Without using any version of the cosmological or teleological lines of reasoning, what is your best answer to this question: Why do you believe in a supreme being?
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The Holy Spirit working in me.
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I think my friend Ron Morales said it best:
“I’ve considered other world views and find the Christian world view the best at explaining everything important in life, from meaning to morality to my emotional world to the origin of the universe and our place within it.”
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Because I’ve seen the wonders of the earth I’ve breathed air with my lungs and seen with my eyes everyday what I see bares witness to a creator.
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No scientist can explain why my heart continues to beat. There are literally thousands of questions about life like this one that cannot be answered with conventional wisdom or education.
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Because He lives within my heart and soul, He is personal to me
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I met him and entered into a personal relationship with him..
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Changed lives…
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Taco Tuesdays…no mere mortal thought that one up!
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The historical facts surrounding Jesus, the existence of personal objective morality, belief in agency is a properly basic belief for humans.
I’ll throw in the ontological argument too
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I believed because He called me to Him. I know it’s true because of all the evidence.
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I look at the complexity of life from the heavens ,creatures and atoms and I know they have a designer. It is scientifically proven that something cant come from nothing
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To specifically answer your question of there being other arguments beside the cosmological and the teleological, there is the ontological argument, which says that since practically all humanity believes intuitively that there is at least one being who is greater than we are, there must be one who exists who is supreme above all others.
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Because nothing and not produce something non-life cannot produce life and Conformity cannot come from complete chaos
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There is too much order for all this to be chance. Darwinists need you to believe the Earth is millions of years old because that’s how we rationalize that all this happened randomly.
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Agape in Devine providence.
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Science, logic and reason
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-Science. Creators are essential.
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Having been Regenerated for 36 years
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Bc love didn’t come from me
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…because I’ve met Him. A person with an experience is not at the mercy of a person with an argument. Even before that, it was very difficult to deny the amazing complexity around me without jumping through heaps of intellectual hoops.
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Because He revealed Himself.
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Because my ears were open to the gospel when I heard it, and by the hearing of it I believed.
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (Romans 10:17)
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Because it’s more of a personal relationship with that supreme being, that being called YHWH or El, the experiences I’ve been thru can only show/tell me that He is real, no one, not even I could have survived a number of suicide attempts or trained soldiers entering the family home with ill-intent, and still survived.
What is your reasoning that you don’t believe??
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Because from goo to you via the zoo is a mental illness.
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The birth, life, resurrection, and ascension into Heaven to sit at the right hand of God the Father.
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Because God chose me and i chose to respond.
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Intelligent design. The laws of nature are too complex for anything else
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Moral law
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Joh 3:16 MKJV1962 For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
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Because of his influence in my life through God The Holy Spirit. Also, environmentally. Our placement in space. Our atmosphere. The intricacy of the animal kingdom and humanity points to a creator. Random chance could not produce what we have.
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I usually appeal to arguments from science. Firstly because it is the perspective most skeptics come from. Secondly, because some many scientific facts have been conveniently excluded starting with the mathematically astronomical impossibility of the universe coming into existence by chance!
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For the Bible tells me so.
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In order to live your best life you need to set an aim higher then your yourself. The ultimate aim is one of a supreme being. Ancient texts are all pathways to reach that aim.
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I always thought the best argument for God was that we continue to talk about him and argue about him all the time. Even atheists are continually going on about this whole notion of God and how he cannot exist. I never saw anyone try so hard to prove or disprove fiction.
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Historically oh, God, gods, goddesses, and other Supreme deities have been found across all people groups oh, and all cultures. There is not a single culture that we know of that has no idea or concept of a supreme deity like being. It is ground into the very fiber of our being to instinctively know this concept. The only place that atheism Rises, are places with massive human advancements, allowing humans to try to assume the role of God in their specific societies. The very nature of a deity is so bound to our wiring that we cannot even conceptualize a world where people have no concept of what a God might be like
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I FEEL HIM ALWAYS
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I have always felt His loving guiding hand even when I rejected Him. I see Him in all beauty
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Evidence of Miracles.
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Because nothing wouldn’t have the intelligence to have identical twins with one component of their DNA be different
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Cuz I have heard my God’s speech and was afraid.
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I believe because God called me to believe … The Holy Spirit gave me eyes to see and ears to hear .. God granted my regenerate heart faith and I believed … plus it takes alot more fairh to think all this creation can happen by random chance
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Because nothing else makes sense.
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Because of an empty tomb.
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Because He chose me. He pursued me.
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The Biblical prophecies. Very, very convincing. No one beats God in predicting future events.
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I had to post this song with the lyrics because it just fits the answer to the question so perfectly. But as for me…my own miraculous (I mean I lost count of how many there were so many…and still counting), life is a testimony to Jesus being The One True God. I would NEVER, EVER recommend finding out the way I learned that absolute Truth. But that’s why I am still living, so every life I can impact doesn’t have to suffer so much or perhaps has a better chance at surviving here and then having an eternity with The One True God Who they’ve only been recking their lives trying to find anyway.
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Why do I believe in a Supreme Being?
Order in the Universe.
The connectivity of all lifeforms that we currently know.
DNA
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I believe in God because of His written Word. The more I study, the more He becomes real to me
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Jesus Christ human history is divided by his first advent and human history will be consummated by his second advent. What other human being commands such monumental consequences of belief. Without him you can do nothing. He was either right or wrong. If wrong, deluded with his own lies or lying mad. The latter no hope. The former all hope if glory for measured time and the unmeasurable time to come.
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