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Another way to say this is that if something had a beginning, then Someone/Something had to bring it it existence. If we can show that the universe had a beginning, then the law of causality will demand that a Beginner of some kind created or caused it. 
This principle is so foundational that one of history's most famous skeptics, David Hume, said, "I never asserted so absurd a proposition as that anything might arise without a cause. 
Computers are caused by people who design hardware and write software. 
Buildings are caused by architects, contractors, carpenters, and many others.
It's not difficult to come up with a very long list of things that had a beginning and therefore subject to the law of causality that requires a beginner/causer for each.
Because nothing is just that-it's nothing! 
Something or Someone, must begin or cause everything that comes into being.
This principle is relatively simple to understand.
But an iPod won't operate without a charged battery, so you must plug it in for a few hours first. Then you turn it on, and presto! It works. 
As you listen to music (or view movies or photos), the iPod's battery gradually loses it's charge and increasingly runs down. at some point, without a recharge, it will stop working, having "run out of usable energy."
He was convinced the New Testament accounts were reliable, and he became a believer. He concluded that the writers were telling the truth for several reasons. 
The reason our souls scream is because it is true. God has told us that death was not supposed to be part of our experience. It only exists because in the beginning the human race rejected Him.
The power of optimism has been shown over and over to affect not only happiness but performance and well-being in life. Optimistic and hopeful people are happier and healthier, both mentally and physically. 
Even their immune systems work better (Carr, Positive Psychlogy). We can say from research that optimism will "immunize" both your body and your brain. 
When we are grounded in a relationship with God, we can face whatever difficulty we are experiencing. He promises to do that. 
Not only that, but so much of the unhappiness in our lives has to do with our own failings, personal issues, hangups, and the fear that we can't change. 
"Why can't I be different!" is often the cry of our souls when we fail or when we blow it in some way. Well, the certain answer of the Bible is that "you can!"
God promises to take care if our needs, to lead and guide us, to create a future and a hope for us, and to change us into who we need to be are grounds for the most optimistic and, therefore, healthiest and happiest lives possible. As the Bible says,
That "law" is what the bible calls "faith." And the research validates this over and over, showing that people who are involved in their faith are physically and emotionally the better for it. As happiness researcher Sonja Lyubomirsky puts it, religious people are "happier, healthier, and recover better after traumas than non-religious people (Sonya Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness, 228). One example of dealing with trauma is an eighteen-month follow-up study of parents who had lost babies to sudden infant death syndrome. In that study, the parents who attended regular church services and said that their faith was important to them were coping better, showing less depression, and had greater well-being than non-religious parents (S.L. The How Of Happiness p 228).
Faith and seeing God as a partner in coping with life has been shown to help depression and lower suicide rates (Kenneth Pargament, The Psychology of Religion and Coping). The list goes on, but the findings are pretty clear: we do well when we are involved in a life of faith. 
It's a faith commitment. Faith is just another word for trust. It means that we depend on God for a number of things that make life work better and, thereby, add to our happiness. As Jesus said, when we come to him, we can have life "more abundantly (John 10:10). as Moses told us, when we follow God, it will be "for our good," as he put it (Deut. 6:24). The Hebrew word we translate as "good" or "proper" actually means "good" in a very big sense. It means things like "best, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, merry, precious, and so forth." Those are all words that describe happiness and well-being. How do we do that? The amazing thing about faith is that it is so simple a child could do it. Just as children depend on a mother for love and security, we do the same thing with God. Talk to Him; tell Him that you want to know Him better. When you have a struggle or experience stress, tell God and ask Him to help you with it. Go through your day in a dialogue with God, trusting Him for all that you don't understand. If this is the first time you have ever considered a relationship with God, look at it the way Jesus described it when he said it is like being "born" again: People who are grateful and practice gratitude regularly have significantly different levels of happiness than those who don't. And it is one of the strongest messages that God tells us over and over: be thankful. 
People who express gratitude are not only happier but have more energy and better outlooks on the future; they're even physically healthier, having fewer physical ailments than those who don't express gratitude. They have less emotional and psychological maladies as well. Also, they show more relational capacities and are less envious and less materialistic. Sounds like the kind of people you want to be around, huh? or calling and visiting people to express gratitude to them -they become happier as they practice those activities (Sonya Lyubomirsky, The How of happiness, 90.). It is just one more example of how following the law of God is the same as following the law of happiness. And remember, a grateful heart is a happy heart. 
Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
This amazed the everyone and they praised God, saying, "We have never seen anything like this (Mark 2:1-12)!" 
(Revelation. 4-5). Weather heaven is within the physical universe or in another physical dimension, it is an actual place where the righteous will "see his face" (Revelation 22:4). 
Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. 
The disciples woke him and said to him, "Teacher, don't you care if we drown?" He got up and rebuked the wind and said to the waves,"Quiet! Be still! Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. He said to his disciples, "Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?" They were terrified and asked each other, "who is this? Even the wind and waves obey him (Mark 4:35)!"
Through the storms of life our faith is tested, and so the Lord reminds us... "Be still and know that I am God (Psalms 46:10)."This is a list of serendipity615's Blogs. Click here for serendipity615's Blog List