Apologetics is the study, defense, and proving of facts by evidence. There are four primary arguments in Apologetics for the existence of God: The Cosmological Argument, The The Ontological Argument, The Teleological Argument and The Moral Argument. There are also scientific, archeological, and historical proofs that provide the reasonable person with sufficient proof that God must exist.
The Existence Of God
- The Cosmological Argument
- The The Ontological Argument
- The Teleological Argument
- The Moral Argument
- The Existence Of God
- Who Created God?
- Proving The Existence Of God
Proving The Existence Of God From Evidence
Atheists and critics of God and the Bible often assert that there is no provable evidence for God. In broad terms, anytime a person makes a general statement that includes the words “no evidence,” the credibility of that statement is in doubt. In order to truthfully state that there is no evidence, a person must have seen all of the evidence that exists for God in the world. Since it is not possible that anyone has seen all of the evidence that exists, it is impossible for any person to conclusively state that God does not exist. At best, all that an honest person can say is they don’t know if God exists.
In my 47 years of research through interviewing nearly one thousand atheists, I have found that rarely are there individuals who have actually conducted personal study into the available evidence that exists to prove God.
What I have found is that most atheists really don’t know if God exists by their own research; they rely primarily upon the information provided by other atheists. I found this manner of investigation quite disingenuous. When I began my own exploration into the true facts of whether God exists, I looked at both sides of the discussion and the evidence both atheists and theists have presented. I genuinely wanted to know the truth and I determined that I would not allow my own bias or the biases of those who defended each position, to influence my own conclusions. I followed the evidence to its natural conclusion, and a Being was the only logical and reasonable reason for why the universe exists. I explored all the major religions of the world and found one that was more intelligently presented, due largely to its singularities in presenting evidence that is credible and comes from extraordinary historical sources.
The general consensus that miracles are not possible and therefore the Bible cannot be true, is a preposterous proposition. Simply because man doesn’t understand how certain processes or events have taken place in the universe, does not mean they are impossible.
The idea that anything which appears as miraculous is contrary to the physical laws of the universe is incorrect. It is certain that there are aspects of physics, which are currently not understood, that could explain the supernatural events described by the four gospels as properties within the laws of physics.
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The physical laws of the universe do not define the outcome of events, only they manner in which they must occur. When Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, he still died later. Jesus did not violate the laws of physics He simply displayed His ability to suspend these laws for a moment in time.
What we find when we really study the text of the Bible is that sickness, suffering, and death were not a part of the original creation of God. Sin interrupted this perfection and caused our physical world to take an unnatural course. All that Jesus did in healing and raising the dead was to suspend the present law of sin and death for a time in order to demonstrate His credentials as the Creator of all that exists.
In scientific examination of the universe, we have knowledge today that many of the first processes the caused the commencement of the universe and its extraordinary expansion that produced stars, galaxies, planets and people, cannot be explained by natural processes. There is no natural process that could have produced the perfect balance of gravity and electromagnetism at one zeptosecond into the commencement of the universe. The precise balance of these two crucial elements must have been known before the universe began, and the process which caused their formation and balance, was precisely controlled.
Evolution and natural processes, are not capable of advanced knowledge and calculated outcomes. Only a thinking being with a mind that understands necessity, outcomes, and consequences, is capable of such feats of creation.
There are 209 of these fine-tuned physical constants that exist in our universe. Each one is precisely set to a specific balance. If any one of these constants are altered even slightly, within a tolerance a small as 1 part in 10^15, earth and human life would cease to exist.
Someone set these parameters because they knew they were necessary—before the universe began. These are the scientific facts of our universe that are observable and provable. All other theories of other universes and natural process, cannot be scientifically proven.
There is no evidence that proves our universe came into existence by an evolutionary process. In fact, evolution could never achieve the processes that we have observed at the conception of our universe. This leaves us with only one other alternative: the universe was caused purposely by a Being with the intelligence necessary to direct such a result.
However you might think of God in your own mind, the Being who likely created the universe we inhabit, was not much different from ourselves. He merely has far greater knowledge than we do, and with this knowledge, the ability to create worlds and people.
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In my professional opinion as one who was a former atheist 45 years ago, the evidence to prove God is quite overwhelming. The problem is that uniformed persons often do not know there is evidence, or they are unwilling to accept the evidence that is presented. God can be empirically proven from three primary sources: The universe, The text of the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures, and The historical record.
