The Argument from Desire for the Existence of God, Part 1 (TRtB #69) - Ministry Videos

Our Reasons to Believe passage from the Word of God today is Ephesians 2:8-9. It reads, "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast."

Our Reasons to Believe quote for today is from Charles Spurgeon. He said, "I heard the story of a man, a blasphemer...an atheist, who was converted singularly by a sinful action of his. He had written on a piece of paper, "God is nowhere," and ordered his child to read it, for he would make him an atheist too. The child spelled it, "God is n-o-w h-e-r-e. God is now here." It was a truth instead of a lie, and the arrow pierced the man's own heart."

Our Reason to Believe powerpoint today is titled "The Argument from Desire for the Existence of God" part 1 from "The Handbook of Christian Apologetics" by Peter Kreeft and Ronald K. Tacelli:

1. Every natural, innate desire in us corresponds to some real object that can satisfy that desire.

2. But there exists in us a desire which nothing in time, nothing on earth, no creature can satisfy.

3. Therefore there must exist something more than time, earth and creatures, which can satisfy this desire.

4. This something is what people call "God" and "life with God forever."

The first premise implies a distinction of desires into two kinds: innate and externally conditioned, or natural and artificial. We naturally desire things like food, drink, sex, sleep, knowledge, friendship and beauty; and we naturally