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Reasons to Believe

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I believe in God because it is natural for me to do so. It is oh-so-human to believe in God, almost as if we, as a race, were born to believe in God. You cannot separate human history from the history of religion. To separate my mind from faith in God would be a perversion of the way things should be. I would become divorced from the evolutionary history of the human race, and what it means to be human.

I believe in God is because I became a Christian first. The gospel message of Christ found a home in my heart, and confirmed itself within me. I became a believer in this beautiful moral code, first. This is truly the first step of faith.

The heart came first, and then my head simply followed. I found a way to justify belief in God because I was in love. It happens every day, that people put their trust in something bigger than themselves, whether a marriage or a cause. They begin to develop confidence in this greater thing. It always starts with a seed of faith.

I believe in God because I took a small leap of faith in order to get where I really wanted to be, where my heart already was. Jesus said that the Spirit would convict the world of sin. I felt that guilt that draw on me to repent.

I believe in God because of the presence of the Holy Spirit who teaches me, guides me, counsels me, and advocates on my behalf. He is very much a person within me. I am always aware of his good nature, unspoiled by the corruption of the flesh. He is pure, righteous, innocent and clean.

I believe in God because I am so much more than an ape. I am no mere animal. I can ponder the event horizon of a black hole, and think on its intricate mysteries. I can pray to God, appreciate the form and concept of God. I can approximate God’s size and depth. I am not animal, but like a little god myself. And so I believe in my Father, God himself.

I believe in God because the infinite universe allows the existence of a God. The illimitable amount of space allows God freedom to exist in this or any other possible universe. And if the universe is real, and in reality can allow a God, than a God is probable, given an endless amount of time and space and possibilities.

I believe in God because there are dozens upon dozens of arguments for God’s existence. However, there are no arguments for atheism, for God’s non-existence. On the other hand, there is a voluminous library of arguments for God and Christ that you could build a foundation of faith upon.

I believe in God because I can find God inside of me. He is not out there somewhere, beyond the stars, or in the seventh heaven, even, but inside of every one of us that are saved. I believe in God because I don’t have to go far to find Him. I just look within, and find his Kingdom and all its glory inside of my spirit.

Again, I believe in God because I can find the Kingdom of Heaven inside of me. I have always known goodness, spiritual righteousness, and what godly love looks like, even as a young boy. What I thought true religion should look like I later discovered that Christ taught exactly that. Our spirits confirm that God is real, and that God is good.

I believe in God because, though God is indescribable, and his awesome grandeur cannot be translated into a recognizable form, still, I understand what and who God is through an intuitive understanding. It is almost as if I was designed to understand God, to know Him, to talk to Him and mentally appreciate Him. I cannot draw him, but I get him. I cannot imagine his form but I feel Him.

I believe in God because of the proof of the spirit. If you cannot find your spirit within your body, then you cannot find yourself. You do not know yourself if you cannot find yourself. If you believe that you have a soul, or a spirit, then you believe in the spiritual realm.

All of that, to say–If the spirit exists, then the spiritual world exists.

I have no choice but to believe in God, really. I believed in myself once, my own ways, my own thoughts, and all of that. I believed in human ways, secular thought, creative philosophy, and so on. It led me to self, but it also led me to self-destruction. Without God, and His ways, I don’t even exist. Therefore, I have no choice but to believe in Him.

I believe in God because of the existence of reality. Existence itself is God-dependent. Existence cannot exist of its own will or purpose. Existence cannot have being without God’s Being flooding it, permeating it, so to say. Otherwise, existence would simply not be upheld. Existence would simply not be colorized and filled out.

I believe in God because of the miracle of the Bible. The Bible is perfect, holy, anointed and irreducibly complex. It could not have come about by natural means because there are no intermediate transitional forms of revelation to be studied. Its revelation about God appears suddenly and fully formed in the historical record.

