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Friday, December 6, 2013

Does God Exist?

a. The argument from cause (the cosmological argument). Reason teaches that every effect has a cause. The universe, this world, intelligent men, exist; they are effects. For them there must be a cause. The original cause must be a supreme, intelligent being.

b. The argument from design (the teleological argument). The existence of design or plan reasonably presupposes a designer or planner. Man, 
nature, and the observable interactions between them indicate design. The designer is God.

c. The argument from being (the olltological argument). Man has ideas of an infinite and perfect being, of goodness, truth, and holiness. Such ideas cannot find their source in imperfect beings like ourselves. The very concept of infinite power, truth, and goodness argues that there is an infinite and perfect being.

d. The moral argument (the anthropological argument). Man has a moral nature-a sense of right and wrong, of "ought" and "ought not." This sense is dulled and often ignored, but it persists and implies a being to whom man is responsible and accountable.

e. The argument from congruity. Belief in a personal, self-existent God is in harmony with all we know about our mental and moral nature and about the world, and no other belief furnishes an adequate explanation of these things.

Christian Beliefa by T. H. Jemison

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