Recently I came across the following question: “Why, in many ways, should the existence of the Creator God be the easiest thing to take on faith?”

This question intrigued me and so I decided to give a thorough answer in this blog post.

Popular philosophy often ridicules belief in God. It makes faith in the Divine feel like a massive, blind leap into a void. But the New Testament writer Paul turns this thinking upside down. In the Book of Hebrews, we find a deeply practical, logical framework suggesting that believing in a Creator isn’t a logical stretch. It is actually the most reasonable, common-sense conclusion you can make about reality.

Here is a breakdown of the logic.

Step 1: Our Universe was Created by a Higher Reality

Think about how anything is made. You cannot get something out of absolutely nothing. This is common sense, and nothing really more needs to be said. Furthermore, a physical creation cannot be its own creator.

Paul addresses this head-on in Hebrews 11:3:

“By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.”

Notice that the text does not say the universe was made out of nothing. It says it was made out of what is not visible.

Our physical eyes are biological instruments restricted to a narrow electromagnetic (EM) spectrum and a three-dimensional slice of space. Reality is not limited to what we can see. Christian believers in Jesus’ day may not have understood the modern EM spectrum or the concept of dimensions (3D, 4D, 5D, etc.), but the Apostles clearly understood there was a reality mortals cannot normally see with our eyes–including unfallen beings and worlds. Moreover, they did not consider the higher spiritual universe to be an abstract, immaterial void occupied by formless “souls” or “spirits”, but a vast, higher-dimensional cosmos containing the Heavenly Sanctuary and God’s Throneroom, as well as a multitude of angels, beings, and/or creatures surrounding God’s Throne (cf. the visions of John in the Revelation). What is invisible to us in our fallen, 3D constraints is entirely material, spatial, and real within a higher geometric framework.

I have to note here that while ancient Greek philosophers influenced early-middle Christianity to think of God as existing in a “timeless” eternal realm disconnected from our reality, God is definitely not “timeless” in this sense of being a frozen, static entity unable to interact with the realm of time (see this post). Instead, He is a literal, personal, and immortal Being with a glorious, tangible body who ultimately exists in the highest dimension yet is able to interact with lower dimensions including the limited 3D one He created for us to inhabit. His ultimate dwelling place is Heaven–the focal point of this higher-dimensional universe—including the heavenly sanctuary and His throne. From this vantage point, He sees and knows our entire timeline yet is capable (and has) stepped directly into our 3D world and local timestream.

Step 2: Design Requires a Designer

Paul lived in a world of master builders. If you walked through first-century Rome, Ephesus, or Jerusalem, you would see massive, complex structures—the Colosseum, grand aqueducts, and intricate temples.

Paul understood a foundational rule of human experience: Design requires a designer. If you see a heap of loose stones under a cliff, you assume they fell there by accident. But if you see those exact same stones shaped into a perfectly balanced archway that supports a bridge over a canyon, your common sense tells you an architect drew up a blueprint and a mason placed every stone with intent.

The physical world operates on this exact same logic of ordered complexity, just on a grander scale. Consider the human or mantis shrimp eye or the complex engineering of a single blade of grass not to mention a flower or insect. Matter does not naturally organize itself into highly functioning, complex systems. Evolutionists would beg to differ saying that organic (carbon-containing) molecules can spontaneously evolve into living things (technically called: abiogenesis). No one has observed that. It goes against the scientific Law of Biogenesis (life only comes from life). Scientists can’t make some cell they pieced together come alive even in a lab given all the optimal conditions. Someone with A LOT of knowledge and power has to set the biochemical gradients and energy distribution just right in order for an assembled cell to become alive. Otherwise it instantly starts becoming more chaotic and disordered.

For Paul, looking at the ordered complexity of what he could see and concluding there is no Creator would be like looking at a magnificent palace and assuming it randomly assembled itself out of a mudslide. The design itself is visible proof of an invisible mind.

Step 3: The Universe Requires a Sustainer

The next step of the argument relies on another simple observation: the universe doesn’t just sit there perfectly built; it must actively function day after day.

Paul anciently observed that material things do not possess the inherent power to keep themselves in existence. Left to itself, physical matter breaks down. In Hebrews 1:3, he explicitly notes that the universe must be actively sustained “by the word of His power.”

Today, modern science perfectly confirms Paul’s ancient observation through the Second Law of Thermodynamics, also known as entropy. This fundamental law states that any closed physical system, left unmanaged, will naturally degrade from a state of order into a state of disorder, chaos, and decay. A beautifully constructed palace eventually crumbles into dust or is recycled naturally. Even stars are said to burn through their fuel. Ultimately, the implication is that given time, everything will dissipate until everything is distributed equally.

