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Can you explain how God exist?
loretta:
--- Quote from: mickiel on October 28, 2013, 03:07:40 PM --- I tell you, I am just amazed at how many Atheist are invading religious message boards lately, and in some places, literally taking them over from believers.
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Probably a sign that we shouldn't be on message boards in the first place. :)
Ricky:
Maybe we should tell those guys that God came from nothing!! and took over the place Ricky
Ricky:
They would believe it decause its not the truth. :(
mickiel:
--- Quote from: loretta on October 29, 2013, 03:30:37 AM ---
--- Quote from: mickiel on October 28, 2013, 03:07:40 PM --- I tell you, I am just amazed at how many Atheist are invading religious message boards lately, and in some places, literally taking them over from believers.
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Probably a sign that we shouldn't be on message boards in the first place. :)
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I kind of like seeing how different people are thinking, and letting them know how I think. Letting them know there is another way that the biblical message is explained; that there is a gospel that excludes nobody and a salvation that encompasses all people and secures them. And many of them have never heard that and listen to it being explained. It affords an opportunity to explain God; ( for those who still like doing it.)
Extol:
Some have mentioned the awe-inspiring creation as proof of God's existence. But I think for many atheists there is something that bothers them more than the idea of a creator: the so-called "problem" of evil. There is a lot of horrific suffering and evil in this world, much of it caused by man's hatred for man, but also because of natural things like hurricanes and earthquakes. An atheist in Oklahoma might lose his daughter in a tornado, and that is proof enough for him that God does not exist. As horrific as it is, though, a tornado in Oklahoma is a very small thing compared to the size of the universe. So the atheist says, "If God can create this incredible universe, surely he could stop a tornado from happening on tiny planet earth." Or "If God can create this incredible universe, surely he could make humans that don't hate and kill each other." A co-worker in her early 20s told me she used to believe in God, but she doesn't anymore because her dad died. Not meaning to be disrespectful to her feelings, I thought this was a rather arrogant reason for not believing in God. "Never mind the fact that everyone in history before us has died, if somebody I love dies, then there must be no God." For some people, that's all it takes.
Yesterday I was listening to "Does A Sovereign God Change?" and Ray said something like "People like to believe that God changes his mind, because every notch God goes down, they go up. You don't know how badly people want to be on par with God!" That is the crux of this problem of evil. People want to play God. "If I was God, I would do it this way." "If I was all-powerful, I would just make a perfect world." I suspect many Christians feel this way too, not just atheists and agnostics.
Also, as se7en mentioned, some are atheists because of "hell".
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