Hindu or Buddhist who was tortured by a Christian, or anyone else for that matter, and forgave his torturer? No. Christianity is the only religion which can claim martyrs as real witnesses to the truth of what they stood for.

3. The Bible Itself (Fidelic)
The very best evidence of God’s existence or the Bible’s accuracy is the Bible itself. “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” Romans 10:1

7The Bible has hundreds if not thousands of prophecies. For instance, the Bible gives seven prophecies regarding Tyre in Ezekiel 26, written about 590 BC:

-Nebuchadnezzar will take the city of Tyre
-Several nations will participate in the fulfillment
-Tyre will be scraped flat like a rock
-There will be fishermen in that location
-The stones and timbers will be laid in the sea
-Surrounding cities will be terrified
-Tyre will never be rebuilt

A glance at one’s history book will prove the accuracy of every one of those statements.

The probability of all the Biblical prophecies regarding Jesus Christ having come true through natural phenomena has been estimated at 1 in 10 to the 157th power! (Professor Peter W. Stoner, Science Speaks, p. 111) Gasps, anyone? This probability is far greater than that one should pick at random a chosen atom out of all those in the universe!

But, of all the evidences, the best is that which one can experience by testing the Creator himself: an individual relationship with God. As the apostle Paul wonderfully wrote, “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.”

Speaking to the pagan gods and philosophies, the prophet Isaiah declared:

(Isaiah 41:21-24) “Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob. Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come. Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good; or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together. Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.”

Let us not choose evil systems of relativism and naturalism. Let us choose life and liberty, and a belief in a very real and living God.

-R. Josiah Magnuson