The Nature of God (The Reasons to Believe #79)

Our Reasons to Believe passage from the Word of God today is Acts 16:31. It reads, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved."

Our Reasons to Believe quote for today is from C. S. Lewis. He, "All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff."

Our Reason to Believe powerpoint today is titled "The Nature of God" from "The Handbook of Christian Apologetics" by Peter Kreeft and Ronald K. Tacelli:

You may have noticed that most of the proofs presented in previous broadcasts begin with things familiar to us --- our experience of change, for example, or of living a moral life. They call to our attention certain features of these familiar things that are puzzling; certain feature about which we can --- and should --- ask questions. Not if the questions raised in the proofs are real ones --- questions like: How come the material universe exists? --- if they are of a sort that admit some kind of answer, then we can see, if we reflect, that the answer is not to be found within the world of finite and familiar things. In other words, anything that answers the question is going to be of a kind altogether unfamiliar to us. This is as it should be. For it is the most familiar and natural features of the things in our world that pressed these questions on us in the first place. If the answer were of the familiar kind, then it would not really be an answer at all; another question could be raised about it...