Borrowed Values (Part 1)

How does an organic, integrative model that begins with beauty and goodness differ from an alternative model that begins with minority views concerning truth claims? Here we show a way of respecting the person with whom you are speaking and showing how to draw a line from what one deeply believes and wants to the reality of God.

What will you make of Jesus of Nazareth? What about his claims and the claims about him? How do you explain the rise of the early church?

Why do I sense there is something more? If nothing in this world satisfies, could I be made for another world?

How does music speak to our deep intuitions about the realities of our longing for transcendence? How does love testify to our intuitions about God?

Many of the values we hold dear in the West are due to our Christian past.

If you believe in human dignity and equality, that there are absolute rights and wrong with how we respect and treat one another, then there is good reason to believe in God.

What does probability have to say about the beginning? Is the universe fine-tuned for life? Is it reasonable to think the odds are staggering…and a good reason to consider God as an alternative?

Does contemporary science confirm a beginning to the universe? If so, what caused it? How do my intuitions relate to the God debate?

What does an atheist mean by believing in “no god”? What have Christians always meant by “God”? What is the end result of a universe with no organizer, transcendent moral foundation, or mind behind all reason?

How can we go about talking about the reasonableness of the God hypothesis? Begin with beauty and goodness, and show how they lead to plausible models of truth.