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MSN.com presented a slideshow giving “20 ‘Legitimate’ Reasons Why Some People Just Can’t Get on Board with the Existence of God”. Here are rebuttals for each one. But before presenting these a few preliminary observations are in order.
Skepticism and doubt are necessary for everyone because we are all taught many things in the course of our lives that are dubious, at best, if not outright wrong. But skepticism should be a means to the end of finding what is true. That is, to finding what stands up to critical scrutiny. It should not be an end in itself.
To be an agnostic literally means admitting that you don’t know. But this does not mean that you CAN’T know. That does not follow logically. So you should be willing to do what you can to come to know whether or not God exists. And there are many reasons why you will conclude that God does exist if you honestly seek to know this, especially because God made you to know.
Furthermore, to come to the atheist conclusion (That is, to conclude that God does NOT exist.) is actually a self-contradiction. For it actually presupposes the knowledge of The One Who is claimed not to exist! So, without further ado, on to the rebuttals.
1. Scientific rationality → Denial of God is NOT scientific. It is an anti-theistic philosophical bias. And that Science works is inexplicable without a God Who created the universe and the laws that govern it and Who created us with minds that are capable of understanding these. Furthermore, Science can’t tell you who you are. It can only tell you how YOUR BODY and the rest of the physical universe works. But you are NOT only a body. Rather, you are a mind (or soul) WITH a body. Just to use the expression “my body” reveals the truth of metaphysical Dualism. You have 2 sides: you and your body.
2. Existence of multiple religions → These exist because the natural-born tendency for all of us is to deny our Creator and to try to get along in life without a relationship with God, unless God helps us to overcome this. So humans have created 1000’s of ways to substitute for dealing with our Creator. Religions (including today’s dominant de facto religion: anti-Christian Secular Humanism) develop when people with the same preferred alternatives come together.
3. Unresolved evil & suffering → Evil is arbitrary or just meaningless without God. It’s arbitrary (that is, mere opinion) if there is no Final Authority (higher than anyone else) for what is good & evil. And it’s meaningless if we are just material beings governed by mindless forces and quantum fluctuations.
4. Influence of atheist thinkers → Don’t be influenced by liars! Anyone who claims to know that God doesn’t exist is a liar!
5. Lack of religious understanding → We are all born with all that we need to have a relationship with God. One just needs to be willing to have this. And this relationship is the key to understanding everything else.
6. Personal trauma → The only reason that this has meaning is because good & evil are real. And this is only because God exists.
7. Lack of personal experience → Anyone can have the experience of beginning a relationship with God whenever you are willing to begin this.
8. Religious hypocrisy → Not being consistent with God’s or one’s own standards is humans’ fault, not God’s. And Jesus blasted hypocrites repeatedly in the Gospel accounts.
9. The nature of questions → God welcomes all of your questions & has answers to all of them. But you must be willing to accept God’s answers even if you don’t fully understand them because you’re finite & flawed.
10. Contradictions in religious texts → Not in the Bible. No one has ever proven an inescapable contradiction in the Bible. There are always at least possible explanations that avoid contradictions.
11. Dogmatic beliefs → We are all dogmatic about our most basic beliefs. This is actually necessary, as no one can function in life if we are constantly questioning these. But the real question is: Do your beliefs hold up and work in your life? And no one is more dogmatic & intolerant than woke, anti-Christian Leftists!
12. Negative religious experiences → As with #8, this is not God’s fault!
13. Influence of Secularism → Think for yourselves! Question what you have been taught in your education and by your culture. Don’t be “sheeple”!
14. Moral disagreements with religious teachings → You are only moral because a moral God made you this way. So trying to turn your God-given moral sense against God is a guaranteed losing play.
15. The silence of God → God is NOT silent! He calls to all of us in the thoughts of our minds. But we are naturally-disposed to screen out His call. But if you let God help you overcome this then you will begin to see the evidence for God and His goodness & love everywhere.
16. Fear of conformity → Fear of NON-conformity actually keeps most today from questioning what you have been taught and truly becoming open to God.
17. Unanswered prayers → God answers all sincere prayers. But the answer is often “No”. In such cases, the question is: Who knows best what you need: You or your Creator?
