{"id":382,"date":"2015-10-18T21:21:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T20:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/?p=382"},"modified":"2015-10-18T21:21:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T20:21:50","slug":"what-makes-you-believe-that-god-exists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/?p=382","title":{"rendered":"What makes you believe that God exists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span itemprop=\"description\"><p>Here are some areas we might talk about with friends, neighbours and colleagues who ask us, &#8220;What makes you believe that God exists?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>JESUS<br \/>\nHistorical event of the Resurrection of Jesus<br \/>\nCharacter and love of Jesus<br \/>\nUniqueness of Jesus <\/p>\n<p>CHANGED LIVES<br \/>\nChanged lives of the disciples<br \/>\nExperiences of God in our lives<br \/>\nDifference Jesus makes in my life<br \/>\nAnswers to prayer<br \/>\nDifference we see that Jesus makes in other people\u2019s lives<\/p>\n<p>CREATION<br \/>\nBeauty in Creation<br \/>\nEvidence of design in Creation and the fine tuning of the universe<br \/>\nThe human mind<br \/>\nUniversal spiritual experience<br \/>\nMorality and conscience<br \/>\nThe universe came from nothing \u2013 life came from not life<\/p>\n<p>CHURCH and BIBLE<br \/>\nHistorical impact of the church on the world<br \/>\nChristian influence on society<br \/>\nThe impact and uniqueness of the Bible<\/p>\n<span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\"><span itemprop=\"description\">Here are some areas we might talk about with friends, neighbours and colleagues who ask us, &#8220;What makes you believe that God exists?&#8221; JESUS&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p btn-align-left\"><a class=\"blue zoom-btn\" href=\"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/?p=382\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pbthomas.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}