Q: Is Belief in God Credible? A: Yes.

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Hey Friends,

I recently decided to revisit and finally finish a catechism I began writing a decade ago, which, thanks to a long vacation called cancer, I never completed. My plan is to rework what I had written, as God has made otherwise than who I was back then, and to write new entries for the questions that I left unaddressed.

It matters that believers understand Christian dogma (it’s necessary and requisite claims) and their implications. For example, consider Father Brown’s rebuke of a young secularist friend in The Incredulity of Father Brown:

“It’s drowning all your…rationalism and skepticism, it’s coming in like a sea; and the name of it is superstition…it’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense and can’t see things as they are. Anything that anybody talks about, and says there’s a good deal in it, extends itself indefinitely like a vista in a nightmare. And a dog is an omen, and a cat is a mystery…All the menagerie of polytheism returns: dog Anubis and great green-eyed Past and all the holy howling bulls of Bashan, reeling back to the bestial gods of the beginning…all because you are frightened of four words, “He was made man.”

Catechism is important, therefore, because “post-Christian” names not an entry into a new, neutral spiritual landscape but a return to the old mythology from which the gospel once liberated us.

If you missed it, here’s the Kick-Off Catechism Post.

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4. Can God be proven?

No.

God cannot be proven because God is not a god. God is beyond the limits of science, the powers of reason or the perceptions of sensory experience because God is not a being within the material, observable universe.

God is Being itself, distinct from and encompassing all universes.

“No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closet relationship with the Father, has made him known.”

- 1 John 1.18

“...God’s greatness is unsearchable.” - Psalm 145 .3

5. Can God be disproven?

No.

God cannot be disproven because God is not a god. God is beyond the limits of science, the powers of reason or the perceptions of sensory experience because God is not a being within the material, observable universe.

God is Being itself, distinct from and encompassing all universes.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

- Isaiah 55.8

6. Is belief in God credible?

Yes.

While God cannot be proven, the case for God can be rationally persuasive. Belief in God is not superstition.

That being said, it is no more possible to disbelieve generically than it is possible to believe generically. It makes all the difference the identity and history of the God who bears that title. For example, the God of Israel. It is an assertion that begs for credible alternatives to posit that because Rome crucified hundreds of thousands, all of whose names are lost to us, we would not know the name of Jesus Christ had the true God not raised him from the dead.

“God is love.” - 1 John 4.8

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