Posted on 07/14/2018 3:34:56 PM PDT by pcottraux
This is the classic trap. "I demand you show me evidence God exists." So I used to try to show it to them, but this was a fruitless exercise. I would try to explain the first cause argument, the teleological argument, the anthropic principal, the powerful historical evidence for the Bible stories especially with regards to the life and resurrection of Christ...only to have all of this discounted as "insufficient evidence." Eventually I realized their minds were already made up and no amount of evidence they demanded to see would actually convince them. At least Nietzche was honest about this.
It's like the Bible says...the rich man was in hell and begged Abraham to send Lazarus back from the afterlife to warn his brothers of this place. But Abraham said even if they were to see a man come back to life, if they won't believe Moses and the prophets (the Bible), they won't believe Lazarus.
"Show me proof!" is always followed by "That's not proof!"...then when you get frustrated and walk away, "Ah ha! You weren't able to show proof!" I've stopped debating atheist because of it. Just pray for them and that's all you can do.
Satan's greatest accomplishment is that nobody believes in him.
Of course I do! That's not the point. Apologetics is an important subject in theology and if Christianity is the truth, it will outshine any humanist philosophy. That's why I write blogs like these instead of arguing with people.
2,300 years old, to be exact.
No.
It is like an ant saying, "There is no purpose to a cell phone. I've walked all over it and it does nothing for me! There is no meaning to this world and no higher being than myself. Find an ant who can prove otherwise."
Well, I had to come up with a little more to say than that or it would have been a very short blog this week. :)
That’s what I believe and hope!
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God tells us that without faith it is impossible to please Him and that whoever comes to God must believe that He IS and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
A person must first hear the calling for himself before he can come to God. You can help show the way, but that is all. It really does no good trying to convert someone who doesn’t want to be converted. There is no power on Earth that can do that.
Suffering proves the introduction of sin as a result of the fall of man in the Garden of Eden.
It’s rather difficult to say that suffering disproves God’s existence when the greatest person who suffered in this life was God.
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