Does God exist?
Matt Brown- January 21st, 2026
Is there any greater question to wrestle with than “Does God exist?”
If you’re asking it, you’re not alone. Across history and across cultures, people have returned to this question again and again—because it touches everything: meaning, morality, suffering, purpose, and hope.
To consider it honestly, we should examine it from several angles. In this article, we’ll explore:
1. Philosophical reasons
2. Scientific reasons
3. Historical reasons
4. Real-life experiential reasons
Together, they build a strong case that faith in God is not irrational, naïve, or intellectually lazy. In fact, the opposite.
Philosophical Reasoning for God’s Existence
The aim of this section is to show that belief in God can be rationally warranted.
Start with a simple observation: things don’t explain themselves. Everything we see has some kind of explanation for why it exists rather than not. And the universe itself—space, time, matter, energy—appears to have had a beginning. That raises a profound question:
Why is there something rather than nothing?
If the universe began to exist, then we must ask what caused it. What could produce a universe from nothing? And why is the world not chaotic, but ordered—filled with patterns, intelligibility, and laws that make science possible in the first place?
Even if you disagree with Christian belief, this question presses in on all of us: What is the ultimate explanation for reality?
And then there’s the question of morality.
Even if you believe humans are the result of evolution and natural selection, it’s difficult to explain why humans experience morality the way we do: why we feel that some things are not merely disliked, but actually wrong—and not just wrong for us personally, but wrong in a way that seems to transcend personal preference.
Why do cultures everywhere recognize moral categories like courage, justice, kindness, and betrayal? Why do people instinctively know that certain acts—murder, rape, exploitation, cruelty—are not simply inconvenient, but evil?
And one more question follows: if we have moral awareness, why do we so often violate it? Why do we do what we know we shouldn’t do?
The existence of moral obligation and moral guilt amongst all humanity compels us to consider that perhaps there is an objective author or standard of morality that came from a source greater than ourselves.
Scientific Reasoning for God’s Existence
Maybe you think of yourself as a facts-first person, and modern science has led you to conclude that God can’t exist. But it’s worth noting that science does not eliminate God—it can also raise questions that point beyond the material world.
For example, the universe is remarkably fitted for life. Many of the conditions and physical constants that govern reality appear to fall within an extraordinarily narrow range that allows complex life to exist. If key factors were meaningfully different, life as we know it could not survive.
Even at the level of our own planet, Earth sits in a “habitable zone” where liquid water can exist, temperatures can remain stable, and life can flourish. If Earth were significantly closer to the sun, we would burn; significantly farther away, we would freeze.
And when you zoom out to the broader chain required for human existence, the number of prerequisites is staggering:
Precise physical constants → formation of a stable star → a rocky planet in the habitable zone → liquid water over vast time → life arising from non-life → complex cells → multicellular life → intelligence → technological civilization → Homo sapiens specifically
These are not “proofs,” but they are evidence to consider, and lead to a legitimate question: Is everything the result of blind chance, or is there evidence of purpose and design?
Christians believe the universe is not an accident, but creation. The Bible begins with a simple claim: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1)
Historical Reasoning for God’s Existence
If God does exist, the most important question is not just whether God exists in the abstract, but whether God has made Himself known. Christianity centers that question on one figure:
Jesus of Nazareth.
Few facts are taken more seriously by historians across the spectrum than these: Jesus was a real person, he lived in first-century Israel, he taught publicly, and he was crucified under Roman authority.
The Christian claim goes further: Jesus didn’t merely teach about God—He claimed to be God Himself, and predicted His own death and resurrection. Christianity rises and falls on whether the resurrection actually happened.
The earliest Christian writings insist that Jesus rose from the dead and that many people claimed to have seen Him alive afterward (see Paul’s letter in the Bible: 1 Corinthians 15:6) —including groups of witnesses, not just individuals. The New Testament reports that these witnesses maintained their claims under persecution, and many suffered or died rather than deny what they said they had seen.
You may still disagree with their conclusions, but the historical question remains:
What best explains the rise of Christianity and the conviction of the earliest disciples? Why did they preach a message of hope that Jesus offers eternal life to all who repent and trust in Him for the forgiveness of sin?
Real-Life Experiences Affirming God’s Existence
Finally, there’s the realm of personal experience.
Most people know someone who did not believe in God—and yet something changed. Their life took a different trajectory. Their desires shifted. Their relationships healed. Their habits broke. Their identity and purpose were strengthened.
Of course, personal transformation doesn’t automatically prove God exists. But it does raise a fair question: Why has faith in God—especially faith in Jesus—so often produced lasting change across cultures, centuries, and radically different backgrounds? How is it that there are personal testimonies and stories from people claiming this in the millions?
It is also striking that human beings almost universally express spiritual awareness in some form. Across history, most civilizations have recognized that the material world is not all there is.
And many people report experiences that feel difficult to dismiss entirely: a profound sense of God’s presence, a deep conviction of sin and forgiveness, answers to prayer, countless supernatural encounters that bring unexplainable healing, knowledge, or help.
Skeptics may interpret these events differently—and it’s wise to be careful with subjective experience even while it is used commonly in other areas of life (eyewitness accounts, court testimony, etc). But dismissing all spiritual experience as meaningless can also function as a kind of assumption: that God cannot exist before the evidence is even considered. With this presupposition in place, one couldn’t find God even if He was truly there.
Conclusion
Belief in God is not superstitious or unintelligent. While no single argument may convince you by itself, together these reasons form a cumulative case that a personal God is a compelling explanation for:
• the existence of the universe
• the order and intelligibility of reality
• morality and conscience
• the historical impact of Jesus
• and the transformation of human lives
If you’re asking, “Does God exist?” and would like to talk about this question in person, we here at Skyline Church in Denver would love to invite you into the conversation. We have groups that discuss this very question in an open and non-judgmental way. We also have pastors and other leaders available to sit down and discuss it with you further. If you are interested in this, please let us know here!