“be ready in season and out of
season…” -2 Timothy 4:2
With the growing number
of nones, no religious affiliation, the existence of God is being questioned heavily
today. A believer must be able to demonstrate that believing in God is
reasonable, consistent with reason, and is actually more rational than the
alternative of believing in his nonexistence. Here are five reasons why it is
reasonable to believe in God:
· Anthropic Arguments: Things about ourselves—conscience, capacity for good and evil,
yearning for eternity, religious experiences—are best explained by the
existence of God. How does one explain the universal morals and laws found in
every culture?
· Immaterialism Argument: The existence of love, beauty demonstrate that we do not live
in a materialistic universe. What value is love and beauty in an evolutionary
materialistic universe?
· Creation and Design Argument: Creation by an Intelligent Designer is more
intellectually plausible than creation by random chance. Where did all matter
and life come from and why is it here? (Romans 1:20)
· Probability Argument: Every day we exercise faith, and I think it’s reasonable to
have faith in the supernatural. What does it mean to have faith? It means to
exercise the tools of faith: reason or science, intuition, and our experiences.
· Transcendental Argument- Knowledge, logic, and science, etc., are only possible because
God’s existence is a precondition for all thinking and knowledge.
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