Why doesn’t God exist? I’ve confronted this belief system multiple times in the tenure of my ministry. The question and doubts of God’s existence, and the demand for proof seems to be growing in the climate of our present secular culture. This debate often finds modern Christians scrambling to defend their shallow understanding and providing reason for the belief they hold to reassure even themselves of God’s existence. To take time and examine the question of God’s existence is to delve into the depraved mind of humanity and dark heart that scoffs at the idea of any authority beyond itself (Jeremiah 17:9). As humans we have evolved in our wickedness to a self-promoted superior intellectualism that explains away the common sense of conscious to validate the arrogant belief of human deism. This is the belief that we, as human beings, are entitled by the evolution of intellect to in essence be gods of ourselves, and alone possess the qualities of virtue that govern the existence and fate of the individual with no regard to personal or universal consequence (Isaiah 47:10). Why doesn’t God exist? Simply put, we don’t want to answer to Him. We have concluded that the boundaries of absolutes as defined by God are archaic and out of touch with our acceptable narcistic society.
The belief or disbelief of God does not determine the existence of God. The demand of evidence by an elite minded society is only evidence of the pompous spirit that controls their reason, and does not manipulate God to subject Himself to the arrogant dictation of His creation (Isaiah 29:16). God does not need the belief of mankind to manifest the evidence of His existence, but the existence and welfare of mankind does depend on the existence of God. Consider for a moment those invisible attributes that determine and govern the existence of mankind that we do not deny. We cannot see oxygen, but we do not dispute its existence because of its invisibility. We submit to its existence due to the evidence of its prevalence to our existence. The same could be said of other natural unseen forces such as gravity, time, etc. There are many visible attributes that are evidence of the invisible God, but we choose to dismiss these attributes and explain away the measuring evidence of His existence with foolish theories of chaotic and unplanned genesis (Romans 1:20).
The single greatest gauge of God’s existence is not in the elements of His creation, but in the virtues of a human heart touched by His love. The acceptance of God in Christ transforms the heart of man from wicked to righteous and thus becomes the single most powerful evidence of God’s existence. This is where we as modern Christians have failed the world that we live in. We have tried to debate on the level of human intellect the existence of God when the evidence of His existence is not proven by our debates but by our lifestyle (Matthew 5:16). We have perfected the complications of religion, but have neglected the simplicity of relationship. We seek control in our religion, as we did in our humanism. But proof of God’s existence is in our relinquishing control to Him so He can manifest Himself through the heart of humanity. To this end, there is no debate as to His existence because the evidence defies the intellect of human understanding.