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This website is mostly aimed at providing arguments and evidence for the non-Christian, the Christian who may be struggling with what he or she believes, or those Christians who are interested in reaching out to others.
My opinions may contradict what other Christians believe, but many of my arguments are also based on arguments given by a variety of Christian sources. I especially owe a debt of gratitude to the writings of Glenn Miller, J.P. Holding, Paul Maier, Grant R. Jeffrey, Lee Strobel, and Gerald Schroeder.
Please feel free to borrow ideas or arguments of mine (since many of them were not mine to begin with). I do ask that if you quote from my site directly, to please credit me.
Why Believe In God, If God Cannot Be Proven To Exist?
Technically speaking, nothing can be 100% proven. We consider something 'proven' when the evidence favors it more than it opposes it. So the question is not 'can God be proven to exist?', but 'does the evidence favor the existence of God more than it favors the idea that there is no God?'. When dealing with the question of God's existence, we would not only look at the scientific evidence (which alone, I believe, strongly favors God's existence), but also the philosophical and spiritual evidence as well. For example, if someone were to ask you whether or not love existed, I doubt you would deal only with the scientific evidence, but would deal with the questions of why people risk their lives to save others, or why a couple will stay together for many years, forsaking all others. The only way that we can absolutely know something to be true is to experience it ourselves. For example, if you've never been to Singapore, believing in the existence of Singapore can only be done on faith. You can see it on maps, read about Singapore in books, or talk to people who claim to have been there, but you would have to have faith that these maps, books, and people are truthful. Only once you've gone to Singapore can you know, without relying on faith, that Singapore exists. Yet most of us believe, by faith, that Singapore exists. The only way to know, for sure, that God exists is to make the attempt to experience God in your life. This can be done through prayer, through reading the Bible and applying it to your life, and through going to church.