In my recent book “The Logic That God Exists” I endeavor to show that there is reason behind our faith in God and it is by no means just blind faith in something we cannot see. I show this through logic, deduction, science, and mathematics.

Jesus Shows Power Of Nature

But, I also contend that a completely separate proof for the existence of God is Jesus Christ Himself. Jesus proves the existence of God in several ways. The first and perhaps the most spectacular is He shows consistently in the Bible that He has power over nature. That is something only God could have. Jesus walked on water and calmed the seas. He healed deformed limbs and gave sight to the blind. And He was more than just a healer – He showed multiple times that He could actually raise the dead. These are all God-like things.

Furthermore, Jesus repeatedly claimed divinity and that He was the long-awaited Messiah of the Jewish faith and people. Finally, He spoke with the authority of God and His words have the ring of truth to many.  He spoke of the end times and of eternal life with Him in the Kingdom of God. He explained to us the concept of who God is and of the Trinitarian nature of God.

So, if Jesus was God, then there is a God.

However, I know people who will say that this is circular reasoning. They say you can’t use the Bible to prove the Bible. They say what if it is just a made-up story? They just toss the Bible out with one fell swoop. 

As Christians, how do we answer this? 

Well, for one thing, the Bible has more than 40 different authors over 2,000 years, and Jesus fulfilled The Old Testament prophecies. To quote from “The Logic That God Exists”:

“The wisdom and elegance of Scripture hold the secrets of life, code to live by, prophets whose words came true, redemption and promise of salvation… from the beginning of the world to the revelation of God in the world to agreements made with man; to the Ten Commandments and how we should live our lives; and to Jesus Christ, salvation history and the promise of everlasting life it is all there”.

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Also, the Bible is cross-referenced more than 60,000 times which shows the great cohesion and authority of Scripture. 

But again, my skeptical friends will just dismiss that and say it is still circular reasoning. They want extra-biblical sources for everything. 

The History Of Catholic Saints And Miracles

Here’s a great extra biblical source. It is the history of the Catholic Church over the past 2,000 years. In the New Testament, Jesus says to his disciples that they will do greater works than these, and indeed, there is a record of this in the Acts of the Apostles. But that didn’t stop when they died. There is a record of spectacular miracles performed by great saints and holy martyrs to this very day. All one must do is look. 

Many saints have born the wounds of Jesus in what we call the stigmata. The wounds correspond to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus. I know one of these people myself and it is an amazing and ongoing miracle.

St. Francis of Assisi, in 1224, was the first to receive the stigmata as far as we know, although Saint Paul refers to himself as bearing the wounds of Christ. 

Saint Padre Pio also had the stigmata and was reported to bi-locate – he was documented to be in two places at the same time. This seems to be a gift God gives His followers – they share the characteristics of God. For instance, God can talk to each one of us separately at the same time. 

St. Joseph of Cupertino was viewed by numerous witnesses to levitate during prayer. (17th century) 

Today, we can see many incorrupt bodies of saints scattered in churches throughout Europe. These people were buried and then dug up hundreds of years later to be found totally preserved intact as if they had died today. 

Let us not forget the many, many Eucharistic miracles where the communion host physically changes and starts bleeding or in some cases turns to flesh. This is always followed by intense scientific and medical examination.

Apparitions Of The Blessed Mother

Then there are the hundreds of apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, beginning with the first one in the year 40 when she was still alive and appeared to the apostle James the greater. As we move forward in time these apparitions become more numerous and better documented. Mary is one of us and shows conclusively that we survive death. 

It’s hard to imagine two more astounding miracles than our Lady of Fatima and our Lady of Guadalupe. The former begins in 1917 in Fatima, Portugal, when three young shepherd children – Lúcia Santos (age 10) and her cousins Francisco (age 9) and Jacinta Marto (age 7) – reported seeing apparitions of the Virgin Mary. These appearances occurred on the 13th day of each month from May to October 1917.

