In this eighth session of AP 301: Foundations for Apologetics, Dr. Phil Fernandes of Shepherds Bible College in Bremerton, Washington presents a comprehensive case for God's existence, walking through the major classical arguments while also introducing his own cumulative case approach to defending theism.

This session is a deep dive into the cosmological argument in its various forms, equipping students with both the philosophical reasoning and the scientific grounding to make a confident case that the universe requires a cause — and that cause is God.

Topics covered in this session:

• The cumulative case approach to arguing for God's existence

• Why theism versus atheism should be judged by preponderance of evidence, not beyond reasonable doubt

• The Kalam Cosmological Argument — everything with a beginning needs a cause

• Why "nothing" cannot cause anything — and how atheists redefine nothing to avoid this

• The Second Law of Thermodynamics as evidence for the beginning of the universe

• Infinite Set Theory, Zeno's Paradoxes, and the impossibility of an actual infinite

• Aquinas' argument from Existential Causality — what sustains finite beings in existence?

• Leibniz's argument from Sufficient Reason

• Why the Multiverse theory is metaphysics, not science

• Where atheism historically has failed — and what is likely coming next

Taught at Shepherds Bible College | Bremerton, Washington
Part of the AP 301 Foundations for Apologetics course series