Arguments For The Existence Of God

Slide 1: Arguments for the Existence of God

Slide 2: Arguments for the Existence of God • Argument from Design Where there is design, there is a designer. Design can be seen in the universe. Therefore, the universe must have a designer (i.e. God).

Slide 5: Still not convinced? • The Anthropic Principle may help. The Skeptic by Robert Hall

Slide 8: Arguments for the Existence of God • The First Cause Argument Everything that begins to exist has a cause. The universe began to exist. Therefore the universe has a cause (i.e. God).

Slide 9: Principle of Sufficient Reason • Everything that is has some adequate or sufficient reason why it is.

Slide 11: The Argument from Conscience • We all feel an absolute moral obligation to follow our conscience • The only possible source for absolute moral obligation is God • Therefore God exists

Slide 12: Arguments for the Existence of God • Argument from the Divinity of Christ Christ was either God or a bad man. Virtually no one believes Christ was a bad man Therefore Christ is God.

Slide 13: Jesus was either Lord …or a liar

Slide 14: Christ was either a good man… …or a Lunatic

Slide 15: Arguments for the Existence of God • Pascal’s Wager