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Timothy R. Butler<a href="https://mastodon.faithtree.social/@littlehillschurch" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@littlehillschurch</a> Hello again <a href="https://mas.to/@Gustodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Gustodon</a>. To answer your question, several things could be said. I'll try to take the approach I think might be most helpful to your inquiry, but I'm always happy to have a good exploration of <a href="https://mastodon.faithtree.social/tags/faith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#faith</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.faithtree.social/tags/doubt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#doubt</a> and such. I'm starting out with an oversimplified philosophical approach for the bones of conversation.1.) As philosophers over time have asserted, it is good and reasonable to look for a <a href="https://mastodon.faithtree.social/tags/FirstCause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FirstCause</a>, etc. I deeply appreciate <a href="https://mastodon.faithtree.social/tags/ThomasAquinas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThomasAquinas</a>'s Five Ways.2.) The question then is what sort of "<a href="https://mastodon.faithtree.social/tags/God" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#God</a>" fits the deity of #1. I think only a few of the things/people/entities people have worshipped or do worship could even possibly fit #1. (E.g. Zeus could not, because "he" was not first, etc.)3.) Of that much reduced set, I believe a mix of historical points speak well of the God of the <a href="https://mastodon.faithtree.social/tags/Bible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bible</a>. This point could be expanded a lot.4.) Archetypally, I believe the Bible speaks to things our psyche expects in the most complete way of the available options. C.S. Lewis wrote well on this following, as I do, some of the observations of Carl Jung.5.) Evidentially, the Bible describes our world's fallen, broken condition in a way that conforms to objective observation. I've often said if I didn't think there was a God, I'd be a Theravada Buddhist. But because I affirm the things above, Christianity speaks to the same sort of "suffering" but with the hope of a solution beyond cessation of existence because of the existence of a personally relatable First Cause.---That's the rational answer. The personal answer is different, but coherently related. I believe I've encountered the living God and He is the one who has enabled me to believe, not the reverse.

Jim Donegan 🎵 ✅<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AndrewLoke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AndrewLoke</a> - Why is There '<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Something" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Something</a>' Rather Than '<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Nothing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nothing</a>'? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDp8hmtr9hc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDp8hmtr9hc</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Philosophy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PhilosophyOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PhilosophyOfScience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PhilosophyOfCosmology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PhilosophyOfCosmology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Cosmology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cosmology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astronomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Astrophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrophysics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Universe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Universe</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Metaphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Metaphysics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Existence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Existence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Explanation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Explanation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Contingence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Contingence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Causation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Causation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Kalam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kalam</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/KalamCosmologicalArgument" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KalamCosmologicalArgument</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/InfiniteRegress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InfiniteRegress</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/FirstCause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FirstCause</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PrimumMobile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrimumMobile</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BruteFact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BruteFact</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ModalReality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ModalReality</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PossibleWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PossibleWorld</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PossibleWorlds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PossibleWorlds</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BruteFacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BruteFacts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/CloserToTruth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CloserToTruth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RobertKuhn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RobertKuhn</a>

Jim Donegan 🎵 ✅<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ColinMcGinn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ColinMcGinn</a> - Why is There Anything at All? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC6nUEUTGbA&ab_channel=CloserToTruth" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC6nUEUTGbA&ab_channel=CloserToTruth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Philosophy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Metaphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Metaphysics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Nothing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nothing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Nothingness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nothingness</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Existence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Existence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Being" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Being</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ConcreteObject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConcreteObject</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ConcreteObjects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConcreteObjects</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AbstractObjects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AbstractObjects</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Cosmology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cosmology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PhilosophyOfCosmology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PhilosophyOfCosmology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Contingency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Contingency</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Causation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Causation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/FirstCause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FirstCause</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Necessity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Necessity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/CloserToTruth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CloserToTruth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RobertKuhn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RobertKuhn</a>

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