Does God Exist? Really, how can you believe in a being you cannot see or touch? “There is no real evidence for God!!” Really? Then see this.
Here I lay out three logical arguments from Apologetics and Theology for the thesis that God exists.
Romans 1:20 says: “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities–his eternal power and divine nature–have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse…”
1. Creation: Origin of the universe
2. Design: What has been made
3. Morality: We are without excuse
Creation: Cosmological Argument “Since the creation of the world…” Creation itself, especially the evidence from cosmology give us strong evidence that something very powerful, very intelligent, spaceless, and outside of time made this universe. Why? See the video below.
In William Lane Criag’s Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology: he argues that this beginner of the universe is itself personal….
” If the universe has a cause, then an uncaused, personal Creator of the universe exists, who sans the universe is beginningless, changeless, immaterial, timeless, spaceless, and enormously powerful.”
In the Sound of Music, the song “Something Good” by Maria & The Captain has the following lines
“Perhaps I had a wicked childhood
Perhaps I had a miserable youth But somewhere in my wicked, miserable past There must have been a moment of truth For here you are, standing there, loving me Whether or not you should
But somewhere in my youth or childhood
I must have done something good
Nothing comes from nothing
Nothing ever could
So somewhere in my youth or childhood I must have done something good.”
Design: Teleological Argument “….from the things that are made….” The specified complexity of organic, cosmological, and even human chemistry is evidence that there is a designer. When you see a painting, you assume a painter, when you see an engine, you assume an engineer, when you see a book you assume an author, it is safe to say when we see design in nature we are most reasonable to assume a designer. Even Richard Dawkins, world-famous atheist agrees the world has the appearance of design.
The Blind Watchmaker, Dawkins wrote:
“Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose” (Dawkins, R., The Blind Watchmaker, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, USA, p. 1, 1986.)
Why should you believe this? Watch the video below.
Morality: Axiological Argument “….They are without excuse” The Morality we all embrace, universally is evidence of a moral lawmaker. But can’t we be good without believing in God? See my post on that here.
“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. ”
― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason
Cosmologist Alexander Vilenkin wrote a book in 2006 Many Worlds in One, “It is said that an argument is what convinces reasonable men and a proof is what it takes to convince even an unreasonable man. With the proof now in place, cosmologists can no longer hide behind the possibility of a past-eternal universe. There is no escape, they have to face the problem of a cosmic beginning (Many Worlds in One [New York: Hill and Wang, 2006], p.176).”
This is my talk from the Explore God series at Calvary Church of Orland Park and Noor Calvary Church
What do you think?
