Our confirmed, but open-minded, believer Rachel is feeling rattled. She's on to reason 5 why we should believe God exists, and she's a little anxious about how few good arguments there really are - even from Marilyn Adamson who promises to give her a candid offering of some of the reasons which suggest God exists. She's up to Reason 5. Let's take a look...
5. We know God exists because he pursues us. He is constantly initiating and seeking for us to come to him.
Rachel sits back in her chair and takes a deep breath. "Are you kidding me?!" she shouts to no-one in particular. A confirmed believer, who approaches questions of how to underpin her faith with reason with an open mind, she simply cannot believe what she is reading. In a nutshell - a reason to believe that God exists is because atheists expend so much effort trying to prove he doesn't. That proves that God is pressing them always to recognize his existence.
"Are you kidding me?! This is Reason Number 5! And this is all you got?!"
We have to agree with Rachel that it's hardly conclusive. Essentially this "reason" says that because someone argues against something that something must be true. I, for example, would argue against the existence of the tooth fairy with any rational friend of mine who claimed to believe in the tooth fairy beyond the age of, say, seven years old. The fact that I argue against him doesn't mean we should believe the tooth fairy exists. Quite the opposite.
Rachel is despondent, ragged. She began this journey hoping to be reassured, uplifted, underpinned in her faith. She is reaching Reason Number 6. She hopes its a good one...
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