All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. (John 1:3)

For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. (Romans 1:25)

Nothing could be more obvious than God being described as the Creator. That He is by definition. Yet one cannot prove this to be true by the very nature of the statement, for we as created beings have no objective position for asserting this claim. We cannot know independently whether there is another creator besides God. We only have His Word for this.

The challenge of apologetics—the defense of the Christian faith—is that the fundamental core of what we believe cannot be proved in an empirical, scientific sense. A microbe under a microscope cannot prove the eye looking at it exists. So we as created beings cannot prove that God exists. We can certainly deduce His existence, and we can argue that postulating His existence best explains what we see in the world. But prove it we cannot.

At its core, Christianity is a “revealed” religion; we believe what God has revealed to us, for the meaning behind everything can only be known if God tells it to us. Some may think this to be circular philosophy or reasoning—that is, we are relying on belief to substantiate our belief. However, if one begins with the belief in a Creator God (and there are ample evidences for doing so), then it makes sense that the Creator God would communicate with His creation. He would, among other things, be a communicating God, for how could He be any less if He created communicating beings like us?

So we have a record of communication that we call the Bible, where God does in fact reveal to us things we could not possibly know otherwise. That communication says that if anything exists, it was created by God (John 1:3). Therefore, He is the one and only Creator, the originator of everything. He is the first cause from which all effects ultimately come. He is over all because He made all—and therefore we all have a responsibility to Him.

As Creator, Romans 1:25 says, He is blessed forever. In other words, no matter how creation turns out (from our perspective), including the coming of sin, rebellion, idolatry of false gods, conflicts and suffering, God’s equilibrium is unaffected. He remains blessed forever. He has created excellently, and evil somehow plays into His tapestry of creation, if only in relief to see more clearly His character and glory, things we cannot understand apart from His revealing it to us.

Lord, I don’t understand everything about Your creation but I believe in You.