4 Step Perfect Proof for God of the Bible
Above all other claims on the uncreated Creator. Check out the short version of the 4 Step Proof for God.
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God said He proves Himself by observing nature. Let's see if He is right. 1) Something can't come from that which does not exist, so the universe requires a cause. 2) The universe can't always have existed because a) heat death would be far greater than it is, and b) mankind would have approximated into that alleged past eternity and not still be sinning to the extent it still does along the exponential progression of conscience we are clearly on. What other option is there than the uncaused (uncreated) created? Atheism is utterly destroyed and morally bankrupt because it has no answer and never will. You would have to be God (having omniscience) to know if God exists when you hold out having to know all things to be sure. You are saying you won't accept proof of God unless you are God. Wow!
Choose the one true faith (true reality) that comes out on top from the ones that are accessible: Christianity, Hinduism/Buddhism, Islam. Obviously Christianity is the most personal because God reveals Himself in Christ. And only Christianity is proven by the resurrection proof and multiple resurrection appearances in various group settings. If you want to be eternally separated from God, it’s your choice to send yourself to Hell. Unwittingly, however, you lead many people to Christ and strengthen the faith of Christians because you are unable to disprove the perfect proof for God. Amen.
Don't worry about who God is yet or even if He exists, just realize the universe needs a cause and can't come from nothing. Let me know if you have reached that point yet: contact me at Christian Chat. If you were to find a cause for radioactive decay or whatever, you would still say something else could have happened all by itself. Are you like a 3 year old? Why do you need to hold out to know all things to know if the universe requires a cause? Atheism is inherently self-contradictory, because it claims you need to be all-knowing to know if the universe can't come from nothing, but if you were all-knowing (the very attribute of God) then atheism would be false, for it denies God's existence and this ability of His.
You are claiming you have to be God to know if God exists! That could be the most obnoxious, self-exalted thing I have ever heard. You don't care about logic and evidence do you? There is observably proven trillions of causes in nature and no hard evidence that something (in nature) comes from that which does not exist. The absurdity of false humility goes hand in hand with arrogance. Why shut your mind down to the overwhelming preponderance of evidence that is beyond a reasonable doubt? Thus, the reason you reject reality is because of your desire to remain sinful and in your selfish self which eternally separates you from the love of the One True God. |
Introduction
"And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart" (Jer. 29.13). If you don't search God with all your heart, that explains why you haven't found Him yet. "For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, 'even' his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse" (Rom 1.20) -- i.e., observing the undeniable law of cause and effect in nature and what it reveals: (1) the exponential progression of conscience disallows an eternity of the past of cause and effects in nature; (2) the universe can't begin from nothing; (3) don't misrepresent God of the Bible; and (4) for the same reason as (1) there cannot be an eternity of the past outside of nature. There are many pseudo-scientists and wannabe's, so the Bible warns, "Avoid profane vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called" (1 Tim. 6.20).
According to pure logic, a non-believer (atheist) writes "that this calculation [Step 1] tells us that we are moving from more to less sin and concludes that since we have not reached the state of ultimate sinlessness then it must be the case that there was not an eternity of past causes and effects. The argument is deductively valid." (Arturo from think the secular playground)
These basic 4 steps have not changed since the beginning of man's existence. Certain clarifying words have been adopted out of courtesy to help the many who have tried desperately to disprove the singularly most awesome perfect proof for God. "The message God delivered through the angels has always proved true" (Heb. 2.2). But the problem is many people don't care about proof. "They shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables" (2 Tim. 4.4), e.g. atheism, polytheism, spiritism and new age. "Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator" (Rom. 1.25). "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils" (1 Tim. 4.1). "Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God" (James 4.4). "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you" (2 Cor. 6.17). "But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out" (Num. 32.23). "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come" (2 Tim. 3.1). "Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts" (Rev. 9.21). "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him [Jesus Christ] the iniquity of us all" (Is. 53.6). Look how God places bearing false witness right up there with the worst of crimes: "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies" (Matt. 15.19) -- do not misrepresent God (Step 3).
If you would like to make an attempt to disprove the proof for God, there is a forum where you can do so. $10,000 in U.S. dollars (getting cheaper by the day) has been reserved and offered to the first person who can disprove God's proof of Himself. Thousands have tried but failed. Since I am a child of God and thus, set before God with authority in His kingdom and bound for heaven, you can't ask for a better arbitrator. "Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven" (Matt. 18.18). We are "without excuse" (Rom. 1.20).The proof has been let loose! Some earlier discussions and lengthier debates.
Be clear on this. The proof has always been known. Moses knew it. Abraham knew it. And Abel knew it. What did they know? They knew what Adam knew, Cain knew and what Judas knew, except these latter three didn't care and preferred to self-exalt themselves and make themselves independent to God. I can almost guarantee you that you will misunderstand something (hence the need for Step 3 in the Proof). Inevitably the flesh rises up to usurp itself to rationalize itself and bear false witness. Try not to do that. Put yourself in the shoes of the author as you read along. Remember, this is the best proof mankind has ever produced for God, and received from God, so it deserves some attention.
This Proof does not assume the Scriptures are true to begin Step 1, but uses the dictionary definition of sin: "any reprehensible or regrettable action, behavior, lapse, etc.; great fault or offense: It's a sin to waste time" (definition 3). Notice no mention of God is made or even assumed. And "to commit or perform sinfully: He sinned his crimes without compunction" (definition 6). Observe how crimes are crimes because the underlying cause is sinfulness. There is no point in reading further if you don't have a conscience to recognize sin exists. It requires you have at least a partly working conscience--otherwise you would be dead or comatose. Therefore, to not understand this basic point is not because of intelligence or lack of intelligence, but the choice to be obstinate and belligerent. It is your choice to shut your mind down and willfully possess a corrupted conscience and darkened mind to not even recognize sin exists. Just look upon history to know that it is so.
