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arguments and evidence will help to create a culture in which Christian belief is a reasonable thing.
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My claim is that if there is no God, then meaning, value, and purpose are ultimately human illusions. They’re just in our heads. If atheism is true, then life is really objectively meaningless, valueless, and purposeless, despite our subjective beliefs to the contrary.
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would be unjust of God to condemn such
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First, they’re all positive signs of historical credibility. Therefore, they can only be used to establish the historicity of some incident, not to deny it.
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The sociobiological account clearly does nothing to undermine the truth of our moral beliefs. For the truth of a belief is independent of how you came to hold that belief.
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Premise The steps of an argument that lead to the conclusion are called the premises of the argument.
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According to Plato, there are two things that lead men to believe in God: the argument from the existence of the soul, and the argument “from the order of the motion of the stars, and of all things under the dominion of the Mind which ordered the universe”
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This is interesting because the belief and evidence for the soul is something that has recently interested me. Related to that is my idea that one of the best arguments for the existence of God is the fact of consciousness. J.P. Moreland has written a book titled, “The Soul: How We Know It’s Real and Why It Matters,” ( https://a.co/d/9RPJJ4w), which you have as a Kindle book. Also, J.P. Moreland has a podcast called “Thinking Christianly” with Stan W. Wallace. Also, there are chapters in the book, “The Nature of Nature: Examining the Role of Naturalism in the Sciences” edited by Bruce Gordon and William Dembski, that deal with consciousness (See Part VI - Evolutionary Psychology, Neuroscience, and Consciousness) and in particular, Ch.32 - Consciousness by John R. Searle.
Our primary sources for Jesus’ life all come from the first century AD, most of them within 60 years of Jesus’ crucifixion. By contrast, the apocryphal gospels were written at least over 100 years after the crucifixion.
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Philosophers who reflect on our moral experience see no more reason to distrust that experience than the experience of our five senses. I believe what my five senses tell me, namely, that there is a world of physical objects out there. My senses are not infallible, but that doesn’t lead me to think that there is no external world around me.
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