Where did the idea of a perfect God come from?

If the universe is so bad… how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

- CS Lewis, quoted in The Case For Faith, Lee Strobel

Counter-Question:
If human beings are not really organic batteries for giant super-intelligent computers, and are actually living a dream that has been designed to keep them inert (aka The Matrix), then where on earth did such an idea come from?

Why faith is called faith; or why faith is difficult

Only in a world where faith is difficult can faith exist. I don't have faith in two plus two equals four or in the noonday sun. Those are beyond question. But Scripture describes God as a hidden God. You have to make an effort of faith to find him. There are clues you can follow.

And if that weren't so, if there were something more or less than clues, it's difficult for me to understand how we could really be free to make a choice about him. If we had absolute proof instead of clues, then you could no more deny God than you could deny the sun. If we had no evidence at all, you could never get there. God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him. Those who want to follow the clues will.

The Bible says, "Seek and you shall find." It doesn't say everybody will find him; it doesn't say nobody will find him. Some will find. Who? Those who seek. Those whose hearts are set on finding him and who follow the clues.

- Peter John Kreeft in The Case For Faith, Lee Strobel

Counter-Question:
Why must God be found this way? Is it for his fun?

Atheists in foxholes

"There are no atheists in foxholes and no ideologues in financial crises," Dr Bernanke told officials during the weeks they were scrambling to put together some measures save the market from collapsing.