We don't need to analyze the cosmos till the cows come home with grand theories to know an undirected process is impossible. We don't even need to prove irreducible complexity; information systems need a compiler, programs needs a programmer; objective moral values need an objective, transcendent, causal agent, moral law-giver; and the never ending evidence of our inability to reproduce the alleged abiogenesis. What can be known today should not change our decision from what mankind knew centuries ago. We can understand God created logically in 4 easy steps by what is intuitively revealed to all of us. There are other ways to prove God exists, but the Proof is simple and sweet, and based on pure logic without any assumptions. Demanding inordinate analysis and attempting mental gymnastics are vanity to make the case God created or didn't create. The reason we study the sciences is not to find out if God exists but to better understand how it was designed which gives glory to God and strengthens us as we embrace reality. In our understanding of certain facts to fulfill His will for our lives and His greater purpose, He afford us this ability to understand further revelation by special grace in the word of God (66 books of the Bible) more than common grace sufficient for us all. His aim is to be with those for eternity who love Him; those who love Him receive these truths gladly.
Analyzing the universe falsely by overassuming is inexcusable. Do not be afraid to let go of your flesh on the cross at some point while reading the Proof. At any moment you may be convicted, convinced and instantly born-again. We are all made in God's image (Gen. 1.26,27) with a spirit of God-consciousness. We all intuitively know God exists, except many free thinkers prefer not to repent and receive His sacrifice for our sins. The word of God can see through smokescreens, sugar-coating beliefs and games people play. All God is looking for from you is sincerity and an honest heart for the truth by the evidence no matter how much it upsets your preconceived notions and feelings. God will surely respond with His mercy, grace and love to make His will known to you and how to be saved. We whom are saved live by faith proven and walk by the spirit. Those in the kingdom of heaven are not free of their mistaken assumptions either. Many in Christendom have said there is no proof of God and must be taken on blind faith. Faith in Christ is never blind but proven. Whereas atheism, agnosticism, all other religions and word-views are based on blind faith. There is more than one proof for God, but I find this proof to be the most provocative proof that goes unchallenged.
If there had been an eternity of the past of cause and effects, we would have had nearly an eternity to be perfected without sin along the exponential progression of conscience which we observe, but since we still sin more than would be the case, we know there was not an eternity of the past of cause and effects. And thus, we know we were created by the uncreated, God of the Bible, since none can compare to Christ. This takes further comparison (see below).
Psychological studies can be done to verify in just these past six thousand years observing the exponential progression of the conscience of mankind, it will not take a billion, let alone a million or even another six thousand years to reach near state of sinlessness. God works in long transitions from the OT period of 4000 years to the dispensation of grace of 2000 years then the kingdom of one thousand years. Each period exhibits a new grace and improvement in man's conscience on a per capita or per person basis. Don't get caught up in the short-term fluctuations.
For example, throwing children as sacrifices into the fiery mouth of the Molech-type god is virtually non-existent today as many nations once did in the past. Israel got rid of some of those evil nations or tribes like the Philistines. Other such evil societies include the Talismanics, Mayans, Incas, Aztecs, TaoTuoKongs, Egyptians, Romans, Persians and many others that performed human sacrifices to their gods. Human sacrifices were quite prevalent among the nations in antiquity. This alone proves the exponential progression of conscience. We are approaching sinlessness at an ever faster rate but never reaching it as the universe is expanding at an ever faster rate approaching equilibrium according to NASA (they call this geometrically a flat universe and through various tests are more than 99% certain the universe is not a closed or open system).
The only place you really see these human sacrifices today is in Islam, teaching their kids to be suicide mass-murderers. Though they are brainwashed, their free will could refuse to be like this. There are lots of data points to prove the exponential progression of conscience, e.g. women can vote now just this past century, more democracies than ever before, murder rate and crime rate per capita have continued to drop precipitously through the centuries. In previous centuries, wars would wipe out more than half the population of a region. Cannibalism, slavery and polygamy are against the law. A Hindu practice whereby a widow immolates herself on the funeral pyre of her husband is now abolished by law. The laws of a society reflect the collective conscience of a people.
As to the matter of comparison with all other faiths or belief systems read through the rest of the Proof. Only the Word of God shows and proves man can't save himself. Only in Christianity does God come down to save man to bring us up to Him. We can't do it ourselves. This takes humility to accept. Man was born into sin, proven by the fact that no man has never not sinned. All other views are works-based belief systems, and therefore utterly fail, especially the most prominent Christendom view of non-OSAS. The Bible teaches those who are born-again "they shall never perish" (John 10.28). If you don't have a relationship with Jesus Christ in which you know it is impossible to lose eternal life, then you are not a child of God. Other alleged deities don't take on the likeness of flesh as Jesus did whom we confirm proved to the exclusivity of the world that He alone is the fullness of the Godhead bodily by His resurrection proof supplied in the 66 books of God's word. Without depending on inerrancy, we especially focus on the Minimal Facts Approach--using only data that most skeptical scholars concede as certain.
It was the impact of ancient Israel and Christianity that put a stop to sacrifices, because Jesus came to earth, died on the cross and was resurrected which pricks our consciences. What will come in place of a Christian society? Man is dead (lost communication) in his spirit to God. The conscience of man's spirit to behave in this world still retains some functioning because as soon as Adam ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, even though his intuition and communion died completely towards God, his power of distinguishing good and evil (which is the function of conscience) was increased. (If you have some good examples of exponential progression of conscience and scientific studies to back it up, submit them here.)
Why is eternally evolving in the past of cause and effects impossible in the natural physical realm of a material universe, whether biologically or non-biologically, organically or non-organically, matter or energy, dark matter or dark energy? Do not confuse this question with whether evolution is true or not, since we Christians are not denying the physical science of evolution that looks at physical changes since the amoeba, prokaryote first replicating organism, or simplest replicating life form however you define it. The reason there cannot be an eternity of the past of cause and effects is because if for eternity things have been evolving, by this definition of evolving (simply cause and effects), you would have had nearly an eternity to be perfected (effectively sinless), irrespective of when you personally started in the evolving chain. According to calculus, the approximation (in proximity) to eternity is taken as eternity--simple concept of the law of limits. Similarly, "heat death" would be far greater than it is.
