A few days ago a friend said, “I don’t know how to believe in something I don’t believe in.” Since I don’t know how not to believe, and I’m sure he’s not the only one who feels that way, I went on a search for good, logical reasons to believe in God.
Reason 1- Planet Earth
A. It is located the perfect distance from the sun.
1. The smallest change would cause the planet to either freeze or burn up.
B. The Moon is the perfect distance away.
1. Any further away and the oceans would become stagnate, any closer and they would spill over their boundaries.
C. The Earth is the perfect size.
1. If it were any smaller, it could not have an atmosphere, any larger and the atmosphere could not support plant and animal life.
D. Our bodies are about $50 worth of minerals and water.
1. The high boiling and freezing points of water are what allows us to live in changing weather conditions while maintaining our body temperature.
2. Water is chemically neutral and a universal solvent, making it perfect for dissolving and carrying vital vitamins, nutrients, and medicines.
3. Most of the world’s water is in oceans, but our Earth has a wonderful purification system, which makes it usable for animal and plant life, rain.
Reason 2- DNA
A. The amount of information contained in DNA could not have happened by chance.
1. The odds would be that of winning the lottery without buying a ticket, in a state where there was no lottery.
Reason 3- The Human Brain
A.The brain processes more than a million pieces of information a second.
1. It takes in color, texture, temperature, sound, and much more, and filters out what is not important, allowing you to respond to that which is important.
2. While doing all that, it also runs the heart, lungs, nervous system etc…
Reason 4- Science
A. As Science progresses the argument for intelligent design becomes stronger.
1. The “Big Bang” and Darwinism always eventually end in, “We don’t know.”
2. Creationism always points back to God.
Reason 5- God is always seeking for us.
A. God wants to be known.
1. He gives us evidence of Himself in creation.
2. He keeps the question of his existence right in our faces.
3. C.S. Lewis said, “…night after night, feeling whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all of England.”
B. He sent us Jesus Christ.
1. He is the only major religious figure who ever claimed to be God, while others (Buddha, Muhammad…) claimed to be teachers and prophets.
2. The life, miracles, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ are born out by history, not just the Bible.
Of course there are arguments against each one of these, and anyone determined not to believe will not by swayed by any words of mine.
The best way to prove God’s existence is to ask Him.
John 14:6 “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
Matthew 7:7,8 “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.”
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July 18, 2008 at 2:35 am
Shawn W
Sorry about the formatting. I don’t have it in me to fix it tonight.
July 19, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Dev
dude.. awesome comments… but just because we cant explain certain things in life, i would never surrender myself to a supernatural power, whose existence is based on the mere fact that we are unable to find questions and is a mere representation of the weakness of human beings to answer things. sayonara
July 19, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Shawn W
“Of course there are arguments against each one of these, and anyone determined not to believe will not by swayed by any words of mine.”
Dude, maybe you can tell me why some atheists are so offended by anyone believing in anything larger than themselves that they have to be insulting.
July 19, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Stevo
You do make plausible arguments, Shawn. Most of the atheists I know consider religion “brainwashing” and think believers unable to think for themselves. My only problem with organized religion is having it forced upon me or others.
I have nothing but the most rudimentary faith, but respect those that have the fortitude to sustain belief. To have faith, to believe in something intangible, is something I marvel at.
July 20, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Shawn W
The way religion is portrayed in the media, I can understand why someone with little or no exposure would think that way, Stevo, and many of the TV preachers reinforce that idea.
I love church and enjoy sharing my faith, but would rather concentrate on showing those, who want to know, how they can develop a relationship with Jesus Christ. No one ever changed their mind about God, because someone beat them over the head with a Bible.
Great faith is not required.
Matthew 17:20 “… for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.”
I can’t take credit for any faith you see, because I don’t believe it came from me.
Romans 10:14,17 “How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?”
“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
July 25, 2008 at 7:01 am
thelittlefluffycat
You left out cats.
My favorite line from Lewis is something like “when I began to be afraid it might be true . . .”
July 25, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Shawn W
LFC, I’ve known several wonderful cats, who’ve strengthed my faith.
I can understand exactly how he felt.
July 26, 2008 at 3:11 pm
jojovtx1800
I don’t think that believing in something intangible is a sign of weakness, but an inherent strength.
It leads back to the quote, “We fear that which we do not understand.”
Some people fear faith, and others choose to embrace it.
I believe based simply on the fact that he came to me at a very bad time in my life, I was near death and didn’t care. He gave me a second chance.
July 27, 2008 at 12:43 am
Shawn W
Hi Jojo!
I can understand and deal with fear. It’s the hate and anger that I find difficult.
We love Him, because he first loved us.
August 20, 2008 at 8:55 am
DogBytes
I don’t see any logic to your arguments.
August 20, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Shawn W
“Of course there are arguments against each one of these, and anyone determined not to believe will not by swayed by any words of mine.”
August 29, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Jason B
I find this to be a good argument, but do not find it to be a good logical reason to believe in God. I only find it to be another act of someone who believes in God to comfort and reassure themselves in what they believe, as do most weak minded people that feel they must cling to there religious faith like some little kid clinging to his/her blanky to feel safe. No one knows, at least I should say, no one ALIVE knows what happens when we die, where we go, if we go. No one can prove that God exist. No one can prove that God told man to write the bible. It has been prove that man DID write the bible, but there is no proof that it was “God’s Will”. No one knows who or what created the universe and all of it’s inhabitants. Many people have many different theories, but no one…NO ONE, has hard cold proof. So, I’m still looking for someone to give me a good logical reason to believe in God.
August 29, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Shawn W
I hope you find your reason, Jason.
September 1, 2008 at 8:58 am
Harrison
Jason, you’re missing the point. If there were concrete evidence of God’s existence, then everyone would believe in Him. That alone would do away with the Christian faith. God exists everywhere, including outside the physical realm. As a result, proof of Him will never be found in a universe bound by science. Science can’t explain Him. He is so far beyond science. It’s just up to you to open your heart and let Him in. He’s knocking.
September 1, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Shawn W
Harrison, thanks for your support.
I’ve found it does no good to argue with someone determined not to believe.
Romans 1:19-21 “Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
November 30, 2008 at 10:08 am
dam
Jason, I totally agree with you. Reasons such as “because the earth is a certain distance away from the sun, etc.” are not really proof of a god or of intention. If you were to walk outside at precisely the moment an airplane fell out of the sky, and you just happened to be caught under it, that would not be intention.