A way to know God exists

I've been asked in the past on blogs just why I believe in God and what the Bible says, and I've tended, for that specific challenge, to say that because I can see evil in the world, and see how the Kingdom of Darkness and evil manifests, and how that is one tangible way to see what the Bible describes. The fact that most human beings seem to be asleep or in denial about evil (unless they are the immediate victims of it) also shows biblical anthropology at work.

But just for myself I don't need anything other than Spirit speaking to spirit, and knowing where I've come from and my real development I can see, and understanding the nature of faith itself. It's not by sight.

Having said that I was lying down on the floor staring up at the ceiling yesterday thinking that I can believe a 'personalist' universe exists, with the Supreme Person, God, behind it all, because the universe is knowable. It is like language and hence has an intelligent Creator behind it. You can understand nature and the universe. To use a book as an example, the universe is not a chaos of letters on a page with no meaning, it is real words forming real sentences, proclaiming real ideas and so on. And that's what the Bible says, God created with is Word. Jesus is the Logos. Everything is created to be understood between God/universe and human beings. We are created in the image of God so that we can understand an intelligible universe. Subject and object match. And are meant to.

So I googled 'evidence for a personalist universe', and the first thing I clicked on articulated just what I was thinking. It was a passage from a book titled Personalism: a Critical Introduction, by Rufus Burrow. It's out of print and hard to find, but Google Books seems to have most of it available:

https://books.google.com/books?id=QZ26UpzbcrgC&pg=PA138&lpg=PA138&dq=evidence+for+a+personalist+universe&source=bl&ots=vX0AkAb812&sig=RPT7j-xLQOh89HvDf3h5JuGnVho&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SQvNVOujGc76ggTH6oGICw&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=evidence%20for%20a%20personalist%20universe&f=false

Anyway the passage I read is on page 138 starting with the heading The Argument from Intelligibility. The whole book is interesting to skim.

The philosophy of Personalism can fit with orthodox Christianity, but many of the adherents of that philosophy are not interested in Christianity, so I just throw that in there.

I was also drawn back to a book I have called Total Truth by Nancy Pearcey. She is good if you want one source giving you a very good overview of all the worldview, philosophy, isms, etc., and just getting above all that through understanding it all.

The big picture take away from it all is the Devil sows confusion into the minds of human beings and into society and institutions and everything, and you can see all the isms and schools of philosophy and worldviews and the parts of each worldview as being a sort of vocabulary of Satan, just changing with the times, whatever is necessary. And human beings greedily grasp at such things because they have a demanding desire to suppress the knowledge of God and push it away from them and sometimes even try to destroy it. So the rhetorical tactics and the subject matter of the overall strategy, as diverse as it seems at ground level, can be see more simply from the higher perspective of understanding.