Just Finished This Book. You’ve Got to Read It!!

I Don’t Think I’ve Ever Publicly Recommended a Book Before... Except the Bible

Best-Selling Author Richard Simmons’s new book should be on your “Need to Read” list. It is titled Reflections on the Existence of God: A Series of Essays. It is a concise, easily read, indisputably logical, and very approachable book pointing out:

1) We need to believe in God or not. This is the most important decision we will ever make or tragically defer.

2) What evidence is there for the existence of the God of the Bible.

Mr. Simmons starts with the basics in a slow burn of laying a foundation for looking at the evidence of God’s existence that ultimately builds to a conflagration of challenges and logical conclusions. As a Believer, I finished the book encouraged, affirmed, but also challenged in a really good way. This book is an excellent and respectful gift to give to your friends who are lost, frustrated with the status quo of their lives, and have enough intellectual integrity to know they need to look at the evidence of why they believe what they believe. Here is an excerpt from the book…

Discovering What Is True

We are seeking to discover what is true about God, but we must remember that truth is discovered and not invented. It is discovered by examining the available evidence that enables us to come to a rational conclusion. If something is supported by evidence, it is worth believing.

William Kingdon Clifford was a philosopher who lived in England more than 150 years ago. He was not very well known because his life was cut short at age 33. His recently discovered essay entitled “The Ethics of Belief” is receiving a great deal of attention.

In this essay, written in 1877, Clifford says that it is a moral obligation to believe responsibly. We must base our beliefs on sufficient evidence that we have diligently investigated. He believed this to be of such great importance because beliefs influence one’s actions. They are foundational to life.

In commenting on this essay, journalist Francisco Mejia Uribe contends that Clifford is on to something because when we believe something, the stakes are high. Every single belief has the capacity to be truly consequential, particularly if the belief is in error and involves the most significant issues of life.

This has caused me to wonder how many people examine the evidence on the existence of God before they come to belief. How many of them believe responsibly? I often think people make their decisions about spiritual reality based on subjective preferences. It reminds me of Pascal’s observation that most people invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof (evidence) but on the basis of what they find to be attractive to them. It is quite clear, however, that truth is not a matter of subjective taste but that which is based on objective evidence.

This book lays out, in short essays, much of the evidence for the existence of God that is available. We should seek to take the evidence offered and use it to make reasonable conclusions. What you will find is, as the evidence accumulates, it enables us to come to confident conclusions about God. Who He is. And, that He truly is.

Conclusion

I hope and pray that this taste of the book encourages you personally in your faith and inspires you to give the book to others as an expression of your love for them.

Mr. Simmons founded The Center for Executive Leadership in 2002, and you can buy his book by clicking HERE.

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Charlie Haines

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