Serious Issues & Solutions 

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We naturally object to statements that we think untrue. We sometimes do have doubts about Christian faith even if raised in a Christian home, or are Christians ourselves. Consider these doubts and answers. I’ll present the objection in title or bold print below and the following paragraph will be the response in each case.

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There is no absolute truth.

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Are you absolutely sure? Then, opposites can be equally true. We don’t have to believe what our parents, children, teachers, doctors, lawyers, tax collectors, sales persons, bosses, or anyone else might tell us is really true. We don’t have to believe traffic signs, labels on medicine, house numbers, and a hundred other things we take for granted every day. In fact, we don’t even have to believe the statement above that “there is no absolute truth” is true either—it self-destructs. Honestly, can any statement be more ridiculous? Persons making this objection usually only apply it to spiritual and moral issues. They don't consider the evidence because it suggests they change their way of living to please God.

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Jesus was only a good man and great teacher, but not the Son of God.

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This statement is self-refuting. Jesus claimed to be the Son of God and our Savior. If that’s not true, then Jesus is a liar or lunatic. And that would mean he’s not even a good man. Moreover, he did things over three years that demonstrated publically before large crowds that only God could do such as heal diseases instantly, walk on water, raise the dead, and assent into Heaven. Neither man nor nature can do such things—only God alone. Therefore, Jesus must be God as he claimed. Friend, have you read the Bible with an open mind, or just uncritically assumed someone’s negative comments were correct?

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Man is not evil, but only good.

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A  bad environment can make persons turn bad. Provide good education, housing, jobs, and all basic human needs and people will be good.

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History and psychology show conclusively that man is naturally corrupt in thought, will, and practice. Children don’t need to be taught to lie, steal, cheat, or harm people or things. If man is good, why do people everywhere have locked doors, a police force, judges, prisons, and armies? This shouldn’t be true if people were really good. We can have evil thoughts even when we don’t act on them. Nazi Germany was the most educated people, yet murdered millions of Jews and anybody who disagreed with Hitler. Of course, monists can redefine sin and evil as illusion, but they can’t live at though it’s true—ask one to step in front of an oncoming train. Human pride prevents people from admitting their sinners. Scripture is true that man’s heart is deceitful and wicked (Jeremiah 17:9; Romans 1:18-32). We humans can do good, but we have a dark evil nature as well in thought, word, and deed. Realistically, we have both a dignity and a depravity.

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I’m an atheist who says dogmatically there’s no God of any kind.

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Just because you haven’t seen anything you would call a personal God, does that mean he can’t exist or can’t be an immaterial Spirit? Do you know what’s going on in the next town, next house, even the next room? If we could draw a circle big enough to represent universal knowledge, a period, if that, would represent a man’s knowledge. A person would have to know everything in time and space to say there’s no God, or God can’t act in our world, can’t perform a miracle, or can’t speak to a human mind. Isn’t atheism then an arrogant self-contradictory pretension to having a God-like knowledge? The agnostic says, ‘I don’t know or we can’t know about God’. Of course, he’s right that a mystic’s subjective claims about God (Muhammad, Buddha) have no evidential value. But he’s fooling himself if he hasn’t addressed the ancient detailed prophecies about the Jewish Messiah fulfilled in Jesus Christ, and Christ’s miracles, sinless life, and resurrection?

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Science proves miracles never happened.

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How does science prove miracles never happened? Miracles are a matter of eyewitness history. Can science prove anything in history by experimental method like the existence of Napoleon or Caesar? If a Creator God exists, then miracles, angels, human souls and divine revelations certainly can exist. It’s only the false assumption of naturalism that denies it. The atheist would have to have exhaustive knowledge to disprove it. Moreover, human senses can detect spiritual things as God and angels if they choose to show themselves. Christ is better attested in history than what others believed without doubt.

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Evolution Best Explains the Origin of Life.

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There are several problems honest thinking people cannot ignore. How can something come from nothing? Nothing means no-thing or nonexistence, and no power to produce anything. How can order evolve from disorder? Drop red, white and blue confetti from a plane and it doesn’t arrange itself into the American flag. Life doesn’t emerge from non-life--spontaneous generation is a myth.. Blind lifeless chemicals can't arrange themselves into the complex life forms in any amount of time. There's no missing links--it's a whole missing chain. Life forms  have systems and organs genetically programmed to function together from the beginning. Such complex design strongly suggest an infinite designer--God.

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Christianity is okay for you, but not for me.

