Publisher's Synopsis
The Ultimate Religious Argument
This Argument has exceptional force because we ALL take at least part of our sense of "wrong" seriously. Thus, we ALL behave as if we have perceptions of God's existence! As Dostoevsky suggested, if God were dead everything would be permitted. In other words, if God were dead, nothing would be considered "wrong!" Further, if God were dead "right and wrong" could not exist! If God were dead, there would be no moral lawgiver, no author of any of the moral laws in our minds and no enforcer of any of our moral laws! Thus, if we take any of the moral laws in our mind seriously, we are behaving as if we have perceptions of God's existence. Either an outlandish quirk of evolution put God's existence into everyone's mind or God Himself did it.Do you really think there is any chance at all that your sense of "wrong" is an absurd fabrication of evolution?! Know thyself. Think it over. If the Biblical God exists, then a slam-dunk argument for Him MUST also exist! Nobody would say to God on His Judgment Day: You should not punish me because it was impossible for me to achieve the certainty You existed. No one would be able to protest to God that they could not have known of His existence. Also, the Bible seems to prophesy in Hebrews 8:11 that a slam-dunk argument for God will be discovered! This verse says: And they shall not teach every man his neighbor and every man his brother, saying: Know the Lord. For ALL shall know me from the least to the greatest. How else could everyone on earth come to know God, unless the certainty of knowing God had been verbalized in an argument? Further, this argument understands that an objective proof of God is impossible! Belief in God will always demand a step of faith. That step is-the trust that our seriously taken sense of "wrong" accurately reveals what actually exists: a God who demands morality. We ALL have complete faith in our other senses to accurately reveal what actually exists (naïve realism). Thus, having faith in our sense of "wrong" is not a big step at all. The template for the Argument from Human Behavior:
Premise 1: We all take seriously at least part of our sense of "wrong" (our sense of everyone's moral obligations).
Premise 2: If we take seriously even part of our sense of "wrong," then we have, in our mind, perceptions of God's existence.
Conclusion: Therefore, we all have, in our mind, perceptions of God's existence!
(Premise 1 is substantiated through observing human behavior.) It is highly unlikely that an outlandish quirk of evolution put perceptions of God's existence into everyone's mind. On the other hand, it is extremely probable that the Biblical God put perceptions of His existence into everyone's mind, just as He promised to do in Hebrews 10:16: This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts and in their minds will I write them. Get your copy at the introductory price. Start reading NOW!
