2-9: Why I Believe
It is always wrong everywhere for anyone to believe anything on the grounds of insufficient evidence.
In particular it involves a situation that has these three conditions: the choices that you’re facing are live, momentous, and a forced decision:
1. A live option.
2. The issue is momentous.
3. A decision is forced.
I believe that the way that people argue suggests that God exists
When outsiders who have never heard of God’s law follow it more or less by instinct, they confirm its truth by their obedience. They show that God’s law is not something alien, imposed on us from without, but woven into the very fabric of our creation. There is something deep within them that echoes God’s yes and no, right and wrong. Romans 2:14-15 (The Message)
I believe the existence of human beings, of personal creatures, argues for the existence of God.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked Jeremiah 17:9 (NIV)
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! …. 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known… 1 John 3 (NIV)
When you look at persons, they all have this drive to have a purpose, to have a meaning, to have significance, and I believe that our drive for purpose is another evidence for the existence of God.
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:8,9 (NIV)