Part One (Validity and Soundness)...
Part Two (Focus on Validity)...
Part Three (Focus on Soundness)...

    Validity and soundness were helpful to us because we could use these
tools to analyze the sense of our faith.  Faith is not supposed to be blind,
though as humans we are “blind” in our inability to completely comprehend
this universe that God created.  We are “blind” in our incapacity to
comprehend God.  As beings that are finite, we are “blind” in our ability to
see the infinite and truly understand.  But our faith should not be blind. 
Instead, our faith should be able to see.

    The three pages before this one were not created to force feed a person an
argument for God against their will.  The page was not created so that I could
say “I am better than you.”  The pages that came before this were created to
say “I have something that I want to share with you.”  But some people don’t
want to accept what Christ has to offer, the very thing I wanted to share with
them.  Some people do this, through the denial of God’s existence.  The
previous three pages of information were geared toward these people.  They
analyzed the problem of faith and why it was necessary.

    Take the thought experiment from the pages before.  You are locked inside
a building with nobody else inside.  You have time to look around inside and
observe anything on any floor.  What you see inside a real building is
evidence that the building was designed and built by a person.  You might
never get to meet the person or the people who build and design buildings,
and you might never get to meet the person who built or designed your own
house.  These people may never influence your life directly.  But that doesn’t
mean they aren’t alive, or that they never were alive.

   Consider Michelangelo, who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.  He
painted that ceiling hundreds of years ago and then died.  But we all believe
he is the one who painted that work of art.  Consider George Washington,
who was the first President of the United States of America.  He served as the
first President after the United States Constitution was ratified.  Then he died. 
But we still believe that George Washington is the first President of the
United States.  What is the difference between George Washington and your
great-great-grandfather, who you may never have met?  If you have met this
person who is the father of the father of the father of your own father, what is
he like?  Did you ever ask him what he knew?  If you’ve ever found a person
over eighty years old, when you talked to that person, what did they say?  If
you ask them what life was like when they were ten, or twenty, or thirty, or
even fifty years old, wouldn’t they say that life was different?  If you look at
maps of the world that are that old, they’ll be different.

   Will you look at a map and say: “that drawing of the world never ever
existed, except on paper?”  Would you tell an eighty-year-old person that
their memories are just a bunch of lies?  Would you dig up ruins of an ancient
city, or walk through the old parts of cities like Jerusalem, Rome, or Athens,
and then say “these cities never had people living in them?”  How could a
person say that?

   In the same way, nobody has the grounds to look at this universe, whose
Creator we’ve never seen face to face, and then say “this universe was not
created.  It happened only by accident.  After billions of years of nothingness,
probability finally clicked, and here is a universe.  More years pass, and
eventually, probability clicks again and here’s a planet with living organisms. 
More years pass, and pop, it happens again, now that planet has living
organisms that are intelligent.”

   Could that actually be the cause of this universe, sheer luck?  A throw of
the dice?  Picking the ace of spades from a deck of fifty two cards?  Did
people arise from drawing straws?

   Either way you see it, whether you believe in God or not, you come down
to one major point:  You absolutely, positively must believe in something.  If
you believe there is no god, you have to have faith in order to believe what
you say you believe.  If you believe in Jesus, you have to have faith.  If you
believe in Allah, or Buddha, or some new cult which I name by hitting all the
keys on the keyboard at once (“AN;OGH;OI” might be the new name), you
have to have faith.

   The three pages before this one pointed to that need.  Humans need to have
faith.  I’m not preaching at you right now.  I’ll save the sermon for later.  But
after all that logic, we hit the same stumbling block all over again. 
Eventually, logic breaks down and something must take its place.  We arrive
at a conclusion that logic can’t work in this particular situation.  Things
happen and people ask questions like: “why do bad things happen to good
people?”  Suddenly, the logical world that science predicted has gone terribly
wrong.  A family member, or a friend dies, and you’re left wondering at the
meaning of life.  Obviously, no derivative of math or mathematics is going to
give you that answer.

   In the end, humans are forced to make this choice:  do I believe I was
created?  Or do I believe I was produced by random events?  Maybe
somebody could say that aliens put humans here on Earth, and we all came
from alien life forms.  But that doesn’t mean that we have clear proof.