Evolution (the study of the physical developments of species from the simplest replicating life) has its limits and does not necessity working towards perfection for evolution is just a limited way of man understanding natural selection. It does not encompass the spiritual and soulical, nor does it address how life came about in the first place to begin replicating. These constituent parts of man are beyond evolution's scope of study; but, evolving (consider the first definition in the dictionary), a term relating to cause and effect, has a more encompassing and expansive meaning because it observes not only all cause and effects in evolution, but all quantum and cosmological cause and effects prior to the first simplest life. Let us not be so restrictive in our petty selves or vague with words by not understanding the difference between evolution and evolving applied here. Do not confuse the definitions employed here for evolving and evolution which have been differentiated and provided for the sake of clarity and to remove confusion.
If such evolving (in causes and effects) was going on for an eternity of the past, easily we would have been almost perfected by now, having ample time to do so along the pathway of an exponential progression of conscience. This is depicted in the first chart. The second chart shows the mistaken view of an eternity of past of cause and effects even before time began by some undirected process. There is a difference between the perfecting of the saints and the perfecting of the unsaved. Perfection of the unsaved? Even the unsaved exhibit an improvement in conscience, but since they reject Christ for their salvation which is an eternal choice, they are condemned to Hell for all eternity and permanently separated from God. They won't change their mind later after they are resurrected. This is how profound new birth is.
What you are probably thinking is, how can there be a cause before time? Just accept the evidence since the universe can't always have been existing (Step 1) and can't come from nothing (Step 2). Like you said there can be no cause before time so then the universe can't exist. But it does exist. Therefore, there must be an uncreated Creator--a supernatural transcendent causal agent.
You may ask why not create man to live longer (say 10,000 years) to have more time to choose and be convinced? The reason is because: a) it is unfair to the saved to have to put up with so much evil by the unregenerates for so long (counterfactual #1), and b) man would be convinced he didn't need God because he was able to hold on without dying for a very long time (counterfactual #2). Man's life is numbered in the flesh because of sin. Man's days are numbered 120 years usually at most (Gen. 6.3). During the millennial kingdom everyone is expected to live at least 100 years of age the Bible says (Is. 65.20-25). Even still, people won't live as long as they did when sin first began to take hold, because its full damaging effect hadn't reached its full force yet. After Adam sinned he still lived a long time whether you take the actual ages given in the Bible or some lesser number, nonetheless, they were living much longer back then than they do now. And as the generations passed, people tended to not live as long due to sin enveloping the human race generation after generation and becoming ever more difficult to detect, or more refined, because of the convoluted and increasing mixture of the flesh--sin of the body and self of the soul. However, the individual and collective consciences of our forefathers improved. Even the children of God, their flesh is utterly corruptible. It's only verdict is death. Hence, the call to die on the cross with Christ, to give the flesh no power over you. Jesus did all He could do for you in bringing you with Him to the cross if you are willing. Our death on the cross with Christ doesn't mean the flesh can't rear its ugly head again, but it does give us the full measure of God's salvation for us while we are still in these bodies of flesh and blood.
We should consider longer time periods over more than a hundred years and perhaps several millennia to notice discernable changes in the backdrop of 13.7 billion years. Shorter time periods are much too choppy. The Bureau of Justice Statistics provides The National Crime Victimization Survey dating back to 1973. Too short a period. Even so, in this chart we see a slight decrease from the 70's to 80's in violent crimes per capita, and then a marked decrease since 1995. This is an exponential increase in conscience, but who is to say over the next 50 years a temporary spike might not show up in the overall trend due to the buildup of debt/GDP among the nations and coming oil shortages? Hypothetically, if man with his conscience today was to go back and live within the infrastructure of 4000 years ago, would he reenact child sacrifices? I don't think so.
THE ASSUMPTION by many unsaved souls is that the universe has always been going on in the past for eternity. Many unsaved cosmologists and evolutionists believe this and have repeatedly told me so. What must follow is that you have also had an eternity to be perfected but since you are not, this proves that such evolving eternally in the past is incorrect. Obviously, we still sin and make mistakes more than would occur if mankind had existed for even a faction (say, 1 billion years) of an alleged past eternity of cause and effects.
Clear evidence exists for the exponential progression of conscience over the past six thousand years since the first Adamic man (the first man with God-consciousness). We have changed for the better and matured in leaps and bounds. Very likely we will not need another six thousand years to be perfected to the point God desires. We do not need to know all that is entailed to be perfected, only that our sin and selfishness will be less than they are now. Since we put people in jail for crimes, we know sin exists for we can see the effects at least some sin has this particular consequence.
In a very simple way we can say: we will not keep killing each other for millions of years. Sacrificing one's own child on an altar to his god has ceased except in Islam. Islam is the remnant of the tribes of Canaan that practiced human sacrifices. Israel failed, for they were suppose to wipe them out those evil tribes of Canaan. Notice the consequences of their failure. Almost every day there is some newsworthy attack by a Muslim. By common grace to all, there is an exponential improvement in conscience despite the fact the unsaved still reject Christ. Hence, the need for Hell to eternally separate them from God because that is what they want. They send themselves to Hell. To deny God's existence, to want another or something else is choice they have made. Now they try to understand their choice.
Just these past two centuries we see the outwardly obvious forms of slavery are no longer permitted. Just this past century, women can vote. There are more democracies than ever before. Since nobody has been able to counter these facts, let us consider this strong evidence for the uncreated Creator. Polygamy is not legal today. Whatever comparison you find, ensure that it is comparing apples to apples across all centuries.
Satan and his pawns will try to disprove the exponential improvement in conscience with increase in per capita crime rate, murder rate, war, insensitivity towards women, slavery, even by trying to bring back human sacrifices to their gods of infinite regress (e.g. Mormon/LDS Temple). Satan will even induce those who claim to believe in God to practice human sacrifice. See Hadith Volume 9 Number 57 and my letter to Shabir Ally.
The pre-endemic or pre-Adamic period is considered the "dust" of the ground (Gen. 2.7). It will do nothing for your spirit and life in Christ. Man can not know all God's ways, nor does God need you to know anything about the "dust" that formed man's body. If you knew it all, then you would be God, would have no need for God and would not need to be saved, but God wonderfully saves without you needing to know all things. Only the smart people would be saved if you needed to know so much. So it's funny when you hear people like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Lawrence Krauss who claim we don't have enough information yet. This is the false humility mentioned previously which is actually arrogance and self-conceit in disguise. Thank heavens for Hugh Ross, Stephen C. Meyer and William Lane Craig (even though Craig is not born-again, since he is a non-OSASer). It is not ironic the wise-ones are not saved, because in their self-sufficiency, they maintain independency to their Creator, either making a god in their own image, or denying God exists and pompously remaining agnostic despite the clear evidence. They are proud of their endowments. Why do they need God they think to themselves? They start from that assumption. They should be using those gifts and talents to give glory to God in all that they do. What is it worth to gain your self-exalted soul and the world if you are going to lose it in the end, consciously aware of your wrong choice in Hell, like a criminal in jail for life?
