USING GOD TO DISPROVE GOD

There are no sound arguments against the existence of the God of the Bible, a good and just God. However, the Late Christian philosopher, C.S. Lewis, had been convinced that he had had one:

·       My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. (The Joyful Christian, 7)

The concept of “just” was Lewis’ absolute measure or the straight line, which would have enabled him to call the universe “unjust.” However, he realized that he had no basis to call the universe “unjust” unless justice existed independently from his own subjective thinking. If justice was no more than his own personal idea, he couldn’t call the universe “unjust” in any real sense:

·       Of course, I could have given up my idea of justice by saying it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if I did that, then my argument against God collapsed too—for the argument depended on saying that the world was really unjust, not simply that it do not happen to please my private fancies. This in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist—in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless—I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality—that one part of reality—namely my idea of justice—was full of sense.

Lewis found that he was assuming the reality of justice, something that only exists if God exist, to disprove God. Without God, justice is merely a concept that we create. Consequently, we are using the reality of God to disprove God.

This is the fundamental problem of atheism. Whenever the atheist tries to disprove God, he must make use of the things that can only come from God. When he tries to claim that science makes God irrelevant, he ignores the fact that all of the tools and objects of science are the products of an intelligent Designer. Even the smallest atom exhibits unfathomable design, and so too the elegant, immutable, and universal laws of science.

The intelligent atheist counter that it is impossible to disprove that something exists, like trying to disprove the existence of fairies or the Lock Ness Monster. However, God is a necessary Being, unlike the Lock Ness Monster. He is the Person to which all His creation points and is the only explanation for such things as life, consciousness, freewill, the fine-tuning of the universe, or the elegant and immutable laws of science. The only other possible explanation is that everything just happened naturally, out of nothing, without intelligence and design, a desperate attempt to avoid the obvious – the Creator and Sustainer.