Believe it or not there are thousands, maybe even millions, of people who claim to believe in God, but who fall in the category of ‘agnostic’. It is possible that you may be in this group without realizing it, and that is a dangerous place to be. Most of the time when we speak of agnostics we are speaking of those who don’t believe in God, but who don’t deny the possibility of a supreme being. As Bible believers, we know that danger, but what about the Christian who just isn’t sure if God is up there or is believing because he/she has been raised to believe in God. We may be saying something to the effect of, “I believe there is a God, but there isn’t really any proof”.
As Christians, when we think, feel, or say things like previous statement, we are in essence agnostic. What we are really saying is: “If there is a God He may or may not be the God that the Bible talks about.”, “If there is a God I will not know until I die.”, and “If there is a God He was and is either unable or unwilling to give people enough information to make an informed decision.”. That certainly doesn’t bode well for being committed to Him, does it? The ‘agnostic Christian’ is a Christian for one simple reason, and that is “just in case”. They want to hedge their bet so to speak. If there is a God these want to be able to say, “I believed in you.” but at the same time live a life of worldliness.
Contrary to what agnosticism holds, God has provided abundant proof of not only His existence, but also creation, the inspiration of the Bible, and what it is he wants us to do. I can’t even begin to touch on all of these things, but you can get more information than you could study in a year from Apologetics Press in Montgomery, AL. Their phone number is (334) 272-8558 and they have a web-site www.apologeticspress.org where you can find out more.
Let me touch briefly on the proof of God’s existence. Hebrews says that every house is built by someone and that the builder of all things is God (Hebrews 3:4) . That statement itself does not prove God exists any more than my saying the sky is pink would prove that it is pink, but the logic behind the statement does. Let us observe. If I show you a beautiful picture, a computer, a car, or a house, you know that somewhere at some time someone made them. How do we know that when we didn’t see it? Simple, common sense tells us that where there is a design there must be a designer. If that is true with something as small and simple as even a paper plate, how much more obvious is it with something as large and complex as the universe? As intelligent as we are, able to make computers that are quite complex, we cannot figure out the complexity of the human mind. The brain of a man and the brain of other mammals are not that much different from all that scientists can tell, and yet one is able to speak, learn, teach, and invent while the other is not how amazing a creation we are. All of the planets in our solar system move around the sun so precisely that we are able to tell where they were 500 years ago or where they will be 500 years from now. That kind of precision and design demands that someone more intelligent and more powerful caused it.
Has God given us enough evidence? We must answer, yes. As the Psalmist said in Psalm 19, “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork.” If we can see His handiwork every day, why do some of us still doubt his existence? It would make more sense to doubt my existence and assume that you are just accidentally receiving some jumbled letters that coincidentally got attached to an email addressing itself to you, than to doubt the existence of God. “Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God” (Heb 3:12).