What is the Most Convincing Argument for God?

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. . . Why does an all powerful God need to intervene in physical processes when it was God that created physical reality from nothing!? It doesn’t make sense, and that’s why I cannot support ID theory.
I don’t know much about ID. It seems you believe that God did not and perhaps does not participate in the workings of nature. He created them in the knowledge that they themselves would ultimately create people. It sounds like a design argument to me. Again, I don’t know much about it.
 
All of nature reveals the presence of its Creator, the Triune Godhead.
From the smallest to the largest, all exists in relation to all else and to its Source.
An infinite symphony covering the extent of time and space, it all is, as part of His Divine plan.

God is here right now: Father to our existence, the human incarnate Son and Way to communion within the Trinity through the grace of His Holy Spirit.
We are here and now on a journey, participants in time, which He created and began some thirteen billion years ago.

It all started with a universe of light, hotter than the hottest sun, emerging from a single point of infinite density.
As it grew in size, distance-time being one of the basic relational properties of what constitutes matter, the small subatomic particles that existed about half a million years into the process, slowed down and interacted to form the protons, neutrons and electrons that would then come together as atoms.
We see levels of creation, from a substrate of light, “spoken” by God, taking shape over time, as individual expressions of material form are successively brought together, parts of an inclusive whole, which forms the substratum of the next level of creation.

What this means may be obvious.
We as individual persons constitute a whole as we exist in ourselves.
This is far more complex but similar to the whole that is each animal, each plant, each unicellular creature, as they all exist in themselves.
Life is one step up from the unity that are physical, organic and nonorganic substances, which in turn are one step up from the subatomic processes which form their constituent parts.

All that exists does so in relation to everything else.
We see this in the most basic of material structures, in the laws and principles that define what they are and what they do.
In mankind, this relational nature is fulfilled in our capacity to give of ourselves to what is other., which thereby allows us to enter into communion with the Source of all this wonder.
Yes I agree that there are in fact holistic beings or natures. I do not disagree with what you have written here.👍
 
Aquinas’s argument from motion is incredible. You need to understand the Aristotelian concepts behind it though. I suggest Edward Feser’s The Last Superstition or Aquinas for a good demonstration and explanation of all of Aquinas’s arguments. He addresses their objections and misunderstandings. Another simple and powerful one is Leibniz’s argument from contingency. Craig gives a good version of it here:

reasonablefaith.org/argument-from-contingency

The Kalam Cosmological argument is also good, but I’m not so sure how it works if one assumes a B-theory version of time (which I lean towards). Also Craig’s moral argument is pretty good.

Trent Horn covers a lot of Craig’s arguments in his book Answering Atheism. It’s a good book and easy read. Make sure to look in the back of his book to see all the objections to the arguments and his answers to them. It helps to give a deeper understanding of the arguments.

Also the historian NT Wright’s book The Resurrection of the Son of God is an incredibly dense read that gives you a ton of historical background on ancient Jews, Greeks, and the first century Church, in order to explain what happened on Easter morning. It starts to all come together by page 600, with the last couple hundred pages actually analyzing the resurrection’s historical place in first century Palestine. Amazing book.
 
Aquinas’s argument from motion is incredible. You need to understand the Aristotelian concepts behind it though. I suggest Edward Feser’s The Last Superstition or Aquinas for a good demonstration and explanation of all of Aquinas’s arguments. He addresses their objections and misunderstandings. Another simple and powerful one is Leibniz’s argument from contingency. Craig gives a good version of it here:

reasonablefaith.org/argument-from-contingency

The Kalam Cosmological argument is also good, but I’m not so sure how it works if one assumes a B-theory version of time (which I lean towards). Also Craig’s moral argument is pretty good.

Trent Horn covers a lot of Craig’s arguments in his book Answering Atheism. It’s a good book and easy read. Make sure to look in the back of his book to see all the objections to the arguments and his answers to them. It helps to give a deeper understanding of the arguments.

Also the historian NT Wright’s book The Resurrection of the Son of God is an incredibly dense read that gives you a ton of historical background on ancient Jews, Greeks, and the first century Church, in order to explain what happened on Easter morning. It starts to all come together by page 600, with the last couple hundred pages actually analyzing the resurrection’s historical place in first century Palestine. Amazing book.
Aquinas’ unmoved mover is also my favourite argument for God’s existence.👍
Its better than the Kalarm cosmological argument because it covers all the possible objections, and as you say a B theory of time needn’t hinder it.

I will check out the other books. Craig was one of the first favourites when I began searching for evidence of God.🙂

I’ve heard good things about NT Wrights book. I think Craig has covered his works before in an online debate.
 
Aquinas’ unmoved mover is also my favourite argument for God’s existence.👍
Its better than the Kalarm cosmological argument because it covers all the possible objections, and as you say a B theory of time needn’t hinder it.

I will check out the other books. Craig was one of the first favourites when I began searching for evidence of God.🙂

I’ve heard good things about NT Wrights book. I think Craig has covered his works before in an online debate.
Yeah definitely check out NT Wright. Here’s sort of a taste of his bigger book:

ntwrightpage.com/Wright_Historical_Problem.htm
 
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