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  • ARGUMENTS – EXISTENCE OF GOD
    • The Argument from Contingency
    • Cosmological Argument
    • Moral Argument
    • Ontological Argument
    • Teleological/Design/Fine-tuning Argument
    • Pascal’s Wager
    • The Argument from Religious Experience
    • The Argument from Miracles
    • The Argument from Consciousness
    • The Argument from Truth
    • The Argument from Desire
    • The Argument from Aesthetic Experience
  • HISTORICITY – RESURRECTION
    • Minimal facts argument
    • The Trials
    • Historicity of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ
    • Burial
    • Empty Tomb
    • Postmortem appearance
    • Origin of the disciples belief
    • Reliability of the New Testament
    • Skeptics see the light
  • CHRISTIANITY & ISLAM
    • Fundamental Differences
    • Trinity vs Tawhid
    • Jesus
    • The Bible, Quran and Torah-Comparative Studies
    • Evangelism to Muslims
  • APOLOGETICS
    • What is apologetics?
    • Worldviews
    • Can anyone be an apologist?
    • Being a Christian “case-maker”
    • Apologetic Resources

The Argument from Desire

God Questions–Argument from Desire
A Dialogue–Peter S. Williams and Carl Stecher

The Argument from Desire holds that there is a void in the human heart that can only be filled by God. Since the cosmos seems so constructed that humans do not have needs that cannot be filled – we need nourishment, and there is food – Peter contends this very desire for God is evidence that God exists. Carl argues that other explanations for the desire for God are equally plausible, and that while a spiritual experience may seem compelling to whoever has it, there are many reasons to discount this argument. For the complete transcript of the dialogue, here.

lewis-Recovered-770x360Argument From Desire
Do our desires point to something or nothing?

by Art Lindsley, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, C.S. Lewis Institute
Do our deep human desires and aspirations point toward a real fulfillment or are they inevitably doomed to frustration? Are our longings for meaning, dignity, immortality, and deep spiritual experience a dead-end street, or are these and other such aspirations destined for fulfillment? These are questions with which C. S. Lewis wrestled, as have many throughout the ages. Complete article here.

God’s Existence and The Argument from Desire–Fr. Robert Barron
If every innate or natural desire we have points to some objective state of affairs that fulfills it, then our innate desire for ultimate joy points to a supernatural source of fulfillment.


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