Probabilities are just a way to express likelihood of occurrence but in no way deny the law of cause and effect required for the Laws of Thermodynamics. NASA is convinced the universe will never implode on itself. They call the universe geometrically not a closed or open universe, but a flat universe which means the universe is flattening out (layman's terms), reaching an equilibrium. New Atheists agree with this, but they read it differently by absurdly saying, the universe has zero energy because it all cancels out in the end. Therefore, the universe is nothing, has zero energy and comes from nothing (refuted by Step 2). Scientists say if the universe was a closed system it would implode, but they are more than 99% sure that will not happen.
The dissipation of the universe as result, the spreading out of energy, is what we mean by greater heat death. It would be far greater than it is now, which shows the universe could not always have existed. Your argument fails entirely because science today agrees completely the universe will never implode to start up another universe. It's like you are still swinging from the tree tops shouting the earth is flat. I can imagine an atheist responding by saying there can be multi-verses. Each one commences from somewhere in an infinite regress and produce as an offshoot other universes which flatten out. The principle however still applies that since all things would have derived from and approximated into that alleged past eternity, heat death, sin and selfishness would be less than we now see because we have had more than enough time. If there was a past eternity we would never have reached this point we are at now anyway.
All types of cycles' theories fail the test of science. What really gets you is even if man did not know the geometric shape of the universe it still would not matter, for an imploding and exploding universe from a past eternity still needs an explanation as all explosions do. Where does this big bang come from? You can't say it comes from an implosion, because that is no explanation, for an implosion needs an explosion. You need to explain where the explosion came from if you want to be honest with yourself. You can't say it comes from an implosion. That's begging the question because it doesn't address what caused the cause. The idol of implosion-explosion is mindless and that is what Satan tries to engender into you to get you to shut your mind down on some level like a zombie for Satan to reject the morality and accountability of eternal choices for imploding worlds where the outcome is the same anyway--death and destruction no matter what you do. You're free to be mindless to reject God, but I wouldn't advise it. God gave you free will because He wants to be with those who choose Him who don't shut their minds down and do listen to their consciences.
Step 2: Everything in Nature Has a Cause so the Universe Can't Cause Itself or Come from Nothing
Scientists believe nothing in nature, space or time, happens all by itself. It always has a cause. We have trillions of things to substantiate this fact, but nothing conclusively shown to be otherwise. Therefore, since nature must always have a cause and time can't cause itself, the only possibility that exists we can fathom which fits the data is the uncreated created who is Jesus since none can compare to Christ. Compare Jesus to any figure in history. 90-95% of all beliefs comprise Christendom, Hinduism/Buddhism, Atheism/Agnosticism, and Islam. An accessible God is better than an inaccessible one. There really is only these 4 choices.
Don't let the cunning hucksters try to deceive you by saying what is true of Newtonian and Einsteinian physics is not true of Quantum physics just because of their complexity. You can catch a person in the act selling their snake oil and fuzzy logic when they desperately argue for their puff-the-magic-dragon assumption something happened all by itself. It really is quite disingenuous to pick the most complicated subject (Quantum Mechanics) which humans know so very little about and rarely agree on to build your case against God. There are as many quantum theories as there are quantum scientists. If God exists then His proof is available no for just us but all previous generations. "God is no respecter of persons" (Acts 10.34). He is infinitely greater than us all no matter how great one of us becomes. The difference between the most unwise man and the wisest man is still eternally lower than God.
It would be mindlessly belligerent to profess something happens all by itself such as radioactive decay, particle pairing, vacuums, dark energy, dark matter or Bell's Theorem. Self-declaring nothing is the cause goes against what we observe in decay by natural processes in less complicated observable phenomena. Scientists don't close up shop just because they don't know the cause to something yet! They keep searching. Put in a jar any substance you want that does not have replicating life. Shake it all about. It never turns into life or even RNA. It is better to be humble, non-overassuming and just let the evidence lead us where it may. Don't be so arrogant to think something happens all by itself without a cause, for that goes contrary to everything we observe in the natural world. The First Law of Thermodynamics is violated if "nothing" outside the universe can somehow transform into the universe. Nothing always derives from nothing. If you say the laws outside the universe work differently without causation to bring about the universe, I don't think you can be reasoned with. To bring something about entails causation. There are some things that just can't happen, e.g. there are no square circles and no married bachelors. Something never comes from nothing. Nothing always begets nothing. Nothing can never produce anything.
Realize you are just not smart enough to determine the cause. You might not ever be able to. God has not given you the ability to discern all things anyway. Accept it. Get use to it. If there was one last thing you didn't know and you held out for the possibility it could disprove the uncreated exists, you're actually saying you have to be God to know if God exists. But are you God? Did you always exist? If you say "yes" like Oprah Winfrey, Eckhart Tolle and Mirriane Williamson do, then you have really gone off the deep end, for you can't remember always having existed or created anything. You don't have infinite foreknowledge as the uncreated would have who transcends all things, being outside of time and space. You did not die for the sins of the world.
Get over yourself. You're just like everyone. You have not returned in His second coming to reign on Earth for one thousand years as Jesus will do. "For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works" (Matt. 16.27; cf. Rev. 20.2-7). There are works unto rewards for believers to reign. Dead works stem from rejecting Christ as Lord and Savior and can also come from fleshly Christians who are not abiding in Christ. "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me" (John 14.6). "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved" (Acts 4.12). Since there is only grounds for one uncreated Creator, you would have to ask where these others come from who allege to be God also and competing amongst themselves. God has no competition in His Triune Being, but perfect unity and harmony. God alone is "from everlasting" (Ps. 41.13).