18. Historical atrocities committed in the name of religion → As with #3, #8 & #12, not God’s fault!
19. Non-religious upbringing → All the more reason why you should be open to what Christians believe and why; and, more importantly, open to letting God show Himself to you and become your Father, with Jesus Christ as your Savior & Lord and the Holy Spirit as your constant Companion, Comforter & Counselor.
20. Questions of human suffering → See the answer to #6.
https://www.msn.com/…/20-legitimate…/ss-AA1gXRsK…
1. That there is no Creator & Lord of the universe and us.
(Genesis 1:1 – “In the beginning, God . . .”; Evolution & all fears of extinction are based on this lie, which is actually known by everyone who has ever lived to be a lie. But fears of extinction actually undermine Evolution. For why do believers in Evolution tend to bemoan all extinctions? After all, isn’t the eventual extinction of all lifeforms inevitable if Evolution is true? We say they do this because God made us to be care-takers for life on the earth.)
2. That there is no Higher Authority than us for truth, right & wrong and human rights.
(Romans 1:20; All existence and truth is from God. So, if you reject God you will be wrong on many issues and only right by accident or by selectively accepting divine truth while rejecting its Source. Furthermore, if there is no Higher Authority, then truth, right & wrong and human rights must be either utterly arbitrary or just a matter of human opinion.)
3. That human beings will not be judged by God.
(Hebrews 9:27; Psalm 98:9; Real justice only exists because there is an Ultimate Judge. If this weren’t the case, then justice itself would be arbitrary or merely opinion, like truth, right & wrong and human rights.)
4. That human beings and the human race can save ourselves. So we don’t need a Savior.
(John 3:16-19; Acts 4:12; Not that it is wrong to try to improve society, but all quests for an ideal society in this world inevitably fail and fail horribly because they assume this. Only God could create an ideal society. And God has actually promised to do so and bring it to us.)
5. That we cease to exist when our physical bodies die since we’re merely physical beings.
(Hebrews 9:27; Luke 23:43; This is an assumption based on what appears to be the case from the outside. But this doesn’t prove that nothing happens to us “on the inside” upon death. The God Whom all actually know to exist tells us all otherwise. And God tells us that death, including death by suicide, is a direct pass to divine Judgment. We endure because we’re not just physical beings. We’re non-material souls or minds joined to physical bodies.)
6. That some people are born to be homosexual and can’t change this.
(1 Corinthians 6:9-11; All behavior, including sexual behavior, is changeable. We are not machines that are slaves to a natural necessity built into our bodies. Rather, we are free moral beings, who make real choices. This is why we are rightly subject to God’s judgment.)
7. That one’s sexual identity is merely “assigned at birth”.
(Genesis 1:27; Gender dysphoria is a spiritual problem, a problem in one’s relationship with God. We are all born as either male or female. Our bodies and chromosomes make this clear, except in a very tiny percentage of people where this is ambiguous.)
8. That religious people have no right to have an influence on society based on their beliefs.
(Psalm 14:1, 53:1; Romans 13:1; We are ALL religious in practice because we all have basic beliefs that we can’t prove to be true. To claim that there is no Creator is the clearest example. A universal negative claim like this is logically unprovable. Besides, it’s actually a rejection of what everyone already knows because God made us all to know that He exists! So, to say that only “non-religious” views should influence society is religious discrimination!)
9. That it is always wrong to judge others.
(1 Corinthians 6:2; This statement is itself a judgment. So it is self-contradictory.)
10. That there is no such thing as absolute and universal truth.
(John 8:32, 14:6 & 17:17; Romans 1:18-25; 2 Thessalonians 2:10-13; 1 Timothy 2:4;
2 Timothy 4:4; 2 John 2; This statement is itself a truth claim. So it is also self-contradictory.)
11. That Science has made all religious beliefs obsolete.
(Genesis 1; Psalm 14:1 & 53:1; Proverbs 9:10; We must have a set of basic beliefs to do Science. As pointed out above, Evolution is not Science, it is a belief system upon which Science is done. But Science was done quite effectively on the foundation of the Biblical worldview for centuries, until Evolution wrongly supplanted this view. Indeed, we say that Science works better in the long run when done on the basis that God created everything according to a Design and that Science is the “reverse-engineering” of that Design. The most important scientists in history prior to 1900 understood their work in this way.)
