Evil and suffering in so many places - How do I know there is a God?

You may have noticed I changed the title of my blog to| Let's Be Reasonable.  I changed it because I
've spent a great deal of my life trying to find the reasons things are the way they are. I want answers, I want truth.  As a child I remember asking adults the "why" questions and  "how come" questions. I wanted to know how God could be without having a mom and dad.   I wanted to know why there were so many denominations, when Christianity was about following Christ - our one Savior.

In a way I am still that child with the questions and need for answers.....answers based on reasonable facts. To me it is important to learn how very reasonable God is and share that knowledge with others. So today I want to share something a great many of us have thought about but maybe not considered  why it is true. The following excerpt is from the book Cries of The Heart  by Ravi Zacharias.

 "While speaking at the University of Nottingham, England, a young man posed a question to me. " There can not be a God , " he said, " with all the evil and suffering that exists in the world! How can you say there is a God?"

My response to him : " when you say  there is such a thing as evil, are you not assuming  that there is such a thing as good?

"Of course, " he retorted.

"But when you assume there is such a thing as good, are you not also assuming that there is such a thing as a moral law on the basis of which to distinguish between good and evil?"

"I suppose so," came the hesitant and much softer reply.

"If , then, there is a moral law, you must posit a moral lawgiver. If there is no moral lawgiver, there is no moral law.  If there is no moral law, there is no good. If there is no good, there is no evil. I am not sure what your question is!"

For if God is not the author of life ' neither good or bad is a meaningful term."

So I pose a question to my reader, " what would you say to a skeptic or atheist about the existence of God?" I shared this with you today because it  just makes sense; it is reasonable. And there may be opportunity in your future to share these thoughts with others and have them begin to search for the truth themselves.

Hang in here with me. I plan to expand on this subject another day and also discuss the reason in suffering.

"Come let us reason together, "says the Lord in Isaiah 1:18.  I love that!  He wants us to know the truth , He wants us to ask questions, He wants us to find the reasons, He wants us to know Him. That I can know Him and know He is who He says He is and have my faith built up by sound reasoning - well, it makes me happy, happy, happy!

In the mean time, my hope is that you will go outside today and look up and take note of the enormity of the heavens and  know that God is mighty, He our magnificent Creator and He has purpose in all
things.