The aim of this arti­cle

We can­not sim­ply dis­miss the ques­tion of God’s exis­tence as a pure­ly the­o­ret­i­cal and philo­soph­i­cal ques­tion. It con­cerns the very pur­pose of our own exis­tence. In this arti­cle we have gath­ered var­i­ous thoughts which ought to help in gain­ing a clear answer to this fun­da­men­tal human ques­tion.

The acknowl­edge­ment of God’s exis­tence touch­es man at his deep­est inner being and prompts him to take a posi­tion because the accep­tance of God’s exis­tence should mean the com­plete renun­ci­a­tion of his unbe­liev­ing and self­ish life and demands god­li­ness.

Types of Arguments

Some Objections

Final Thoughts

The God who made the world and every­thing in it, being Lord of heav­en and earth, does not live in tem­ples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he need­ed any­thing, since he him­self gives to all mankind life and breath and every­thing. And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, hav­ing deter­mined allot­ted peri­ods and the bound­aries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and per­haps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actu­al­ly not far from each one of us, for “In him we live and move and have our being”; as even some of your own poets have said, “For we are indeed his off­spring.” Being then God’s off­spring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or sil­ver or stone, an image formed by the art and imag­i­na­tion of man. The times of igno­rance God over­looked, but now he com­mands all peo­ple every­where to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in right­eous­ness by a man whom he has appoint­ed; and of this he has giv­en assur­ance to all by rais­ing him from the dead. (Acts of the apos­tles 17:24–31)