God Exists!: A Few Observations To Ponder..

God Exists!
A Few Observations to Ponder...

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GOD exists, because of creation, miracles, and fulfilled prophesies. He is recognized through the things He has made: Psa 19:1, Wis 13:1-5, Sir 42:15-25, Rom 1:19-20. Ponder the following observations... The sun is just the right type of star to harbor life giving planets. The earth is the right distance from the sun. A little farther out and we would freeze and a little closer in and we would boil. The earth has an optimal rotational period for more even heat distribution. If it were any longer or shorter, we would either overheat or freeze. Also this fact is critical for atmospheric circulation, any faster and we would have too strong of winds and any slower, we would stagnate. The earth has an optimum tilt on its axis so the northern and southern hemispheres have a more even temperature distribution. The earth takes just the right amount of time to orbit the sun. That combined with the tilt, generates the seasons, so plants can grow to feed the inhabitants. The earth has just the right density atmosphere to protect its inhabitants from meteorites and asteroids, and yet allow air flight. The atmosphere has just the right chemical balance to support life and to shield it from the harmful rays of the sun. The earth has an abundance of volcanoes and plant life to maintain the chemical balance of the atmosphere. The earth has an abundance of both salt and fresh water, essential to the support of life in the sea and on land. The earth has a temperature average that keeps the water liquid, which is crucial to life forms. The moon is just the right size to create tides that aren't too great to flood wide areas, nor too small to clean the inlets and bays every day. The earth has an amazing food chain - all life is provided for.
The earth has an iron core that creates a magnetic field so we can find our way around the planet. This magnetic field also protects us from the violent solar winds and high energy outbursts from the sun. The earth has mountains to hold the snows and store the water for irrigation in the spring when plants grow. The earth has an abundance of minerals to satisfy all our needs.
Now do you really think all of this was by accident, or was it by design?
God Exists... The Five Proofs by St. Thomas Aquinas, (12251274):
The demonstration of GOD's existence in Church teaching is not based solely upon revelation. It is and has been declared, following St. Paul's statement: "GOD's eternal power and divinity, have become visible, recognized through the things He has made" (Rom 1:20), that human beings can by use of reason, deduce the certitude of GOD's existence. As stated by St. Pius X in his 'Moto Proprio Sacrarum Antistitum' (Those in Charge of Holy Things) of 1910, this is a kind of proof called demonstration. One knows through faith of GOD's existence, but humans should always seek the amplitude of knowledge or the highest truth that is knowable. Thus apart from faith, GOD can best be known from material things or things existing within human experience, by reasoning from something secondary in being to something prior or first, a prime or first cause, GOD. In Catholic thought, the first formerly presented proofs for GOD's existence, were the five most valid proofs offered by St. Thomas Aquinas...
1. The first argument reasons from motion to a prime or first mover, which means that something progresses from a state of potentiality to actuality, with a cause bring about such movement without the movement acting independently.
2. The second argument reasons from an order of efficient causes to a first efficient cause, or things happening in a reasonable manner, which could not happen without being subordinate to a prior cause.
3. The third argument indicates the necessity of a being or one who brings material being, because matter cannot of itself generate into existence and then go on to corruption or dissolution.
4. The fourth argument goes from the degrees of goodness, truth, nobility, or beauty, which are observed in things and could not be present unless they had their origin in a cause that has these qualities to their highest perfection.
5. The fifth argument arises from the purposefulness of things, which is observed in nonknowing things, for this demands an intelligent agent or cause, because man of himself cannot order things to intelligent, effective ends, so there must be a supreme source from which purposefulness arises.
In all of these arguments the cause is GOD, manifest in the observed truths that man's reason declares to him. The metaphysical truth is attained, not without effort, by seeing the entire universe in its dependence upon GOD as the prime mover, the efficient cause, and the perfect being worthy of our faith.
GOD Exists?
Written by Jim Bishop...
GOD Exists? There is no GOD! All of the wonders around us are accidental. No almighty hand made a thousand-billion stars. They made themselves. No power keeps them on their steady course. The earth spins itself to keep the oceans from falling off toward the sun. Infants teach themselves to cry when they are hungry or hurt. A small flower invented itself so that we could extract digitalis for sick hearts. The earth gave itself day and night, and tilted itself so that we get seasons. Without the magnetic poles man would be unable to navigate the trackless oceans of water and air, but they just grew there. How about the sugar thermostat in the pancreas? It maintains a level of sugar in the blood sufficient for energy. Without it, all of us would fall into a coma and die. Why does snow sit on mountain-tops waiting for the warm spring sun to melt it at just the right time for young crops in farms below to drink? A very lovely accident.
The human heart will beat for 70 or 80 years without faltering. How does it get sufficient rest between beats? A kidney will filter poison from the blood, & leave good things alone. How does it know one from the other? Who gave the human tongue flexibility to form words, and a brain to understand them, but denied it to all other animals? Who showed a womb how to take the love of two persons and keep splitting a tiny ovum until, in time, a baby would have the proper number of fingers eyes and ears and hair in the right places, and come into the world when it is strong enough to sustain life?
There is no GOD?

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