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There isn't enough evidence for me to believe in god.
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Because I'm not a strong atheist I'm not putting any arguments here. Just use the strongest argument you know in favor of god and I will respond if I have the time.
The ONLY "evidence" that exists of a "God" is a book that was cobbled together of short stories "written" on stone tablets or Papyrus leaves, or word of mouth CENTURIES after the "fact". Therefor, the "evidence" is hearsay, even hearsay interpreted from ancient languages which is a imperfect method at best. There are even several "versions" of the "facts"? There are even several "versions" of the same "god". The Christian one, the Muslim one, the Jewish one …. and just what the god given rules are. Absolutely NOTHING that could stand up in a court with any other than a believer as judge and total believers as jury. That …. would even embarrass a kangaroo!
It would be similar if, centuries from now … after some tragedy wiped out civilization … a few scared survivors of the human race came across an ancient comic book. Superman could be our next god, Batman and Wonder Woman his disciples, and Lex Luthor …. the new devil.
@AlofRI I get what you mean, but I was looking more for philosophical arguments. If we had anything that could be considered evidence this debate probably couldn't happen. I apologize, I think I phrased the question wrong.
No apologies necessary. My education is 70 years old. Philosophy wasn't quite so popular back then. It has always been around, but, it seems to be taken even more seriously now. Not a bad thing. However, sometimes it seems like every statement today gets philosophized, carved up, split apart and searched for some ulterior meaning …. kind of like, if you watch Steven Colbert, his introduction to his segment …. MEANWHILE. ;-)
So. Looking at it with a 70 year old, non-philosophical education ….. I'll take Superman over this totally confusing "God" … and … Wonder Woman ain't so bad either! Now, where did I put that book of Philosophy??? (My memory ain't what it used to be …. either!
“There are honest
doubters and dishonest doubters. An honest doubter is willing to search
out the truth and live by the results; a dishonest doubter doesn’t want
to know the truth. He can’t find God for the same reason a thief can’t
find a policeman.” Adrian Rogers
Three-forms of evidence validating our Creator, Jesus
Christ-Yeshua…
The Universe, encompassing the Sun-Moon-Stars-Earth,
descending downward to the complex human genome (life), all provide empirical,
preliminary, substantive, observable, evidence for design in Nature and
therefore mandate a Designer (Isaiah 66:1; Acts 7:49).
The Holy Spirit has clearly articulated that anyone who
denies these empirical, supernatural, inexplicable, forms of Nature as
testimony relevant to our Creator’s validity will be “without excuse” when they
stand in the Judgment before Jesus Christ-Yeshua in Eternity (Romans 1:18-32;
Revelation 20:11-15). It is the preliminary evidence of Nature that confronts
mankind daily/nightly and is so designed as to draw all men and women to seek
knowledge of God and find life in His Name, Jesus Christ-Yeshua.
God has so uniquely created and ordained Nature as testimony
and evidence relevant to Himself that He has nullified mankind’s ability to
define origin of matter or understand the supernatural Universe He has placed
before us (Ecclesiastes 3:11). Origin of matter will, until the end of Time,
remain a mystery to mankind as man is cognitively constrained by Time and The
Curse; all that is visible and invisible to the human eye in Nature was established,
created, by elements from the invisible Spiritual World; therefore, the genesis
of our Creation will forever remain an enigma, a mystery, to the mind of man.
Anyone seeking Truth, void a personal bias against the validity of our Creator,
can easily apprehend and discern the supernatural design of creation mandating
a supernatural Creator.
“By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the
word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are
visible.” Hebrews 11:3 (NASB)
“He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also
set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which
God has done from the beginning even to the end.” Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NASB)
2) The Incarnate, Living Word of God, Jesus Christ-Yeshua
There exists no greater or more popular historical figure
than Jesus Christ-Yeshua. The Atheist who rejects the historicity of Jesus
simply rejects the overwhelming evidence for His validity readily
accessible-available in Biblical and extra-Biblical as well as non-Christian,
archeological, sources.
