God is not dead. Moral truths that are true everywhere point to a transcendent morality that man did not invent. God has placed not only natural laws on the earth but also spiritual laws. When these laws are broken, it results in people being broken. Not only does violating these spiritual laws separate us from God but causes pain in our lives and those around us. –Rice Broocks, God’s Not Dead.

Imagine for a moment: What will happen if every one of the inhabitants of this earth believes that there is no God? Would the world be a better place to live in? Think of a world with no morals, ethics, and standards and the entire Police department going on leave for a week. Would there be peaceful co-existence, or would it be a struggle for life and survival of the fittest? What would happen to the old, the sick, and the poor? Can we ever forget the genocide committed by Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Marx, Polpot, and Mao, all atheists?

In the year of its millennial edition in 2000, The Economist magazine published an obituary for God. In 2007, it published a sixteen-page apology titled “God is back”. It is not what they don’t know about God that keeps people from believing; it is what they do know – that God is holy and demands holiness from His creation. Because they hate God’s rules, they suppress the truth in their unrighteousness – Rom 1:18. They want to break free from Him and get out of His control to become their own gods.

People also offer a seemingly valid reason not to believe in the existence of a God – the believers in God! If there are so many believers in God, why is there so much evil and injustice in the world, most of which is supposed to be committed by such “believers”? Starting from the Roman Catholics (these are not Christians, as being held by the world) of the Crusades to the jihadists of today, millions have been murdered in the name of religion.

The answer to the above question is very simple. The very sense of “evil” existing in a normal man is because of the existence of God who defines what is evil and what is good for mankind. “A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line!” –C.S. Lewis. Again, evil is not just around us; it is in us. God denounces evil and expects mankind to turn away from it. Christ became the victor by defeating the devil who is “evil personified”, on the cross through His death. In fact, the Son of God was revealed to destroy the works of the Evil One. Evil’s ultimate destruction is round the corner! Recognizing this is the first step to faith in God. This would automatically lead one to obedience to His commands and compliance with His rules. God wants to get rid of evil starting from you!

Are there some things God cannot do? Some Christian preachers take pride in preaching such a “sermon”, listing things that God can’t do viz., God can’t stop loving people; God can’t remember our sins; God can’t stop thinking about His children, and so on. They are trying to sound wiser than God, are advocates of God, and are trying to add to the glory of God by preaching such things. Foolishness! For with God, nothing shall be impossible. – Luke 1:37. While God can do everything, He will not do these (and many other things that contradict His nature) by deliberate choice and determined will. For example, He will not remember our sins anymore after He has forgiven them – not that He can’t. He is not a human being with a weakness to forget things. He is not suffering from amnesia!

There are other unbelievers that come up with questions like, if there is a God, could He lie? Can He bring back the past? Would He be able to rule that all evil is good and all good is evil? God can’t lie because that would contradict His character. God will never change his nature a bit. Then, where is the question of He turning everything upside down? Regarding the “past” argument, God has purposed and planned everything ahead even before the foundation of the world (the theme running throughout this book ABHOT) and is executing the plan to the tee. This being the fact, where is the question of God reversing the past?