God Exists

Hello, I look forward to discussing this subject with you. My arguments for the existence of God are as follows: 1. Good and Evil As Ravi Zacharias points out in 'Jesus Among Other Gods' one cannot criticize God for the existence of evil in the world without accepting a moral law exists in the universe differentiating between good and evil. A moral law can exist only if there is a moral lawgiver who not only institutes said law but serves as its standard. Ravi furthermore points out that questioning why evil occurs to humans inherently assumes humans have intrinsic worth and value, which can be true only if they are given that inherent value by a Creator. "When you say there is evil, aren't you admitting there is good? When you accept the existence of goodness, you must affirm a moral law on the basis of which to differentiate between good and evil. But when you admit to a moral law, you must posit a moral lawgiver. That, however, is who you are trying to disprove and not prove. For if there is no moral lawgiver, there is no moral law. If there is no moral law, there is no good. If there is no good, there is no evil. What then is your question?" http://xwalk.ca... "You may ask, Why does assuming a moral law necessitate a moral lawgiver? Because every time the question of evil is raised, it is either by a person or about a person"and that implicitly assumes that the question is a worthy one. But it is a worthy question only if people have intrinsic worth, and the only reason people have intrinsic worth is that they are the creations of One who is of ultimate worth. That person is God. So the question self-R03;destructs for the naturalist or the pantheist. The question of the morality of evil or pain is valid only for a theist." http://www.rzim.org... I believe it was C.S. Lewis who once pointed out that the man who says there is no good and evil will cry foul when he is the one being wronged. Those who claim absolute right and wrong do not exist nonetheless show a knowledge of the concept when they are the ones being wronged. The founding fathers themselves recognized that for humans to have inalienable rights, these must be given by a Creator. This is referenced by Thomas Jefferson in both the Declaration of Independence and Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, and by James Madison in Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments. 2. Existence of Matter According to the second law of thermodynamics, matter decays. Matter is temporal, not self-existent. If matter could pop into nowhere from nothing we should see little big bangs occurring in the universe all the time, but not once have we ever witnessed such an occurrence. See also the law of conservation of energy which states that energy in an isolated system cannot be created or destroyed, it can only change form. For there to have been a Big Bang where particles collided, you must first explain where particles came from when multiple laws of the universe show the temporal nature of matter should not allow it to self-exist. The atheist will doubtless ask where God comes from, but this inherently assumes God would be bound by the same physical laws that make a purely physical beginning impossible! Only by inferring the existence of another dimension like the spiritual and an intelligent, self-existent being like God can one explain where anything physical could come from. In other words, while the physical cannot be self-existent or eternal, a spiritual dimension would not necessarily involve the same limitations, and as such a spiritual being would be outside the laws of physics that make Big Bang theory in its current form impossible. 3. Nietzsche's Prophecy A powerful, recent case of the supernatural imitating a Biblical example of God's intervention ironically occurred to one of the best-known atheists in history, Friedrich Nietzsche. After declaring 'God is dead' and books attacking Jesus called "The AntiChrist: Curse on Christianity" and "Ecce Homo" (his autobiography lauding himself), Nietzsche suffered a bout of insanity in 1899 and mailed a number of letters before dying from pneumonia. In these letters, Nietzsche prophesied the coming of World War II fifty years later and signed his name as "The Crucified" in an apparent warning to the Jewish people. "The passion of my last work has something terrible about it. Yesterday I read it with the most profound astonishment as though it were something new." -Friedrich Nietzsche to Karl Fuces, December 14, 1887 http://archive.org... Ah ! if you could only know what I had been writing when your letter reached me ! With a cynicism which will become part of the world s history I have now related "myself." The book is called "Ecce Homo", and is an onslaught on the Crucified without the ghost of a scruple; it ends with thunderclaps and lightning flashes, that deafen and blind, against everything that is Christian or tainted with Christianity." -Friedrich Nietzsche to Georg Branded, November 20, 1888 http://archive.org... "You may make any use of this letter which will not degrade me in the eyes of those at Basel. I have had Caiaphas put in fetters. Also, last year I was crucified by the German doctors in a very drawn-out manner. Wilhelm, Bismarck, and all anti-Semites abolished." -Friedrich Nietzsche to Jacob Burkhardt, January 6, 1889 The Portable Nietzsche, pp. 685-687. "To my maestro Pietro. Sing me a new-song: the world is transfigured and all the heavens are full of joy. -The Crucified" -Friedrich Nietzsche to Gast, January 4, 1889 The Portable Nietzsche, p. 685. "On the other hand it is anti-German to the point of annihilation. I have kept firmly on the side of French culture throughout (I treat German philosophers, en masse, as unconscious counterfeiters). Nor is the book tedious here and there I have even written in the style of 'Prado'. In order to guard against German brutalities (confiscation) I shall send the first copies, previous to publication, to Prince Bismarck and the young Kaiser, accompanied by a written declaration of war. Soldiers cannot answer that sort of thing by police measures." -Friedrich Nietzsche to Strindberg, December 7, 1889 http://archive.org... "You will hear from me shortly about your short story it goes off like a gunshot. I have appointed a meeting day of monarchs in Rome. I shall order to be shot." -Friedrich Nietzsche to Strindberg, December 31, 1888 http://archive.org... "I myself am working on a promemoria for the European palaces with an intent of an anti-German league. I ordain to constrict the Reich in an iron shirt and to provoke war of desperation" -Friedrich Nietzsche to Overbeck http://www.bu.edu... Wilhelm II would become the Emperor of Germany just months after Nietzsche wrote this, and replace Otto von Bismarck, the nationalistic German Chancellor who'd unified Germany. Caiaphas was the Jewish high priest at the time of Jesus (Matthew 26:3). In other letters, Nietzsche also commanded the German emperor to go to Rome to be shot, and summoned the European powers to take military action against Germany. http://en.wikipedia.org... http://topics.nytimes.com... http://www.jstor.org... God likewise caused opponents who became proud to go insane or in Paul's case, blind, in the Bible, using them as prophets, e.g. Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 4:28-37), King Saul (1 Samuel 19:18-24), and the Apostle Paul (Acts 9:1-22).