Our Creator did not leave His Human creation to wonder or
ponder about the one-true-God and His Plan and purposes for Time and Eternity,
but God left the Spiritual Realm some 2019-years ago, He divided history, and
entered the Realm of Time in the flesh through a virgin birth that was
essential to establish Him as Messiah who would selflessly give Himself to save
mankind from death in sin and death in Hell (Philippians 2:5-11; Matthew 1:23).
During the 33.5-years of His Earthly sojourn, Jesus
fulfilled over 300-Messianic prophecies as articulated in the Covenant of Law
extending from the Genesis to The Book of Malachi. The statistical chances of
1 person
fulfilling 8 prophecies: 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000;
1 person
fulfilling 48 prophecies: 1 chance in 10 to the 157th power;
1 person
fulfilling 300+ prophecies: Only Jesus!
In the Gospel of John, Chapter 14 v. 6, Jesus *said to him,
“I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but
through Me.”
Anyone contemplating the Deity of Jesus Christ in light of
the previous Scripture (John 14:6) must come to ONE of only three-conclusions
concerning Jesus Christ. Jesus is either a…
1. .
2. lunatic.
3. Lord
Every human being born subsequent to 33-AD and having
attained an age of reason with sufficient cognitive acuity to discern the moral
law as written upon our heart by our Creator (Romans 2:15) will have to choose
between these three-options seeing that their eternal destiny will depend
solely upon which option they choose.
3) The written word of God, the Holy Bible
God the Father has not only provided Nature/the Universe and
the Son, Jesus Christ-Yeshua as testimony of His validity, power, dominion, but
God has also provided a written “Covenant of Grace” (Matthew 26:28) to His
human creation through the Holy Spirit. God the Holy Spirit meticulously,
supernaturally, moved through the inner-man of 40-men of antiquity, holy men
set-apart specifically for the purpose of penning on parchment the Plan and
purposes of our Creator; a journey of 1400-to-1600-years, three-continents,
three-languages, explaining in detail our origin, our purpose and meaning,
God’s moral law and God’s Plan for the destiny of Time and Eternity.
For those who scoff at the integrity of God’s written word
and thereby call the Holy Spirit a , understand that the very same Creator
who initiated visible matter from the unseen Spiritual World and used same to
create this vast supernatural Universe and gave you the breath of life, this
very same Creator is abundantly capable and qualified to provide you and
provide me with the EXACT words He desires we have so that we can know Him, His
Plan and purposes for Time and our individual lives. Irrespective of councils
of men and theologians, critics, scholars, all of the efforts of men concerning
advocating for or disparaging the Holy Scriptures, know that the Bible remains
the best-selling Book in History and that God’s word will NEVER fade away
(Matthew 24:35).
Conclusion
Our Creator has provided Human KIND with
three-undeniable-forms of evidence relevant to His validity, reality, power,
dominion, Deity…
1) Nature.
2) Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Living Word of God.
3) A written covenant, the Holy Scriptures.
Anyone who desires to know God intimately, personally, will
find Him and enter into a relationship with Him if they will seek Him with
their whole heart…He will be found by them (Jeremiah 29:11-13). God will NOT
entertain or commune with a heart that does not truly desire to know Him but He
is faithful to make His abode with anyone willing to come to Him in faith and
believe that He is true.
“But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he
who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those
who diligently seek Him.” Hebrews 11:6 (NKJV)
“There are honest
doubters and dishonest doubters. An honest doubter is willing to search
out the truth and live by the results; a dishonest doubter doesn’t want
to know the truth. He can’t find God for the same reason a thief can’t
find a policeman.” Adrian Rogers
Three-forms of evidence validating our Creator, Jesus
Christ-Yeshua…
The Universe, encompassing the Sun-Moon-Stars-Earth,
descending downward to the complex human genome (life), all provide empirical,
preliminary, substantive, observable, evidence for design in Nature and
therefore mandate a Designer (Isaiah 66:1; Acts 7:49).
