Apologetics: 2. What is this evidence for God's existence, apart from the Bible?

 

There are many indications, the chief of which I shall give you very briefly:

• The first is from causality.
  The universe, limited in all its details, could not be its own cause. It could no more come together with all its regulating laws than the San Francisco Harbor Bridge could just happen, or a clock could assemble itself and keep perfect time without a clock-maker. On the same principle, if there were no God, there would be no you to dispute His existence.
  
  
• A second indication is drawn from the universal reasoning, or if you wish, intuition of men.
  The universal judgment of mankind can no more be wrong on this vital point than the intuition of an infant that food must be conveyed to the mouth. The stamp of God\'s handiwork is so clearly impressed upon creation, and, above all, upon man, that all nations instinctively believe that there is a God.
  
  The truth is in possession. Men do not have to persuade themselves that there is a God. They have to try to persuade themselves that there is no God. And no one yet, who has attained to such a temporary persuasion, has been able to find a valid reason for it. Men do not grow into the idea of a God; they endeavor to grow out of it.
  
  

Apologetics: 1. Please give me evidence that God exists. I have never had any such evidence. And don't use the Bible, because I don't accept it.

What do you mean by evidence?

Some people think that evidence must be seen and touched, as an animal sees a patch of grass and eats it. But men are not mere animals.

They have reason, and can appreciate intellectual evidence. For example, the evidence of beauty in music or in painting is perceived by man's mind, not by his senses. An animal could hear the same sounds, or see the same colors, without being impressed by their harmony and proportion. Apart from the Bible altogether, reason can detect sufficient evidence to guarantee the existence of God.

faith formation: What is Love? Love is Not Proud post 5

 

We are continuing our meditation on St. Paul's definition of Love. We have covered patience, and tackled kindness ; we thought about envy. and consider boastfulness. Not let us look at pride.


1 Corinthians 13:4-7

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."


We could write a whole book on the topic of pride, and many have. We just want to take a brief look to help us love better.

St. Chrysostom says pride is a disease:

“...whoever is inflamed and puffed up, he must be the diseased one; for he is swollen above the proportion of the rest.” https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/220112.htm

Other translations say instead of “not proud” that love is “not puffed up." Pride is a spiritual illness.

faith formation: Fr. Goring, How to be Happy

Amazing World: Boy Genius

 This boy now a man, has an incredible gift of being able to do complicated math in his head. He can learn a new language in a week.

faith formation: Love Letters to God

 I've been a little busy lately. So I haven't had a chance to continue with a few posts. One on St. Paul's definition of Love and the continuing history of the early Church.

But I thought this short sermon of Fr. Goring was great and to the point.

He spoke about songs as love letters to God. It is true and here in the USA we have a famous Christian pop music station called K-Love. They play Christian Pop Music. It is very good.

Here is some examples I think are great pop Christian songs.

Amazing World: This SECRET Will DOUBLE Your Learning SPEED!

 Jim Kwik is a motivational and memory expert. Very inspiring story.