Only one claim on God is ultimately victorious. A personal, revealed God is better than an impersonal, unrevealed and inaccessible one. Only in Christianity does God come down to us to bring us up to Him because we are sinners in need of a cure. A sinner can't save himself. Sin leads to death and the second death which is Hell, an eternal separation from God. Don't accuse God of torturing you for eternity. He is speaking in spiritual terminology to plead with you not to go there. How do you know what this punishment entails? The fire of judgment is unlike a natural fire which always burns out.
Agnosticism is really just thinly veiled atheism since a non-choice is still a refusal of God's existence and saving grace because it is non-accepting. Jesus said, "He that is not with me is against me; he who does not gather with me..." (Matt. 12.30). Let's say an atheist comes to you and says the big bang or some other natural means is the beginning as if that could be the answer. Simply respond by saying nature doesn't happen all by itself. There is always a cause to the effects in nature. Nothing in nature happens all by itself. Any material, even the smallest particle, only knows how to react to its surrounding environment (particles, waves, quarks, strings). It does not make a choice. But God does choose and He chose for a reason.
When a person states the obvious: the universe can't come from nothing because nothing always proceeds from nothing, the atheist often makes this absurd comment: 'since outside the universe there is no time, then the law of cause and effect doesn't apply'. To which a person can respond, "If there is no cause and effect because there is no time then the universe can't come into existence because there is no time. Therefore the universe should not exist." The argument from atheism is self-refuting. Thus, the uncreated Creator is allowed to bring the universe into existence from out of Himself, not ex nihilo.
The universe requires a cause "on earth as it is in heaven" (Matt. 6.10). In the Matrix, the Merovingian made the statement all things have a cause and effect in nature. This is the profound truth. Time and matter can't exist from nothing. There is only one available possibility: the uncreated created. The uncreated is needed to bring nature into existence, because nature can't come into being from nothing or by itself.
The preponderance of evidence beyond a reasonable doubt of trillions of causes and effects is our overwhelming evidence to take the foundational position nature requires a cause. This would put the probability against the atheist and agnostic greater than a trillion to one, since there are more than a trillion things that have a cause, but not even one thing in nature is shown to be without a cause. I think atheists have a gambling problem! Even if you were so smart to know everything except for one last thing in the universe, would you be so arrogant to say this one last thing could still possibly disprove God's existence? That's absurd. The atheist in not so many words is saying he has to be God to know if God exists. Is the atheist God? Perhaps in his own deluded mind. Some cults out their teach deification, pompously calling themselves God.
Who is this uncreated Creator? He is God of the Bible shown forth in the life of Christ, which none can compare. "In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God and the Word is God" (John 1.1). Jesus is the Word. "He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not" (John 1.10).
God does not need time to exist to bring time into existence. God only needs Himself. "If all known possibilities are impossible, what we deemed impossible must be true" (Spock on Star Trek). "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Homes). How can the infinitely uncreated be limited by time and not be allowed to bring time into existence? How can God not exist beyond time? Makes no sense, for He is infinitely is greater than all things. "All things were made by him [Jesus]; and without him was not any thing made that was made" (John 1.3). If time had to always exist, we would not still be sinning to the extent we still do, due to the exponential progression of conscience (remember Step 1).
The universe has no life which is lesser than the simplest self-replicating life. How can the lesser produce the greater? God keeps saying by observing nature we know He created. We keep observing man can't mix up the elements and atoms of nature to produce a conscious life let alone a self-replicating one. And even if we could it required our intelligence, pointing back to God creating us to be able to do so. So you see, we theists have our bases well covered. Atheists have no outs--not very good poker players!
Let us just go with the evidence, letting it guide us where it may. Avoid fantasy. Once you start assuming things, you don't need evidence for other things. Sin will beget sin. Next thing you know, you are locked into Islam saying Jesus didn't die on the cross OR the Roman Church claiming Mary is sinless OR naturalists asserting something comes from nothing or the universe always existed. The Atheist is like a rabid beast, cornered as he runs out of options. Satan is trying to get you to assume. As long as he can get you to assume, prodding you to sin later on is not difficult at all. But the Word of God is "sharper than any twoedged sword" (Heb. 4.12), by the Spirit of Truth, able to dissect the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Step 3: Don't Misrepresent God of the Bible
IS IT INTELLECTUALLY honest to ask if God can be created? Step 4 explains why it is impossible for God to have a cause. But for now realize the uncreated Creator mathematically would be greater or more powerful than a created creator. If the uncreated has a cause, then it is not uncreated. When you claim someone or something created God you are no longer talking about God of the Bible because one of His attributes is uncreated. Don't argue against a god who was caused, but the challenge before you is to disprove the uncreated creator for Jesus created all things. "For by him [Jesus] were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist" (Col. 1.16,17). "All things were made by him[Jesus]; and without him was not any thing made that was made" (John 1.3). Step 3 is simply pleading with you not to misrepresent God of the Bible because it happens so often.
Step 1 and Step 2 proved the uncreated exists, the very attribute of God of the Bible. Never does God have a cause for His Tri-Unity. He has diversity in His unity and unity in His diversity. This is how He reveals Himself to us. We pray to the Father through the Son by the Spirit. Whereas the god of Islam has unity but no diversity. Hinduism has diversity but no unity. Mormonism has no oneness or unity but lots of competing diversity. There are over 100 Mormon sects. And Atheists have no oneness or unity but lots of diversity. They may think they get along but history shows atheists are killers when their resources are at risk (Stalin, Hitler, Mao and other atheists killed 200 million in the 20th century in wars). Jesus always claimed to be equal with the Father. God of the Bible claims to be "alone...from everlasting" (1 Tim. 6.16; Hab. 1.12) with perfect clarity, wisdom, righteousness and holiness. He is omnipotent, immutable (unchanging), transcendent, omniscience. He is incapable of sinning for that goes against His very nature. Not once has He ever sinned from all we know about Him in the 66 books of God's word. The Trinity is 3 Persons of God the Father, God the Son, God the Spirit. It is not that God can't sin or choose to do evil, but He won't and never does because He is perfect always. That's the God you can trust even when you don't understand the problems you are facing.
