Hi DXPose,
Thanks for the reply!
You say that this God of yours created Heaven and Earth. Do you mean just the planet Earth, or does "Earth" include the rest of the Solar System and all the galaxies too? When you say Heaven, do you mean the Universe beyond the planet Earth or some other place? When did your God create this Hell that you speak of? And where is it? Is it inside our planet, for example?
You're welcome, it's my pleasure. :e4e: It's nice to come across someone who is interested in learning about God.
I guess I should have used the plural and said 'Heavens' and the Earth, meaning the Solar System and all the galaxies too. As for Heaven and Hell those are places where our soul and spirit goes to rest for eternity once we die. I suppose God created Hell when sin entered the garden when Adam and Eve fell into temptation. Before that, there was no death or disease and we were made perfect to live forever. But now that there is sin, we all die. We are created with a body, soul and spirit, and once we die a physical death our souls and spirits live on forever. The choice you have to make is will you spend eternity with God in Heaven by accepting Jesus Christ as your Savior for dying for your sins (known as being "born again" and alive in spirit), or will you spend eternity separated from God in Hell by rejecting Him in your during earthly life?
Do you have any evidence that this God actually exists? Outside your head, I mean?
Sure there is - Just take a look at the world around you! The unique design of plants, flowers and other vegetation, the wide range of diversity within the animal kingdom from the tiniest insect, to a python snake, a bald eagle, to a giraffe, all the way to the blue whale swimming in the ocean. Look at the magnificent complexity of the universe and the galaxies or how the earth orbits in perfect harmony around the sun. This all couldn't have come here by a mere cosmic accident.
Better yet, look in the mirror - you are evidence, Marcus! For you were fearfully and wonderfully made with an incredibly complex body perfectly designed, with eyes to see and ears to hear, a nose to smell and a mouth to taste, and hands to feel. All of your internal organs function in unison together so you can live and breath, for without even one in it's exact place working properly, you would cease to exist.
Furthermore, you were created in the image and likeness of God. Some of God's attributes are, He is Eternal, Personal & Relational, Righteous & Holy, and full of Love & Goodness.
We are also eternal beings with a body, soul & spirit, as I stated above. The fact that we have personalities and a desire to have relationships with others, we can know that God is personal and desires to have a relationship with us. This is why He created us to begin with.
The fact that our hearts yearn for justice tells us that God is Righteous & Holy. Because we possess a conscience which condemns our moral failures or the evil deeds of others, we know that a personal Creator must have instilled in us a standard of Righteousness.
The fact that we long to be loved and to love one another proves that God is Love. Since we have the ability to love, we also have the ability to hate. And since we have the ability to do good, we also have the ability to do evil. God's goodness is everlasting and His love never fails, but He cannot make anyone love or chose what is right. Love has to be freely given, it cannot be forced or created in a test tube.
But even at that, I realize you may not consider all of this as "evidence" so I will be honest with you - believing in God does take an element of faith. But not simply "blind faith" as some would assume.
The Bible defines faith as this:
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen... By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible." - Hebrews 11:1-3
Marcus, if you have a sincere desire in your heart to know who God is, He will reveal Himself to you.
