Cartoon Key To Heaven. Fr. Robert J. Schubert

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      But, if you are convinced that you really are here – that I am here

      That the world is here – That anything is here

      If you are convinced that the hook is necessary to hang the chain –

      If you are convinced that from nothing comes nothing, then you must be convinced that in the first place, there was...

      A NECESSARY BEING

      This Necessary Being has to be a personal being because He has a mind (see next argument) – and – because persons are the effects of the First Cause and the Cause cannot be less than the effects.

      That Necessary Being we call - God

      4.The Argument to the Great Mind (to the Great Lawgiver)

      If you go to the beach and see the rocks strewn about –

      And you come back an hour later

      And see them in an orderly pile –

      You don’t say, “Look what happened by chance”.

      You say, “Look what ‘someone did’”.

      You know there was a mind at work

      Because there is order.

      The universe is orderly.

      There must be a mind at work to create the order.

      The universe has laws:

      There are laws of physics (e.g. Gravity)

      There are laws of chemistry (e.g., 2 parts of H and 1 part of O makes water)

      There are laws of astronomy (the courses of the planets, - the traffic laws of the skies)

      Laws demand a lawgiver.

      The great order in the universe demands a Great Mind.

      The great laws of the universe demand a Great Lawmaker.

      That Great Mind, that Great Lawmaker we call - God

      5.The argument to the Great Judge

      Sometimes you feel like patting yourself on the back for something you did.

      Sometimes you feel you deserve a good swift kick for something you did.

      There is a law written in your heart, - the law of your conscience –

      

      Telling you there is a Judge

      Who will reward for good

      and punish for evil

      This Great Judge we call - God

      6.The argument from Universal Belief

      No nation or tribe, no matter how uncivilized,

      how isolated,

      has been without religion.

      Common sense, therefore, - the common sense of all nations and tribes – the common sense of the whole human race – tells us that human reason demands belief in the existence of God.

      An Example or Two to Use on Your Friends

      If this clock could make itself –

      You need no clockmaker to explain that the clock is there.

      Here’s another clockwork –

      Everything on time – seasons, tides, years, months, days, the position

      of the PLANETS and the STARS, etc.

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