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     The Bible declares a fundamental about God – “Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne....” (Psalm 89:14).  The Psalmist also wrote of the possibility of the foundation being destroyed – “If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” (Psalm 11:3).  In that context who are the righteous?  Any rational person wants to be righteous.  Unfortunately, our flaw is to be self righteous, i.e., folks create their own “righteousness,” e.g., folks convicted of heinous crimes, remark, “I am basically a good person....” So how can you know the certainty that you are righteous?  Moses declared, “For all His ways are justice, a God of truth and without injustice; righteous and upright is He” (Deuteronomy 32:4).  So God Himself is righteous and truth.

     Although many declare there is no absolute truth, Jesus of Nazareth, (God in flesh), declared He is truth (John 14:6).  “Truth” is mentioned over 200 times in the Bible.  Perhaps one of the best descriptions of God is His own declaration of His own character to Moses, “The Lord (YHWH – Yahweh), the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth” (Exodus 34:6).  Yes, He is truth!  With such declaration, it seems everyone would want to know God, to know truth so as to become righteous.

     As recently noted, in 2018 a PEW poll revealed 28% do not believe any supernatural deity exists.  Do you believe Yahweh (author of the Bible) exists?  And if so, “How do you know God exists?” And of those who say they know God, many, if not most, have concocted an image of God from their own imagination.  As one fellow told me, the supreme being is an energy force in space, like magnetism or solar energy.  That is pure Naturalism.

     The Bible declares God to be a spirit person (John 4:24).  That we are made (in flesh) in His image (Genesis 1:26-27), implicitly informs that we have the rational trait of God – the capacity to think, to know, to decide what to believe and do.

     Acknowledging His existence is the beginning of knowing He is the Sovereign, who establishes what is real righteousness.  In order for you to be righteous, you must fully accept that He is righteous, that He is the standard of what it means to be righteous.  Understanding and accepting that precedes the beginning of restoring the foundation of the failing nation so as to become a righteous nation.  “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people” (Proverbs 14:34).

     Can we know God exists?  How?

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