Publisher's Synopsis
Our Creator's role in the world is undeniable. He is evident in our innate desires to believe in agency and to seek meaning and purpose. An omnipotent and intelligent designer best explains the uncaused cause of the Big Bang in cosmology and how the earth overcame statistically miraculous odds for its existence within ten habitable zones. A transcendent moral lawgiver best explains our universal and objective moral duties to do what's right. A transcendent source of beauty best explains our aesthetic apprehension of art, music, and beauty. A loving uncaused cause best explains our origins, meaning, morality, and purpose. This simple logic leads us to God. But what do we know about our God? Through a general revelation in nature, we can witness His appreciation of aesthetics, His intentionality, His omnipresence, and His omnipotence. Through Jesus Christ, we witness His omnibenevolence and tremendous love for His children. Jesus is the earthly manifestation of our Lord. Through Jesus' crucifixion, death and resurrection, God's perfect love, justice, and mercy were reconciled. He bore our sins and offers us salvation for a life of everlasting love. While today's Western societies keep shifting to the secular and rational, many of us have felt an increased desire to seek purpose and meaning in our lives. We want answers to life's biggest questions. Jesus has provided those answers - and we have substantial evidence for the validity of His resurrection and Christianity, more broadly. Christianity has benefited society in our medical facilities, universities, legal systems, political systems, and more over the past two thousand years. Throughout this book, support is offered for all of these assertions.
