Something has the power of existence in and of itself, eternally, or the simplest

child can understand nothing could possibly exist now.

I was listening to a talk show one night, radio talk show, where they had an atheist

philosopher, they had a Roman Catholic Jesuit theologian, and a Protestant

theologian, and they were debating arguments for the existence of God, and they were

getting in all kinds of sophisticated debates about the ontological

argument and the cosmological argument and so on, and then they started

receiving phone calls, and they got a call from a woman who was obviously

uneducated and unsophisticated, and she used broken grammar and poor grammar to

express her protest. I don't know what's wrong with Jens people. Why don't Jens

just go outside and open your eyes? You know? She was saying it's clear, it's

manifest. How can you miss it? People say to me, he says, Brody, you think you can

prove the existence of God? I said, what's the greatest of these? They said, give

me some evidence. I take my shoe off. I said, look at that. That proves

conclusively, compellingly, demonstratively, the eternal existence of Almighty God.

Oh, they say, you mean you're giving probable evidence? No, I'm giving certainty.

I said, why? I said, if it exists, if you see a shoe here, if there's anything

here that's a shoe, then something exists necessarily. Something has the power of

existence in and of itself, eternally, or the simplest child can understand nothing

could possibly exist now, because if there was ever a time when there was nothing, this

is a manifest impossibility. And if anything exists, something has to have the power of

being in it. What could be more simple? If I didn't have the power of being in itself,

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