Are You Sure We Can Avoid God?

Are U Sure We Can Avoid God?

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Do we know for sure no personal, ethical, infinite God exists? If there is such a person, that would seem to be the most serious issue of life. I mean, what if he is a wrathful being who could burn us to ashes with a lightning bolt because we’ve displeased him somehow. That’s serious--nobody wants to be zapped. On the other hand, maybe God is all love and if we ever need him, we can just send up a little prayer. And being so grateful we acknowledged his existence, God will gladly and quickly answer our every request. But if he doesn’t, then he’s not worth our time and bother. How can we know for sure he’s either of these ways? What is God like anyway?

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Christians claim God exists and has spoken to us with authority and finality in the Bible. They claim God entered our world in the person of Jesus, the God-man. God has told us who he is, and gave multiple evidences showing us it’s so. They further claim that to ignore or reject Jesus is to seal our doom in outer darkness and torment forever. Well, I don’t believe it! Furthermore, I have a thousand reasons to show it’s just not so. Think with me honestly about just these five reasons to avoid or dismiss this Christian God thing.

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Poke Fun at the Bible

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I’ve heard people make fun of the Bible as though only narrow-minded old persons or children who can’t think critically can believe it. They say it’s full of myths, contradictions, and immoral characters we wouldn’t want to know. They claim you have to leave your brain at the church door to believe it. They affirm science has utterly discredited all its teaching. So it can’t be true and so there’s no Christian God.

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If we assume at the outset no God exists who can act in the real world, then these above things will seem to be just and fair criticisms. If our concern is acceptance with our friends, then fear of their rejection will prevent us from honest research. Frankly, assumption is not proof. What facts show there’s no God? Doesn’t our dogmatism smack of arrogance, disrespect, and unfairness? Would we want others to treat us this way? What happened to the saying: Innocent until proven guilty? The Bible is the world’s bestseller. Do we even know or can intelligently explain the Bible’s central message? Are we being reasonable to deny what Christians believe not even knowing what it is? Many honest seeking skeptics who examined the Bible found such accusations false and became Christians.
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Listen to Skeptical College Professors

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Now everybody knows college professors are smart dudes. I mean they have spent years in school, in reading and research, writing papers and taking tests. They are PhD.s and know of what they speak. They’re brilliant and knowledgeable persons. And when they say Christianity is outmoded, unscientific, unreasonable, and no longer accepted in the modern world, who am I to say otherwise? Besides many college professors are either atheists or pantheists.

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Is there any difference between being knowledgeable and being correct? I’ve heard of professors’ office walls being papered with college degrees and they didn’t have the good sense to come out of the rain. But of course, that’s just hearsay. Don’t persons hold doctors degrees in science, philosophy, the arts and religion that differ radically with each other? Isn’t it true that far more non-Christians than Christians exist in the world? Don’t our varied backgrounds, influences, and preferences enter into our thinking? And yes, it’s more difficult to believe in God than in a pear tree that we can see and eat its fruit? Then doesn’t all this require faith no matter what we believe about God and spiritual matters? The question then seems to call for good evidence to support one’s beliefs. Not just that many college professors are atheists or pantheists.

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What would it take to show evidence of an eternal, ethical Creator God? Christians maintain a mystic’s mere subjective claims—whether Buddha, Muhammad, or whoever--can’t do it. It requires something visible and tangible occurring in our real world. This is exactly and exclusively what we find in the Bible with its multitude of fulfilled prophecies, miracles and the God-man, Jesus Christ. And to claim these ancient people were stupid or ignorant of natures laws simply isn’t true when they were always astounded at miracles themselves.    

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Claim All Religions Are Equally Good

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We don’t want to hurt peoples’ feelings and to avoid this and keep the peace we can claim all religions are equally good. It just seems so narrow-minded, arrogant, and intolerant to claim your own religion is exclusively true and superior to the others. There are good people in all religions that try to be good and hope to go to Heaven or receive reward after death. They just call God by different names. Of course, Christians deny neither that there are moral and kind persons in all religions nor that there is truth in other religions.

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Good intentions are praiseworthy. And all this is true, and seems so reasonable. But the different religions claim no God, one God, two Gods, millions of gods, or the universe is god. And at death, they say people perish as a dead dog, or go to Heaven, or take on another life, or become absorbed into the energy of the universe. So if any one religion is right, all the others would be false.

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All these views about god and about human existence after death are contradictions. There is a universal law of logic called non-contradiction. It states that if one proposition is true, all others that contradict it must be false. And it’s true in India, Africa or wherever. So logic forces us to say only one if any of these religions can be correct. Even the view that all religions are good and correct is exclusive and open to the same objections. Worse still, it ignores, downplays, and denies the very tenants these differing religions hold deer and amounts to a lie.  

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As mentioned above, biblical Christianity is the only religion that can produce objective, visible evidence in hundreds of fulfilled prophecies, miracles, and the God-man Jesus Christ. No other world religion has such evidence—only subjective teachings and speculations. Further, only Christian faith assures us of absolute truth, human dignity, rights, absolute morals, life after death, and opportunity for Heaven.

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Say Physical and Moral Evils Exclude God

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To put it simply, physical evils such as devastating plagues, diseases and accidents ruin lands and kill thousands of people every year. Moral evils meaning human abuses as robbery, rape, beatings, murders, and wars destroy millions of others as well. Such evils show no all-good, powerful and wise God exists, or he would have put a stop to such evils long ago.

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I have space for only some brief responses. Because we don’t see God in the picture may mean we’re shortsighted. Easy 99 % of what happens we may not know about or understand. From our short-range perspective, we may have a distorted picture. Adversities of all kinds can test and prove the genuineness of our faith—perfect knowledge excludes faith. Adversities challenge us to creative and noble actions. Many of our problems we bring on ourselves due to carelessness, thoughtlessness, and stupidity—it’s unfair to blame God for our mess-ups.

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According to the Bible, we brought the curse on ourselves due to our sin and we’re still at it. Because God is all good, all-powerful and all wise we’re assured he will stop it in his time. If God stopped moral evils right now, we sinners would be judged. And if God suspended his natural laws every time an accident would occur, then we would jump out of buildings or stand before trains to have fun, or just to see how God would save us. When we ask, ‘why me Lord,’ do we think we should be humanities exception? If there’s no God, then there’s nobody to complain to and no injustice; it’s all just a given. God could have created other worlds, but this world is the best to preserve our dignity, free will, and opportunity for Heaven, as well as his truth, love, justice and glory. God’s answer to all evils is that the perfect world will be found by trusting in the death of Jesus on the cross for our sins and then holy living. That’s his plan and his infinite wisdom.

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Say Jesus Was Just a Good Man

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Yes, Jesus was a good man. But can any honest person reading the New Testament say that’s all he was? Jesus is said to always do good, never sin, command angels and demons, control the forces of nature, heal diseases instantly and completely, and even raise the dead. Can any of those things be ascribed to a mere man? No, only to God.
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Unless we have all knowledge, we can't say no Creator, and no afterlife exists. Doesn't wisdom dictate we give it honest consideration? If they exist, we may be in real trouble to deny them. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through Me. (John 14:6).
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You can receive God's unearned gift of eternal life in a love-trust relationship with him today. Just turn form your way to God’s way in Christ trusting him from now own as your guide and Savior. You can do great good as well by becoming a GOOD NEWS MESSENGER.
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