in the air. If we want to keep it there, we better hang it on a hook.
Close your eyes... and imagine that you are not here
I am not here
The world is not here
Nothing is here – absolute nothing
The point is – IF NOTHING IS HERE TO BEGIN WITH, CAN ANYTHING EVER BE?
From nothing comes nothing,
If there was nothing in the beginning,
There IS nothing now.
To be consistent, an atheist cannot be content
To deny the existence of God
He must deny the existence of ANYTHING.
No - You cannot be
I cannot be
the world cannot be
nothing can be
But, if you are convinced that you really are here – that I am here
That the world is here – That anything is here
If you are convinced that the hook is necessary to hang the chain –
If you are convinced that from nothing comes nothing, then you must be convinced that in the first place, there was...
A NECESSARY BEING
This Necessary Being has to be a personal being because He has a mind (see next argument) – and – because persons are the effects of the First Cause and the Cause cannot be less than the effects.
That Necessary Being we call - God
4.The Argument to the Great Mind (to the Great Lawgiver)
If you go to the beach and see the rocks strewn about –
And you come back an hour later
And see them in an orderly pile –
You don’t say, “Look what happened by chance”.
You say, “Look what ‘someone did’”.
You know there was a mind at work
Because there is order.
The universe is orderly.
There must be a mind at work to create the order.
The universe has laws:
There are laws of physics (e.g. Gravity)
There are laws of chemistry (e.g., 2 parts of H and 1 part of O makes water)
There are laws of astronomy (the courses of the planets, - the traffic laws of the skies)
Laws demand a lawgiver.
The great order in the universe demands a Great Mind.
The great laws of the universe demand a Great Lawmaker.
That Great Mind, that Great Lawmaker we call - God
5.The argument to the Great Judge
Sometimes you feel like patting yourself on the back for something you did.
Sometimes you feel you deserve a good swift kick for something you did.
There is a law written in your heart, - the law of your conscience –
Telling you there is a Judge
Who will reward for good
and punish for evil
This Great Judge we call - God
6.The argument from Universal Belief
No nation or tribe, no matter how uncivilized,
how isolated,
has been without religion.
Common sense, therefore, - the common sense of all nations and tribes – the common sense of the whole human race – tells us that human reason demands belief in the existence of God.
An Example or Two to Use on Your Friends
If this clock could make itself –
You need no clockmaker to explain that the clock is there.
Here’s another clockwork –
Everything on time – seasons, tides, years, months, days, the position
of the PLANETS and the STARS, etc.
If
