My goal for this blog is to update it every other day or so, especially once I'm on mission. I want this to be about loving the Lord our God with all of our Hearts with all of our Souls and with all of our Minds. I'm just going to dive right in.
For the next few weeks I want to focus on our Minds. If you're like me you've been asked some pretty difficult questions regarding the existence of God. This morning I want to begin my laying out the Leibnizian Cosmological Argument for God. But before I do that I want to say this is not so you can go around bashing in Atheists arguments. My goal is that you be encouraged and know that there are Good reasons for you to believe in God and Jesus Christ who he sent.
Alright, the Leibnizian Cosmological argument is this: Basically the Universe must have a creator and that creator is God. But this form might not satisfy your Atheist friends! So Todays post will be about the Leibnizian Cosmological Argument.
Basically it's this:
1: Everything existing thing has an explanation of its existence, either in the necessity of its own nature or in an external cause.
2: If the universe has an explanation of it's existence that explanation is God.
3: The Universe is and existing thing.
∴ The explanation of the existence of the Universe is God
The main problem with this argument is that your Atheist friend will probably refute premis (2) saying that God doesn't exist. If they do this they are saying that the Universe is a necessary being meaning it must exist there can be no other. However, it's pretty easy for us to imagine a universe where nothing exists at all (just think of a big black space).
So your friend should come to the conclusion that either the Universe is eternal (without beginning or end), or God exists as the explanation for the Big-Bang! Either that or the universe magically popped into existence from nothing. I hope you've been encouraged by this and know that God loves us all even your Atheist friend.
Next time we'll talk about the Kalam Cosmological Argument that supplements this one. Until then continue to "...love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind."
Source: William Lane Craig & J.P. Moreland, The Kalam Cosmological Argument, Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology, comp. Louis P. Pojman & Michael Rea, (Thomson Wadsworth: Belmont, 2008) p.33-36
For the next few weeks I want to focus on our Minds. If you're like me you've been asked some pretty difficult questions regarding the existence of God. This morning I want to begin my laying out the Leibnizian Cosmological Argument for God. But before I do that I want to say this is not so you can go around bashing in Atheists arguments. My goal is that you be encouraged and know that there are Good reasons for you to believe in God and Jesus Christ who he sent.
Alright, the Leibnizian Cosmological argument is this: Basically the Universe must have a creator and that creator is God. But this form might not satisfy your Atheist friends! So Todays post will be about the Leibnizian Cosmological Argument.
Basically it's this:
1: Everything existing thing has an explanation of its existence, either in the necessity of its own nature or in an external cause.
2: If the universe has an explanation of it's existence that explanation is God.
3: The Universe is and existing thing.
∴ The explanation of the existence of the Universe is God
The main problem with this argument is that your Atheist friend will probably refute premis (2) saying that God doesn't exist. If they do this they are saying that the Universe is a necessary being meaning it must exist there can be no other. However, it's pretty easy for us to imagine a universe where nothing exists at all (just think of a big black space).
So your friend should come to the conclusion that either the Universe is eternal (without beginning or end), or God exists as the explanation for the Big-Bang! Either that or the universe magically popped into existence from nothing. I hope you've been encouraged by this and know that God loves us all even your Atheist friend.
Next time we'll talk about the Kalam Cosmological Argument that supplements this one. Until then continue to "...love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind."
Source: William Lane Craig & J.P. Moreland, The Kalam Cosmological Argument, Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology, comp. Louis P. Pojman & Michael Rea, (Thomson Wadsworth: Belmont, 2008) p.33-36
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