The Holy Spirit has clearly articulated that anyone who
denies these empirical, supernatural, inexplicable, forms of Nature as
testimony relevant to our Creator’s validity will be “without excuse” when they
stand in the Judgment before Jesus Christ-Yeshua in Eternity (Romans 1:18-32;
Revelation 20:11-15). It is the preliminary evidence of Nature that confronts
mankind daily/nightly and is so designed as to draw all men and women to seek
knowledge of God and find life in His Name, Jesus Christ-Yeshua.
God has so uniquely created and ordained Nature as testimony
and evidence relevant to Himself that He has nullified mankind’s ability to
define origin of matter or understand the supernatural Universe He has placed
before us (Ecclesiastes 3:11). Origin of matter will, until the end of Time,
remain a mystery to mankind as man is cognitively constrained by Time and The
Curse; all that is visible and invisible to the human eye in Nature was established,
created, by elements from the invisible Spiritual World; therefore, the genesis
of our Creation will forever remain an enigma, a mystery, to the mind of man.
Anyone seeking Truth, void a personal bias against the validity of our Creator,
can easily apprehend and discern the supernatural design of creation mandating
a supernatural Creator.
“By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the
word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are
visible.” Hebrews 11:3 (NASB)
“He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also
set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which
God has done from the beginning even to the end.” Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NASB)
2) The Incarnate, Living Word of God, Jesus Christ-Yeshua
There exists no greater or more popular historical figure
than Jesus Christ-Yeshua. The Atheist who rejects the historicity of Jesus
simply rejects the overwhelming evidence for His validity readily
accessible-available in Biblical and extra-Biblical as well as non-Christian,
archeological, sources.
Our Creator did not leave His Human creation to wonder or
ponder about the one-true-God and His Plan and purposes for Time and Eternity,
but God left the Spiritual Realm some 2019-years ago, He divided history, and
entered the Realm of Time in the flesh through a virgin birth that was
essential to establish Him as Messiah who would selflessly give Himself to save
mankind from death in sin and death in Hell (Philippians 2:5-11; Matthew 1:23).
During the 33.5-years of His Earthly sojourn, Jesus
fulfilled over 300-Messianic prophecies as articulated in the Covenant of Law
extending from the Genesis to The Book of Malachi. The statistical chances of
1 person
fulfilling 8 prophecies: 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000;
1 person
fulfilling 48 prophecies: 1 chance in 10 to the 157th power;
1 person
fulfilling 300+ prophecies: Only Jesus!
In the Gospel of John, Chapter 14 v. 6, Jesus *said to him,
“I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but
through Me.”
Anyone contemplating the Deity of Jesus Christ in light of
the previous Scripture (John 14:6) must come to ONE of only three-conclusions
concerning Jesus Christ. Jesus is either a…
1. .
2. lunatic.
3. Lord
Every human being born subsequent to 33-AD and having
attained an age of reason with sufficient cognitive acuity to discern the moral
law as written upon our heart by our Creator (Romans 2:15) will have to choose
between these three-options seeing that their eternal destiny will depend
solely upon which option they choose.
3) The written word of God, the Holy Bible
God the Father has not only provided Nature/the Universe and
the Son, Jesus Christ-Yeshua as testimony of His validity, power, dominion, but
God has also provided a written “Covenant of Grace” (Matthew 26:28) to His
human creation through the Holy Spirit. God the Holy Spirit meticulously,
supernaturally, moved through the inner-man of 40-men of antiquity, holy men
set-apart specifically for the purpose of penning on parchment the Plan and
purposes of our Creator; a journey of 1400-to-1600-years, three-continents,
three-languages, explaining in detail our origin, our purpose and meaning,
God’s moral law and God’s Plan for the destiny of Time and Eternity.
For those who scoff at the integrity of God’s written word
and thereby call the Holy Spirit a , understand that the very same Creator
who initiated visible matter from the unseen Spiritual World and used same to
create this vast supernatural Universe and gave you the breath of life, this
very same Creator is abundantly capable and qualified to provide you and
provide me with the EXACT words He desires we have so that we can know Him, His
Plan and purposes for Time and our individual lives. Irrespective of councils
of men and theologians, critics, scholars, all of the efforts of men concerning
advocating for or disparaging the Holy Scriptures, know that the Bible remains
the best-selling Book in History and that God’s word will NEVER fade away
(Matthew 24:35).