Either our universe as we know it has been around for a long time (e.g., billions of years) or a short time (e.g., 6,000 years). If it has been around a long time, why is there so much structure, complexity, and functionality? If it has been only 6,000 years or so since it was created, then there can be no doubt of a Creator who has revealed Himself through the Bible as a real, personal God who upholds all things. In the former case, because our universe is still highly ordered and functioning, the implied suggestion to our reason is it cannot be a closed, isolated system running on its own momentum. It requires an active, continuous infusion of power from the outside to counteract this natural decay.

In either case, think of our universe like a lower-dimensional shadow cast by a higher-dimensional reality. If you take away the tree casting the shadow of a tree, the shadow disappears. Or consider the electronic world. Just as a digital simulation requires a physical server running in the real world to keep from blinking out of existence, our universe requires a continuous power stream from a real, eternal, all-powerful Source. God did not just build the house of creation and walk away; He actively sustains the functional complexity against the pull of entropy every single second.

Step 4: Faith Is the Logical Bridge to a Personal God

Because we cannot physically step outside of our dimensions to look at the Source of our creation, we have to rely on a concept the Bible calls “faith.” But this isn’t a blind leap into a cloud of nothingness. It is a rational conviction based on overwhelming circumstantial evidence.

By the way, when we see an exact, physical representation of something, we know the original must exist. Speaking of the Father, Jesus said in John 5:37, “ye have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His shape.” However, Hebrews 1:3 famously states that Jesus is the “express image of His person.” In other words, the Son is in the form/shape of the Father. When Jesus walked the earth in a tangible human body, He was revealing a Father who is also a literal, personal Individual—not an abstract concept (cf. Isaiah 6:1; Daniel 7:9; Acts 7:56; Genesis 1:26; Revelation 5:1; John 5:37; Revelation 22:4; {EW 54.2}). 

For Paul, faith is simply the logical bridge that connects the visible effect (our intricately designed, actively sustained world) to its real, personal Cause. Although Paul was not familiar with modern science, his intuition and belief are very reasonable given what we now know about how finely-tuned our universe, galaxy, solar system, and planet are to enable us to thrive here on Earth (see a list of >20 fine-tuning parameters here).

Those who reject the concept of a Creator God often rely on the multiverse theory to explain our existence in light of the beyond astronomical odds of being in our fine-tuned reality. The multiverse theory suggests that out of an infinite number of random universes, ours simply happened to hit the precise, “fine-tuned” mathematical settings required for life to develop on Earth. However, the multiverse remains a purely philosophical necessity rather than an empirically tested reality. High-precision space data from satellites like Planck found zero observational evidence—such as cosmic “bruises” or collision signatures—to support the existence of other universes. Instead, whenever data challenges the model, the theory is simply re-worked or pushed beyond our observable horizon. Much like organic evolution, it functions as an un-falsifiable, ad hoc framework, protected by shifting boundaries to avoid the alternative of a designed universe.

However, there is a deeper problem with the multiverse theory stemming from the fact that it is rooted in a quantum field that randomly experiences fluctuations that can generate new universes Big-Bang style. Now it is obvious that something cannot come from absolutely nothing. So believing in a universe-generating quantum field just kicks the can down the road because a quantum field is not absolutely nothing–begging the question of when the quantum field came into existence. A quantum field cannot just suddenly pop into existence from absolutely nothing. An infinite regression of something coming from something else doesn’t work either. There must be a first cause, a prime mover, something or Someone that exists outside of all this to at least create a quantum field. But if that’s true, why would that something or Someone stop there? What if that something or Someone has revealed information to us that tells us we were purposefully designed?

Believing that a personal, intelligent God commanded our universe into existence from a higher realm satisfies our basic intuition far better than believing the universe (including a quantum field etc.), from absolutely nothing, randomly generated, organized, and sustained itself in such an orderly way for us to exist against all odds. 

The Takeaway

Faith in a Creator isn’t about escaping reality; it is about recognizing that reality is much larger than what our eyes can currently see. The universe is a giant, masterfully constructed signpost pointing to a real, tangible, and loving Father in Heaven who by His omnipresent Spirit sustains your life, every breath, and invites you to reflect Him through His Son. When you realize that, taking the step of faith isn’t a leap into the dark—it is finally stepping into the light of a real relationship.