Proving Gods Existence #1

No Bible Allowed!

Much of this information is taken from the teachings of Dr. William Lane Craig, his book “On Guard”, and website Reasonable Faith.Amazon link: http://cbsa.net/OnGuard

Website: http://www.reasonablefaith.org

The Kalam Cosmological Argument

•( + ) Arguments forthe premise.

•( - ) Arguments againstthe premise.

1. Whatever begins toexist has a cause!

• ( - ) Physics gives examples of things coming from nothing.

• ( - ) Subatomic particles come into being from nothing from a vacuum.

Whatever begins toexist has a cause!

• ( + ) The Maria Argument!

• ( + ) “Nothing comes from nothing, nothing ever could.”

• ( + ) Ball in the woods, expansion.

1. Whatever begins toexist has a cause!

• ( - ) Only true of things in the universe but, not the universe itself.

• ( + ) Taxicab fallacy.

1. Whatever begins toexist has a cause!

• ( - ) OK, What about your God! What caused him?

2. The universe began to exist• 2.1 An actually infinite number

of things can not exist• 2.2 A beginning less series of

past events involves an infinite number of things

• 2.3 Therefore a beginning less of past events can not exist.

2.1 An actually infinite numberof things can not exist

• ( - ) Modern Set Theory.

• ( - ) There are examples, such as dividing a distance into 1/2s infinitely.

2.1 An actually infinite numberof things can not exist

• ( + ) Hilbert's Hotel• ( + ) Objections

normally point to potential infinite not actually infinite.

3. Therefore, the universe has a cause

1. Whatever begins toexist has a cause.

2. The universe began to exist.

3. Therefore the universehas a cause.

The Moral Argument

•1. If God does not exist objective moral values do not exist.

•2. Objective moral values do exist.

•3. Therefore God does exist.