Who am I? Why am I here? How do we know? Those are three of the most fundamental questions of life for every single one of us. Who am I is a question about the nature of being. Why am I here is a question about the nature of meaning and purpose. How do we know is a question about ways of thinking and understanding truth.

Once Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species” gave the intellectual argument for a strictly material origin Western Civilization quickly opted to answer the first question in the most irrational way possible – nobody. Without God as the source of our being we are nothing. If we are nothing then we have no reason for being. If we have no reason for being then knowledge is irrelevant. That’s a one way street to despair (1 Corinthians 15:32).

Contrast that with the statement Moses made in his farewell song to Israel. After talking about their rejection of God for idols Yahweh God challenged them to seek help from those false gods. The problem of course is that they're not real. Since they don’t exist they can do nothing. Moses then addressed the question of being with a bold declaration that God is the only self-existent being. “See now that I myself am he! There is no god besides me.” (Deuteronomy 32:37-39a).

Which option will you chose? Think carefully before you answer because both have eternal consequences. Some glibly choose the “there’s no god” answer without realizing it is a meaningless statement from a meaningless being. (Chew on that one for a while.) Others just as glibly choose the God who is - without realizing that renders them accountable to an eternal, self-existent being.