Proof That God Exists (Beyond a Reasonable Doubt) - S2E19

Think believing in God is just a blind leap of faith? Worried your faith might crumble if someone asked you the hard questions?

In this Season 2 premiere, we're tackling the most fundamental question of all: Does God actually exist — and can we back that up with real evidence? We'll walk through four powerful lines of reasoning that point to God's existence — from the origin of the universe, to the fine-tuning of creation, to the moral truths written on every human heart, to the deep longings nothing in this world can satisfy. This isn't about winning arguments — it's about discovering that your faith stands on solid ground.

"Faith isn't a blind leap in the dark — it's a confident step into the light of evidence that God himself has provided."

In This Episode, You'll Discover:

• Why "proof" for God works more like a courtroom case than a math equation — and why that's actually more convincing
• Four lines of evidence that point to God's existence: creation, design, morality, and desire
• How even non-religious scientists and philosophers find the case for God compelling

Practical Applications:

• Gain confidence in your own faith — knowing it's built on evidence, not just feelings or tradition
• Be equipped to share your faith when someone says "there's no evidence for God"
• Find an anchor for those inevitable moments when doubt comes knocking

Your Assignment This Week: Think through the four evidences for God — creation, design, morality, and desire. Pick the one that resonates most with you and spend some time thinking it through more deeply. Then try explaining it to someone in your own words — the goal isn't to win an argument but to strengthen your own confidence.

💬 Community Question: Which of these four evidences for God — creation, design, morality, or desire — speaks most powerfully to you, and why? Is there one you've personally experienced or wrestled with? Or maybe there's an evidence we didn't cover that has been meaningful in your own journey?

We're kicking off Season 2 — "Getting to Know the Unknowable God" — and YOUR voice matters as we explore who God really is together. Hit subscribe so you don't miss the next episode, and share this with someone who's wrestling with questions about God's existence!

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Transcript

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You're tuned into Everyday Theology in Plain English, making sense of God's truth for your everyday life. Here's your host, the man who still loses arguments with his wife but makes a pretty good case for God, Charlie Miller.