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People have right to their own lifestyle. So don’t bother me with your religion. What feels good is true and right for me, and I don't like Jesus.

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Hedonistic lifestyles lead to disaster. They are a selfish disregard for others. They destroy trust, objects, friendships, families, and nations as well as the hedonist. Some persons take pleasure in deception, robbery, rape and murder--would you call such things right? If a compassionate friend had the cure for your cancer, would you say, “don’t bother me?” Christians show compassion to tell sinners of the Savior from godless living and eternal Hell. Do you know no judgment day and no Hell exist? Can you prove it? It’s too serious a matter just to risk eternal darkness and torment. And how would you feel and be if everyone applied your inconsiderate lifestyle to you, you’re friends, and your loved ones?

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I am not a sinner.

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 A sinner is a social outcast--a drunk, dope addict, or whore, but I’m not bad like that.

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We can always find others worse than us and condemn them. This makes us feel superior, self-righteous, respectable and prideful like the Pharisee in the temple (Luke 18:9-14). The truth is we all sin to different degrees and in different areas. Our list for respectability is different from our neighbors and usually doesn’t include our own sins. We even blame God for giving us the freedom to commit them. Would you prefer the opposite of free will? be programmed machines without human dignity.
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We cannot obey God’s laws 100% of the time. Nor can we take away sins already committed. This means we must humbly acknowledge our sin and trust the Lord Jesus Christ, the God-man and Savior of us sinners.  Jesus paid for our sin in His death on the cross and His righteous is credited to our account. His resurrection proves all He said and did is true and He is our only hope for life eternal  in Heaven. Call Christ paying for our sins injustice if you like, but without Jesus we have no basis for injustice in an animal eat animal jungle.

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I’m too bad a sinner.

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I’m not respectable. I’m a no-good, a whore, drunk, drug addict. God could never forgive me. Christianity is only for good, respectable persons.

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Surprisingly, the Bible teaches that “good people” go to Hell and “bad people” go to Heaven. Jesus said he had not come to call the righteous but sinners. In other words, prideful self-righteous persons unwilling to acknowledge their sin and unworthiness before God are doomed to Hell. But persons who humbly confess their sin and need of forgiveness, like the tax collector praying in the temple are justified, but not the proud self-righteous Pharisee (Luke 18:9-14). God will save any true repentant believer in Christ (Acts 16:31; Rom. 10:9-10).

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I don’t believe Jesus arose from the dead.

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Jesus’ resurrection depends upon evidence, not an assumption of universal knowledge about nature. Five hundred witnesses saw Jesus after he arose from the dead (1 Cor. 15). Brilliant skeptics have devised a dozen failed theories to explain it away, but cannot. The sealed guarded tomb, left grave clothes, Jesus appearances, skeptical disciples, establishment of the church, martyrs, Sunday worship, and the New Testament, dating time B.C to A.D., make no sense unless Jesus arose. See my articles on Jesus’ resurrection.

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If God doesn’t exist, then human dignity, rights and freedom mean nothing. We’re mere soulless dirt as atheists believe or recycled energy and on our way to nothingness as pantheists believe. We can't know the Lord is good until we trust Him and see. Jesus is the only way, truth, and life for all who say--I trust in You Lord Jesus to be my Savior, Lord, and life Guide.
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If you know someone who feels this way, share this blog on www as a ministry to help a desperate world in need. Thank you. "Lord, bless my friend for his or her conviction,  courage, and Godly helpful ministry."
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For more short rebuttals of false assumptions I recommend, The New Atheism and The Erosion of Freedom by Robert A. Morey and The Christian Combat Manual by Dan Story, and True For You But Not For Me by Paul Copan. 

More Serious Issues & Solutions

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We rightfully, but respectfully object to statements that we think untrue. Honest thinking people rightfully want good factual answers to their doubts whether Christian faith or other faiths. Trouble is many persons with doubts never take the trouble to find out the answers. I’ll present the objection in bold print and in the paragraph to follow respond in each case. You might like to download and print all my articles for individual or class discussions.

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                                                   Biblical Christianity Is Irrelevant.
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 Its pie in the sky by and by and not concerned with my everyday life needs.

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Its true Bible teaching doesn’t and can’t tell us who to marry or what work to pursue. But it’s of utmost relevance on three levels. Lifestyle---it warns us of destructive behaviors such as hatred, drunkenness, murders and encourages spiritual fruit such as love, joy, peace, patience, kindness (Gal. 6:19-25). Eternal abode—it gives us a choice between Heaven with a loving God, or Hell alone in darkness and torment (Matt. 5:28). Worldview---only the risen God-man confirms life after death, God’s reality, a rational world, human dignity, rights, freedom, ethics, justice, love, and purposeful living. No other worldview can match biblical Christianity in providing our most basic human needs. Other worldviews merely are limited subjective human opinions devoid of proof.