- The universe exists as the result of intelligent decisions that were known by foreknowledge before its commencement and every process necessary to make the universe viable for human life, was precisely controlled by specific procedures not possible by any natural process.
- The Hebrew and Greek scriptures of the Bible present the world with the most unique literature ever written. It is impossible to ignore the historical existence of the Jews and their extraordinary documentation for their God as they present Him in their scriptures.
- The historical record presents us with the largest body of observable eyewitness testimony ever written for one person from antiquity. We have in our possession today, 24,593 surviving manuscript copies of the New Testament that all describe one man who performed miracles predicted by the Old Testament prophets, was crucified on a Roman cross because He claimed to be God, and was seen alive—risen from the dead—three days later.
This website contains nearly 3,000 essays that document the evidence for these three primary proofs for God and allow the reader to possess sufficient knowledge to make an informed decision that God must exist.
The above three proofs, are supported by empirical evidence, which is documented in the articles in the remainder of this page:
- Why Many People Find No Evidence For God
- The Truth About Atheists And Evidence
- God’s Message To Former Christians Who Make Themselves His Enemies
Evidence From The Universe
- How The Physical Constants And Fine-Tuning Of The Universe Prove God Exists
- Evidence That God Exists, From The Universe
- Scientific Evidence For God: A Fine-Tuned Universe
- How God Created The Universe: Science And The Bible In Symmetry
- Noted Ph.D’s And Scientists Who Believe God Created The Universe
- Evidence For Fine-Tuning Of The Universe: 209 Physical Constants That Make Life On Earth Possible
- Impeaching The Atheist Excuse That There Is No Evidence For God
- The Possibilities Of Miracles And The Universe
- Accidents And The Universe: Can Complexity Result From Chance?
- The God Of The Bible Is Intricately Involved In Every Part Of The Universe
- Empirical Evidence Presented By The Universe, Proves God Exists
- How Intelligence Acted Upon The Universe
- It Is Inevitable That Science Will Acknowledge God As The Source Of The Universe
- God: As Creator, His Universe
- Origin Of The Universe
- The Universe Exists as Empirical Evidence For God
- Do We Live In An Accidental Universe?
- Origin Of Life And The Universe
- A Universe From God: The True Source Of The Cosmos
- God Is Necessary For The Universe To Exist
- Creation of the Universe
- The End of the Universe: Time and Eternity
- The Science Of Cosmology And The Bible
- The Big Bang And God
- The Universe as Evidence for God
- The Origin of the Universe and Life on Other Planets
- Ice Creme and the Universe
- An Impossible Universe
- The Beginning of the Universe: Reconciling 6 Days with 13.7 Billion Years
- The True Age of the Universe, and the Fall of Lucifer
Evidence From The Bible
- Impeaching Bart Ehrman
- Evidence That Jesus Claimed To Be God
- Can We Prove The Bible, By The Bible?
- The Primary Issues Of New Testament Criticism
- Historical, Evidentiary Proof Of New Testament Reliability
- Gone In 60 Seconds: Impeaching Every Atheist Assertion
- How Forensic Evidence Proves The New Testament Is Historical And Reliable
- Evidence For God: The Bible
- Proving The Exodus Happened, And Moses Wrote The Pentateuch
- Proving Moses Wrote Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, From Historical Evidence
- Impeaching Yale Professor Joel Baden And His Views On The Documentary Hypothesis
- Prophecy Is The Singularity That Distinguishes The God Of The Bible As Superior To All Others
- Why The New Testament Is a Valid Historical Narrative
- Alleged Textual Variants Of The New Testament Do Not Change The Narrative
- The Historical Documentation For Jesus’ Death And Resurrection
- Non-Biblical Sources For Jesus in the Historical Record
- The Four Gospels Were Not Written Anonymously
- The Internal Evidence Of The New Testament Proves Its Integrity And Reliability
- Evidence The Four Gospels Are Separate And Distinct Narratives
- The Truth Of The New Testament Is Not Defined By Opinion, Bias, Or, Doubt, But By Historical Evidence
- Is The Bible Reliable?
