Foundations For Your FaithWhere do
you stand on the question of belief in God? Most people have some faith,
but many have doubts as well. So how can we find out if the faith we have
is realistic? Is it justified? Let's look at three things that help to
make foundations for your faith and for my faith.
First, take the world we live in. Look at all the forms of life showing
outstanding beauty and intricate complexity. The alternative to believing
in God as the great creator is to accept that all these things around us
evolved by chance. Surely though a conviction that God designed the world
and carried the design into action is much more credible than accepting that
we live in something that came about through a gigantic accident.
The second foundation for our faith is the Bible. Without a belief in God
and a conviction that He inspired men to write about their faith, we have
one frightening alternative. If there was no inspiration, the Bible is a
conspiracy to deceive. Its authors were all conspirators. The reality is
that the Bible is repeatedly proved true. Each new archaeological discovery
shows the Bible to be right. So do the many prophecies that have accurately
predicted events.
Finally, what about the inner desire we have to find a meaning and purpose
to life? If we live in a world that came about by chance with no reliable
spiritual guidance, why do we search for meaning and purpose? We search
because the Bible tells us that we are made in God's image, the image of the
Creator. The Bible also tells us that there is much more to life than the
daily round.
A foundation for anything that we intend to build on must be sufficiently
strong and have true lines. The foundations we have looked at have intense
strength and their lines are true.