If Christ died on the cross for all of humanity

"When I see all the glories of the cosmos, I can't help but believe that there is a divine hand behind it all."...Albert Einstein

"People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars and they pass themselves by without wondering."...St. Augustine

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."...C.S. Lewis

Some people complain because God puts thorns on roses, while others prasie God for putting roses among thorns."...Author Unknown

A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, Where is God? The Christian answered, Let me first ask you: Where is He not?...Aaron Arrowsmith

"What I am really interested in, is knowing whether God could have created the world in a different way; in other words, whether the requirement of logical simplicity admits a margin of freedom."...Albert Einsten

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible Universe, forms my idea of God."...Albert Einstein

The most famous of all arguments for the existence of God are the "five ways" of Saint Thomas Aquinas.

One of the five ways, the fifth, is the argument from design and the other four are versions of the first-cause argument.

The argument is basically very simple, natural, intuitive, and commonsensical. It is based on an instinct of mind that we all share, the instinct that says everything needs an explanation.

 Nothing just is without a reason why it is. Everything that is has some adequate or sufficient reason why it is. Philosophers call this the Principle of Sufficient Reason.

We use it every day, in common sense and in science as well as in philosophy and theology.

If we saw a rabbit suddenly appear on an empty table, we would not blandly say, "Hi, rabbit. You came from nowhere, didn't you?" No, we would look for a cause, assuming there has to be one.

Did the rabbit fall from the ceiling? Did a magician put it there when we weren't looking? If there seems to be no physical cause, we look for a psychological cause: perhaps someone hypnotized us. As a last resort, we look for a supernatural cause, a miracle.

 But there must be some cause. We never deny the Principle of Sufficient Reason itself. No one believes the Pop Theory: that things just pop into existence for no reason at all.

Perhaps we will never find the cause, but there must be a cause for everything that comes into existence.