The Bible. Either none of it is true or all of it is true. If one miracle is real, then all of the miracles happened. Therefore, only one miracle needs to be proven. All of the others are then accepted on faith. And the likelihood that all of the hundreds of interconnected miracle stories being fake are minuscule, if not completely improbable.

I believe in the devil because of the argument from death. Death exists. Beings should not die, being in league with time, which will never end. Therefore death was manufactured by someone or something, and the devil seems the likeliest answer. Therefore the devil exists, and he brought death to the world.

But the biggest reason I believe in God is because God believed in me, first. There is no other explanation for my existence, unless the universe itself is malicious and cruel. I could only have been created for redemption, to be saved. Otherwise, I am the best I will ever be, and others, too. And that is not a good sign for the world.

Without God, we are the devil.

Let us not believe that, friends.

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If There is No God Poem

If there is no God, then there is no reason for me not to do evil if it benefits me to do so. In secret, when hidden from the purview of the authorities, as long as you are sure that you cannot be caught, you might as well steal, make war, pillage, and commit whatever actions suit your fancy.

Take the money. Steal the inheritance. Commit fraud if it leads to a financial benefit. Go ahead and sleep with her. Extort if you must.

The only consequences that you need to fear are here, on earth, in this world; you only need to fear getting caught by the authorities.

If there is no God, I can follow my passions without compunction. In fact, I can experiment, sampling from any lust I wish, as long as I am sure I won’t be caught, there is no good reason not to do so. If there is no God, then nobody is watching me when other humans aren’t watching me. When I am alone, I am truly alone.

If there is no God, there is no good reason for me to be brave, to sacrifice my precious and valuable life for the health or freedom of a stranger. Those that have died before me are dead, and I cannot shame any of them.

If there is no God, then this is a godless universe. Then it is all for naught. Then I am actually just a hairy, sweaty, greasy bipedal ape, a bag of flesh, soon to disintegrate back into dust. We might as well do whatever we wish, because morals are just subjective, learned cultural things. To kill yourself today or die twenty years hence won’t matter at all, it being all the same an eternal dirt nap.

But if there is no God, then we still have miracles to contend with. We have the miraculous appearance of the universe, in all of its cosmic glory. We have the miracle of self-consciousness, and the resulting birth of a person’s soul out of nothing. We have the miracle of prayer, the fact that we can pray to a god that does not exist, is remarkable in itself. So, if there is no god, that would be awfully strange.

But if there is no God, it doesn’t matter– I will still be a Christian. I will still believe in prayer, in faith, in light, in goodness. I will stand for truth and expect persecutions to come. I will do good to my enemy, because a satisfied enemy may not be motivated to risk his life in battle in the present moment.

If there is no God, then we live in a dream. A contradiction. We are part of the great lie, the great falsehood, that something non-rational can rationally arise from the void. The contradiction becomes the central point for understanding everything, and at the same time understanding nothing.

If there is no God, then we live in a dream. Then we are just part of the great everything, the all-that-is. But if we are a small part of the great everything, the contradiction naturally arises and defeats our unbelief, because if everything exists, then God exists.

If there is no God, then there is no universe. We understand through intuition, reason and basic logical work that there cannot be a universe without a creator, that a godless universe is no universe at all.

And if there is no universe, then there is no God. Only God could see us, could hear our prayers through the illimitable number of possible worlds that could exist at any given time. And only a good God, who is perfect Love, could have allowed this universe to exist, with so many loveless creatures in it that so badly need redemption. God must be a God of redemption.

If there is no God, then Satan rules the world. Because if it is true that there is no God, it cannot at the same time be true that there is no Satan. One thing about the world that we know, is that Goodness may or may not exist, but evil certainly exists. And if evil exists, and Satan exists, then God must exist too.

If there is no God, then we are lost in our sins, then we really are despicable animals, wretched and irredeemable. All of us unsaved, not even making a mark on moral history. Unacceptable even to ourselves, and not even loved by our creator, whatever that might be. We are all doomed and hopeless orphans, lost in space.

