Does God

exist?

"If Christians could be trained to provide solid evidence for what they believe and good answers to unbelievers’ questions and objections, then the perception of Christians would slowly change. Christians would be seen as thought ful people to be taken seriously rather than as emotional fanatics or buf foons. The gospel would be a real alternative for people to embrace."

WILLIAM LANE CRAIG

Does God

exist?

Stephen Hawking Richard Dawkins Christopher Hitchens

Francis Collins J.P. Moreland William Lane Craig

"Science is simply mankind trying to understand the greatness of God's design."

FRANCIS COLLINS

DOES GOD EXIST?

cosmologicalthe

(f irst cause) argument

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the ear th."

GENESIS 1:1

"But God made the ear th by his power;he founded the world by his wisdomand stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar;he makes clouds rise from the ends of the ear th.

He sends lightning with the rainand brings out the wind from his storehouses."

JEREMIAH 10:12-13

"For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse."

ROMANS 1:20

TELEologicalthe

(design) argument

"The heavens declare the glory of God;the skies proclaim the work of his hands.

Day af ter day they pour for th speech;night af ter night they reveal knowledge."

PSALM 19:1-2

ANTHROPOLOGICALthe

(moral law) argument

"Again, C.S. Lewis says it well: 'Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. If I f ind myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.’ Could it be that this longing for the sacred, a universal and puzzling aspect of human experience, may not be wish fulf illment but rather a pointer toward something beyond us? Why do we have a 'God-shaped vacuum' in our hearts and minds unless it is meant to be f illed?"

FRANCIS COLLINS

PERSONAL EXPERIENCEthe

argument

“If you have had a personal encounter with the Creator God through Jesus Christ, you know he is real. The evidence of a personal experience with God cannot necessarily be suf f icient proof to others, but it can be one of many convincing arguments to the one who knows God personally.”

JOSH MCDOWELL & SEAN MCDOWELL,The Unshakable Truth

the person of

JESUS argument

a case study...

If god exists...

GOD is COMPASSIONATE...

Cry out to him

GOD is OMNIPRESENT...

TRUST HIM

GOD is ETERNAL...

SUBMIT TO HIM

GOD is SOVEREIGN...

OBEY HIM

GOD is FAITHFUL...

ACCEPT HIM

Not only does God existbut He has also clearly

revealed himself to us!