A 30 Second Argument For God

God
Does

Does
God Exist?
An Argument for God in 30 Seconds

God
Does

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God
Does

Exist?

“Why do we have something rather than
nothing at all?”
- Martin Heidegger, “The Fundamental Question of Metaphysics”

Comes back to – Does God exist?

God
Does

Exist?
Four theoretical answers:

1. Reality is an illusion
2. Reality is/was self-created
3. Reality is self-existent (eternal)
4. Reality was created by something that is self-
existent


God
Does

Exist?
A simple proof for God

1. Something exists
2. Nothing cannot cause something
3. Therefore, a necessary and eternal Being exists

- Jonathan Edwards (who massaged it from John Locke)


God
Does

Exist?

Can the existence of God be argued for in 30
seconds or less?


God
Does

Exist?
Start the stopwatch…here we go.
1. I exist.
2. If I exist, then something must have always existed,
because something doesn‟t come from nothing.
3. So we have 2 choices: An impersonal eternality (the
universe) or a personal eternality (God).
4. Science has disproven the concept of an eternal universe.
5. Therefore, God exists.


God
Does

Exist?
1. I exist.

You must exist to express doubt that you exist.

Denying your existence is a self-
defeating statement.

“I think, therefore I am.” - Descartes


God
Does

Exist?
2. If I exist, then something must have always existed
because something doesn‟t come from nothing.

“Nothing is what rocks dream about.”
- Aristotle, Philosopher

“I never asserted so absurd a proposition
as that anything might arise without a
cause.”
- David Hume, Skeptic/Atheist

God
Does

Exist?
How to think about true „nothingness‟…

particles matter

…everything
energy
motion
space


God
Does

Exist?
True „nothingness‟…


God
Does

Exist?
3. Two Options:

1. An Eternal Universe (impersonal eternality)
“The Cosmos is all there will ever be” – Carl Sagan.

2. An Eternal Creator (personal eternality)
“In the beginning, God…” – Genesis.


God
Does

Exist?

The fact is: The Universe had a beginning.

• Everything that has a beginning has a cause
• The universe had a beginning
• Therefore, the universe had a cause

“Philosophically, the notion of a beginning of the present order of Nature is
repugnant…I should like to find a genuine loophole.” – Sir Arthur Eddington


God
Does

Exist?
Proof Point 1: The universe is running down.

• Something that is running down must have started at some
point
• The 2nd law of thermodynamics states that the universe is
running out of usable energy
• If you doubt this, look in the mirror (you‟re aging and
running down)
• First law of thermodynamics is philosophical in nature;
can‟t be empirically proven

God
Does

Exist?

Proof Point 2: The universe is expanding.
• Confirmed through the Hubble telescope
• It‟s expanding from a single point
• Universe is not expanding into space, but space itself is
expanding
• Commonly called the “Big Bang” – nothing, then BANG –
something


God
Does

Exist?

Proof Point 3: Radiation echo.

• Discovered by Bell Labs scientists Penzias and Wilson in
1965
• Afterglow from the Big Bang; won Penzias & Wilson Nobel
Prize
• Death blow to any theory of the universe being in a steady
state


God
Does

Exist?

Proof Point 4: Galaxy Seeds.
• If Big Bang was true, then temperature “ripples” should exist
• These ripples would enable matter to collect into galaxies
• Cosmic Background Explorer – COBE – launched in 1989 to find
them
• Findings released in 1992 – perfect/precise ripples found to
enable galaxies to form
“If you‟re religious, it‟s like looking at God”
- George Smoot, NASA, COBE Lead

God
Does

Exist?

Proof Point 5: Einstein‟s theory of relativity.
• Einstein‟s pantheistic bias originally influenced his original
formula
• He was proven wrong by another mathematician (he actually
divided by zero)
• Einstein called it the worst mistake he‟d ever made
• Theory demands an absolute beginning for time, space, and
matter
“I want to know how God created the universe”
- Albert Einstein

God
Does

Exist?
Still…some scientists try get around this fact by saying:
• Life on earth originated from a rocket sent from outer space (F.H. Crick,
co-discoverer of DNA and Richard Dawkins, famed atheist)
• Collapsing universes (disproven from galaxy seeds; not enough energy)
• Imaginary time (Stephen Hawking)

"If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe
in God." - Lord Kelvin, British Scientist

“In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form
a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down.” –
Stephen Hawking

God
Does

Exist?
Something else to consider on an impersonal eternality…

Would it not be strange that an impersonal, amoral, and
purposeless/meaningless universe accidentally created
personal beings that are obsessed with right/wrong, meaning,
and purpose? In addition, the question of unity and diversity
arise. Unity may be explained by an impersonal eternality, but
not diversity.

An impersonal eternality means everything must come from
impersonality plus time plus chance. No other factors are involved.

God
Does

Exist?
The Personal, Infinite, and Triune God
Father

God

Spirit Son
Is not

Unity in Diversity

God
Does

Exist?
The atheist‟s response?

“The universe is just there…” – Carl Sagan

“There doesn‟t need to be a reason…” – Atheist on Christian
Forum

When the atheist makes this statement, they do so by faith alone.
Out the door go all the logic, science, reason, and touch-and-feel-it
evidence atheists claim are so necessary to believe in God. Now it
becomes a matter of the will.

God
Does

Exist?
The atheist‟s response?

“Evolution disproves God.”

How does evolution answer the question of existence?

Only two choices – matter before mind or mind before matter. “It is
strange that some people claim that it is their intelligence that
leads them to prefer the first to the second.” – John Lennox


God
Does

Exist?
OK, but…Who created God?

Category mistake (e.g. Where is the bachelor‟s wife?)

Irrelevant as you must go back to an eternal „something‟

The evidence points away from an impersonal eternal universe and
toward a powerful, intelligent, moral personal Creator


God
Does

Exist?
So….
• If I exist, and…
• If something eternal exists (because something doesn‟t
come from nothing), and…
• If there are only two possible eternal entities (an eternal
universe or an eternal creator), and…
• If an eternal universe has been disproven (and it has),
then…
An eternal Creator exists.


God
Does

Plain
“Open your eyes, there it is!” – Romans 1:19 The Message


God
Does

Exist?
Yes, God exists.

• He is the reason we have something instead of nothing
• He is the creator of the heavens and the earth
• He is the reason you can read this right now – that you exist
at all


God
Does

“In the beginning God created…”


God
Does

Does
God Exist?
Yes, He Does!


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