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Hey there, and welcome to season two of Everyday Theology in Plain English. If you were here with us for season one, you know that we spent 18 episodes building a really solid foundation, discovering why theology matters and how to trust and understand God's Word. Now we're ready to take the next step. Season two is getting to know the unknowable God. And we're moving from exploring God's Word to exploring God Himself. Today, I can't think of a better place to start than with the most fundamental question of all. Does God actually exist? And maybe you've wondered this yourself. Maybe you're confident that God exists, but you struggle to explain why when someone asks you. Or maybe you've even had a friend, a coworker, or a family member say something like, I just don't see any evidence for God. Believing in Him seems like wishful thinking, like a giant blind leap of faith. Now, I'll be honest, I've had moments where doubt creeps in. Times when I've wondered if my faith was built on something real or just feelings and family tradition. I think most Christians, if they're honest, have felt this way at one point or another. So if you've ever had thoughts like these, you're not alone. And you're definitely not a bad Christian for asking hard questions. Now here's what I want you to know as we kick off this brand new season. Believing in God is not a blind leap of faith. There are good, solid, reasonable evidences that point to God's existence, evidences that have commenced some of the greatest minds in history. And today we're going to discover together what these evidences are, why they matter, and how they can both strengthen your own faith and help you share it with others. So let's start with the big question. Can we actually prove that God exists? Now, before we dive in, let me clarify something really important. When we talk about proof for God, we're not talking about the kind of proof you'd get in like a math class, like proving that two plus two equals four. We're talking about the kind of evidence that builds a compelling case, the way a lawyer builds a case in court. We're looking at evidence that points toward God's existence beyond a reasonable doubt. And here's what's fascinating. The Bible itself says that evidence for God is all around us. Romans 1, verse 20 says, For since the creation of the world, God's invisible qualities, his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made so that people are without excuse. Did you catch that? God says the evidence is clear enough that people are without excuse. So what is this evidence? Well, let me talk you through four main lines of reasoning that point to God's existence. First, there's the evidence from creation itself. This is what philosophers call the cosmological argument. Isn't that a great word? So here's the basic idea behind cosmological argument. Everything that begins to exist has a cause. Your coffee mug didn't just pop into existence, right? Your car didn't appear from nothing. You didn't just materialize one day. Everything that begins has something that caused it to begin. Now, scientists tell us that the universe has a beginning. It was called the Big Bang. So if the universe began to exist, what caused it? Now here's the thing: the cause of the universe must be something outside the universe. It has to be something that's not bound by space or time or matter because space, time, and matter all came into existence with the universe. So what does that sound like? Sounds like something eternal, immaterial, and incredibly powerful. In other words, something that looks a lot like God. Second, there's the evidence from design. And this is what's called teleological argument. So look around the world. Look at the human eye, which is more complex than any camera that's ever been invented. Look at DNA. I mean, DNA contains more information than entire libraries worth of information. Look at the precise conditions required for life to exist on Earth, the exact distance from the sun, the precise tilt of our axes, the absolute perfect atmospheric composition. Scientists call this fine-tuning. The odds of all these conditions coming together by random chance are so astronomically small that many scientists, even non-religious ones, admit that the universe looks designed. Here's an analogy that might help. Imagine you're walking through a forest and you find a watch lying on the ground. Now, would you assume the watch just assembled itself over the course of millions of years? Of course not. The complexity and purposeful arrangement of all of its parts tells you that someone designed it. Well, the universe is infinitely more complex than a watch, and that complexity points to a designer. Third, there's the evidence from morality. That's the moral argument. So here's a question. Why do we all have this deep sense that some things are truly right and some things are truly wrong? Not just personally preferred or culturally conditioned, but objectively, actually wrong. I mean, think about it. When we hear about a child being abused, something inside us says that's wrong. And we don't mean that's wrong for me personally, or that's wrong in our culture. We mean it's genuinely, truly wrong, no matter who does it or where it happens. But here's the thing: if there's no God, where does this objective moral standard come from? I mean, if we're just molecules in motion, like random products of chance and evolution, why would anything be truly right or wrong? Yet we all live as if moral truths exist. The existence of real moral standards that transcend cultures and preferences points to a moral lawgiver, a God who defines what's truly good and truly evil. And then fourth, there's the evidence from our own hearts, what we might call the argument from desire. Have you ever noticed that you have the deep longings that nothing else in this world quite satisfies? I mean, you achieve the goal, right? You get the relationship, you buy the thing, and yet there's still something more that you find yourself searching for. Famous uh Christian author and theologian C. S. Lewis put it this way: he said, if I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. See, we hunger for meaning, for purpose, for something eternal. And just as physical hunger points to the existence of food, our spiritual hunger points to the existence of something beyond this world that can satisfy us, someone who made us for himself. Now, none of these arguments force anyone to believe in God. You can always find ways to resist the evidence, but when you stack them all together, the universe had a beginning, it looks designed, we experience real moral truths, and we have deep spiritual longings. The evidence builds a compelling case that points beyond reasonable doubt to the existence of a God. Now, let's stop for