Many questions are put towards God of the Bible such as, why do bad things happen? Because man is fallen, sin came into world. Consequently, Adam was locked out of the Garden of Eden which was the one sure safe place for man to dwell. Sin has its consequences. God the Son came to redeem the world (Matt. 19.28) and men. When you accuse God of allowing murder and rape, these things happen anyway even if God did not exist, so aren't you blaming your own world-view anyway? You have a double standard. You're actually accusing your own naturalism. But praise God He will not let atrocities go on forever even though to us it sure seems like it has been going on for a long time. But in the backdrop of 14 billion years, a couple thousand years is less than a grain of sand on the Earth. Surely you can give God some liberty in how He runs things. With naturalism, evil can potentially go on for eternity or till heat death makes life unlivable. But with God, the eventual destination is either Heaven or Hell. God might not be able to prevent evil for a time because to do so would infringe on our free will. Just because God is benevolent and omnipotent is no reason to think He must disallow sin from happening, for that would not be a perfect world then. At best it would be an amoral world, even worse, a world of automatons. God wants a real relationship with sovereign free willed beings. Man must be allowed to sin and evil ensue for us to appreciate in the fullest sense our need for dependency on God.
If you want to try to disprove this proof, do not try to disprove some god, but keep your issues directed at God of the Bible. Stay on topic. "For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together" (Mark 14.56). The reason Step 3 is vitally part of the Proof is because this error of misrepresenting God of the Bible seems to never end, such as, accusing the Israelites of annihilating the tribes in Canaan. Israel was defending itself. By accusing Israel you are accusing God your creator. Those tribes no longer exist today. They refused generation after generation to stop the practice of child sacrifices. I can't impress upon you enough how utterly evil this is! When you accuse God of cancelling this evil out, you're defending this evil, for this really was God's only option. The children of these 10 tribes would grow up to continue the practice. Those tribes no longer exist, their practices abolished; whereas Israel remains to show forth God's power and justice. Even Hitler couldn't wipe them out. They began with only 318 fighting men (Gen. 14.14). How they survived is a miracle. The reason God intended for His suffering people (enslaved for 430 years) to come into the land of milk and honey was because the inhabitants of Canaan were so utterly evil: "they shall come back here...for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full" (Gen. 15.16). Israel wiped out their practice of child sacrifices.
Don't make the mistake of accusing Israel of genocide. What would it be like for you and your family if your next door neighbors warred with you so you could not sleep at night? Let's say they sacrificed their own children and tried to get you to do the same. How would you respond? Treat others as you would like to be treated. Will you respond righteously like Israel did? Thankfully, no society is so evil today you have to wipe them all out which speaks to our improvement along the exponential progression of conscience (Step 1).
Israel was used by God to eradicate such evil. Generation after generation even a small remnant of the remaining tribes would still continue to practice human sacrifices and other abominations. Many times because Israel did not fulfill their mission, they incurred many heartaches by constant attacks from neighboring tribes. It is a fact that if Israel did not defend itself it would no longer exist today. Canaan was a battle zone. The fruits of the land of milk and honey would go to a God fearing people only! Israel's land remains divided still even today as prophesied till Christ returns. They still don't own the entire land all the way to the Euphrates River, but the prophecy is fulfilled she would become a nation again before the return of Christ. Finally after 2500 years it happened in 1947.
When you talk about the Crusades or Inquisition, realize that is not Christian, but men of the world falsely using the word of God and name of Christ. The Bible warns about this in Matthew 13 (unsaved tares that try to look like the saved wheat) and Revelation 17 (religious Rome). Where did Jesus do such things?
Put aside discussion about the inerrancy of the Bible for the time being to focus just on what most skeptical scholars agree about Paul and the disciples, for Christianity all hinges on the resurrection. Most skeptical scholars concede at the very least, the disciples believed they saw Jesus resurrected, so if you are unable to find an naturalistic alternative explanation that fits the data, then unwittingly you're admitting Jesus is God.
Many skeptical scholars concede certain facts. Prophecies fulfilled are mathematically impossible unless Jesus is God. The resurrection appearances in various group settings go unchallenged. So if no naturalistic theory can be found that fits the data, the conclusion is obvious. "He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God" (John 3.18).
THE PERSPECTIVE from the natural to prove the supernatural uncreated Creator was given in Step 1 and Step 2. Using the same data for evidence of the exponential progression of conscience in the past six thousand years, we can apply the same principle to the supernatural realm outside the natural if it exists to conclude that if there had been an eternity of the past of cause and effects, mankind would not still be sinning to the extent it still does. This is not to say man always existed in the past, but if there was an eternity of the past of cause and effects, mankind would have approximated into that past, and that which is proximity to eternity for all tense and purposes is considered to have always been existing. Certainly more than enough time!
There could not have been an eternity of the past of cause and effects of gods creating gods, or supernatural phenomena causing supernatural, because you would have been derived from that past eternity. You certainly would not need 13.7 billion years to reach a state of near sinlessness. Therefore, know you were created by the Triune God since none can compare to Christ in what He did for you on the cross though His resurrection and ascension.
Please don't put forward the argument: "but man didn't always exist since the universe is only 13.7 billion years old." You're missing the point. If there was an eternity of the past of cause and effects, mankind would have been derived from that past and approximated into it so we would have existed for far longer than we actually had.
Recall I stated in Step 3, some atheists make this argument: "Ok, a lesser god created, so why can't he have a creator, and a creator create that creator?" Because this presupposes an eternity of the past of creating gods and supernatural cause and effects. But mankind would not still be sinning to the extent it still does if that were the case for the same reasons given in Step 1. So the Proof is self-looping, holds no assumptions and completely evidenced.
Three Heavens
BEFORE TIME BEGAN God decided His creation will have Three Heavens (2 Cor. 12.2)--a Paradise above (3rd Heaven), realm of fallen spirits (2nd Heaven), and our universe (1st Heaven). God also created timeless unawares called Hades or Sheol. Hades is not considered Heaven nor Hell. The good side of Hades is called Paradise below or Abraham's bosom. Christians will be resurrected together (1 Thess. 4.15-17) from the good side of Hades and come before the Judgment-Seat for rewards or loss of rewards. The bad side of Hades is where the Rich Man went and unsaved go when they die. They will be resurrected, separated by a 1000 years, to the Great White Throne to be judged and cast into Hell.
