{"id":428,"date":"2013-07-31T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/billykangas\/2013\/07\/can-anyone-prove-god-exists.html"},"modified":"2013-12-06T18:40:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T22:40:56","slug":"can-anyone-prove-god-exists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/billykangas\/2013\/07\/can-anyone-prove-god-exists.html","title":{"rendered":"Can anyone prove God exists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/394\/oldfiles\/-dk9nmXpOh2A\/UfkxuYNavTI\/AAAAAAAACqQ\/9Vg3FsgXpIY\/s1600\/200px-Sanzio_01_Plato_Aristotle.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/394\/oldfiles\/-dk9nmXpOh2A\/UfkxuYNavTI\/AAAAAAAACqQ\/9Vg3FsgXpIY\/s1600\/200px-Sanzio_01_Plato_Aristotle.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I\u2019m not typically one to put much stock in \u201cproofs\u201d for God, but I had to admit the recent video on the \u201cCosmological Argument\u201d was well done. It was made by William Lane Craig of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reasonablefaith.org\/william-lane-craig\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Reasonable Faith.\u00a0<\/a><\/em>If you are into apologetics and the like take a look, I embeded it below. I would love to hear feedback on it (particularly from our Atheist\/ agnostic readers).<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What do <strong>you<\/strong>\u00a0think of this kind of argument for the existence of God?<\/li>\n<li>Is it convincing?<\/li>\n<li>How do <strong>you <\/strong>talk about God?<\/li>\n<li>If <strong>you<\/strong>\u00a0believe in God, why?<\/li>\n<li>If you <strong>don\u2019t <\/strong>believe in God, why not?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I DO believe in God, but it\u2019s never been something I can really explain well to others. I don\u2019t have a proof, and even if I did I doubt I would trust it. There have been too many times I have been convinced of things that simply were not true. I have more taken the approach to talk about all the beautiful things I see from my theist\/Christian\/Catholic perspective and invite people to take a look with me.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/COJ0ED1mV7s?feature=player_detailpage\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not typically one to put much stock in \u201cproofs\u201d for God, but I had to admit the recent video on the \u201cCosmological Argument\u201d was well done. It was made by William Lane Craig of Reasonable Faith.\u00a0If you are into apologetics and the like take a look, I embeded it below. I would love to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1678,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Can anyone prove God exists?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I&#039;m not typically one to put much stock in &quot;proofs&quot; for God, but I had to admit the recent video on the &quot;Cosmological Argument&quot; was well done. 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