Conclusion
Our Creator has provided Human KIND with
three-undeniable-forms of evidence relevant to His validity, reality, power,
dominion, Deity…
1) Nature.
2) Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Living Word of God.
3) A written covenant, the Holy Scriptures.
Anyone who desires to know God intimately, personally, will
find Him and enter into a relationship with Him if they will seek Him with
their whole heart…He will be found by them (Jeremiah 29:11-13). God will NOT
entertain or commune with a heart that does not truly desire to know Him but He
is faithful to make His abode with anyone willing to come to Him in faith and
believe that He is true.
“But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he
who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those
who diligently seek Him.” Hebrews 11:6 (NKJV)
@RickeyD My 2 friends and I: @xlj_dolphin_473 and @JGXdebatePRO have already proven that the bible is a fallacy. We have pointed out there are too many bible contradictions. I could make my own book and my own god. In 2000 years humans would believe it. The Big Bang and Evolution have proof. Proof is evidence. Evidence drives belief. Give me proof about the bible not from the bible.
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So which one are you: an honest doubter or a dishonest doubter? You refuse to bask in the glory of the Great Potato Monster; what drives your resistance?
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@MayCaesar Your mockery and obfuscation will not buy you mercy at Judgment. I have told you truth and you reject it...again, that is your right. Enjoy. My concern and responsibility is that you not die in complete spiritual ignorance.
This, the thing that you consider "mockery and obfuscation", is exactly the same thing as you are pushing, just in different words. Now you know how atheists see your claims: you chose the perfect words to characterise it!
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It would be similar if, centuries from now … after some tragedy wiped out civilization … a few scared survivors of the human race came across an ancient comic book. Superman could be our next god, Batman and Wonder Woman his disciples, and Lex Luthor …. the new devil.
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So. Looking at it with a 70 year old, non-philosophical education ….. I'll take Superman over this totally confusing "God" … and … Wonder Woman ain't so bad either! Now, where did I put that book of Philosophy??? (My memory ain't what it used to be …. either!
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“There are honest doubters and dishonest doubters. An honest doubter is willing to search out the truth and live by the results; a dishonest doubter doesn’t want to know the truth. He can’t find God for the same reason a thief can’t find a policeman.” Adrian Rogers
Three-forms of evidence validating our Creator, Jesus Christ-Yeshua…
1) Nature
2) The Incarnation of God in Time
3) The Written Covenant between God and Mankind
1) Empirical – Preliminary – Substantive – Observable Evidence = Nature
The Universe, encompassing the Sun-Moon-Stars-Earth, descending downward to the complex human genome (life), all provide empirical, preliminary, substantive, observable, evidence for design in Nature and therefore mandate a Designer (Isaiah 66:1; Acts 7:49).
The Holy Spirit has clearly articulated that anyone who denies these empirical, supernatural, inexplicable, forms of Nature as testimony relevant to our Creator’s validity will be “without excuse” when they stand in the Judgment before Jesus Christ-Yeshua in Eternity (Romans 1:18-32; Revelation 20:11-15). It is the preliminary evidence of Nature that confronts mankind daily/nightly and is so designed as to draw all men and women to seek knowledge of God and find life in His Name, Jesus Christ-Yeshua.
God has so uniquely created and ordained Nature as testimony and evidence relevant to Himself that He has nullified mankind’s ability to define origin of matter or understand the supernatural Universe He has placed before us (Ecclesiastes 3:11). Origin of matter will, until the end of Time, remain a mystery to mankind as man is cognitively constrained by Time and The Curse; all that is visible and invisible to the human eye in Nature was established, created, by elements from the invisible Spiritual World; therefore, the genesis of our Creation will forever remain an enigma, a mystery, to the mind of man. Anyone seeking Truth, void a personal bias against the validity of our Creator, can easily apprehend and discern the supernatural design of creation mandating a supernatural Creator.
