If someone asks me, “Why do you believe in God?” I don’t necessarily say “I just have faith.”
Many might say that. But for someone who asks that question, I need to know how to defend my faith. So my response is this:
I think it’s very reasonable to believe in God. Let me tell you why:
1. The universe exists and it must have a cause, everything that begins to exist has a cause. The universe began to exist. Evolution can’t create, neither can science. The universe needs a first cause that is timeless, outside the system and infinitely powerful. God is the logical first cause (cosmological argument)
2. The universe is finely tuned, there is order in the universe at work that allows for planets, stars and galaxies. There are laws in the universe, constants like gravity, relativity, and so on. It’s reasonable that when we find mathematical laws and cosmological laws in the universe, that there is a powerful being that created those systems (argument from design)
3. Within the human cell we find massive amounts of information. When we look at the human eye, we see a system so incredibly complicated that it could never come about by chance. When scientists look into the human body they see a complex yet harmonious system of machinery. We see cells and tissue, and DNA and systems that all function as one, and are irreducibly complex. (specified complexity, irreducibly complexity).
4. The human mind intuitively knows that there is good and evil, right and wrong, good and bad. Objective moral laws exist, they are universal. If objective morals exist, then an objective moral law giver must exist, therefore God exists. (moral argument)
You’re just making assertions.
1) Are morals absolute? You need to explain further. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptive_ethics
2) Does the above prove the existance of a Christian god? I don’t see a connection
3) Does the above prove the need of an organized religion?
4) Does the above prove the need of developing religion as a social-political organization?
1. He picked objective, not absolute because It’s a better fit to explain morality. Absolute means, regardless of the circumstances. “Murder Is wrong, regardless of the circumstances” is incorrect because of the circumstances change it could be self-defense or execution. Those both have different arguments whether they’re moral, because different circumstances. Objective means “Independent of people’s opinion” and fits better in this meaning. “It’s never ok to torture the innocent for pleasure, independent of people’s opinion” describes an objective moral value. The point is if God exists, there are objective moral values. If there are objective moral values, God exists.
2, 3, 4 No, it’s not trying to, because that was not the question. You have to answer the question whether it makes sense that God exists in the first place before you can answer which God exists and which gods are man made.
The next questions could be “Has this God tried to communicate with us? Is there a metanaritive already in place that accounts for these 4 arguments? If this God exsists, what should we do with this knowledge?” But different people have different questions.
Hope this helps. 🙂