A Defense for Christianity

In the day and world we live in we must have a defense for Christianity. It is not enough to say that Christ is Lord and so that is all we need to say. There has to been logic and reason to support the existence of God and reasons for us to believe that we is real. I want to present briefly five arguments for Christianity. 

Argument 1: The origin of the universe demands an uncaused, timeless,  very powerful Source that we call the Christian God.  (1) Something came from nothing; (2) The universe itself is eternal; or (3) The universe was created by something (or someone) eternal. 

There must be a source from which the universe came about. Science tries to explain this with the Big Bang Theory and Evolution but what they theories don't take into account is the fact that there is divine, supreme, power that is both creator of creation and ruler of all nations. There preceptive is off because of the science. Science does not discount God but these theories do. They don't explain the unexplainable. To say that God can be fully understood to shine a light of ignorance to who God is. He is the highest of highs, he is the greatest of greats. How do you define that in logic? You define God has that which can't be explained. 

Just as the question is often asked, Can God create a rock too big for God not to lift? Why, is this not true, because it is not in the nature of God to create something he can't do, because there is nothing that God can't do. There the question is God is not able to do that which is not in his nature such as lie, cheat, or steal. If he did than his supreme authority and power would be called into question.

Argument 2: The intricacy  of the universe on both a macro and a micro level indicates an Intelligent Designer. If oxygen levels on earth were higher or lower, animal, human, and plant life couldn't exist. If the earth were closer to the sun it would be too hot to support life; if it were farther away it would be too cold.  The inter-dependent complexities of the cell, the human eye, and the eco-system displayed intelligent design that could only come from an Intelligent Designer, such as the Christian concept of God. 

We are created with such a precision there is no way possible that someone could say he just came about. That is not logical. To say we just came about or just evolved over time. But who created the monkey from which we came? Who created his ability to think, to eat, to hunt, to sleep, and to evolve. There is no way that a divine power could not have created this because it is too complex to just have came from thin air. What atheist and evolutionaries don't take into account is the fact that there beginning had to have a beginning. Who made the rock that went bang? How did it all happen? Creationist are the only ones that answer all of these question. There is both proofs in scripture and in science to prove this. 

Argument 3: The existence of moral absolutes (such as justice, truth, good, etc.) can only be explained by an infinite Moral Lawgiver, or God. Ethics are not merely a matter of convention, agreement, intuition, or genetic programming, but instead reveal the existence of a Moral Lawgiver whose ethical nature provides foundation for moral absolutes in human society.  Such absolute ethics are not dependent on human thought or conscience, but on the Moral Lawgiver who is beyond the limits of the universe in which we live. 

What is the basis from which all morality and ethical reasoning comes from? 

There has to be a moral absolute. Morality can't stand on its own without a judge from which to be judged. 

There can't be just human reasoning to like morality what it is because humans are not moral. 

Being not perfect we can't be the ethical representation of what is wrong or right. 

There has to be a moral absolute and a ethical absolute. 

Without it then Hitler is right in killing Jews and pain and suffering in the world is good because someone in the world said it was.

Argument 4: Humanity's desire for meaning and value in life presupposes the existence of God.

 human society throughout history and around the world has a belief in God, eventhough their understanding of God may differ. 

Our innate desireto experience the transcendent, to have value and meaning even after death, can only be accounted for if there is a God who implanted these beliefs and desires in us. He quoted the early Christian church father Augustine, who said, "Our hearts are restless until they find their meaning in God."

We desire to understand and were created with a mind that always wondering and wanting to have truths.

Without the mind that seeks value we are not human. The differences between us and animals are the fact that

we desire to have value or the sense of what is wrong are right. Therefore, there must be a creator because

we are not able to create that on our own. It has always be inside us, this only points more to a creator.

Argument 5: The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ is so verifiable historically that it passes any reasonable test for history or ancient literature. It can be accepted as not only reasonable, but a true historical event.

This argument ties in with the previous four arguments in two ways. First, it is itself an argument for the existence of God because it argues that only God could do what Jesus did, raise himself from the dead. Second, the one who rose from the dead has demonstrated what is necessary to tell us that God exists and what God is like. 

This account of the resurrection appearances relates that more than 500 people were eyewitnesses of the resurrected Christ. The evidence that Jesus actually died on the cross and that the tomb was empty after three days. The resurrection accounts have the ring of authenticity, especially in that those who became believers had started out as disillusioned disciples who were not expecting a resurrection. 

There is also a ring of authenticity in the record that women were the first witnesses of the resurrected Christ. Since women in that time were not considered reliable witnesses, someone merely inventing a resurrection would not have concocted their story in a way that had the risen Jesus witnessed first by those who could not testify in court. Because of the physical demonstrations the risen Christ made and the life-changing impact those had on his followers (whose hopes had been dashed at his death), we can be assured that this resurrection was physical and bodily; it was not an illusion, mysticism, wish fulfillment, or spiritual projection.

 C. S. Lewis noted, "If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it isn't. We can't compete, in simplicity, with people who are inventing religions. How could we? We're dealing with fact. Of course anyone can be simple if he has not facts to bother about."