12. That the Bible is filled with errors and outdated, inferior ideas.
(2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:19-21; Titus 1:2; Numbers 23:19; All claims of this are disprovable. In some cases, the claims of errors or inferior ideas are easily seen to be misunderstandings or distortions. For example, claims that the Bible teaches that the sun revolves around the earth wrongly reject that this was just anthropomorphic language of the sort that we still use today. But, even in the most difficult cases, there are always possible resolutions of the supposed errors. But many just don’t want to believe this.)
13. That we can know what happened in the prehistoric past and what will happen in the future based on what we understand about how nature works now.
(John 1:3; Matthew 10:29-30; Revelation 4:11; Isaiah 46:9-10; This is a fallacy on multiple levels. See the piece “10 Widely-believed Fallacies Today” on this site. In short, it is simply not possible for us to know today all of the past conditions, processes and influences on the earth and in the universe. To assume that we can is the type of scientific hubris that the history of Science has repeatedly shown to be obstructive of scientific progress, as Philosopher of Science Thomas Kuhn brilliantly showed in his “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”.)
The Gospel of Jesus Christ can be summed up in two words: Jesus Saves! But the natural reaction of many today to this would be: “I don’t need saving. I’m not lost.”
So here is a short A-B-C summary (with an even shorter version for memorization) that should speak to anyone willing to think about what they really need most:
ADMIT that God is real and you are utterly dependent on Him, and that you have been wrong to deny His existence and live as though He doesn’t exist. You need God to forgive you for this and for all of your sins. (ADMIT that you need a Savior)
BELIEVE that God loved you enough that God the Eternal Son (forever Equal to God the Father and God the Spirit), the Lord Jesus Christ was willing to do for you what you cannot do: to truly become one of us, a true human being, in order to obey His Father in Heaven perfectly and then freely accept the just Penalty for all of your sins, death and Judgment on the Cross, so that you might be forgiven and made perfect. (BELIEVE that God has saved you)
COMMIT to living by faith in Jesus Christ as your Savior and also as your Lord so that you follow Him in loving the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and everyone around you, in reliance on the Spirit, as a permanently loved child of God. (COMMIT to loving your Savior Jesus Christ and to obeying Him as your Lord forever, and to loving everyone around you)
If you ask the Lord Jesus Christ to save you, before it’s too late, you will immediately begin a wonderful new life as a beloved child of God rather than remaining a guilty sinner fearful of God’s Judgment. (So, the sooner you do this, the better!) And you’ll have God’s promise that you will be welcomed into the Kingdom of Heaven that’s coming. But you will go to Hell if you don’t ask the Lord to save you before it’s too late.
My 2nd book: “Christianity From A to Z” (by Christopher Andrus) is now out. It’s available on Amazon. As with my 1st book (“The Meaning of the Universe”, also available on Amazon), no matter how much you have read, I guarantee that you’ll find things in it that you have never before considered but are worth considering. Here are links to both of them. You can read the first chapter or so of each. I have also posted a sample chapter of the 2nd book (the “E” chapter) below.
I also invite you to watch 50 seconds of what I was doing at U.C. Berkeley before the pandemic and returned to early in 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sut4QCtnLkk
Below is the signboard I created as a conversation-starter at U.C.Berkeley (plus 3 more signs). Any feedback on these signs is welcomed. I almost always get a lively response to my signs, though not always a friendly one! I welcome disagreement, though it should be respectful. As I frequently say to people, I learn more about others and also more about myself and God from people who disagree with me than from people who agree. The board pictured below was destroyed by an angry student on Wednesday, 3/30/22.
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And the following is the message which has generated the most response at Cal thus far.
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Being LGBTQ+ is NOT normal & healthy. But, GOOD NEWS! It’s changeable. God loves & transforms us.
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Below is my latest set of signs for Berkeley.
Below are a couple previous sets.
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Here are a few other messages that I may or may not show at U.C. Berkeley.
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The U.S. doesn’t have a “mass incarceration” of black males problem. We have a black male violent crime problem.
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There’s still plenty of racism (in all directions), but the U.S. is the least racist nation in the world. It’s why more people of all races come here than anywhere else.
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Dominance by the Democrats will NOT defend Democracy!
It will destroy it!
We must preserve America’s TWO PARTY system!
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CAL STUDENTS: You are going to be the future leaders of society.
For God’s sake (And I mean that literally!) learn how to be democratic, not dictators!
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Studies consistently show that people get more conservative and religious as they get older.
But smart people start early!
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Is it necessary for Christians to accept that evolution is the true explanation for how the human-race came into existence?
