All people experience desires — the need for meaning, the desire for love, happiness, truth, beauty. These are deep desires that are never fully satisfied in this life and are so universal that we can even say they are spiritual desires.
We see these desires play out in the questions we ask about the world and ourselves, and the fact that we ask these questions implies that there might be a God.
In this video from Unit 2, we unpack two ways God is revealed: in the created world and in human nature.
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