Does God Exist?

(I signed up for Frank Turek’s on-line course through Cross Examined.org, I am continuing to summarize the lessons as I go through the 2004 book I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist, by Frank Turek and Norman Geisler.[1] The first blog in this series was "Does Truth Exist?"  This is the second blog in the series.)

I have already written several blogs about this, so I am listing what I think are the best arguments for God, along with links to my blogs and several other sources.

#1 – The Cosmological Argument:  All Space, Time, Matter, and Energy Had A Beginning

Here is the link to my blog about Big Bang Cosmology:  http://natureandscripture.blogspot.com/2014/02/big-bang-cosmology-christian-creation.html

William Lane Craig’s video on the Cosmological Argument:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CulBuMCLg0

J. Warner Wallace’s article at Cold Case Christianity:  http://coldcasechristianity.com/2015/why-the-beginning-of-the-universe-cannot-be-explained-from-inside-the-room-free-bible-insert/

From the Cosmological Argument we know that God is self-existent, nonspatial, immaterial, infinite, unimaginably powerful, and personal.

#2 - Rational Thought & The Existence of Logic

The Argument from the Existence of Logic is laid out nicely by J. Warner Wallace:  http://coldcasechristianity.com/2014/is-god-real-evidence-from-the-laws-of-logic/

Here is another good presentation of the argument by Matt Slick:  https://carm.org/transcendental-argument

#3 – The Teleological Argument:  Fine Tuning

Here is the link to my blog on this:  http://natureandscripture.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-fine-tuning-argument.html

Here is a 6 minute video from Reasonable Faith:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3jvfvho3CE

J. Warner Wallace’s article at Cold Case Christianity:  http://coldcasechristianity.com/2015/the-inexplicable-fine-tuning-of-the-foundational-forces-in-our-universe/

From the Teleological Argument we know that God is supremely intelligent and purposeful.

#4 – Physical Laws & Mathematics

Here is the link to my blog on this:  http://natureandscripture.blogspot.com/2017/03/argument-for-god-from-mathematics.html

#5 – Biochemical Design

Here is the link to my blog on this topic:  http://natureandscripture.blogspot.com/2017/04/an-argument-for-god-from-biochemical.html

#6 – The nature of Nature

Here are the links to a couple blogs about this:  http://natureandscripture.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-mysterious-true-nature-of-reality.html and http://natureandscripture.blogspot.com/2014/01/science-christianity-no-conflict.html

#7 – Morality & Objective Ethical Values

Link to my blog on the Moral Argument:  http://natureandscripture.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-moral-argument-for-god.html

Here is a 5 minute video from Reasonable Faith:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxiAikEk2vU

J. Warner Wallace’s perspective on Moral Truths:  http://coldcasechristianity.com/2015/are-moral-truths-an-illusion/

From the Moral Argument we know that God is absolutely morally pure; God is the standard of morality, justice, and love.

#8 – The Ontological Argument

Here is a 5-minute video from Reasonable Faith:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBmAKCvWl74

We can determine the characteristics of God from Science.  From the above list we can conclude that God is: self-existent, nonspatial, immaterial, infinite, unimaginably powerful, personal, absolutely morally pure, and the standard of morality, justice, and love.  Here is a link to my blog on determining the attributes of God:

http://natureandscripture.blogspot.com/2017/03/determining-attributes-of-god-from.html

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[1] Frank Turek & Norman Geisler, I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist, Crossway Books, 2004