People who argue against God are only able to do so because God exists.

Last week, we talked about how if God does not exist, morality does not exist. There's no such thing as a moral obligation or a moral value or duty if God does not exist. Moral laws require a moral law-giver.

At the same time, we also pointed out that a person can deny the existence of God and still do moral actions. Now, there wouldn't be such thing as a moral action if God didn't exist, but you can deny that God exists and still do moral actions. You could foreseeably, for instance, deny that authors exist but still read books. Where did the books come from? Who knows! You could still learn to read and read a book and deny the existence of authors. It's a bad position. It's inconsistent, but none the less, you could do it.

I want to talk about a broader instance of this type of problem today. I want to talk about how the person who argues against the existence of God or even says, "God does not exist," is only able to do that because God exists. Let's flesh that out together today.

The first thing to point out is we're not going to look at this situation the same way as a non-christian. We should not make ourselves look at this situation, look at the evidence as a non-christian would. Now, it's helpful to understand where they're coming from, but when we want to look at the situation as Christians, we know much more than the non-christian does. We have been given God's word which tells us about so many things we could not know otherwise. This is one of them.

We know from scripture that we were created to glorify God. Our bodies were created not to live for ourselves but to glorify him. Isn't it interesting that the person who is denying this existence of God is actually behaving contrary to how they were designed to be? They can only make that denial because of how God created them to be. He created us to have an intellectual sense. He created us to be able to make choices, different from animals do in that way. We're able to evaluate evidence and come to a well-reasoned conclusion and make a choice about what we're going to do. He created us with those faculties to use them for his glory, not our own. Isn't it interesting that the non-christian takes this gift, takes, in fact, how we were designed to act and flips it upside down, so instead of using it to glorify the creator, he uses it to glorify the creature, himself.

He's only able to do that because of how God created him. He takes the gift that God has given him, of all these attributes that come from being created in the image of God and uses them for an ignoble purpose, not a noble purpose. That's the first example. Our very selves were created to glorify God, and yet, we often don't do that. We flip it upside down, and we use it to glorify ourselves, not God.

The second thing that is true when a non-christian or atheist argues against the existence of God is they're doing it in God's universe. They wouldn't even be here if God hadn't created them. The very fact that they're able to argue against the existence of God is only because God has created them in this world. They're standing on God's ground, in God's solar system, in God's universe, breathing God's air and arguing against him with their very God-given breath. That is just so ironic, I think.

It also points out the fact that so much of who we are as people, apart from the regenerative work of Christ has been corrupted by sin. People often say, "Why isn't God more obvious?" Well, are you going to answer that as a Christian from a biblical point of view, or are you going to answer it from a non-christian point of view? Biblically speaking, God is incredibly obvious. Romans 1 says that He has used the natural world to…