The Creation versus Evolution debate finds Bible-believing Christians on both sides. Many Christians are afraid even to consider the “Creationist” or “Intelligent Design” side. This is because they believe that modern Science has proven that Evolution is correct. So, to doubt this is to be anti-scientific. And if Christians are considered anti-scientific then this will undermine the credibility of the Christian message.
But just the fact that the debate is framed in these terms (Creation versus Evolution) should be a clue to why no Christian who believes in the God of the Bible and the Bible as God’s Word can accept that Evolution is correct. In order to see why, consider that the debate could also be described as “Creator versus No Creator”. To put it this way helps us to see that Evolution is an inherently anti-Creator and anti-Creation approach. We will see that this is most clear with regard to Cosmic Evolution. So, from a theological or philosophical standpoint Evolution is anti-theistic and therefore must be rejected by Christians!
And it can also be seen that Evolution has serious scientific issues. So it is entirely appropriate for scientists to challenge these. And there are plenty of credentialed scientists today doing legitimate research that challenges aspects of the Evolutionary model and also produces valuable results revealing God’s designs. Such scientists approach Science as the reverse-engineering of an incredibly designed System. But they face enormous resistance from the mainstream scientific establishment, which assumes that Evolution has become “settled Science”. Creationist or Intelligent Design scientists are opposed to the point of being excluded from the peer-review process of mainstream scientific associations. So they must work within their own associations.
We will begin with claim that Evolution is “settled Science”. This claim is intended to exclude all challenges to the theory. But, amazingly, to make such a claim is actually a violation of one of the most basic principles of Science! That is, that all scientific theories must remain open to challenges. And, in some cases, they must be replaced by better theories, if they prove to have better explanatory and predictive power.1
This was what occurred with the so-called “Copernican revolution” (from about 1500 until the early 1600’s AD), in which the scientific community shifted from believing that the earth was the center of the solar system (if not the entire universe) to believing (correctly) that the earth revolves around the sun (not the reverse). Another big example of a fundamental shift in scientific theories was that which went from Newtonian Physics to Einstein’s theory of Relativity and Quantum Physics (during the early 20th century).
The philosopher of Science Thomas Kuhn (in his book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”) pointed out convincingly that the history of Science is not one of a steady build-up of knowledge on unchanging foundations and guiding principles. Rather, it is one in which progress often requires theoretical “revolutions”, in which commonly-accepted models or “paradigms” are exposed as having more and more difficulties accounting for what is found in research. As a result, alternative models begin to be considered. If an alternative model is found which can explain what the currently-reigning theory can’t, then this theory will eventually replace the previous one. In other words, both the foundations and guiding principles sometimes change.
Over the past several decades more and more scientists and others (Christians as well as non-Christians) are seeing that there are serious and, even, fatal philosophical and scientific problems with Evolution. This is causing many to abandon this model for a better one.2 And, in this case, the better one is actually the one which preceded it and which served as an entirely adequate foundation for Science for centuries: Biblical Creationism. Indeed, it was adequate enough that the modern age of Science was born during this time.
Contrary to a common conception, the Biblical view had come to be rejected by more and more scientists and other intellectuals not for scientific reasons, but for philosophical or theological reasons (or more accurately, anti-theological reasons). It was not that Science was showing the errors of the Bible. Rather, there was a widespread shift in which more and more scientists and other academic leaders simply didn’t have faith in the divine origin and reliability of the Bible. Instead, they had become convinced that it was merely a product of ancient men from a “pre-scientific” age, who were therefore quite ignorant of Science. And if this was the case then the Bible could not possibly serve as the foundation for modern Science.
So it was not research which drove the change. Rather it was a desire for a different model which caused a fundamental change in how research would be done. The model which would prevail would be Charles Darwin’s Evolutionary model. The history of Darwin’s work clearly shows that this is how his theory prevailed.
There are two basic aspects of Evolution:
Biological Evolution (or “Natural Selection”): the theory that all living things evolved from inanimate matter to simple organisms to increasingly complex ones due only to the operation of undirected natural forces acting on matter-energy over eons of time
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Cosmic Evolution (or “Big Bang” Cosmology): the theory that the entire universe developed due only to mindless natural forces acting on matter-energy in space-time
While it is theoretically possible that God could have brought us into existence by an evolutionary process (a view known as Theistic Evolution), it is quite easy to see that Cosmic Evolution is based on the assumption that there is no Creator. In other words, it is a fundamental rejection of the first 4 words of the Bible: “In the beginning, God . . .” But, in reality, Biological Evolution is also based on this assumption.
