Category: Arguments for God’s Existence
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Debate Part 2 – A Christian and an Athiest Discuss Faith, Free Will, and the Bible
Below you will find part 2 of my debate with local Owensboro atheist and founder of the Owensboro Humanists, Matt White. In the previous podcast, we discussed issues of God’s existence, atheism accounting for the universe, and moral objectivity. In part 2, I answer why Christian’s live by faith and what that means. I also…
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Debate Part 1 – A Christian and an Athiest Discuss God, Faith, Morality, and the Universe
About two weeks ago, I engaged in a debate with Matt White, an atheist from here in my city of Owensboro. We had dialogued in the past about numerous topics and he invited me to be a part of his podcast for the local humanist group. The debate was not really a formal debate, but…
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Defending God’s Existence: Why Morality, A Finely Tuned Universe, The Soul, Beauty, and Desire Point to God (Audio)
One of the goals of Christian apologetics is to look at all the different features of reality and show how they are best explained by the Christian worldview. If Christianity is true, we should expect it to make better sense of the world around us than any other competing view. For someone examining Christianity from…
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Apologetics Class #4 – God is the Cause of the Universe (audio)
During week 4 of the Apologetics class at PVCC, we discuss the Kalam Cosmological Argument. The argument basically goes like this: Everything that begins to exist has a cause. The universe began to exist. Therefore, the universe has a cause. From here, we look at would could be the cause of all space, time, matter,…
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Evidence for Christianity – Consciousness, the Soul, & the Will
“Why naturalism fails to explain matters of the mind” Following the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species in 1859, western culture experienced an enormous shift in its foundation of thought. Darwin proposed a purely naturalistic mechanism to account for the diversity of life on earth, eliminating the need for a deity of any sort. Beginning…
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Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?
The Christian faith rests primarily on one specific historical event: the resurrection of Jesus. If the resurrection of Jesus proves to be a true fact of history, Christianity is validated. If proved false, Christians are left with an empty, useless faith. This is why the apostle Paul said, “if Christ has not been raised, then…
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Does God Exist? – Two Arguments
The question of God’s existence carries with it tremendous implications for mankind. In a universe without God, life is ultimately void of meaning and purpose and the cosmos is doomed to a cold, dark, and lifeless future. Man exists as nothing more than a cosmic accident. However, if God truly exists, then the universe has…
Jordan D. Tong 