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                                                    The Bible Is An Immoral Book.

Bible characters did some really terrible shameful things. Moses, Israel's leader, and David a may after God's heart, were murders. Some Bible characters lie, rape, murder, even eat people.
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Yes, biblical characters did shameful sinful things. God had them recorded, but did not approve of their sinful acts. God used them despite their sins, just as God uses us today. Nobody is without sin and we must be fair to judge each case within its historical context (Rom. 3:23; 1 John 1:8, 10). Moreover, apart from the perfect God of the Bible, we have no basis to call any act right or wrong--we have only subjective human preferences. The Bible’s God is our perfect Creator, Life-giver, Lawgiver, Owner and Judge. Apart from the Bible’s God, we’re only animals without ethical standards and accountability who return to dirt. The fact that the Bible mentions the sins of its best characters whereas other books don’t shows its integrity and trustworthiness. Trust in Jesus can set us on a higher plane of more noble desires but even then we're only perfect in Him.

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                                                        Christians Are Against Sex.
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But sex is a natural, normal bodily function that is to be satisfied like hunger and thirst.

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God created us sexual beings and told us to be fruitful and multiply (Gen. 1:27). God is not against sex, only against its abuse. Common sense shows a man and women’s bodies are designed for each other, for the procreation of children and family life. Same sex marriages rebel against God’s design for marriage, and a husband with many wives cheat both the wives’ needs and the men who have no wives. Both are not God’s will as Jesus confirmed with the one flesh relationship (Matt. 19:4-6).

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                                                  I Try Sincerely to Keep the Golden Rule.
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So I’m a good person and should go to Heaven.

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You are assuming entrance to Heaven depends upon your being a good person and performing good deeds. How do you know what's “good” in God’s eyes? How do you know how much “good” God requires, or when you have done enough “good”? One percent cancer can contaminate the whole body and 1% sin can corrupt a perfect Heaven. A perfect God and a perfect heaven exclude all sin. Heaven is a gift of God, not earned by our good deeds. God’s way is for a person to humbly admit his or her sin and need of forgiveness and then trust the Savior of sinners (Ephesians 2:8-9; Acts 4:12; Titus 3:5; Romans 11:6).

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                                          I Tried Christianity Once and It Didn’t Work.

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True faith in Christ works. But it’s not like an emotional high like being on drugs. It’s not getting everything you want. It’s not performing a ritual act, or just  joining a church.  True conversion occurs when God’s Holy Spirit enters us--we become a new person with new holy desires (2 Cor. 5:17). New spiritual life is evidenced in a new outlook on life, a new sensitivity to right and wrong, a new desire to learn God’s Word, a new concern to do God’s will, a new love for God, and a new hope to share this wonderful new experience with other persons. We're not perfect and must grow in right living. And yes it's a battle with the world, flesh, and the devil until we'll finally be with God in Heaven. In trusting the Savior, we are forgiven, but good works are not automatic. We grow by focusing on the things of God in daily submission. Dwelling on our faults and failures only drag us down.

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                                                   Science Has Disproved the Bible.
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Science is neutral and objective facts, but religion is just faith.

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Scientists can be as bias and anyone else and science theories continually change. Evolution is based upon a dogmatic naturalistic philosophy that ignores the facts of science that point to creation.  Christianity gave the conceptual framework for experimental science to flourish. Pantheistic and animistic religions regarded nature as indwelt by spirits to sacred to disturb. But Christianity said a rational and loving God created nature for us to explore and discover. The scientific method is based upon assumptions the Christian worldview guarantee, but not provable by science--laws of logic, orderliness of nature, reliability of our senses, and honest accurate data. Modern science could not have arisen apart from these imperatives of the Christian worldview. When science and Scripture are properly understood, God’s world and God’s Word will be in harmony.

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                                                  All Religions Are Essentially the Same.
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They all are different roads to God, all teach ethical principles, and just call God by different names.

