Self-Evident Truth #1:
Self-Evident Truth #2:
God exists. T o me, one of the most obvious truths is that God exists. One night a woman brought her husband to the psychiatric hospital where I used to work. The man was as drunk as drunk could be. I asked him if he went to A.A. (Alcoholics Anonymous). He said, “No, I don’t believe in all that God
God is awesome beyond belief. I t doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that if God exists, then God is awesome beyond belief. By merely looking up at the night sky, and gazing at the stars, that isn’t hard to see. For example, the largest star we can see with the naked eye is a star located in the
stuff.” His wife said, “You should believe in God!” He responded, “I don’t believe there is a God.”—At that point I couldn’t resist, so I said, “I think there is an easy way to prove to you there is a God.” He took the bait, so I said, “See that picture behind you? Would you believe me if I said there was an explosion at a paint factory and it blew paint everywhere and just by chance made that painting?” He said, “No.” I asked, “Why not?” He said, “It couldn’t happen.”—I responded, “So, whenever you see design, there is usually a designer, or when you see art, there is usually an artist, right?” He said, “Yeah.” Then I said, “When you look at Cindy Crawford, the supermodel, or an Arabian stallion, a rose, a New England Fall, or a butterfly, do they look like something the universe belched out by accident, or does it look like there’s design?” He said, “Design.”—I said, “Then there must be a Designer, and that is God.” He said, “##**#, you got me!”
southern sky, during the winter months, in the constellation Orion. The name of the star is Betelgeuse (pronounced beetle juice). It is the upper left reddish star just above Orion’s belt of three stars. Betelgeuse is so big that approximately 160 million of our suns would fit inside it. It has a diameter of approximately 250 million miles. If our earth were the size of a golf ball, by comparison, Betelgeuse would be a ball 2 miles high. If there were a tunnel through the center of that star, driving at 55 miles per hour, it would take us 1,600 years just to drive through the tunnel. (It would only take 193 years to drive from here to our sun.) If Betelgeuse was sitting where our sun is, the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and Jupiter would all be inside it. To put the size of our universe in perspective, National Geographic (May 1974, p. 592) had this to say: “Imagine that the thickness of this page represents the distance from earth to the sun [93,000,000 miles, or about eight light-minutes]. Then the distance to the nearest star [4 1/3 light years] is a 71- foot-high sheaf of paper. And the diameter of our own galaxy [100,000 light-years] is a 310-mile stack, while the edge of the known universe is not reached until the pile of paper is 31 million miles high—a third of the way to the sun!” If the universe is incredible, then the God who created it is even more incredible.
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