   Somebody could say “God exists.”  Perhaps somebody could compare the
statement “God exists” with “invisible green aliens are running the world’s
governments.”  Could we disprove or prove either, with the evidence we
have?  With invisible green aliens, we lack proof.  With God, the proof is
there but it’s just as hard to see.  So, what clears up the picture?

   Faith.  This is the sermon part which I said I would save for later.

   The Bible says “...faith is being sure of what you hope for, and certain of
what you do not see (Hebrews Chapter 11, verse 1).”

   Faith is knowing something is true, even when you’ve got no physical evidence
to prove it.  Because we exist inside this universe (this is really just a repetition of
the last two pages of information) we have no evidence to prove that God created
this universe or that God does not exist and did not create the universe.  We have
no physical evidence--period.

   Nobody can complete the logic to say God does not exist.

   Nobody can say that God does not exist.  In fact, this universe is
astonishingly empty--devoid--of physical disproof of God.  Without proof,
science cannot say God does not exist.  The only way to get past this is to
believe that God does not exist.

   “...Faith is being sure of what you hope for, and certain of what you do not
see.”

   It is here that the argument rests.  The case is closed.  You, the reader,
must have faith that God exists, or you must have faith that God does not
exist.  You cannot find anything in this universe to disprove either statement.
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   I have no visible evidence to back up the claims I make in the following
section.  But my faith is enough for me.

   I believe in God.  I believe the Bible is his word and that it is the truth.  I
believe God created the world, and sent his son Jesus to save all believers.  I
believe that anybody can come to God and commit their lives to him and
become believers and be saved.  I believe that baptism is necessary to
complete this salvation.  It is the period at the end of the following sentance:
“God, I’m committing my life to you because you gave your son Jesus’ life to
save me from sin.”  I believe that God’s church has to spread to the world, to
get others to invite Jesus into their hearts AND to become disciples of Jesus AND
to be baptized.

   Since I came to God and was baptized in 1994, I haven’t been able to
forget that moment.  I haven’t been able to forget the newness I felt back
then.  I felt as though everything bad from my past was wiped away, all
fourteen years of it.  I felt as though EVERY sin from my life was washed
off, forgiven by Jesus.  I don’t have to carry those memories around with me.

   I am not perfect.  I became ashamed and heartbroken because I got angry
at somebody about five or six years younger than me.  This happened last fall
(1999), when I was twenty years old.  I became ashamed because I had
overreacted to a small prank and yelled at him.  I cried when I prayed to God
to forgive me.  I won’t forget how I felt, or what I said.  But God has forgiven
me.  I’m clean, thanks to Jesus.  I have another chance.  I’ve learned a lesson
about how not to deal with anger and how not to overreact.

   I have problems today, this year.  I will have problems in the future.  But I
have hope.  I believe in Jesus, and I believe he has the power to save you.  I
don’t have any physical proof that Jesus is the son of God, and that he came
back from the dead three days after he was crucified.  I can’t point to any
tomb in Jerusalem and say, “he was buried there,” and I can’t climb up
Golgotha (Calvary) and point to a post-hole and say “this hole is where
Jesus’ cross was planted.”  I can’t point to a star in the sky and say “I saw
God create that one,” and I can’t point to a part of your physical body or
mine and say “this is where your soul is.”  But I believe in Jesus.  I believe in
God.  I believe he has power, even today, thousands or millions of years after
the Creation took place.  God can change your life if you give it up to him.

   In spite of all of the bones scientists will dig up, I will still believe in the Creation.
Despite the bad things that happen to innocent people, I will still believe God loves
people (read John 3:16) and he is still willing to save them from the harm they cause
each other and the harm they cause to themselves.  I believe in heaven and in hell.
I believe the miracles Jesus performed.  I believe in the power of God.  I believe in God.

   In the end, it all comes back down to faith.  I have faith in God.  I can’t
force you to make the choice, but you can put your faith in God.  If you feel
that something is missing from your life, you can still come to God for
answers.  He will hear and answer your prayers.  I believe, regardless of
physical evidence, that God heard my prayers.  And I believe, regardless of
physical evidence, that he answered my prayers.
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