Apologetics and Evidence

1. If objective beauty exists, then God exists.  2. Many things are objectively beautiful. 3. Therefore God exists.   1. If objective beauty exists, then God exists. If beauty is only subjective (as in beauty is in the eye of the beholder ), then beauty does not really exist. For one person might say that something is beautiful and another might think the same thing is ugly. For there would be no standard for what is beautiful. But many things are objectively beautiful, because the beauty is in the object . Think of the mountains or the ocean. A popular question for people to begin or continue conversations is “ Would you rather be at the ocean or at the mountains ?” Why is this a popular question? Because both are understood as being objectively beautiful! When asked such a question, no one says, “ Why would you ask such a question ?” They just answer it because they assume the objectively beautiful nature of the mountains and/or ocean automatically. This just goes to ...

               “ The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him .” (NIV Gen. 2:18; see also Gen. 2:20). What does this say? Among many other things, it says that we need help! So, when do we need help? It is needed when our focus is on God’s plan for our lives and not when we are being selfish; we need help when we are in God’s will. Let's take this study further.                 What was God’s will for Adam? “The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it ” (NIV Gen 2:15). God’s will for Adam was clear. It was to take care of the Garden of Eden and name the animals (verse 19). However, God saw, as we see in verse eighteen, underlined above, that it wasn’t good for man to be alone; not because God messed up the way He initially desired to create ...