Category: Existence of God
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Before the Big Bang: What Science and Scripture Say
“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.” — Job 38:4 “Thus says God, the LORD, who created the heavens and stretched them out” – Isaiah 42:5 Before we even explore scientific theories, it is striking that Scripture has spoken for millennia…
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What the World’s Leading Cosmologists Actually Say About the Beginning of the Universe
A Ready Reference For years, public conversations about cosmology have been flooded with claims that modern physics allows for a past-eternal universe, or that the scientific community has moved away from any notion of a cosmic beginning. These claims are repeated often—but they collapse the moment we examine what the…
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The Kalam Reimagined
A Published Philosophical and Scientific Argument for a Personal Creator Abstract This paper presents a contemporary refinement of the Kalam Cosmological Argument, integrating developments in analytic philosophy and modern cosmology to argue for the existence of a transcendent personal Creator. Rather than beginning with theological premises, the argument proceeds from…
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The Argument from Counterfeit Longing
Why Persistent Doubt May Reveal the Very God It Denies “You will seek Me and find Me, when you seek Me with all your heart.” — Jeremiah 29:13 (ESV) There are moments in apologetics when a familiar question suddenly opens a new door. Someone recently asked whether doubt could point toward…
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Why Human Well-Being Points to God — Not Away from Him
“He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” — Micah 6:8 (ESV) Why the Moral Argument Still Matters In a world where morality is treated like a…
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The Comparative Convincingness Scale (CCS)
Why Arguments Persuade — and How to Measure It Introduction Too often—among both theists and skeptics—an exchange ends with the shrug, “I don’t find that convincing.” Then the conversation stalls. Rarely does the speaker say what isn’t convincing or why. That phrase is universally available: anyone can deploy it against any argument, strong or weak, without touching…
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The Divine Author
Why the Bible’s Coherence Points to God “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.” — 2 Timothy 3:16 “For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but holy men of God spoke as they were carried along by the Holy…
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The Man Who Pointed to God
John the Baptist “As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: ‘Behold, I send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way’ — the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight’” — Mark 1:2–3 In a world skeptical…
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Why AI Can’t Think—and Why That Points to God
The Argument from Consciousness “What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?” Psalm 8:4 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is astonishing. It writes essays, paints images, diagnoses diseases, and even composes music. I use AI myself to brainstorm ideas, refine drafts,…
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The Fatal Flaw in Subjective Morality
“If you believe morality is subjective, not objective, please supply evidence for subjectivity—without relying on any objective claims.” The Trap Few See Coming In conversations about faith and morality—especially online—you’ll often hear someone say, “Morality is subjective.” They might follow that up with, “There’s no right or wrong, just preferences,”…
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The Argument from Many Arguments
Why the Case for God Is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts “A convergence of arguments, each pointing in the same direction, may have more power collectively than any one of them alone.” — C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain Many Roads, One Destination There is a unique type of…
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Time Travel, Paradox, and the Mind Behind the Cosmos
What Closed Timelike Curves Reveal About God “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.” — Psalm 90:2 What If Time Looped? Imagine you could go back in time and prevent your own birth by…
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Unseen but Essential
What Dark Matter Teaches Us About Believing in God “For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made.” — Romans 1:20 We live in a world full of unseen realities.…
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