- Bible Contradictions And Difficulties
- The Transcendent Knowledge of the Bible
- The Reliability of the New Testament
- The New Testament Is Intended As Historical Accounts
- The New Testament is Written by Jews, About Jews, For Jews
- The New Testament Passes Every Literary Test of History
- Empirical Integrity of the New Testament
- New Testament Reliability
- Evidence Of New Testament Reliability: Reliance Upon The Old Testament
- The Key To Understanding The Bible
- New Testament Reliability: Eyewitnesses And Liars
- How Were The Disciples Able To Remember And Write All That Jesus Said And Did?
- Truth And Lies Regarding New Testament Reliability
- Impeaching The Atheist Excuse That There Is No Evidence For God
- How Liberal New Testament Scholars Deceive The World Today
- The New Testament Passes Every Literary Test of History
- Scholarly Evidence For Jesus Authenticity as the Messiah
- Empirical Integrity of the New Testament
- Impeaching The Idea That The New Testament Is Not True
- It Is Very Easy To Deceive An Atheist
The Historical Jesus
- Historical Evidence That Proves The Resurrection Of Jesus
- Evidence For God From History
- The Historical Documentation For Jesus’ Death And Resurrection
- Historical, Evidentiary Proof Of New Testament Reliability
- The Internal Evidence Of The New Testament Proves Its Integrity And Reliability
- The Historical Record Of Jesus Is The Largest In All Of Antiquity
- The Historical Record of Jesus Life from Secular Sources
- Tacitus as a Credible Witness
- The Historicity of Jesus from the Talmud and Josephus
- Evidence for God: What Kind of Proof are You Looking For?
- The Greatest And Most Astute Scholar In History Said That Jesus Is God And Messiah
- Evidence Of New Testament Reliability: Reliance Upon The Old Testament
- The Historical Records Of Jesus’ Life, Death, And Resurrection Are Unimpeachable
The Resurrection
- Historical Evidence That Proves The Resurrection Of Jesus
- Proving The New Testament Is A Reliable Narrative Of Jesus’ Crucifixion And Resurrection From Evidence
- The Secular Record of History, Proves That Jesus Rose From The Dead
- Empirical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
- Historical Evidence For Jesus Resurrection
- Is the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus Supported by Reliable Evidence?
- The Overwhelming Empirical Evidence for Jesus Death and Resurrection
- All Time and History Itself is Marked By Jesus Life, Death, and Resurrection
- The Certainty of the Resurrection
- The Hope of Resurrection and the Despair of Atheism
- The Resurrection, Fabrication or Fulfillment?
The Need For Salvation
- What Jesus Can Do For You That No Religion Can
- Why We Need A Savior
- Does God Harden Hearts?
- Change Your Life
- The Suffering of God at Man’s Unwillingness to be Saved
- Where True Wisdom Originates
- Why Jesus is Hated by the World and Rejected by Israel
- 10 Reasons Why Atheists Will Not Believe In God
- Receiving Heaven, Depends on the Condition of Your Heart
- 10 Important Differences Between The Believer And The Atheist
- If You Reject Jesus And Become His Adversary, God Will Prohibit You From Understanding Him In The Future.
- Examining The Claims Of Those Who Once Believed In Jesus: What Caused Their Unbelief?
- God’s Message To Former Christians Who Make Themselves His Enemies
Why The Bible Teaches One Way To Heaven
- Why God Chose Only One Way to Heaven
- Many god’s, Only One Became Our Servant
- Looking At God’s Law The Wrong Way
- Does God Harden Hearts?
- Do Good People Go To Heaven?
- One God, One Way
- Your Name Is Written In Heaven
- A Murderer Can Go To Heaven, While His Victim Goes To Hell
- How Could The Death of One Man Pay For the Sins of the World?
- Good People Don’t Go To Heaven
- Why Most People Will Not Make It To Heaven
- Only Perfect People Can Go To Heaven
- For Just One Sin…
- Who God Has Chosen For Salvation: Everyone
- The Requirements For Heaven
- The Rapture, the Tribulation, Heaven, Rewards, and God’s Final Judgment
- Receiving Heaven, Depends on the Condition of Your Heart
- Why Jesus is the Only Way to Heaven
- The Impending Judgement Of God Is About To Arrive
- Stupid And Consequences
- The Day Jesus Stumped The Greatest Scholars In Israel
- How To Find God
- If God Exists
- The Suffering Jesus Endured, Tells Us A Great Deal About God’s View Of Our Suffering
- He Spoke the Universe Into Existence, But He Spoke Not a Word in His Own Defense
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