“Why I Believe in God” (with introduction and revisions) by Cornelius Van Til and Steve Scrivener

Later below you will find Van Til’s pamphlet called Why I Believe in God. He says he wrote this pamphlet “to point out in simple terminology why I believe in the God of the Bible, the God of historic Reformed theology.” And then he summarizes its message:

 

“The God I believe in is the triune God of the Bible. I believe in this God because He Himself has told me in the Bible Who He is, what I am, and what He, in Christ and by the Holy Spirit, has done for me. Or I might say “has done for men.” I was brought up on the Bible as the Word of God. Can I, now that I have been to school, still believe in the God of the Bible? Well, can I still believe in the sun that shown on me when I walked as a boy in wooden shoes in Groningen? I could believe in nothing else if I did not, as back of everything, believe in this God. Can I see the beams underneath the floor on which I walk? I must assume or presuppose that the beams are underneath. Unless the beams were underneath, I could not walk on the floor.”