Such a thing is difficult for us to think upon. We quickly dash to the edge of the limits of our minds when we try to conceive of the self-existence of God. We try to press our thoughts beyond the range of human understanding and find it impossible to do, for there is a vanishing point beyond which our thoughts cannot go. It is a point we quickly reach when we try to conceive of God having no beginning, no origin, no cause, simply existing. Such a concept is outside the limits of our finite minds, and outside the range of our experiences.

     Everything of which we know had a source, a beginning, something else besides itself that was responsible for its existence. Before this there was that, and that was the cause of this. Cause-and-effect is a recognized law of existence.

     "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" is an oft-asked question; jokingly asked, of course. Nobody knows the answer, only God. But the question itself proves that we know that one had to exist first and be the source of the other; one had to be the cause and the other the effect.

     Nothing can exist without a source from which it came, which is something even evolutionists are forced to admit. There is nothing in our physical universe that does not have a source from which it came into existence, a cause of which it is the effect.

     Yet, as true as that is, it is equally true that the very concept of cause-and-effect requires that in the beginning there be an original cause that itself was uncaused. There must exist something that antedates everything else and had no source of its existence but was self-existing—even eternally so—and is, therefore, the primal source of all that exists.

     Push all the caused somethings back far enough and we come unequivocally to the original something that had no cause. All pathways of cause-and-effect move us back to that which alone is uncaused.

     That original self-existing something, that primal source, that eternal uncaused cause, is the One we call GOD!

     One of England's leading evolutionists said, "Evolution is unprovable, but the alternative is unthinkable!" But not even atheistic believers in the so-called 'science of evolution' can deny that there has to be a self-existing source of everything that exists. There must be that unknown something that started their process of evolution. There must be a yet unnamed beginner, sometime, somewhere. That there was, they know; but what it was, they say they do not know. It is only in the darkness of their private eternal fears that they acknowledge and whisper His name: "God."

     Why do so many refuse to acknowledge the reality of a self-existing God?

     To many, the thought of something, especially Someone, outside the range of human experiments and limits, unknowable and uncontrollable, is most discomforting. To consider further that that Someone is the Primal Source of all that exists, and that all intelligent life is, therefore, responsible and answerable to that Someone, and at death will return to He-who-is-the-Uncaused-Beginning, is terrifying and, consequently, unthinkable—because it is personally unacceptable.

     Fear often masquerades itself in the guise of scientific scorn and intellectual rejection—especially of God.

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