Sin Problem Solved in Christ Alone
If God is Uncreated why can't something, else anything else, be uncreated? We discussed this before. Make a comparison to this alleged "something else" with Jesus Christ. Make a list. There is no comparison. Christ wins hands down every time given His character, life and ability to resurrect. The worse thing you can do at this point is to shut your mind and say, "No one yet has made sense of the incarnation." Christians understand it and can explain it. If you are not saved, still you should be able to understand it and explain it even though you don't receive it.
We know sin needs payment and is not allowed to go unchecked. We see this every day in the world. There are consequences to falling into sin. If you murder someone, you go to jail. The only way to prevent your second death (eternal separation from God) is by receiving the perfect sacrifice, Jesus Christ, who entered into the world to be the propitiation or substitute for our sins. Sin renders the flesh utterly corruptible leading to death. It cannot be fixed or refined though we often try. We know the old man must die on the cross with Christ because sin entered, thus stirring the old man to sin through the body of sin. Sin not absolved and the spirit not regenerated (quickened) leaves one without God's life, no ability to commune with God in union with Christ which leads to perdition. New birth (spiritual birth) or the second birth (born-again) turns us into a new creation. Our old man dies to the old creation. We as sojourners are in the world but not of the world. In the old creation, Adam never attained in the Garden what those who are born-again have since he never ate of the tree of life which typifies Christ. Jesus said eat of my flesh and drink of His blood. When many disciples heard this they walked away (John 6.47-66). They were never born-again, because they refused to eat of His flesh and drink of His blood. Initially they may have appeared to follow Christ but it was not real only superficial. When you eat something you take it all in. When you drink something you let it go down all the way. Salvation won't come unless you are in it for real and in it to stay by placing your trust in the God who keeps when you admit you can't save yourself or keep yourself saved.
The first God-conscious man was the first Adam. Jesus is the second Adam (1 Cor. 15.47), the last Adam (v.45), and firstfruits of the new creation. Through Him perfection is attainable. He is the firstfruits of many who will be pillars in the New City of the New Earth. We will be without sin. God and the Lamb will be the center of the New City an shall see His one face (Rev. 22.1,3,4), because if you see the Son you see the Father since Jesus is the fullness of the Godhead bodily. To be included in God's new creation, first you will need to give up your self-centered directed life to depend on and place your trust in Him. But first, you must be a willing recipient of the gift of repentance and faith for salvation to receive eternal life which is promised to all who willingly receive Him (John 3.16,18). Only then can you begin to grow in spiritual life to be a spiritual man or woman. Though people come to the door or salvation from many directions we all must go through that same door.
Hell serves a vital purpose just like jails do in our society, to keep billions of unsaved souls away from sons and daughters whom God loves. To annihilate the image of God is impossible. We are all made in the God's image. You can't cease to exist. You will be resurrected!
The perfect sacrifice could only be God Himself, the Son of God. God would never allow a lesser substitute. Before the foundations of the world, God set out His plan in His infinite foreknowledge to erect obedience on mankind through the perfect obedience Jesus showed to the Father. You will know no greater peace, love, joy, patience and comfort: "the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, self-control" (Gal. 5.22,23).
God's Prerogative
SOME ATHEISTS have tried this approach. God being uncreated would have ended up creating man at some point approximating into the eternity of the past. Man would have had nearly an eternity along the exponential progression of conscience to be perfected without sin, yet sin is still present, so God must not exist. The answer to this contention is (1) since it is God's prerogative to create, our existence comes into being when He determines it. Nature doesn't have this prerogative, but only reacts. So what applies to nature does not apply to God. (2) There is no time with God since He operates outside of time, and as far as we know the best evidence we have is time began when the universe started 13.7 billion years ago. Therefore, we are not allowed to arbitrarily impose upon God when He was suppose to create us. That's arrogant.
Cycles Theory
(1) All things approximate into the alleged past eternity of cause and effects, so our present universe would have happened already. Heat death would be far greater than it is now. (2) Cycles are meaningless and without purpose to deaden your conscience further. Nothing really matters in the end. Life is pointless. Do whatever you want. After about 80 or so years the same result occurs - death and annihilation! (3) Scientists agree the universe will not implode because all it has ever been doing is expanding at an exponential rate so this doesn't give credence to imploding and reloading universes. (4) It doesn't matter how dissipated our universe becomes, there is still energy that never becomes useless energy. The exponential progression of conscience remains intact so we would not still be sinning to the extent we still do. (5) Cycles lack explanatory scope. There is no reason for them and multiverses. This theory has no evidence; complete speculation. If they were to exist, they would still be required to follow the law of cause and effects. Since they are natural they must abide in Step 1.
Alien Theory
IF ALIENS brought us here, you have to ask what caused them since they did not create themselves? Would a loving Creator leave His creation unattended to fall into alien hands? Would God allow a created being to create sentient life and mishandle it? There are over 800 variables for life to exist (Journeying Towards The Spiritual, Hugh Ross). Dividing into the number estimated planets in the universe, the probability life exists on another planet is less than 1 in a million (The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus, Gary R. Habermas & Mike Licona). Even if there was such a planet that could contain life, this doesn't suggest it would have life. An unconscious universe without conscience can't create conscious beings with a conscience. Can a bird house make a bird?
Animals are cursed (Rom. 8.19-22) today by man's sin in the world. They have had a hard time of it before man and during man's existence which is why God never gave them God-consciousness for that would hardly be fair. They are the brunt of abuse by the fallen angels, demons and now man mistreats them. Man was responsible for ruling over the whole earth and all the creatures but Adam was disobedient and fell from grace. God knew man would rebel as soon as he was given God-consciousness, but He still had to do the right thing and warn Adam and Even not to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. His response to their rebellion was foreseen.
There are three groups of animals I'd like to address: a) dinosaurs that existed before God made the earth desolate and waste (Gen. 1.2), b) pre-endemic animals during the restoration (after Gen. 1.2), and c) animal species that have existed the past 6000 years.