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This shows both ignorance and insult toward world religions. World religions differ radically in their teachings about God, man, salvation and the afterlife. To imply their differences are not important is an insult to them. From a Christian perspective, three factors stand out. First, their views radically conflict which means only one if any must be correct. Second, only Christianity gives visible, objective, empirical evidence its God and teachings are true. Jesus alone gave evidence of being God come into our world shown by fulfilling ancient prophecies, performing miracles, and rising from the dead. No subjective mystic’s claim to universal truth can match that. Third, some religions practice cannibalism and human sacrifice. Is that just as good as Christ’s teaching to love your neighbor as yourself?

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                                                    The Church Is Full of Hypocrites.
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Church people don’t live what they profess.

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Have you given this an honest appraisal of the facts? First, every church member or person professing Christ may not be a  Christian. Second, nobody including true Christians can live a perfect life as the Bible says (1 John 1:8, 10). Yes, we all have moral failures in our fight against the world system of evil, our sinful nature, and Satan and his demons. Christians are not exempt from failure and must grow in godliness. But millions testify they’re better persons after trusting Christ than before. Third, what about all the non church hypocrites in bars, discos, businesses, politics, everywhere? Are you using church hypocrites as an excuse not to trust the Savior and go to Hell? Are you living up to all you think is right?

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                                                    Christianity Is Not Logical or Rational.  

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Persons who say this may mean it does not make sense to them or from their perspective. First, they may think they can’t be wrong, misunderstand, be illogical or be exposed to false teachings. Second, limited human knowledge is a mere speck in the circle of universal knowledge. Third, as C.S. Lewis pointed out, persons who assume the universe popped into existence by chance can’t be sure our thought is rational.  Finally, Christians can misunderstand or incorrectly explain biblical teachings as well. The objection requires we first understand what is true Bible Christianity taught by Jesus and his apostles.

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                                                       You Can’t Take the Bible Literally.

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Why? Who says so? Wouldn’t God say what He intends us to understand? If the Bible is God’s message to us about Himself, His plan of salvation, and how He wants us to live, wouldn’t He speak in plain language we could understand? Would God make us guess at what the Bible means if He loves us and wants to communicate with us? Further, figures of speech are normal in every language. If God made us with powers of communication, why couldn’t He make us to communicate with Him? What reason could God have for not speaking in understandable speech? Could this objection be only an unwarranted assumption that there's no real God who can act in our real world? The Lord spoke with His people and was understood throughout the Bible..

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                                                               I  Don’t Believe the Bible.
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I’ve heard it’s full of myths, fairy tales, and things impossible to believe.

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Hearsay is not always the best reason for believing things. Why not read it for yourself  before assuming a hostile dogmatic stance. It’s continually the world’s bestseller, the most influential book. Fairness requires we find out for ourselves before we condemn it on other people’s say so.
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Start with the Gospel of John that tells about the life of Christ. Many find the natural everyday events speak to them in a way that seems so true to human nature. There's no weird, fantastic things like statues moving, people turned into birds, or crosses walking. Such things as found in Greek literature and the apocryphal gospels are myths. But that's not true with Jesus who both claims and shows he is Lord of nature.
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Unless we have exhaustive knowledge, we can't say Jesus can’t be our God. Secular history and archaeology give abundant evidence Jesus is a real  man, even the God-man who walked among us. He showed the greatest love dying upon the cross to pay for our sin, and rising from the dead That  proves he is our God who offers us an eternal love-trust relationship.  Millions have taken the Bible statements true and found fulling life though Him. But that means we put God's will first, not what our sinful desires demand. Jesus said, "I have come that they might have life and have it more abundantly" (John 10:10). Say, I trust You now Jesus as my Savior and Lord to live for You forever. Share your new faith with friends and loved ones.

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See When Critics Ask by Norman Geisler & Thomas Howe. Defending Your Faith by Dan Story. Tough Questions About God, Faith, and Life, by Charles Colson. 

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Nature Could Never Design Man

Scientists tell us a living cell has enough genetic information to fill a set of encyclopedias—it’s a virtual city of compact complex machines working in harmony. And molecules would have a number of impossibly difficult hurtles to even form a cell. But we don’t have to take the scientists word for it. Just perceptive observation can show how utterly impossible this is for unconscious mindless nature to create man in any amount of time. Take the human body as an example.

Consider the external design shown only in a person’s head. Eyes in the head on top of the body give maximum distance of vision—why aren’t they at the waist or feet? Eyes are recessed and proper distance apart for depth of vision and protection with eyebrows to obstruct drips, eyelashes to retard dust, tears to clarify vision. Ears located on sides of the head for expanded range of sound and shaped to trap sound. Nose juts out with double nostrils to insure breathing if a nostril is clogged. Mouth is in the head for food intake designed to take food downward and out of the body. It has biting teeth in front where needed to bite and  teeth behind to crush what’s bit, a tongue to move food around and internal acids to digest food. Can we suppose blind nature knew how to fix things this way even in billions of years?

