Books:
Reason for God by Tim Keller (RFG)
Essential Christianity by JD Greear (EC)
He Is There and He Is Not Silent by Francis Schaeffer (HITAHINS)
God Is Great God Is Good edited by William Lane Craig (GIGGIG)
Secular Creed by Rebecca Mclaughlin (SC)
The Battle For The Beginning by John MacArthur (TBFTB)
Crew & You:
YT https://www.youtube.com/@thecrewandyou2025
Spot https://open.spotify.com/show/6hR2jWV6YoRfPMjpKNislp?si=2cdab5513927436c
Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-crew-and-you/id1845401695
Romans 1:18-20
Cosmological: The evidence of existence
1. Everything that begins to exist has a cause
2. The universe began to exist
3. Therefore, the universe has a cause
“Nothing times nobody can’t equal everything” (EC)
“It is said that an argument is what convinces reasonable men and a proof is what it takes to convince even an unreasonable man. With the proof now in place, cosmologists can no longer hide behind the possibility of a past-eternal universe. There is no escape they have to face the problem of a cosmic beginning.” -Alexander Vilenkin: Many Worlds in One
“It is not that this is the best answer to existence; it is the only answer. That is why we may hold our Christianity with intellectual integrity. The only answer for what exists is that God the infinite personal God really is there.” (HITAHINS)
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God made the heavens and the earth
Teleological: The evidence of design
“When you look from the perspective of a scientist at the universe it looks as if it knew we were coming. There are 15 constants the gravitational constant, various constants about the strong and weak nuclear force, etc that have precise values. If any one of those constants was off by even one part in a million or in some cases by one part in a million million the universe could not have actually come to the point where we see it. Matter would not have been able to coalesce there would have been no galaxy stars planets or people.” -Francis Collins: Language of God
Irreducible complexity: A system that requires all its components simultaneously to function, meaning it cannot be created by minor sequential additions.
Moral: The evidence of objective moral values
1. If God does not exist, objective moral values and duties do not exist
2. Objective moral values and duties do exist
3. Therefore, God exists
Romans 2:14-15
“Without the God of the Bible, our ideas of human equality and justice have no foundation...the very idea of human rights is, as Harari argues a Christian invention. So we need Christianity to be right for human rights abuses to be wrong.” (SC)
“The universe we observe has … no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. … DNA neither knows nor cares. DNA just is. And we dance to its music” -River out of Eden, Dawkins
Existential: The evidence of desire for meaning in life
“Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made
for another world.” -Mere Christianity
Eccl 3:11
Beauty: The evidence of admiration & creative expression
“Atheism has no answer whatsoever to the question of how this animated sack of accidental chemicals you and me could be capable of love or heroism or poetry” (A.N. Wilson quoted in Essential Christianity)
1. If Christianity is true then certain features should characterize human beings
2. Those features characterize human beings
3. Thus, these features provide a degree of confirmation for Christianity. These features characterize God & moreover come from Him. He made us to have them
Jesus: The evidence of the historical reality: Life death and resurrection of Jesus Christ
Hebrews 1:1-3
