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The website of good reasons for why you can be a Christian |
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To ask "How do you know God exists" only makes sense if we have first answered the question:
Under that question we concluded that all knowledge comes from a varying mixture of reason, experience and authority. We will therefore argue that it is reasonable to believe that God exists based on the evidence that Reason, Experience, and Authority provide us. Because each of the three is involved in any kind of knowing, there will be some overlap in each discussion. First we will look at the evidence from pure reason, logic and science. None of these evidences will be sufficient alone, but together a dispassionate jury would find the argument compelling.
In addition to the tools of reason, knowledge of both our nature as seekers and the nature of the God we seek affects the way we search. We are not just dispassionate jurors examining the evidence in the case for the existence of God. We are one of the parties involved. Whether or not there is a God actively involved in our lives impacts on the very meaning and purpose of our lives. Consider the difference in the knowledge that comes to us when we hear objective statistics about an earth quake in a far away land compared to the knowledge that comes to us from being in an earth quake and seeing our loved ones killed or injured. Much of the total story of what happened would be missing from a purely objective report. A true retelling of the earthquake requires both kinds of knowledge. The same is true for the telling of an encounter with God because: Some kinds of knowledge require participation as a self. With this in mind, we will examine the arguments from experience presented by Pascal, Kierkegaard and Simone Weil.
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When the claims of Christ are truly understood, there are only two choices: To bend one's knee or take offence ... |