Eyes, ears, nose, mouth all have many essential functioning parts to carry messages to the brain.

Man’s brain is encased in a hard protective shell surrounded by hair to keep in warmth. The human brain is so compact and so complex with connections sending chemical and electrical messages in a split second and it would take a large library to match the information it can contain. Further, it’s believed we use only a small part of our brain capacity. Doesn’t all this suggest fiat creation rather than evolutionary process?

Science knows nothing can’t produce something and life doesn’t come from nonlife--that suggests an eternal self-existing living cause, namely God. Further, life forms show specified complexity not found in nature—compare arrowheads with creek stones, sand castles with sand dunes, the four known presidents faces of Mount Rushmore with natural mountains. Further, life forms are irreducibly complete and functional at the outset—no partially developed heart or reproductive system can survive.

Evolutionists make counter claims. They say human embryos go through animal stages such as a worm and fish, and the fetus’ backbone looks like an animal’s tail—they even base abortion on it. But life forms are programmed at the outset. They say bodily appendages such as tonsils, appendix and thymus gland are useless evolutionary carryovers. Over a hundred such vestigial organs were once claimed, but uses are now known for all but a disputed few. It’s said both animal and human genetic material are composed of four letters and 99% identical. But it’s not identical material but different arrangement that counts.

Could evolutionist arguments be based upon ignorance or just blind prejudice? Does true investigative science have to exempt God at the outset? Do we know so much as to say no God exists? Aren’t we supposed to follow the evidence wherever it leads? Doesn’t experimental science have its limits? Could the “gaps” in our knowledge be filled in by a naturalistic bias? Weren’t modern experimental scientists’ believers in God, creation and many even Christians? Aren’t many scientists’ Christian believers even today? And isn’t it the rational order of the Christian worldview that is the very basis for experimental science? All these questions deserve honest answers from honest open-minded people.

Inherited adaptability to environment does occur such as the changing length of the finches’ beak. But mutations are usually destructive, not passed on, and millions are required in conjunction to make a significant change—it’s not a sufficient mechanism to change one life form into another. The universe is running down, not building up as evolution suggests. A genetic plan must come from an informer, a mind. Randomness never arranges itself into order—red, white and blue confetti dropped from an airplane doesn’t form itself into the American flag on the ground. Life forms look designed simply because they really are designed by their great Designer.

The probably of this all coming together by unconscious mindless nature in an evolution of time and chance is infinitely improbable, not even in 15 billion years. Consult a textbook explaining the complexity, intricacy and compatibility of the human body. Surely, common sense compels us to admit all this marvelous design cannot be due to a common ancestor but attributed only to a common intelligent self-existing Designer or God. A love-trust relationship with our Maker may be the plan and purpose of life. We won’t know until we sinners trust in the loving Savior who died to pay for our sins.

Maybe it’s Darwinists’ and not the Bible that’s in denial—see Psalms 14:1; 19:1-2; 139:14; Romans 1:20-21. Rose Publishing puts out pamphlets with much good easy to understand information. For college students the 5 Minute Apologist, by Dr. Rick Cornish gives maximum answers in minimum time. It covers most subjects at a reasonably price.

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How Scientific and Open-minded Are Darwinists?

Darwin’s followers claim to be scientific and the only ones who really are. They base evolution upon fact, reason, evidence and truth. They oppose falsehood, superstition, and ignorance. They claim the scientific method of controlled experiment and observation is the only sure way to gain knowledge. They claim to gather data and follow it wherever it leads. So science destroys belief in creation and in a Creator.

Is evolution the conclusion reached by honest, unbiased, factual investigation? It's claimed science proves creation wrong and no God exists. So religious believers should make their peace with it, admit its established scientific fact, and stop being obstinate. It's said that people who oppose evolution are superstitious, ignorant, closed-minded, prejudiced, imperialistic, outmoded, unscientific, stupid, dangerous--period.

But all that being true, as evolutionists claim, what is the problem with honest questioning and investigation? Isn’t that what science is supposed to be about? Aren’t scientists supposed to consider alternative theories? If all the facts are in and evolution confirmed, wouldn’t honest scrutiny further establish evolution? Everything must point to man having evolved by chance from molecules. There can be no fear of arguments dumb believers in God and creation might offer. So why try to suppress their free speech; exclude their arguments from science textbooks? Their ignorance and falsehoods can only confirm the truth.

