Simple logical reasons on why God exist 'coz an atheist friends of mine simply blabbers blatantly without any knowledge on the Bible....after i explain to him he says "oh....i didn't know that. Then i think its fine....". So sit back and enjoy...
1. Does God exist? Throughout history, in all cultures of the world, people have been convinced there is a God. Billions of people, who represent diverse sociological, intellectual, emotional, educational makeups...believe that there is a Creator, a God to be worshipped. Now, the fact that so many people believe something certainly doesn't make it true. But when so many people through the ages are so personally convinced that God exists, can one say with absolute confidence that they are all mistaken?
2. Does God exist? The complexity of our planet points to a deliberate Designer who not only created our universe, but sustains it today.
3. Does God exist? Mere "chance" is not an adequate explanation of creation.
4. Does God exist? Humankind's inherent sense of right and wrong cannot be biologically explained.
5. Does God exist? God not only has revealed Himself in what can be observed in nature, and in human life, but He has even more specifically shown Himself in the Bible.
6. Does God exist? Unlike any other revelation of God, Jesus Christ is the clearest, most specific picture of God.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Six Reasons to Believe in God
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Nice try, anyway. :) Believing makes one feel good, that's enough.
I spent many many years in the church and was a pastor for several of them, but I finally had to admit that reality was working against me.
Your six reasons are mostly only two: 1. We don't know how everything works, so there must be a God - and 2, most people think there is a God. A third (kind of) has to do with morals...
But your inability (or mine) to understand complex actions of physics or DNA does not in any way imply that these things are therefore inadequate to explain the state of the universe. That's like saying that because I don't understand nuclear physics, atomic bombs must be a scientific myth.
Science doesn't know everything! But it doesn't pretend to. Religion , on the other hand, is based on FAITH ..therefore, by definition it "knows" nothing, it simply believes. Religion's answer to every question is, God did it.
Science could do this too, but the purpose of science is to find truth, not simply make up answers so you don't have to say that you don't know something.
Next: The "lots of people believe it" argument may impress someone who is too young to have seen much of life or if they don't think about it for more than a microsecond. But then if you consider reality, it sounds silly: Most people used to believe the earth was flat. It wasn't, but they really really believed/knew it. They believed it and justified it by the Bible. They were dragged kicking and screaming away from that belief.
Only a few generations ago, EVERYBODY was dead sure that epilepsy was caused by demons. Epileptic seizures meant you needed to call an exorcist. That was Christian church doctrine and not to be questioned -- but they were still wrong.
I'm sure you could think of a hundred other examples if you tried, including the hundreds of Gods that millions of OTHER people are so sure are the "one true God(s)" ...
Oh, and as for any "inherent sense of right and wrong"; it's a nice sentiment but you have to close your eyes to reality to think that humans have a universal sense of morality (or, as I previously suggested, just be young and inexperienced in the world). Palestinians blow up Israelis, in the name of God, Christians shoot abortion doctors, in Jesus' name; we go to war because some guy thinks God told him to do it, and we aren't supposed to question that - and many other examples I can think of but it gets nauseating to repeat them - Humans have a very flexible and highly variable sense of right and wrong.
If you aren't sure about that, just ask any "pro-life" Christian to explain to you why war, "killing them all in the name of the Lord" (Jerry Falwell quote) and the death penalty are really good things, despite that whole "thou shalt not kill" thing.
Or ask the pastor caught having an affair with a church member why he thought God said it was okay.
Still, believing makes you feel like you have purpose in life. That's fine. It doesn't make it real, but it does mean that it offers some personal benefits. And none of what I just said proves that you are wrong to believe, although it does show that your arguments are circular and incorrect as far as logic is concerned. But you can have a bad argument and still be right. I can live with that :)
Thanks for your response but the people you have said above are the ones who use religion as their excuse for their misconduct and using them as a means for their selfish desires, the same can be applied for science too...even thou science claims to only know the truth and since we all are blissfully ignorant of nuclear physics and stuff...scientist have their way into making us believe that they cloned a dog and many other stuff on evolution which was all a mere hoax. but i am not denying the fact that science is completely false.
Like you said "You can have a cool argument but still can be wrong..."
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