Apologetics Analogy

The other day I was talking with a friend about analogies of the existence of God. He had told of an example of faith in God as faith in a chair. We see a chair and have faith that it will support us if we sit in it. I don’t think that is a good example. Another example is to consider the wind. You can’t see it but you know it is there because you feel it and see the result of its presence. This example is a little better, but knowledge of the wind is relative to your experience of it.

 

I believe faith in God is more like oxygen. We need oxygen whether we know of it or not. Oxygen is mandatory for us to live. Life cannot be sustained without oxygen. When we breathe, we have faith that the air we breathe will have the necessary oxygen to support our lives. I can say that there is no oxygen, yet it exists regardless of my belief (and sustains me despite my disbelief).

 

Don’t believe in God? Stop breathing.