Now let’s consider some of the ignorant questions of these dumb religious people.

Is the Scientific Method the Way to Discover God?

It’s a good method to learn about nature and its laws. It utilizes our senses of seeing, hearing, feeling, touching, and tasting. It gives knowledge of material observable objects. But some things in life are not observable and experimental. For example, human thoughts, our past experiences, historical events, ethics, human dignity, beauty, logic. Does that mean they don’t exist? Certainly, we live as though they exist. So scientific method is inadequate to know about even many immaterial but real and crucial things.

Now what experiment demonstrates molecules can arrange themselves into men? None! Furthermore, empirical method depends upon prior unproved factors such as logic, accuracy, strict control, and honesty of the experimenter. It’s difficult for me to see how scientific method can demonstrate evolution. But isn’t that what’s supposed to demonstrate fact in science?

Evolutionists claim that molecules by chance and over time arranged themselves into men. In order to show this scientifically they would have to produce undeniable specimens or fossils of each successful step in the process. That would be conclusive and put all doubts and objections to rest. Yes, we know many varieties of worms, dogs, birds exist, but we don’t know that one kind of life form can change into another kind. Microevolution is fact; macroevolution is not.

Evolutionists know some things to be fact but their dogmatic philosophy that nature is everything won’t allow them to admit that the facts point to creation and a Creator. They know life doesn’t spontaneously pop into existence from nonlife. They know life forms have genetic limitations. They know acquired characteristics and mutations are not methods sufficient to achieve macroevolution. They know unconscious molecules have no mind to arrange themselves into man. They know randomness results in chaos not order. They know living cells are enormously complex and compact, a literal city of machines demonstrating intelligent design worthy only of God and creation. Yet they have been deceiving people about such things for decades.

I recommend the book The Case For A Creator by Lee Strobel. Lee is a journalist and former atheist who interviewed today’s leading authorities in the scientific fields of cosmology, physics, astronomy, biochemistry, biological information, and consciousness asking the tough questions and getting definitive answers. He turned up mountains of detailed evidence to show chance evolution is simply not good factual science. No science disproves God and even Darwin spoke of creation many times. 

How Could We Know If A Creator God Exists?     

Now people reserve the word God to mean something much more than man or nature. If God is just nature itself, we can learn its laws and patterns, and try to benefit from them. But God generally means a Creator and Sustainer of the material universe. So we couldn’t experiment with God in a test tube, examine him under a microscope, or observe him through a telescope. Its unlikely God would obey our commands, cater to our whims, and tailor his actions for our convenience. Moreover, if there’s a Creator we could do some unexpected and supernatural things.

Are we correct to assume no Creator exists? Is this a genuine scientific attitude or a closed-mind prejudice? You can draw a huge circle representing universal knowledge. Let’s be honest--a microscopic dot would represent our part of that knowledge. Our severe limitations forbid us to assume that no God exists, nature tied his hands, or God doesn’t care for man, or can’t act in recognizable ways in his world. Isn’t human ignorance arrogant to assume any such things?

Evolutionists know some things to be fact but their dogmatic philosophy that nature is everything won’t allow them to admit that the facts point to creation and a Creator. They know life doesn’t spontaneously pop into existence from nonlife. They know life forms have genetic limitations. They know acquired characteristics and mutations are not methods sufficient to achieve evolution. They know unconscious molecules have no mind to arrange themselves into man. They know randomness results in chaos not order. They know living cells are enormously complex and compact, a literal city of machines demonstrating intelligent design worthy only of God and creation. All this shows design that point to God. Yet they claim science disproves God even though the sciences point to God. They assume naturalism-of-the-gaps. And they have been deceiving people about all this for decades.

But is there any visual objective evidence of a Creator? Wouldn’t a Creator have to do things outside the normal patterns of nature to get our attention? Suppose someone told us, ‘I’m an angel or a prophet of God the Creator.’ His word would mean nothing—anybody could say that. We would demand some kind of credentials or evidence its true. But suppose someone told us unimaginable detailed events impossible for men to know or guess that occurred centuries later. Wouldn’t that be real evidence an all-knowing God existed as the Bible claims? This is exactly what Christian’s claim Old Testament prophets predicted of their messiah and fulfilled in Jesus.  

“For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” Isaiah 9:6. 739-686 B.C. John 5:18; 10:30-33; 19:7.

