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The one thing we have in common is faith. I have faith that there is the Father, the Atheist has faith that there is not.
In my dealings with Atheists, it is in that I have an answer for most of their questions, but they have no counterpart answers for their own questions. One cannot prove a negative. I would not know where to begin in asking why you do not believe, for I have no idea of your biblical knowledge that you may reject, if any exists. I would rather that you ask me specific questions that you may have in regards to what the Bible has to say on any given subject.
In my dealings with Atheists, it is in that I have an answer for most of their questions, but they have no counterpart answers for their own questions. One cannot prove a negative. I would not know where to begin in asking why you do not believe, for I have no idea of your biblical knowledge that you may reject, if any exists. I would rather that you ask me specific questions that you may have in regards to what the Bible has to say on any given subject.
Actually I do have evidence. We know what life needs to exist through examining it here. We can examine other planets and determine if they meet the criteria for life (we've found 1000s of candidates). Multiply that by billions of galaxies with billions of suns and billions of planets and it's almost impossible not to see the extremely high probability that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Its not leap of faith to reach this position at all.
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Okay so now you wanna talk numbers and odds eh? How bout 10 to the 50th power to 1 that a single cell could come into existence.....keeping in mind that there are 10 to the 86th power atoms that make up the known universe. And that's not even considering the odds that all this came into existence out of nothing and the fact that the odds of your little swimmer making it down thru the generations to make little ole' you.
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If you can argue people into accepting God exists, then people can argue them out of thinking God exists. Therefore I do not bother to try to convince people to accept God by "proving" creationism is right.
The only questions worth asking an atheist is what has brought them to be an atheist. Why make that decision?
The only questions worth asking an atheist is what has brought them to be an atheist. Why make that decision?
Yes, life exists elsewhere. Definitely in the Celestial Plane, and we do not know how far that may stretch into the known Universe. Physical laws apply everywhere. The book of Ezekiel as well as the book of Enoch, talk about spacecraft coming to earth. The atheist (if he or she knows this) might say they are alien lifeforms....well, in their natural state, they may very well be perceived as such, but these lifeforms identified themselves as being sent by the Father and that they are our brethren.
Wrong. Christians have faith. Atheism is the lack of faith not faith in the opposite direction. If faith in God is "A",atheism is "not A" or "lack of A". Atheism is not "B". I don't have faith god doesn't exist, Im just not convinced he does. I along acknowledge that he could exist so I'm not making any positive claims and therfore do not have any burden of proof to meet. Which brings me to my next point.
First off that isn't true you can prove a negative but the thing with atheism is we don't have to. Atheism makes no claims at all. It is the default position to the god question. Theism and by extension Christianity does posit the claim that God exists among other things. Therfore the burden of proof lies on you. You must prove god exists whereas I don't need to give any proof for why I reject that claim. It is just how court works. The default position is inoccense until guilt is demonstrated. If guild cannot be proven then until it is the defendant is inocent. If this was not the case anyone could claim any unfalsifiable thing was true and it would be true which just doesn't work.
Why not? It's a simple answer why I don't believe. I haven't been presented with evidence enough to persuade me that God exists. I've already read the bible and it isn't enough evidence. You don't have to start a biblical discussion with me because I pretty much reject it entirely. It would talk alot of extra biblical evidence to authenticate it and convince me so that is where theists should start if they want to demonstrate his existence.
First off that isn't true you can prove a negative but the thing with atheism is we don't have to. Atheism makes no claims at all. It is the default position to the god question. Theism and by extension Christianity does posit the claim that God exists among other things. Therfore the burden of proof lies on you. You must prove god exists whereas I don't need to give any proof for why I reject that claim. It is just how court works. The default position is inoccense until guilt is demonstrated. If guild cannot be proven then until it is the defendant is inocent. If this was not the case anyone could claim any unfalsifiable thing was true and it would be true which just doesn't work.
Why not? It's a simple answer why I don't believe. I haven't been presented with evidence enough to persuade me that God exists. I've already read the bible and it isn't enough evidence. You don't have to start a biblical discussion with me because I pretty much reject it entirely. It would talk alot of extra biblical evidence to authenticate it and convince me so that is where theists should start if they want to demonstrate his existence.
No, there are no other means of determining objective morality..if there is no God.. there are no objective moral values and duties so nothing is "appropriate" or "inappropriate." Good and evil are opinion... not real things. Illusory. In other words..there's nothing "evil" about raping babies because objective morality doesn't exist. You might claim it's not beneficial to the propagation of our DNA.. but that doesn't make something "evil." Obviously, we don't live according to that, do we? Why is that? Because our experience tells us that there is something objectively wrong with it. Why? My question would be to the atheist, if you believe raping babies is objectively morally wrong, what do you base that on? So your question "Do you believe we would have other means of determining such horrid behaviors as being wrong?" is the question for the atheist to answer.
Yes our mind and senses tell us about the physical world around us. So thoughts are nothing more than chemical reactions created by our physical brains in your opinion. Animals survive because of their senses and instincts. Yet I asked about human rationality. Self awareness...second order thoughts..logic...rationality. Why do we ponder and why do we trust our conclusions on these things? If our rationality is nothing more than just atoms colliding... seems strange to trust it. This leads into the argument from reason that C.S. Lewis brings up.
Yes our mind and senses tell us about the physical world around us. So thoughts are nothing more than chemical reactions created by our physical brains in your opinion. Animals survive because of their senses and instincts. Yet I asked about human rationality. Self awareness...second order thoughts..logic...rationality. Why do we ponder and why do we trust our conclusions on these things? If our rationality is nothing more than just atoms colliding... seems strange to trust it. This leads into the argument from reason that C.S. Lewis brings up.
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