What are some reasonable conclusions related to a belief in God?

Let’s assume that there is a God. Because I’m a human being, I think and feel and make choices. I know that I am an effect—the result of a greater cause. It is reasonable to assume that this cause—which I believe is God—is both infinite and personal because I am finite and personal.

Is God Personal vs Impersonal?

Is it more reasonable to think that God is personal or impersonal?

For one thing, to even consider this question, we have used our minds in reasoning to the absolute. Wouldn’t it be strange if we required rational minds and personalities to engage in this argumentation, but when you finally arrive at God, He was nonrational?

For another thing, in our experience, the impersonal does not give rise to the personal. You do not have birdhouses creating birds. The personal gives rise to the impersonal. Human beings build bridges. Bridges do not build people.

Life never evolved from non-life. If I’m an effect, there must be a greater cause that comes from a greater being.

The God Question and Atheism’s Challenges

The atheist has a big problem in understanding any type of moral values. If there is nothing eternal and no absolutes, who determines what’s right and what’s wrong? If there is no absolute God in authority, then who determines the value of anything? Popular vote?

Let’s ask that question. How much total knowledge does mankind have at this time? Albert Einstein, the Nobel Prize winner in physics, said, “We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.”

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