Dr. J. Budziszewski
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I'm surprised that more people don't come to God for this reason.
Look, the ancient people will say something like, isn't believing in God like believing in Zeus?
Or, you know, Athena or somebody.
Jeff.
Okay, Steve.
Or like a Marvel superhero comic.
Super comic hero, whatever.
Comic superhero.
I'll get it right.
But God isn't like those gods.
Those gods are powerful beings in this universe.
The Marvel superhero character is like you and me, but he's stronger.
The Hindu God is like you and me, but he's much, much stronger.
You know, Hercules can lift all these things.
Jeff.
Jeff, I guess, can do that too.
Populate planets.
Okay.
But God is the first cause.
god is that without which none of this would exist he's not a being in the universe although he acts within the universe he's not in it in that sense he's he's um he's that without which it wouldn't exist he's that without which it wouldn't have a reason to exist it wouldn't have a cause of existence nothing would have meaning