Is there a mentioning (in the Bible) about why God exists?
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The Bible assumes God exists. It begins with:
Genesis 1:1 ESV
1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Not answering the question "Why", but simply having God as a premise.
I heard Ravi Zacharias say once. That in the Occident that we asked the question if we should believe in God, but in Orient they ask which god you believe in. In Orient they take for granted that you will believe in something.
Since the Bible was written in the Est and during an age where atheism and skepticism was not what it is today, I ,personally, find it normal that they did not answer a question that was not in their mind and in their reality.
Since the vast majority of the people at the time of the writing of the Bible believe in some God the Bible defines God, it does not explain the reason why.
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Working backwards from one of my favorite verses, Hebrews 11:6 -
Hebrews 11:6 (NIV)
6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
Clearly, here, for man's purpose, in regards to God's existence, is to believe that he is and that he is good. From the perspective of man, God's existence is to be that object of faith that pleases God.
My training is to read the Bible as a character study in who God is, and given who God is, what implications that has on man. In this perspective, God's existence is assumed, and the implication is that his existence provides an object for faith. Turning that around, as the question presumes, is linguistically tortured, but still valid.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_that_I_Am
To ask why X exists is to inquire about the causes of X coming into being, it is to suppose there is a source, or creator, of X with some motivation for bringing about X.
God is, by definition, uncreated - the uncaused first cause. He is existence. Everything else that exists does so because of Him.
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This may sound like a cop out, but God precedes "why?".
You might had well ask, why does the question "why" exist.
The moment you bring God into our earthly view, you change who God is by limiting Him. He is eternal and unchanging. He exists even if the Universe disappears and all the laws of Physics with it.
Have you ever tried to imagine nothing? It is like that. We can't go there, it is actually impossible to imagine nothing. Yet, that is where you must start to have the perspective to understand why God exists. I love that God told Moses His name meant "I am" (yea, lots of translations). Maybe that is the answer, God exists because He IS.
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