arguments for the existence of god

Arguments for the Existence of God

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).

Still not convinced?

• The Anthropic Principle may help.

The Skeptic by Robert Hall

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).

Principle of Sufficient Reason

• Everything that is has some adequate or sufficient reason why it is.

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

Arguments for the Existence of God

• Argument from the Divinity of ChristChrist was either God or a bad man.

Virtually no one believes Christ was a bad man

Therefore Christ is God.

Jesus was either Lord

…or a liar

Christ was either a good man…

…or a Lunatic

Arguments for the Existence of God

• Pascal’s Wager