Both the belief that the universe and life evolved are based on the assumption that only natural forces exist. This is known as Naturalism.3 So, the believer in evolution will always seek to explain what exists by means of natural forces only. But the Christian cannot accept this.
First, Naturalism sees natural forces as mindless and as functioning according to natural necessity, without any possibility of variation due to deliberation and choice. But it simply can’t be that only this type of forces exists because we have minds and make choices!4
Second, the assumption that there can only be natural forces is a logical fallacy. It could never be possible to know this because it must always be considered as possible that there are other forces besides natural ones. Indeed, putting aside the possibility that there is an All-powerful Creator for a moment (something which could never be ruled out), it is not even possible to rule out that there could be some other far more advanced being or race with cosmic-level power, who could have influenced the development of life on earth and, even, the development of the entire universe in ways which we could not detect.5
But the main reason that Evolution can’t be correct is because the Creator God does exist and everyone inevitably knows this (as was asserted in the previous chapter). So the simple truth is that all of today’s speculation about the origin of the universe and the origin of life is fundamentally flawed. In fact, the stunning truth is that it is just not possible to know what happened in the distant past and also what will happen in the future based on understanding how the forces of nature work today. Why is this? Because just the possibility that there is a Creator God will always be a huge uncontrollable and unaccountable Variable, Who makes all projections from the present to the past or the future invalid. And this is not just a possibility, it’s a certainty that is actually known by all!
The God of the Bible is “the ultimate Elephant in every room”: A Presence that one may wish to ignore, but Whose existence is ultimately inescapable. But God is also the ultimate Wild Card, Who is free to intervene in His Creation at any time. (How often God actually does this is a subject of debate among Christians. But that God can intervene anytime He wants is not in debate.)
It is just not possible for us to understand how God created the world because He was not bound by the laws of Nature which He Himself created. No matter how we understand Genesis 1, the Creation period must be seen as being a period of supernatural activity. The natural order that we observe today only began after this period. The Bible itself hints at this distinction in Genesis 2:5-6, which says that natural processes: plants springing up and rain, along with human agriculture based on these processes, had not yet begun to occur at the time that God created the first human-beings.6
By its nature, Science can only study natural processes. So it can only study how the natural world has developed since the end of the supernatural Creation period. It cannot possibly show us what happened within this period (or how long this period lasted). This is also why the assumptions of a very old earth and universe and that life took millions of years to develop are also fundamentally flawed.
The idea that the universe has “the appearance of age” is based on the faulty assumption that only natural forces were responsible for producing what we observe today. But if there is an All-Powerful Creator (as we know there is), then this Creator could have created everything at whatever rate and in whatever order or manner that He chose.
Some Christians see problems in understanding Genesis 1 as a chronological account of how God created the universe, the earth and its life. But there really are no unavoidable contradictions in doing so.7 It is important to realize that the description of the Creation in Genesis is in non-technical language, which the Bible’s original readers could understand. But that it is not in scientific language does not mean that it is in conflict with Science.
Science can and has helped us understand the Bible. But the Bible can and has also helped us understand Science. Indeed, there would be no Science unless God had created a universe with reliable laws. And there would be no scientists except that God created us in His image, with minds capable of understanding His designs. Indeed, the great astronomer Johannes Kepler described the task of scientists and other intellectuals as “thinking God’s thoughts after Him”. He is correct.
That the universe is the Creation of an All-Powerful God means that it can’t be ruled out that God created everything in six 24-hour days. An All-Powerful God certainly could have done this. And, again, the complaint that it appears that everything is much older is actually the result of “smuggling in” the faulty assumption that there were only natural forces at work.
Furthermore, what is true about the entire Creation in terms of antiquity can also be seen to be true about the antiquity of the human-race. And, in this case, the Bible has actually provided a timetable. The genealogies in Genesis 5 & 11 are both given in such a way that the total elapsed time can be calculated. This is because the age of the father at the time of the birth of his principal heir is always given. So the amazing truth is that the human-race is only about 6000 years old! To deny this is to say that the Bible is wrong.