If there is no God, then there is no spirit. If there is no spirit, then we are on our own. If we are on our own, we are just winging it. If we are just winging it, then there really is no cause to stress yourself about anything.

If there is no God, then there is no devil. Then we are the root and source of all evil in this world. We are the great Satan. We are the adversary to ourselves, to future generations, to the earth, to each other. If there is no devil, we have no excuse for our evil ways. We serve our sentence as demons, and then disintegrate into the void from which we never really left.

If there is no God, then there is no such thing as a chance happening. All of those lucky accidents, answered prayers, strokes of luck and unbelievable coincidences are stripped of their glamor. They are simply happenstance, the way of things, and due only to the interaction of matter with matter. But anyone who has been alive for any good number of years knows that, right there, is a bunch of baloney.

Faith is the Substance, Explained.

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Why I Believe in God

I believe in God because this world is an absurdity without God.

I believe in an omnipotent, imaginative creator because this is a world that could only be imagined.

I believe in God because you can’t get something from nothing, and if you could, you could only get something from nothing by imagining it. I believe because there must be an unmoved mover. I believe there must be an omnipotent imaginer.

I believe in God because we are found so far outside the periphery of what is rationally coherent, that God becomes an inevitable, necessary demand on logic. WE are the logical necessity if God exists. If God is love, then we exist. God is love. We exist. We exist because God is love. We exist, therefore a loving God exists.

I believe because godless cultures produce cold societies primed for tyrants, socialism, communism, and all variety of deadly, utopian schemes. I believe in God because existence itself is too much to ask of a godless universe; a godless universe being no universe at all.

I believe because of a Christian kindness that I know of among those of my faith. I believe because of a pre-adolescent goodness that I once knew and still feel deep inside of me; because of all of this, I believe that I was called, chosen, sanctified— before the world began. I believe that.

I believe because I have the holy, inspired scriptures, which are the proofs of revelation.

I believe because God is love, and love is real, and therefore— God is real.

I believe in the validity and soundness of the Teleological argument, the Kalam Cosmological Argument and The Moral Argument. I believe in God because of the Transcendental argument and the Ontological argument. I believe in God because of the resurrection miracle, and the historical fact of the empty tomb. I believe in God because the existence of a supernatural evil is apparent.

I believe because of the gospel message, which confirms itself in my heart as a message that a good God would deliver to mankind. I believe because of received words of wisdom, timely words of knowledge, and sometime prophetic warnings. I believe that where there’s theological smoke, there’s a metaphysical fire.

I believe that when the universe called out for existence, only God could have answered. I believe in God because of the hundreds of fulfilled prophecies: because Israel was reassembled as a nation again in a day, just as the ancient scripture predicted; because the scriptures predicted that Israel would always be surrounded by enemies; because the scriptures predict that Jerusalem would be the most important religious site in the entire world, and it is; I believe because the scriptures predict that the end of the world will begin and end in Israel’s immediate vicinity (and this is extremely likely, even two thousand years later.)

And in the 9th chapter of the book of Daniel, the exact year of Christ’s coming is predicted, hundreds of years before the fact.

I believe in God because this is a world that looks like a world where a God must exist.

I believe because history has time-and-again confirmed the accuracy of the Judeo-Christian prophetic literature, because a grand macrocosmic stage demands a grand macrocosmic actor; because the material universe is contingent on God’s existence, and I believe because of the abundance of evidence— that evidence being faith itself.

I believe that the gospel message speaks to man as he is, according to his true psychological profile. I believe because Christ fulfilled hundreds of Old Testament prophecies. I believe because I have found that God’s ways are better for me than man’s ways.

And I am a Christian because it seems to me downright stupid to wager my eternal soul with anti-Christian ideologies, against God, against Christ, chancing eternal damnation. A stupid wager if there ever was one.

I believe in God because I desire perfect justice, I desire pure righteousness, and only God’s presence can fulfill that desire in me.

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