My faith in Jesus is not founded on logical arguments but on an experience of God working in and through me. However if God is real, it would be natural if we could look at his world and observe his handiwork. This is my effort at trying to clarify how I see God at work in the world every day.
The arguments are well known, the red highlights are what I take from them. Please note the sequential nature of the conversation:
1.
Classical Ontological Argument (Being)
a.
God is by definition an absolutely perfect
being.
b.
But existence is a perfection.
c.
Therefore, God must exist.
Creates
the possibility of God’s existence (non-trivial)
2.
Classical Cosmological Argument (Cause)
a.
The universe had a beginning.
b.
Anything that had a beginning must have been
caused by something else.
c.
Therefore the universe was caused by
something else (a Creator)
Activates
God’s existence in our minds
3.
Classical Teleological Argument (Purpose)
a.
All designs imply a designer.
b.
There is a great design in the universe.
c.
Therefore, there must be a Great Designer of
the universe.
The
God who exists must be more complex, powerful and intelligent than we can
conceive
4.
Modern Moral Argument (Law of God)
a.
Moral laws imply a Moral Law Giver.
b.
There is an objective moral law.
c.
Therefore, there is a Moral Law Giver.
This
God value’s life and human life above all else in creation
5.
Modern Epistemological Argument (Existence of
Rationality)
a.
Human rationality correlates with the
rational structure of the world.
b.
If the world developed by chance, it would be
highly unlikely that human rationality would correlate with the structure of
the world.
c.
Therefore, there must be a Creator that
created human rationality to correlate with the rational structure of the
world.
We
have a unique capacity to know God and mediate between him and the world
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