just a second. If this is making sense to you so far, would you drop a comment and let me know? And if you're confused about something, man, please ask. That's how we can all learn together. So now you might be thinking, okay, Charlie, this is interesting like philosophically, right? But how does this actually affect my real life? What difference does it make whether I can prove God exists? Is such a good question. If you've watched any of season one, you know I love that. What difference does this make in my life? Question. Well, let me give you three practical ways that understanding the evidence for God transforms your everyday life. So, first, it gives you confidence in your own faith. All right, so let's picture someone. Um, we'll call her Rachel, right? So Rachel represents many people that I've talked to over the years. She grew up in church, she loves Jesus, but she's never really thought through why she believes what she believes. She has faith, but it feels real fragile, like it might crumble if someone asks her the wrong question. But then Rachel starts learning about these evidences for God. She discovers that brilliant philosophers, like really smart scientists and great thinkers throughout history have found these arguments really compelling. And she realizes her faith isn't just feelings or tradition, it's actually built on something really solid. Now, maybe that's you right now. Maybe you've always believed in God, but you felt insecure about why. Maybe you've avoided conversations about faith because you were afraid you couldn't answer the hard questions. Well, here's what I want you to know. Faith isn't opposed to reason. The same God who calls us to believe in him also gave us our minds to think with. You don't have to choose between being thoughtful and being faithful. In fact, thinking carefully about these things can deepen your faith rather than weaken it. Faith isn't a blind leap in the dark, it's a confident step into the light of evidence that God Himself has provided. Secondly, it equips you to share your faith with others. So let's imagine another scenario where that a lot of people probably face, a lot of us. Uh, you're at work, and maybe you've got a colleague, a coworker named Mark or Marcus, let's say, uh, and Marcus makes an offhand comment. He says, I don't know how anyone can believe in God in the 21st century. There's just no evidence. Well, in the past, you might have felt your stomach drop, um, and then you might have changed the subject, or you know, just like was silent and didn't say anything. But now you have something to say, right? You can gently respond, actually, I think there's quite a bit of evidence. Would you be interested in hearing some of it? What a great opening, right? You're not trying to win an argument or prove you're smarter. You're simply sharing that your faith has a good reason behind it. And sometimes that's all someone else needs to become curious about our faith themselves. Now, let me be clear: evidence alone doesn't save anyone. Only the Holy Spirit can open someone's heart to believe. But God often uses evidence as part of that process. First Peter 3 15 tells us to always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. Understanding the evidence for God equips you to do exactly that. And third, it anchors you when doubt comes knocking. Every Christian faces moments of doubt, right? Maybe it's during suffering when you wonder, is God really there? And does he really care about me? Maybe it's when someone challenges your beliefs and you don't have a ready answer. Or maybe it's just one of those dark nights of the soul when faith feels so far away. Well, it's it's in those moments, man, having thought through the evidence gives you something solid to stand on. You can remind yourself in those moments, the universe didn't create itself. Design doesn't happen by accident. Moral truths don't exist without a moral lawgiver. My deep longings point to something real. Doubt isn't the enemy of faith. Unexamined faith is the enemy of faith. When you've wrestled with the question and found the evidence compelling, your faith becomes stronger, not weaker. As we wrap up this first episode of season two, here's what I want you to remember. Believing in God is not blind faith. It's reasonable faith based on evidence that God Himself has woven into creation, morality, and even the human heart. The evidence from creation tells us something eternal and powerful started everything. The evidence from design tells us that the universe wasn't an accident. The evidence from morality tells us there's a real standard of right and wrong that transcends us and our time and culture. And the evidence from our deepest longings tells us that we're made for someone beyond this world. So here's your assignment for this week. Think through the four evidences for God we've discussed: creation, design, morality, and desire. Pick the one that resonates most with you and spend some time this week thinking it through more deeply. Then try explaining it to someone in your own words, maybe a friend or a family member, or even just out loud to yourself. The goal isn't to win an argument, but to strengthen your own confidence and be ready to share the hope you have. And here's our community question. Which of these four evidences for God, creation, design, morality, or desire, speaks most powerfully to you and why? Is there one that you've personally experienced or wrestled with? Or maybe there's an evidence for God that we didn't cover that has been meaningful in your own journey? Your answer, if you drop us a line, uh share in the comments below. It might be exactly what someone else needs to hear as they work through their own questions about faith. I also want to mention that we have a companion guide available for this season that goes deeper into each topic. It's got journaling prompts, practical applications that will help you really dig into what we're learning together. You can find the link in the show notes, and it'll be out probably by episode two or maybe three, maybe even by two of this season. So should be anytime now. Next episode, we're tackling something that might seem like a contradiction. How can we actually know an infinite God when we're finite creatures? We're going to answer one of the most important questions in all of theology. Can we really know God or are we just guessing? Until then, remember, God hasn't hidden himself from you. He's left evidence everywhere you look. He wants to be known, and he's made it possible for you to know him. Thanks for joining me. And as we kick off this season two of Everyday Theology in Plain English, getting to know the unknowable God. I'm Charlie Miller, and I'm so grateful that you're part of this community. We're building it together. I can't wait to continue this journey with you next time.