I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist by Norman Geisler and Frank Turek is a scientific and philosophical treatise in defense of the existence of the God of the Bible. By providing the answers to life’s most basic questions, this work challenges the reader to examine the evidence of their faith in Jesus.

Judging from the evidence, it takes more faith not to believe in God than to believe in Him.

Two groups of people exist in this world, those who by faith believe in the reality of God and have embraced Him as their personal Lord, and those who by faith reject the reality of God and have refused to accept Him as their Savior. Both groups have drawn their conclusions based on a decision of faith. Since the theistic God of the Bible is spiritual in nature and separate from our material world, any acceptance or rejection of Him is a decision of faith. You either believe He exists, or you believe He doesn’t exist.

After a thorough review of the coming evidence supporting the existence of God, you will be challenged to accept or reject your own belief in Him. You should also gain a solid foundation upon which to establish your faith in God. The arguments of logic and reasoning will not only convince you of the existence of God, but they will become a valuable resource for defending your own faith.

In this summary, you will learn:

  • arguments used to support the existence of God;
  • scientific evidence that confirms the existence of God; and
  • arguments of atheists for the non-existence of God as well as their fallacies.

There is an absolute truth within the Bible that can be known and verified, and the opposite of that truth is false.

There is a modern narrative that denies the authority of religious and moral truth. Rather than an absolute acceptance of the factual evidence, our culture seeks to apply a relativistic approach to matters of morality and theology.

In contrast, the following four attributes define authentic truth:

  1. Truth is pre-existent. It can only be revealed, not invented or created.
  2. Truth is ubiquitous, remaining constant in all situations.
  3. Truth is immutable. It is unaffected by outside forces. The beliefs, attitudes, and opinions concerning truth do not change its truthfulness.
  4. All truth is absolute truth. By its very definition, truth is always true. Thus, that which is not true is false. Truth exists and remains true, independent of all other factors.

Humanistic philosophy makes many contrary assertions denying the reliability of these attributes. However, these claims are self-condemning statements that can be readily dismissed as false by using two logical arguments: the “Law of Noncontradiction” and the “Law of the Excluded Middle.” Namely, a statement cannot be both true and false. Inversely, by using the observational and logical systems of both induction and deduction, the truth about God can be ascertained.    

Most people formulate their beliefs based upon environmental, psychological, religious, or philosophical factors. However, our beliefs must be confirmed as true or false by using sound logic and objective observation.

Philosophers David Hume and Immanuel Kant have developed systems that are skeptical of religious truth. Hume argues that an idea can only be true if it can be physically verified. Kant expands this idea by claiming that all perceptions of reality only exist within our own minds, and each person perceives a different truth than what may be real. Therefore, no one can know for sure if their perception of truth is real.

Therefore, the prevailing belief system of our age proposes that truth is relative – that it can be redefined, changed, and even rejected. The consequence of this unsound reasoning is that our moral foundations of right and wrong crumble with the deconstruction of truth’s infallibility.

Modern culture asserts a pluralistic view that all theological beliefs, even contradictory ones, should be tolerated and accepted as true. There are six reasons why this reasoning is flawed:

  1. It denies the contradictory claims of one religion to another.
  2. The mandate for pluralism is, in actuality, an exclusive claim.
  3. The demand for tolerance is a dogmatic claim, which is in itself intolerant.
  4. There is scriptural instruction to question the validity of religious claims.
  5. The imperative against making a judgment is judgmental.
  6. Even the most extreme views must also be equally accepted and valued.

Therefore, acceptance of authentic moral and religious truth is imperative because a rejection or denial of the absolute truth concerning God can have eternal ramifications.

The existence of a beginning point to all matter in the universe proves the existence of God.

Scientists have confirmed through their observational, mathematic, and cosmological findings the theory of General Relativity, proving that the universe has been expanding from a beginning moment in time. This theory provides strong supportive evidence for the Cosmological Argument, which is used to prove the existence of a theistic God.

The Cosmological Argument states that since the cosmos had a beginning, there must have logically been a cause to that beginning outside of the universe. And if time has an ending, it must also have a beginning. The Law of Causality further demands that every effect must first have a cause. Thus, since the universe exists, there must have been a cause.

The evidence for the beginning of the universe can be further verified by the following five scientific proofs identified using the acronym S.U.R.G.E.:

  1. S – The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that the amount of usable energy in the universe is diminishing, thus implying that the universe had a beginning.
  2. U – The Universe is expanding out of nothing from a specific point in the past.
  3. R – Radiation from the after-effects of the Big Bang has been discovered in observable light and heatwaves.
  4. G – Great Galaxy Seeds are the trace evidence left behind in the form of radiation variances that point to the embryonic stages of the Big Bang.
  5. E – Einstein’s Theory of Relativity requires a starting point for all time, matter, and space.

These five cosmological proofs provide scientific evidence of the beginning of the universe and help support the argument of the First Cause – if the universe had a beginning, something (namely, God) must have caused that beginning…

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