Proof for the Existence of God, May 1, 2021 Feast Day of St. Joseph the Worker by Christopher J Fleischman
Proof of God:
The concept of “nothing” cannot have the ability to act, otherwise it would exist as a “potential act” and be one of many things that exist. If the universe came from “nothing” then this nothing would have had the ability to become the universe. But the concept “nothing” as we previously explained, cannot have the ability to act, therefore, the universe could not have come from nothing on its own.
Since there are things that do exist, then “something” must have always existed, because as we just proved, things cannot come from “nothing” on their own.
If time had ever proceeded at an infinite rate, which is like fast forwarding through a motion picture, we would not be here today because all events would have already occurred in a single instant. Therefore, time has always progressed at a finite rate and any mathematician can prove that time could never have progressed over an infinite time interval. The proof goes like this, pick any number no matter how great. You can always add one to it and thereby make it greater in value, therefore you can never reach infinity.
And you cannot say that all we would need to do is to wait an infinite amount of time and then we would reach infinity, because then you are assuming that you can wait an infinite amount of time. However, this is what you were trying to prove and so that is not a proof at all. You cannot assume to be true, that which you are trying to prove to be true otherwise you can prove anything to be true, even that which is false. Therefore, time could not have started an “infinite” time ago and therefore had a beginning a finite time ago.
Since “something” always existed as we previously proved, it had to have existed before time started. Since space and time are one entity called the space-time continuum as Einstein pointed out, then this “something” had to have existed before space and time existed and therefore caused space and time.
Since this “something” exists outside of space and time it cannot be made up of material things, because material things can only exist in space. And this “something” could not be just chaos which has no order, because as we previously proved, something cannot come from nothing on its own, hence order cannot come from pure disorder. Therefore, this “something” had to have had the ability to cause order, space-time, material things, beauty, life, everything in our universe, including our universe and natural laws and rules. Since we call ourselves beings, then we should at least call this “something” a Being, who we call God.
Since only God always existed, and the universe is not made of God as we just proved, then God must have created the universe out of “nothing”. Since “nothing” does not even exist, then God must have infinite Power in order to have created the universe from “nothing”. Since all people desire happiness, then God must have created us to be happy out of love for us.
Naturally, all creatures should love their Creator. For us to love God from our heart, God had to create in us a free-will, because no person can be forced to love, otherwise this would not be true love from their heart. With our free-will, we can choose to do good or bad to our neighbor and this is why there is sin in the world, because some people have chosen to hate God and their neighbor and are only interested in pleasing themselves. God did not create evil, nor does He desire evil, but he does allow sin to happen because He had to form us with a free-will, in order for us to love Him and others from our heart.
God cannot cause His own existence because you must first exist before you can cause anything. In addition, God is not caused by anything, because we just proved there was nothing else that existed before Him. Therefore, God’s existence is not caused, and hence cannot be removed, and therefore God always existed and will always exist and is Isness itself.
There is only one God who is referred to as being Isness itself and this is the God of the Israelites.
From the Holy Bible (Douay-Rheims version), Exodus 3:13-14: "Moses said to God: Lo, I shall go to the children of Israel, and say to them: The God of your fathers hath sent me to you. If they should say to me: What is his name: what shall I say to them? God said to Moses, I AM WHO AM. He said: Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: HE WHO IS, hath sent me to you."
HE WHO IS, is God the Father, the First Divine Person of the Blessed Holy Trinity.
Also, from the Holy Bible we learn that there is only one God.
Deuteronomy 6:4 "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord."
Also, out of Jesus' own words from the Gospel of Mark:
Mark 12:29, "And Jesus answered him: The first commandment of all is, Hear, O Israel: the Lord thy God is one God. [30] And thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind, and with thy whole strength. This is the first commandment. [31] And the second is like to it: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is no other commandment greater than these."
We also learn from the Holy Bible that Jesus Christ is also God.
St. John Chapter 1:1-17" [1] In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. [2] The same was in the beginning with God. [3] All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that was made. [4] In him was life, and the life was the light of men. [5] And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.... [14] And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we saw his glory, the glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." .. [16] And of his fulness we all have received, and grace for grace. [17] For the law was given by Moses; grace and truth came by Jesus Christ."
These verses from the Holy Bible specifically state that the "only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth, is the Word who "was made flesh and dwelt among us", which means the Word walked among us as a man, namely Jesus Christ, as explained in verses 16 and 17, "And of his fulness we all have received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses; grace and truth came by Jesus Christ."
Verses 1-4 also state, "the Word was God" and "was with God" and all things were made by the Word who in Him was life. Hence the Word, who is God has now walked among us as a man. and "was with God", who assumed human nature and became man. This is Jesus Christ, who is therefore God and man.
Therefore, the only begotten Son of God is Jesus Christ, who is God the Son, the Second Divine Person of the Blessed Holy Trinity.
In addition, from the Holy Bible, we learn from our Lord Jesus Christ's own words:
John 3:16: "For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in him, may not perish, but may have life everlasting."
The Holy Bible also speaks of the third Divine Person, the Holy Spirit
John 3:15-18: "If you love me, keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he shall give you another Paraclete, that he may abide with you for ever. The Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, nor knoweth him; but you shall know him; because he shall abide with you, and shall be in you."
Also from Matthew 28-19: "Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost."
Hence, God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are all on the same level of importance and power.
Therefore, the Paraclete is God the Holy Spirit, the Third Divine Person of the Blessed Holy Trinity.
Hence, there is only one God, but in three Divine Persons, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
"The Divine Persons do not share the one Divinity among themselves but each of them is God whole and entire." quote taken from the Catechism of the Catholic Church by the Great Pope St. John Paul II.
The Second Person of the Blessed Holy Trinity is the Person of Jesus Christ. Hence, Jesus Christ has Divine humanity.
Jesus Christ is only one Person, which is Divine, and not both a Divine Person and a human person. Hence, when we speak of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, we say "the Divine Heart of Jesus", because Jesus' Heart is the very Heart of God. God died for our sins, God rose from the dead, and God has ascended into heaven.
The Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus Christ who is God and therefore the Virgin Mary is the true Mother of God. Since Virgin Mary was to be the Mother of God, she was granted special privileges from God as we have learned from the Catholic Church. Mother of God, Ever Virgin, The Immaculate Conception, True Co-redemptrix, Mediatrix of all Graces, Assumption with Glorified body and Queen of Heaven and Earth.
Each day, in the morning when you awake, say an Our Father thanking God for the gift of life and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary by offering all of your sufferings, prayers and good actions to the Blessed Virgin Mary for these intensions, "My Jesus for Love of Thee, for the conversion of sinners and in reparation for the sins committed against the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. She will then lead you to Jesus Christ and offer your sacrifices of prayer, acts of charity, and fasting to God the Father who will then multiply the merits because you offered them through His Holy Virgin Mother Mary to help her crush the head of the serpent Satan. Jesus Christ is Lord! Alleluia!