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God is not for explanation but for proclamation
The president of the New York Scientific Society once gave 8 reasons why he believed there was a God. The first was this: Take 10 identical coins and mark them 1 to 10. Place them in your pocket. Now take one out. There is 1 chance in 10 that you will get number 1. Now replace it, and the chances that number 2 will follow number 1 are not 1 in 10, but 1 in 100. With each new coin taken out, the risk will be multiplied by 10, so that the chance of 10 following 9, is 1 in 10,000,000,000 (ten billion). It seemed so unbelievable to me that I immediately took pencil and paper and very quickly discovered he was right. Try it yourself!
That is why George Gallup, the American statistician, says: “I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone – the chance that all its functions would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.”
Surely no thoughtful persons would wish to base their eternal future on a “statistical monstrosity”. Perhaps that is why the Bible says in Psalm 14:1 “The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God.”
Men may resort to computers and complicated statistics, trying to prove God. But that is quite unnecessary. A little reflection in humility will convince us of the Creator. Then we will say with the Psalmist: “O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me… whither shall I go from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?”
The fact of God is everywhere embraced by men of tender heart. His love and goodness reaches to all. Only the ungrateful deny it. Do not try to prove God! Only proclaim His saving name everywhere!
Thought: God is His own best evidence.
Prayer: “Search me, O God, and know my heart.”
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This audio CD is approximately 59 minutes, divided into 34 chapters. Edited by Dr SH Tow Please note that the last paragraph of some chapter texts may not be present in the audio tracks.