“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel. Isa. 7:14;

 Matt. 1:21-23.

“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to Me the One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.” Micah 5:2. 750-731 B.C. Matt. 2:1-6; Luke 2:4-7.

“The eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the dumb sing. Isa. 35:5-6; John 3:2, 21:24-25.

“My righteous Servant shall justify many; For He shall bear their iniquities.” Isa. 53:11; 2 Cor. 5:21; Luke 19:10; 1 Pet. 3:24.

“For You will not leave my soul in Sheol, nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.” Ps. 16:10; 1000-975 B.C. Acts 2:31; Mark 16:6.

Evolutionist’s claim the paleontologist’s scattered bones demonstrate evolution. But Jesus’ miracles more closely meet scientific criteria. They were scrupulously observed, performed hundreds of times and rationally explained as evidence Jesus is our God, Creator, Savior and Judge. Jesus is no hoax but reasonable fact.

Here are specific unimaginable predictions Jewish prophets made of their future Messiah centuries before Christ. They predict Messiah as Mighty God, virgin born, God with us, in Bethlehem, would perform miracles, die to justify sinners, and arise from the dead. Such century’s earlier specific predictions would be impossible for limited man to guess or artificially fulfill. Jesus’ life depicted in the Gospels demonstrates he fulfillment all of them. No other religious literature contains fulfilled predictions. That’s objective evidence that shows people God is real. For only an all-knowing, God can tell us future details (Isa. 44:10).

Jesus gave visual objective evidence in his miracles. While the Gospels mention only 35, Jesus performed miracles to individuals and groups everywhere he went for more than three years. They were spontaneous upon request, in open daylight, and before hostile critics who couldn’t deny them even when he challenged them to do so. Jesus miracles demonstrated he is Lord over nature, demons, diseases and death. Believing nature’s set patterns as we do today, his disciples were always skeptical, astonished and often rebuked for lack of faith. Yet, his disciples became willing to experience horrible deaths because they knew Jesus was their Messiah and their risen God and Creator.
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 No other religion can show such miracles. It’s not lack of evidence keeping us from trusting the Savior, it’s a sinful life and a rebellious will. Will you say: Lord, I’m a sinner deserving Hell, but I trust you now and forever as my Lord, Savior, and Guide? I know repentance is humbling but it's God's way we receive the Savior and eternal life. God loves us enough to tell us the truth.

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Ape-man or God-man?

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Two opposing worldviews compete for the lives and souls of men. One is naturalistic science. Evolutionists claim man is purely a product of nature, claimed up from the clime, is dispensable, and will become food for worms. The other is biblical Christianity. Bible believers affirm Jesus is the God-man who taught God created us and we’re responsible to choose eternal life with God.     

Darwin’s followers, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, believed God a hindrance and man only a more evolved animal. They murdered their countrymen and millions of others they claimed inferior or who disagreed with them. Their ‘survival of the fittest mentality’ justified their actions.   

Evolutionists destroy everything Christians uphold. Evolutionists kill human dignity and human rights saying we’re just dispensable animals. Evolutionists deny the world has meaning and life ultimate purpose. Evolutionists disaffirm absolute truth and ethics. Evolutionists bury hope of life beyond the grave. Secular humanist countries demonstrate this: “those who hate him (God), love death”. Proverbs 8:36.

Christians uphold Creation and Christ as our loving Lord and Savior. This inspires us to found great universities, create great literature and art, established science on an experimental basis, build hospitals, and establish humane organizations. Believing the world created by a rational God who loves us, we’re assured it’s a rational world to be nurtured and developed. The Christian church is imperfect, yet provides the basis for everything good evolution destroys.

To decide which worldview is the truth two questions require our utmost attention. One, is Darwin right that we evolved from the apes or something lower? The other question, could Jesus be the God-man and only hope of the world?  

First, Question: Is Man Just an Animal Ascended from Slime?      

 Consider these three lines of argument. First, in science observable, repeatable experiments are what establish a theory as fact. And it’s believed that given enough time unconscious nature can arrange mindless molecules into men.

Evolutionists made this experiment with fruit flies. Since they have a short lifespan, many generations can be examined. Radiation experiments conducted on multiple generations showed they can develop long or short legs or wings and various deformities. As England became industrialized, black smoke covered the trees. People noticed black moths replaced white moths birds could see to eat. Darwin observed birds called Finches had longer beaks in the dry season.

Now fruit flies were the only experiment and it clearly showed they don’t evolve into anything else. The moths and Finches were observations, but not experiments. And they proved only that creatures can adapt to their environments. No experiments establish evolution.

