The Sky and the Seasons Are Enough
Apologists rarely appeal to rain and food as evidence for the presence and existence of God, but perhaps we should
“In past generations, he allowed all the nations to go their own ways, but he didn’t leave himself without a testimony, for he did good by giving a raining sky and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness” (Acts 14:16–17).
This verse should receive far more attention in apologetics than it does.
When it comes to the existence of a living and creative God (Acts 14:15), there is a witness that no one can evade.
The sky and the seasons are sufficient for everyone to know.
The showers that fill the spring with fruit and flowers, and the seasonal cycles that flood our lives with food—these ever-repeating realities are inexplicable apart from the existence of a Creator greater than ourselves. This Creator is transcendent over all humanity and incompatible with the existence of any other deities.
This doesn’t prevent human beings from fabricating false deities, of course—“even with these words, Paul and Barnabas could hardly restrain the people from offering a sacrifice to them” (14:18)—but it does reveal these fabrications for what they are: desperate attempts to evade a truth that is as near as the seasons and as obvious as the sky.