Glad you asked - do you really think God exists?

Yes, because of creation

The logical conclusion from the intricate and sophisticated reality of nature and the Universe is that an intelligent and powerful designed formed and sustains it.

‘The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.’ (Psalm 19:1)

‘For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.’ (Romans:1:20)

Point people to the sophistication and wonder of nature.

Yes, because of my and your conscience

Our ability to love one another and our internal sense of right and wrong, justice and injustice reflect the goodness of the God who used himself as a template for our design.

‘Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness…” So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.’  (Genesis 1:26-28)

Point people to our innate sense of justice.

Yes, because of Jesus Christ

Jesus could be nothing other than God.  Jesus is God standing up in history and bellowing ‘here I am’.  The Bible is the all-time record of this moment making God available to everyone.

‘In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe. The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.'  (Hebrews 1:1-3)

Jesus’ death is the all-time opportunity for people to know God.

‘All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ.’ (1 Corinthians 5:18)

Jesus’ resurrection is the all-time proof Jesus is God.

‘For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.’ (Acts 17:31)

Point people to Jesus.

Yes, because of the church

The church, deeply flawed, is also deeply wonderful – too wonderful, even in its brokenness to be a solely human enterprise.  It is the one community and family, when functioning as God desires, that is a home to all people.

‘His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of two, thus making peace….His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known…’  (Ephesians 2:15, 3:10)

Point people to the church.

Yes, because of my experience, and billions of others affirms these objective, historical realities as subjectively true