The Certain Argument
God is in heaven; He does whatever He pleases (Psalms 115:3).
The simple Biblical argument is: Without God one cannot account for anything. God is the precondition for logic, morality, mathematics, and everything else in the cosmos. This is the certain argument that is absolutely true. This truth will be hammered and hammered throughout this book, so when you are finished, you will know it inside and out. The truth is simple and it is powerful. You must understand that the unbeliever needs to hear it echo and re-echo. When you are talking with a skeptic, be unremitting with this apologetic.
The great thing about employing the “argument from the impossibility of the contrary” is that it grows in power, when the unbeliever attacks it. The argument grows in force, because the unbeliever must use logic to make an intellectual challenge. Logic requires God. Only Christianity supplies the necessary preconditions for logic. Thus, every time an unbeliever rationally attacks God he is demonstrating that God lives. Without God, no rational assertion can be made. So, every time a person says anything, he is increasing the force of the argument that declares God lives. The old 1950’s science-fiction movie that has a huge electric monster on the loose illustrates this point. The monster grows larger and stronger every time someone uses a weapon in attempting to kill it. The monster is ready to take over America, and the President orders the army to hit it with an atomic bomb. The troops launch the bomb and as the mushroom cloud slowly starts to dissipate, and the smoke clears, they are stunned by the horror or horrors the energy monster survived. Not only does the monster survive, it now is ten times larger. The energy monster absorbed the massive energy from the bomb and did not get weaker, but grew in size and strength. Similarly, unbelievers will attempt to fire intellectual weapons at the “argument from the impossibility of the contrary.” Nevertheless, all their attacks will only be consumed by the truth, while the defense of the truth grows stronger and larger. There is nothing a skeptic can assert without ultimately relying on theism, since God alone provides the preconditions for the laws of logic. Thus, the unbeliever’s argument will always presuppose God because the unbeliever cannot supply the preconditions for the nonphysical laws of logic. The triune God is the preexisting foundation for all debate. Deny God and one cannot debate anything.
Whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it... Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ (Acts 2:24 & 36).