Demons corrupted the dinosaurs. Lucifer and his fallen angels fell from 3rd heaven to 2nd Heaven then proceeded to impact the development of the existing creatures on earth. There were bejeweled cities the Bible says in a first garden before the Garden of Eden, but we have no fossil remains of intelligent beings or any such cities. Hence, these beautiful cities were in 2nd Heaven. From the vantage point of 2nd Heaven, Satan and the fallen angels thought to manipulate Earth's creatures. Dinosaurs became vicious. The fallen angels ruled over spirit beings which we know to be the demons that inhabited the dinosaurs. God responded by making the earth "desolate and waste" (Gen. 1.2), casting those demons into the deep (abyss), the depths below the realm of our known visible universe. Satan and his angels remained in 2nd Heaven; subsequently more rights were taken away from them. They are irredeemable. The restoration of creation followed sometime later which is summed up by the six literal days.
Man was made in God's image (Gen. 1.26) whom God created with a spirit of God-consciousness and a soul of self-consciousness about six thousand years ago when He breathed the breath of life into man's body, directly creating man's spirit, and when it made contact with the body, the soul life was formed. Man became a "living soul" with a "soulical body" (outerman) and a spirit (innerman). His body was formed from "dust" (Gen 2.7) over 13.7 billion years. God will give man a resurrected body at the consummation of this age (the "last day" John 11.24) like Jesus received a newly clothed physical body.
Animals kill not just because of man's sin, but because of Satan's sin. A demon came into the serpent in the Garden showing death pervaded the animal kingdom already, including plant life, in the restoration of creation. When God split the firmament on day two, it was not considered a "good day" in Genesis 1 like the other days, because some of those demons that were cast into the deep unavoidably were released to inhabit the bodies of some animals on earth. That is their natural unrelenting propensity as disembodied spirits. They seek to inhabitant bodies preferably humans than swine. When God restored creation in the six days (representative "summary days"), it was not possible for animals to avoid those demons. That's why I say animals have had a rough time of it. And this is why animals can be vicious though not as vicious as dinosaurs which God wiped out by making the Earth desolate and waste (Gen. 1.2). For this reason we know death existed before the Garden of Eden.
Consequently, the Garden of Eden was limited to a particular safe place on planet Earth, the boundaries of which were not to be breached by Adam and Eve, to rule the world in due time. Outside the Garden of Eden lies danger from Satan, the fallen angels, demons, weather, volcanoes and animals. The serpent came into the Garden and man was immediately tempted as he has God-consciousness. God's design is for man to defeat the fallen angels and demons. He likes our involvement. We are worthy, therefore, to be with Him for eternity in the New City if we receive His saving grace. Eventually, Christ's finished work on the cross will usher in the millennial kingdom when He returns in Person (Zech. 14.4, Acts. 1.11, Rev. 1.7). The lamb will lay down next to the lion, and the lion will eat grass (Isaiah 11.6-9). There is no indication there will be any animals after the millennial kingdom in the New City and the New Earth. Perhaps we will have outgrown them by then even cute little puppies. The resurrected-saved will have lost all desire for sexual relations. There is no marriage in the New City. "But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage" (Luke 20.35). However, those transferred livingly from the last generation of the millennial to live on the New Earth outside the New City will continue to procreate in their bodies of flesh and blood and are not resurrected.
God will never extinguish the soul of man, not even in Hell because once God creates man with the ability of God-consciousness, it is unrighteous to annihilate him because we have received the knowledge and awareness of our Creator. All men have this awareness without exception even though it may seem like some are oblivious. In actuality, they shut their minds down like zombies for Satan. The flesh can rationalize an ideational construct. He never treats us as instrumental value as a means to another end. We are intrinsic value to God because God wants to walk with us one day after we have been raised up and return with Him. This is what God longs for and what His whole purpose is: the pinnacle is reached in the New City in the New Earth for eternity to commune with His sons and daughters.
He created us for His good pleasure and created out of His glory to receive His guiding care. This is revealed to us by His Holy Spirit in the word of God and through the power of eternal life. The experience of Israel under the law was to show us we are utterly incapable of keeping the law. This points us to Christ, the only one who was able to keep the law perfectly. Jesus came to fulfill the law (Matt. 5.17). I think you can place your trust in the only person who was able to keep the law. He entered into our regenerated spirits by the Spirit, made us new creations, to lead us through to His truths and intuitive knowledge. No man has seen or can conceive the things He has planned for those who love Him.
"But, as it is written, 'What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him'" (1 Cor. 2.9). We have new life which is the same new spirit that those under the law received, except that the Holy Spirit did not reside in them, but came upon them and moved among them. That is what distinguishes the Old and New Testaments. The veil was not yet rent under the law. The indwelling Holy Spirit did not commence until Christ was raised to the right hand of the Father. Not until then was the Holy Spirit able to dwell in each woman and man who believed according to John 3.16. The veil was rent representing His flesh dying on the cross for our sins. Not until after 40 days from the day He was resurrected did He enter the Holy of Holies which is our spirit by the His Holy Spirit.
For we have become "a royal priesthood" (1 Pet. 2.9) and no longer bring our prayers to the intermediary priesthood of Levites. All Christians are saints and priests. The angels, millions of them, take our prayers to God directly symbolized as golden bowls of incense "which are the prayers of the saints" (Rev. 5.8). The highest order of angels are given in Revelation 4 and 5: "four living beings [the angels that represent the four main elements and four types of creatures on earth] and the twenty-four elders [the eldest elders of the universe are 24 archangels] fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and they held gold bowls filled with incense--the prayers of God's people!" (Rev. 5.8).
Many have tried to overturn the Proof given in God's word. Eventually the sun and all stars will die out, but the universe will never collapse on itself. Scientist agree dark energy is a greater expansive than the gravitational force of dark matter and matter itself. Dark energy pushes outwardly, expanding the universe at an exponential rate in spite of the pervasive force of gravity pressing in. It turns out that the force of gravity which seems so all encompassing ironically is weak and tentatively the avenue through which we are raised "to the throne" (Rev. 7.9) because it is being released or escaping out of the cosmos. Scientists say this great force of gravity is so weak, gravitrons escape out-of the universe somewhere, which I believe to be to the 2nd and 3rd Heavens above. Only God could create such vast complexity.
Conclusion
The reason why unregenerates outside the Kingdom of Heaven can't sense or reason out these 4 Steps is because God has not given it to them to be able to understand. At least those within the outward appearance of the kingdom acknowledge God exists. God will not come upon a man who continues to put up a wall between himself and God.