How Can Anything Exist Without God?
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Colson Center
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🗓️ 17 July 2024
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The Christian God is the best explanation for the world we experience.
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| 0:00.0 | With a moment a look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point. |
| 0:04.9 | Recently, Christian writer Samuel Say tweeted, quote, the question is that does God exist? The question |
| 0:10.1 | is, how could anything exist without God? Or, as Freeline Maria sang in The Sound of Music, |
| 0:15.4 | nothing comes from nothing, nothing ever could. Not only is there something in the world, lots of |
| 0:20.6 | them, in fact, there's consciousness, |
| 0:22.6 | creativity, beauty, love, order. |
| 0:24.5 | And that kind of world says an awful lot about what kind of first cause would be required |
| 0:29.0 | to bring all of these somethings into existence. |
| 0:31.9 | Someone pushed back against A, arguing that a more important question is what kind of |
| 0:35.1 | people should we be, but as A responded, it's impossible to know what kind of people we should be |
| 0:40.3 | without affirming who our creator is. |
| 0:42.7 | God, in particular the Christian God, is the best explanation for the world that we experience. |
| 0:47.7 | Or as C.S. Lewis put it, I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen. |
| 0:51.6 | Not only because I see it, but because by it, I see everything else. |
| 0:55.6 | With the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street. |
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