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I am making 2 claims. 1 that God exists. 2 that Christianity is the correct religion. I have provided 1 argument for each. KCA P1) Everything that Begins to exist has a cause. P2) The Universe began to exist. C1) Therefore, the Universe has a cause. P1 is rooted in the law of Cause and Effect. For every effect, there must be a cause. P2 is proven by the Borde-Guth-Vilenkin Theorem, which states that any universe which has been, on average, expanding throughout its history must have a beginning [1]. The universe is expanding [2]. Thus it began to exist. Thus there is a cause of the universe. It must be timeless and immaterial since both time and material arose with the universe [3]. It must be extremely powerful, if not omnipotent, since it caused a universe with no preexisting material. It must be a free agent since there were no preexisting conditions to determine how it acted. Since it is free, it must have the capacity to be personal. These attributes are the very definition of God. Jesus of Nazareth There are certain historical facts that support the proposition that Jesus was resurrected. These facts are: 1. After his crucifixion, Jesus was buried in a tomb by Joseph of Arimathea. Some reasons to accept this as fact include that there is no alternative burial story. If this was a myth, there ought to be some record of what actually happened. Reason 2 is that Joseph of Arimathea is not likely to be a Christian invention. Christians were angry at the Jewish leadership for their role in the Jesus" death [4]. Joseph of Arimathea was part of the Sanhedrin, so it is unlikely that Christians would invent him [5]. 2. After his crucifixion, his tomb was found empty by some of his women followers. One reason to accept it as fact is that women found his grave. Women"s testimony was discounted in first Century Palestine [6]. If the writers of the Gospels were lying, they surely would have tried to make their story more reliable by sending men to "discover" the empty tomb. Furthermore, the Jewish Leaders first response to the claim that Jesus was resurrected was to claim that the disciples had stolen the body, not to point out an occupied tomb and laugh away the disciples [7]. Thus we have evidence that the tomb was empty. 3. People experienced appearances by Jesus after his crucifixion. We have reason to believe that this is true. There are only 3 options. These people were lying, hallucinating, or they actually saw Jesus. Lying fails to explain why 10 of the disciples were martyred for their Faith. People often die for lies that they believe to be truth, but the disciples would have known if they were lying. The problem with hallucination is that it fails to account for the physical experiences described in these accounts. After his crucifixion, he had supposedly eaten with his disciples [8]. The problem it encounters is that the disciples would have known that it was just a hallucination because they would have realized that they were still hungry because they had not actually eaten. There is a greater underlying problem though: that of simultaneous hallucination. It is immensely improbable that all of the disciples had the exact same hallucination at the exact same time. Thus the most probable explanation is that they actually saw Jesus alive after his crucifixion. 4. The disciples believed that Jesus was alive despite much evidence that he was not. (1) their leader was crucified, and the Jews had no belief in a dying messiah. (2) according to Jewish law, Jesus' crucifixion showed that he was a heretic. Not only was their leader gone, but his death showed that the Sanhedrin had been right. Yet, the disciples were still willing to die for their belief in the Resurrection. What is the best explanation for these facts? The Christian can readily answer: "Jesus rose from the dead." C.B. McCullagh provides 6 tests that historians use to determine the best explanation for historical facts, which the Christian's answer passes [9]: 1. Great explanatory scope. Explains why Jesus' tomb was empty, why the disciples saw after death appearances of Jesus and why Christianity grew as fast as it did. 2. Great explanatory power. Explains why Jesus' body was gone, why people saw him alive despite seeing him crucified. 3. It is plausible. Given Jesus' unparalleled life, it is perfectly possible that divine resurrection happened. 4. It is not ad hoc or contrived. The only assumption that one needs to make is that God exists, which I have already demonstrated. 5. It is in accordance with accepted beliefs. The belief that God raised Jesus from the dead does not run afoul with the belief that people don't naturally rise from the dead. 6. It far exceeds other explanations in meeting conditions 1-5. Hypotheses like the hallucination and conspiracy hypotheses have been broadly rejected or simply can't provide an explanation as well as the claim that Jesus rose from the dead. All sources in comments.