Of course, there is much evidence presented that this can’t be true. But it can be seen that all of this evidence is either based on the flawed Naturalist assumption that we considered previously (which actually makes all radiometric dating invalid, along with many Geological assumptions), or it is based on dubious archaeological assumptions.
And just as the beginning of the universe was determined by God, so will the end of earth and the universe as we now know them. (2 Peter 3:10-13 is a key passage discussing what the end of the current order, also known as the “Eschaton”, will entail.) This is why the more extreme forms of environmentalism and climate-change fears today are wrong. We cannot possibly destroy the planet or make the human-race extinct. Why? Because God has other plans!
However, environmentalism in itself IS Biblical because it is based on God’s assignment to the human-race to be the stewards of our world, as the ruler over all life on earth. Genesis 1:26 says this:
“Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’”
That the human-race has dominion over the rest of living things is actually an amazingly advanced idea considering the fact that it was first communicated to us in written form at least 3000 years ago! And two verses later God says this:
“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
So, contrary to Naturalism, we are not at the mercy of the earth. Rather, we are called to subdue the earth. And human history has been the steady fulfillment of this assignment from God. Indeed, this is especially through the advance of Science! On the other hand, none of this could be explained if we are merely the most sophisticated product of mindless natural forces. Nor would our concern for the environment make sense.
It is true that some other forms of life exist in symbiotic (mutually-beneficial) relationships. But there is no parallel elsewhere in Nature for our concern for our environment or for the survival of other species. Indeed, animals are often known to destroy their own food supply, make other species extinct or ruin their environment in other ways.
Finally, believers in evolution say that extinction is part of the natural order and is inevitable for all species eventually, including us. But they consistently contradict this in practice insofar as they bemoan the extinction of any species, as well as in their concern about our future extinction and in their passionate efforts to prevent this. Indeed, in acting this way they act in the way that God created them to act.
FOOTNOTES
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The Rational Road to Becoming a Christian
1. If I am just the result of mindless forces operating on matter-energy in space-time, then I have no real explanation for why I exist as a person with a mind.
2. But I clearly exist as a person with a mind capable of observing and understanding the material world around me (including my own physical body, which includes my brain), as well as knowing other people who have bodies and minds.
3. Therefore, the first part of point #1 can’t be true.
4. Then how can it be that I exist as a person with a mind that can do what point #2 describes?
5. If there is a reasonable explanation for how this came to be, then I should accept that it’s true.
6. Christianity says that both I as a person with a mind and the universe around me were created by and are continually sustained by an Almighty Personal God. It also says that this God seeks to have a relationship with me. I also have an innate sense that these things are true. But I have been discouraged from considering that these ideas could be true until now.
7. Why shouldn’t I consider that this is true?
8. Having been told by others that I shouldn’t consider this or not wanting to consider it because I may not like the consequences if it’s true are not valid reasons for not considering it. Doing the first means I have given up my freedom to decide for myself. Doing the second makes no sense because, if it’s true that God is real and that He made me, then there are consequences of this, whether I like it or not.
9. So I ought to consider that this is true.
10. If Almighty God exists and if He made me and continually sustains my life and seeks to have a relationship with me, then I should want to have a relationship with Him.
11. If Almighty God could create me and the entire universe, He could certainly reveal Himself to the world in a written form.
12. If the Christian Bible is the only book in which God does this, then it is the most important book of all.
13. Is the Christian Bible the only book that does this?
14. The Christian Bible frequently presents God as revealing Himself, unlike other supposed holy books which don’t claim this.
15. The Christian Bible says that God is both the Almighty King of Kings and that He wants to have a personal relationship with us, unlike Islam’s Qu’ran (which only claims the first is true).
16. This agrees with my innate ideas of who God is (point #6).
17. So it is reasonable to believe that the Bible is God’s Self-revelation or Word and that I should base my life on what it says.
18. The Gospel or “Good News” of the Bible (which was foreshadowed in the Old Testament and fulfilled in the New Testament) is that God, our Eternal Father, sent His Eternal Son, Jesus Christ into the world to save us from our sins and that He sent His Eternal Holy Spirit to dwell inside of us in order to transform us to be like His Son so that we will be worthy to dwell with Him forever in Heaven.
Bottom-line: That all of this is true won’t make anyone consider and accept it. Each of us must be willing to do so. But everyone should be and is therefore culpable before God for refusing to do so. (New Testament Book of Romans, chapter 1, verses 18-20)
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