According to their accounts, Mary appeared to them as a lady dressed in white, brighter than the sun. During these visits, she shared three prophetic secrets with the children and called for:
– Prayer, particularly the rosary
– Penance and repentance for sins
– Devotion to her Immaculate Heart

The most dramatic event associated with the apparitions was the “Miracle of the Sun” on October 13, 1917.  The children reported to the Virgin that nobody believed them so she told them to assemble the townspeople on a Saturday morning and there would be a sign from heaven. An estimated 70,000 people gathered at Fatima in the rain, and many reported witnessing the sun appearing to dance or spin in the sky, changing colors, and seeming to plunge toward Earth before returning to its normal position leaving all the spectators dry! This event was reported by numerous witnesses, including skeptics and journalists who were present. This is well documented, and it was a predicted sign from the Blessed Virgin Mary herself.

Our Lady of Guadalupe similarly appeared to a peasant named Juan Diego near Mexico City on December 9th, 1531. The Virgin Mary appeared to him, speaking to him in his native Nahuatl language. She requested that a church be built on the site in her honor.

When Juan Diego reported this to the local Spanish bishop, Juan de Zumárraga, the bishop was skeptical and asked for a sign to prove the authenticity of the apparition. The Virgin appeared again to Juan Diego, and despite his concern about his dying uncle, she assured him his uncle would recover and told him to gather flowers from the top of Tepeyac Hill – a unlikely place for flowers in December.

Juan Diego found beautiful Castilian roses blooming there, which were not native to Mexico. The Virgin helped him arrange them in his tilma (cloak), and when he returned to the bishop and opened his tilma to show the flowers, the roses fell to the floor, revealing a miraculous image of the Virgin imprinted on the cloth.

The image showed the Virgin Mary as a young, dark-skinned woman (often referred to as a mestiza), wearing a blue-green mantle decorated with stars and a rose-colored tunic. She stands on a crescent moon and is surrounded by rays of sunlight, combining both European Catholic and indigenous Aztec symbolic elements.

The tilma of Juan Diego and its image have been the subject of numerous scientific studies, with several features that researchers have found remarkable:

• It is made from the fiber of the agave plant which should have lasted about 20 years but is still intact after 500 years.
• No trace of paint or dye or brush strokes can be found on the image. 
• Mary’s eyes on the image seem to reflect the people in the room at the moment the image was formed.

One could write a whole article on the tilma.  This is truly an astounding physical miracle that is ongoing today and not from the Bible.

We also have the fact that there are over 10,000 canonized saints in the Catholic Church. The requirements for canonization have become stricter over the last thousand years but in general for someone to be canonized there needs to be two miracles associated with the person after their death. Very often there are miracles associated with them before their death as well. The Catholic Church is notoriously skeptical and deliberate in approving these miracles. It seems that at the very least there are 20,000 documented miracles associated with the canonization of saints. 

After a while the sheer weight of all these miracles, in Jesus’s name over the last 2000 years (all of them extra biblical), the lives of the saints, the Marian apparition events etc. …for Jesus not to be God would mean that NONE of them were true. All the eyewitnesses, all the investigations – well it never happened. How could this be?

It couldn’t.  You would have to discount all these miracles, all the witnesses, all the scientific evidence.

Every Day Miracles Point To God

Finally, there is another kind of miracle that happens every day. It is the little miracles in our daily life. I will close with an example of one of these.

We know a young woman who a few years ago went to a Trump rally in Lexington with 20,000 people. There wasn’t anywhere to sit but she found a spot next to an older woman. They got chatting and they realized they were both Catholic which is a little rare because Lexington has about 5% Catholics. The younger woman said she was saying a 54-day novena so she could find a spouse. The older woman responded “wow that is amazing because my son is about your age, and he is saying a 54-day novena so he can find a spouse! Maybe we should get them together?”

That was 2020 and now they are married and expecting their second child. What are the odds that these two people would sit next to each other and what are the odds that they were both saying a 54-day novena, which is relatively rare thing? 

All you have to do is open your eyes.

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