Reason 111 / 4
The first words of the Bible.
1In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1 (WEB) · context
The universe had a beginning
Reason 111 / 4
1In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1 (WEB) · context
The universe had a beginning
Reason 112 / 4
3By faith we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.
Hebrews 11:3 (WEB) · context
The universe had a beginning
Reason 113 / 4
Planck Collaboration, 2018 results.
The universe had a beginning
Reason 114 / 4
20For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.
Romans 1:20 (WEB) · context
The universe had a beginning
Reason 121 / 3
1The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.
Psalms 19:1 (WEB) · context
A universe tuned for life
Reason 122 / 3
18For Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: “I am Yahweh. There is no other.
Isaiah 45:18 (WEB) · context
A universe tuned for life
Reason 123 / 3
See Martin Rees, Just Six Numbers (1999), and Luke Barnes and Geraint Lewis, A Fortunate Universe (2016).
A universe tuned for life
Reason 131 / 4
14(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves, 15in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)
Romans 2:14-15 (WEB) · context
Right and wrong are real
Reason 132 / 4
8He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Micah 6:8 (WEB) · context
Right and wrong are real
Reason 133 / 4
Mere Christianity (1952), Book 1: Right and Wrong as a Clue to the Meaning of the Universe.
Right and wrong are real
Reason 134 / 4
23for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
Romans 3:23 (WEB) · context
Right and wrong are real
Objections answered1 / 3
1How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? 2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?
Psalms 13:1-2 (WEB) · context
If God is good, why is there so much suffering?
Objections answered2 / 3
3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
Isaiah 53:3 (WEB) · context
If God is good, why is there so much suffering?
Objections answered3 / 3
4He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain any more. The first things have passed away.”
Revelation 21:4 (WEB) · context
If God is good, why is there so much suffering?
Objections answered1 / 2
2Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.
Psalms 111:2 (WEB) · context
Hasn't science disproved God?
Objections answered2 / 2
25Yahweh says: “If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth,
Jeremiah 33:25 (WEB) · context
Hasn't science disproved God?
Objections answered1 / 2
11Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
Acts 17:11 (WEB) · context
Isn't the Bible full of contradictions?
Objections answered2 / 2
Independent accounts differ in detail. That is a mark of genuine testimony, not of invention.
Isn't the Bible full of contradictions?
Objections answered1 / 2
21For no prophecy ever came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
2 Peter 1:21 (WEB) · context
Wasn't the Bible just written by men?
Objections answered2 / 2
16Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
2 Timothy 3:16 (WEB) · context
Wasn't the Bible just written by men?
Objections answered1 / 3
15But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,
1 Peter 3:15 (WEB) · context
Isn't faith believing without evidence?
Objections answered2 / 3
4that you might know the certainty concerning the things in which you were instructed.
Luke 1:4 (WEB) · context
Isn't faith believing without evidence?
Objections answered3 / 3
3To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking about God’s Kingdom.
Acts 1:3 (WEB) · context
Isn't faith believing without evidence?
Objections answered1 / 2
6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
John 14:6 (WEB) · context
Aren't all religions basically the same?
Objections answered2 / 2
12There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”
Acts 4:12 (WEB) · context
Aren't all religions basically the same?
Objections answered1 / 2
2Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
Psalms 90:2 (WEB) · context
Who made God?
Objections answered2 / 2
17He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.
Colossians 1:17 (WEB) · context
Who made God?
Objections answered1 / 2
11Tell them, ‘“As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?”’
Ezekiel 33:11 (WEB) · context
How can a loving God judge anyone?
Objections answered2 / 2
26to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time, that he might himself be just and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
Romans 3:26 (WEB) · context
How can a loving God judge anyone?
Why other paths fall short1 / 2
1The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.
Psalms 19:1 (WEB) · context
Atheism and naturalism
Why other paths fall short2 / 2
20For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.
Romans 1:20 (WEB) · context
Atheism and naturalism