The Twelve Arguments

Showing what is clear about God's eternal power from general revelation

The eternal power and divine nature of God are clearly revealed in general revelation. And we are responsible to understand what is clear to reason about God. To get understanding we need arguments to show what is true. In this book, Dr. Owen Anderson gives twelve arguments that show how we can know God is real. The criticism of theistic arguments is that they do not actually get to the knowledge of the Biblical God. They prove only the gods of the philosophers which fall far short of the knowledge of God. To correct this mistake, Dr. Anderson begins with a full definition of God and then shows how we can show each part of this definition to be true. God as revealed in scripture is also revealed in general revelation. Dr. Anderson draws from thinkers like John Locke, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Hodge, and Francis Schaeffer, in order to make the case that we can and should know what is clearly revealed about God to all persons in general revelation.
The Arguments:

1. The argument for why we need arguments
2. The argument that some things are clear
3. The argument that something has existed from eternity
4 The argument that the material world has not existed from eternity
5. The argument that the material world exists
6 The argument that the soul exists
7. The argument that the soul has not existed from eternity
8. The argument for the nature of God
9. The argument for special creation
10. The argument for the highest good
11. The argument for the moral law
12. The argument for the necessity of redemptive revelation