Reasons to Believe in the Existence of God



C. Michael Patton of Credo House Ministries has an excellent blog posting titled: Ten Arguments for the Existence of God. These arguments are:

1. Cosmological Argument - all effects have an efficient cause.
2. Teleological Argument - the argument from design.
3. Moral Argument - moral laws point to a moral law giver.
4. "sensus divinitatus" (sense of the divine) - the need to worship something greater than ourselves.
5. Argument from Aesthetic Experience - beauty has an ultimate source.
6. Argument from Existence of Arguments - the existence of arguments means there is order/rationality.
7. Argument from Existence of Free-Will Arguments - without God there is only meaningless series of cause and effect.
8. Argument from the Existence of Evil - if evil exists, so does good, and a transcendent norm from which they get their meaning.
9. Argument from Miracles - events in human history that cannot be explained apart from God (like the resurrection of Christ).
10. Pascal's Wager - belief in God is the most rational choice due to the consequences of being wrong.

You can read the entire article at the link below:
http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2011/06/ten-arguments-for-the-existence-of-god/