People in general believe what they have been taught to believe. The radical orthodox Islamic believer blows himself up, killing many innocent people with the belief he is doing Allah’s will. With this act of brutal violence, he believes he will enter a heavenly paradise. There are folks that believe they have had an extraterrestrial encounter with beings from other worlds. Further, they believe that life on this earth was started by these outer space beings. Some believe that all life started from non-life, from a slime pit, the big bang or the like. Cultism and an array of extreme and outrageous beliefs run amuck in our world. Examples of such beliefs can be presented over and over again. These belief systems have neither firm foundations nor logic. Yet, people believe what they believe.
What I Believe and Why I Believe It
I believe in the God of the Bible, because, the Bible, the Word of God, is the only sacred book that carries within it internal and external evidences. “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth,” (Genesis 1:1). “All Scriptures is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:16). “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds” (Hebrews 1:1-2).
Christians Believe in the God of
the Bible Because It Makes Sense
1. We believe in God because atheism, the only other alternative, cannot be proved.
2. We believe in God because it is reasonable to believe that the eternal existence is God – not matter.
3. We believe in God because the universe exhibits marks of intelligent causation.
4. We believe in God because the moral government of the world implies a moral Governor.
5. We believe in God because the majority of scientific men and philosophers in all ages have believed in God.
6. We believe in God because of the abundance of the evidence.
7. We believe in God because all the objections to believing in God lie with equal force against atheism.
8. We believe in God because atheism has insuperable difficulties of its own.
9. Intelligent causation and design is always associated with personality. God must, therefore, be a Personality, a divine Being. (DeHoff)
Works Cited
DeHoff, George. Why We Believe The Bible. Murfreesboro: DeHoff Publications, 1974, 16-26.
