If God Doesn't Exist...

One of the questions we're answering in our TOUGH QUESTIONS teaching series is: Does God really exist? In this post I hope to show why this is an important question to answer.

If God doesn’t exist, life has no ultimate significance, value or purpose. If God doesn’t exist, there is no afterlife. If God doesn’t exist, there is no hope. If God doesn’t exist, there’s no difference between humans and animals. Without God, you’d be in a real dilemma if you saw a child and a squirrel in the road about to get hit by a car. A child has no more value than a squirrel apart from God, so why save the child and not the squirrel? If God doesn’t exist, then neither do good and evil. Without God, it’s impossible to condemn genocide, oppression, crime, terrorist bombings or school shootings as evil. Nor can you praise generosity, self-sacrifice and love as good. In a universe without God, to kill someone or to love someone is morally equivalent. Finally, if God doesn’t exist, we have no good reason to restrain evil. If life ends at the grave, then it makes no ultimate difference whether you live as a Hitler or as a Mother Teresa. Since your destiny is ultimately unrelated to your behavior, you may as well just live as you please.

Are you starting to see why the answer to this question is so important? See the difference it makes? Christian apologist William Lane Craig wrote in his book On Guard, “If God does not exist, then you are just a miscarriage of nature, thrust into a purposeless universe to live a purposeless life.” And I agree. That’s our situation apart from God, so it’s actually really important we make a decision where we stand on this issue of God’s existence.

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