God’s Existence
The Most Compelling Argument For God’s Existence
A children’s eyes view of what God is how to think about God you sort of think of God still as the old man in the sky who’s controlling things what if what in your opinion is the most reasonable proof of God what have you found to be the most convincing proof of God’s existence well I think
that those are two questions for me my favorite argument for the existence of God that I find the most compelling is a version of the cosmological argument which goes like this whatever begins to exist has a cause something can’t just come into being from nothing secondly the universe began to exist I think we have both good philosophical arguments and scientific evidence for the finitude of the past from which it follows third therefore the universe has a cause and when you do a conceptual analysis of what it is to be a cause of the universe you arrive at a being which is an uncaused beginningless timeless spaceless
enormously powerful personal creator of the universe so for me that is a very convincing argument for God but I find that with university students that’s not the most convincing argument you can ignore philosophical arguments for the finitude of the past or scientific evidence for the beginning of the universe but the argument that they find I think the most compelling is what I call the moral argument and it would go like this one if God does not exist then objective moral values and duties do not exist that is to say in the absence of God everything’s becomes
socio-culturally relative to but objective moral values and duties do
exist there are some moral absolutes some objective values and duties therefore God exists now this is an argument which is impossible I think to ignore because every day you get up you answer by how you treat other people whether you regard them as having intrinsic moral value or whether they are mere means to be used for your ends and so this argument I find tends to be the most convincing for people