Why Believe in God?
Reason #6
Man could not have created God.
I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached is not something that man made up. I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.
- Galatians 1 11,12
"It's a religion you couldn't have guessed."
- CS Lewis in The Case for Christianty
The plot is incredibly unbelievable. An all powerful Being creates an intelligent animal, befriends him, places him in paradise, and is in turn betrayed by him. So to set the man right with Him, He instigates sacrifice. The man falls into error and worships the creation thus spurning the Creator. Still God begs and pleads the man to come back to Him. He even sends his own Son as a final sacrifice to end all sacrifices and once for all set man in a right relationship with Himself. Thus is born the Church of the true children of God - the lovers of God and truth - the followers of Christ and The Way.
Yes, man may have created such a plot - but could he have conspired History as a witness to such a fiction?