Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Reasons to believe God exists

Answers to the most serious questions in life don't fit on bumper stickers. So these links will require an investment in time and thought. These and more here.

Some reasons why people think that God exists.
In addition to these arguments for theism, Christians should be able to make a minimal facts case for the resurrection, one that leverages the early creed in 1 Corinthians 15:3-7. And some sort of case for the belief that Jesus was divine using only the earliest sources. 
In addition to those positive evidences, there would be informed defenses to other questions like the problem of evilthe problem of suffering,religious pluralismthe hiddenness of Godmaterialist conceptions of mindconsciousness and neurosciencethe justice of eternal damnation,sovereignty and free will, the doctrine of the Incarnation, the doctrine of the Trinity, and so on.
See also, "So you think you understand the cosmological argument?"

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The praises of Hannah and Mary

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