You, along with all atheists, declare that faith is out of bounds; that all truth must be established by reason, yet you cannot establish that claim without assuming the validity of the very logic you seek to establish. That's an act of circularity called begging the question. If, on the other hand, you accept it without proof, then you violate your own standard. Either way, no foundation can be given and your atheistic worldview collapses into irrationality. Atheism is therefore unavoidably irrational (i.e. false) and thus God must exist because of the rational impossibility of the contrary.
The very principle by which you reject faith requires faith to stand. The very logic by which you deny God demands Him to exist. The very reasoning by which you resist Him proves that without Him, reason itself is impossible. You are not merely trapped in contradiction, you are trapped in the inescapable reality that only God makes sense of the very mind that you use to deny Him.
The Christian has no such problem because we begin with God's existence. Notice that the Bible never attempts to prove God's existence, it simply declares it: 'In the beginning, God…' (Gen. 1:1). The Christian worldview presupposes God, not as an arbitrary assumption, but as the necessary foundation for all rational thought. More than that, it presupposes that God is Logic itself and that Jesus Christ is Logic incarnate.
John 1:1—'In the beginning was the Word (Logos: Logic, Reason), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.'
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us,...
Because of this, we can use logic and sound reason with full confidence in its validity, without circularity, without contradiction, and without borrowing from another system. Indeed, biblical Christianity is the only fully rational worldview, for all others must, by necessity, steal from it even to utter a single intelligible syllable. The atheist cannot even state his opposition without tacitly relying on truths that only Christianity has the rational ground to support.
So I ask you: Will you continue to stand on a foundation that collapses beneath your feet, or will you acknowledge the only worldview that makes reason itself possible? You have seen the contradiction, and now you must decide; cling to irrationality, or submit to the truth that has been evident from the beginning (Romans 1:18-22). The God you use reason to deny is the very One who gives you the ability to reason at all. Stop borrowing from Him to fight against Him. Instead, surrender to the reality that only in Christ can your intellect, your logic, and your very existence find their true and rightful foundation.
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