The atheist claims there is no Ultimate Reality. But do you know everything? If not, what you don’t know could be Ultimate Reality. So you cannot definitively deny it; at most, you can say you don’t know whether an Ultimate Reality exists.
A person with an experience is never at the mercy of a person with an argument.
Direct experience outranks discursive argument. I have encountered Ultimate Reality; its existence does not depend on belief. Intuitively, you recognize this: nothing within the universe is eternal, immutable, infinite, perfect, or absolute—yet we possess these ideas, which cannot arise from the finite alone and therefore point beyond it to Ultimate Reality.
Laying aside all the problems with the word “God,” and defining Ultimate Reality as the eternal, immutable, infinite, perfect, and absolute, consider this: there are thirty‑eight distinct arguments for God’s existence, grouped as follows—six cosmological, three ontological, five teleological, two moral, one from consciousness, three epistemological, five experiential, four aesthetic and existential, three scientific and cosmic, three pragmatic and decision‑based, four self‑referential, and two additional variants. The sheer number and variety of these arguments provide cumulative evidence for Ultimate Reality that overcomes the flaws in any one alone.
Add up the first‑hand experiences of people like me with the numerous arguments, and the evidence is clear: there is enough evidence for Ultimate Reality for those who want the truth, but there will never be enough evidence for those whose psychological resistance—fueled by religious abuse, misuse, and distortion of the God concept—makes acceptance extraordinarily difficult, unless they let go of the resistance. A person convinced against their will is of the same opinion still.