“By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.” Hebrews 11:3 (NASB)
“He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.” Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NASB)
2) The Incarnate, Living Word of God, Jesus Christ-Yeshua
There exists no greater or more popular historical figure than Jesus Christ-Yeshua. The Atheist who rejects the historicity of Jesus simply rejects the overwhelming evidence for His validity readily accessible-available in Biblical and extra-Biblical as well as non-Christian, archeological, sources.
Our Creator did not leave His Human creation to wonder or ponder about the one-true-God and His Plan and purposes for Time and Eternity, but God left the Spiritual Realm some 2019-years ago, He divided history, and entered the Realm of Time in the flesh through a virgin birth that was essential to establish Him as Messiah who would selflessly give Himself to save mankind from death in sin and death in Hell (Philippians 2:5-11; Matthew 1:23).
During the 33.5-years of His Earthly sojourn, Jesus fulfilled over 300-Messianic prophecies as articulated in the Covenant of Law extending from the Genesis to The Book of Malachi. The statistical chances of
1 person fulfilling 8 prophecies: 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000;
1 person fulfilling 48 prophecies: 1 chance in 10 to the 157th power;
1 person fulfilling 300+ prophecies: Only Jesus!
In the Gospel of John, Chapter 14 v. 6, Jesus *said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.”
Anyone contemplating the Deity of Jesus Christ in light of the previous Scripture (John 14:6) must come to ONE of only three-conclusions concerning Jesus Christ. Jesus is either a…
1. .
2. lunatic.
3. Lord
Every human being born subsequent to 33-AD and having attained an age of reason with sufficient cognitive acuity to discern the moral law as written upon our heart by our Creator (Romans 2:15) will have to choose between these three-options seeing that their eternal destiny will depend solely upon which option they choose.
3) The written word of God, the Holy Bible
God the Father has not only provided Nature/the Universe and the Son, Jesus Christ-Yeshua as testimony of His validity, power, dominion, but God has also provided a written “Covenant of Grace” (Matthew 26:28) to His human creation through the Holy Spirit. God the Holy Spirit meticulously, supernaturally, moved through the inner-man of 40-men of antiquity, holy men set-apart specifically for the purpose of penning on parchment the Plan and purposes of our Creator; a journey of 1400-to-1600-years, three-continents, three-languages, explaining in detail our origin, our purpose and meaning, God’s moral law and God’s Plan for the destiny of Time and Eternity.
For those who scoff at the integrity of God’s written word and thereby call the Holy Spirit a , understand that the very same Creator who initiated visible matter from the unseen Spiritual World and used same to create this vast supernatural Universe and gave you the breath of life, this very same Creator is abundantly capable and qualified to provide you and provide me with the EXACT words He desires we have so that we can know Him, His Plan and purposes for Time and our individual lives. Irrespective of councils of men and theologians, critics, scholars, all of the efforts of men concerning advocating for or disparaging the Holy Scriptures, know that the Bible remains the best-selling Book in History and that God’s word will NEVER fade away (Matthew 24:35).
Conclusion
Our Creator has provided Human KIND with three-undeniable-forms of evidence relevant to His validity, reality, power, dominion, Deity…
1) Nature.
2) Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Living Word of God.
3) A written covenant, the Holy Scriptures.
Anyone who desires to know God intimately, personally, will find Him and enter into a relationship with Him if they will seek Him with their whole heart…He will be found by them (Jeremiah 29:11-13). God will NOT entertain or commune with a heart that does not truly desire to know Him but He is faithful to make His abode with anyone willing to come to Him in faith and believe that He is true.
“But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” Hebrews 11:6 (NKJV)
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So which one are you: an honest doubter or a dishonest doubter? You refuse to bask in the glory of the Great Potato Monster; what drives your resistance?
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This, the thing that you consider "mockery and obfuscation", is exactly the same thing as you are pushing, just in different words. Now you know how atheists see your claims: you chose the perfect words to characterise it!
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