 We know various kinds of dogs, horses, monkeys, and men exist. But we don’t know that dogs can change into horses or monkeys evolve into men. That’s theory, not fact. Furthermore, we know animals and plants have a genetically programmed limit that they cannot pass. The fossil record confirms the Bible that plants and animals reproduce only their own kind (Gen.1:21-25). And God made man in his image--a rational, moral, immortal person like Himself (Gen. 1:27; Ps. 8:5; Eph. 4:23-24).

Second, evolutionists argue transitional forms or bones called fossils can demonstrate evolution to be fact. Fossils showing transitional steps from ameba to Adam would without doubt show evolution is fact. Museums overflow with fossils. Some show unusual characteristics of animals that died out such as the duckbilled platypus. But no bones discovered show one animal evolved into another.

Paleontologists dig up bones and announce to the world they have found the missing link. So we’ve told about the missing link called Piltdown Man, Java Man, Peking Man, Lucy and Nebraska Man. All supposed extinct races of people that turn out to be hoaxes, just lies. Neanderthal Man was a real robust person who may have had a much longer lifespan than people today.

The famous Tennessee Scopes trial convinced America science discovered the missing link, Nebraska Man. Science proved man evolved from the monkey. Science then is fact, religion mere faith. Textbooks should teach science, not religion. Scientists are learned authorities, Christian’s ignorant dummies. Nebraska Man, however, turned out to be an extinct pig’s tooth. Don’t believe the sensational artist’s drawings, journalist’s articles and cave man models shown in newspapers and science textbooks. All are reconstructions not based upon proof but upon evolutionist bias.

Third, evolutionists argue that similarities between man and animals prove evolution. Both man and animals have similar limb structure, organs, bodily fluids, and DNA. They classify animal complexity in an ascending order then say this confirms man and the animals evolved from a common ancestor.

But there’s no rule God has to make life forms of entirely different patterns. Life and mobility require similar legs, arms, organs, fluids, DNA. The differences are more significant. Besides, creatures can’t live with partially developed digestive or reproductive systems or heart, eyes, ears, legs, arms. Built-in genetic limitations allow varieties within kinds but not change to a different kind of creature. Similarities don’t prove a common ancestor—more likely, they show a Common Designer.

But couldn’t the Bible account of man’s creation be myth or fable to allow for evolution as naturalistic science claims?

No! The text is clear that God created animals to reproduce after their own kinds. But God made man directly from the ground in his image and dominant over animals. With no suitable helpmate among animals, God made Eve (mother of all living) from Adam. These first people had intelligent speech, named the animals, kept sheep, farmed the ground, make offerings to God, and build cities.

 Further, the Bible always assumes the creation account is literal history. Jesus affirmed God made man beginning at creation (Mark 10:6). Paul said God made man’s flesh different from animals, that Adam  was made direct from dirt and formed before Eve (1 Cor. 15:39, 48; 1Tim. 2:13). All this precludes both naturalistic evolution and theistic evolution as God’s means of creation. Moreover, unless the Fall is literal, the Bible becomes nonsense and there’s no need of a Savior (Gen. 3; John 3:16; Rom. 5:12-21). It all boils down to belief or unbelief in the Bible’s God.

The sacred writer’s intent was not an imaginative entertaining story but a historical account to show our origin in God’s image. Moreover, because archaeologists have no collaborative data and aren’t likely to find any doesn’t mean it can’t be true. Critics are wrong multiple times.

Second question: Could Jesus be the God-man and Only Way to Heaven?

Do we know God is required to have many ways to Heaven? Could there be something about God or about us that we haven’t considered? Do we know God must follow our thinking and we can’t be wrong? How can we even know there is a heaven or what it’s like?  

Would the mere word of Buddha, Confucius, Zoroaster, Hindus, Mohammad, or Jesus prove their religion to be true? Don’t crazy persons claim to be God or talk with God? How can we know God is more than just a thought in their head, their imagination, invention, or philosophy? What would demonstrate their God is real and acts in our material world?

As we mentioned, true science confirms or discredits their theories by repeated empirical tests and observations. So which of the just mentioned religions exceeds mere words with repeatable public proofs?

Consider this. I announce that this year the snow will melt off Mt Everest and the volcano in Yellowstone National Park will erupt and it occurred. Wouldn’t that get attention and suggest I have super human knowledge? And what if I could do incredible things like walk on water, heal open sores immediately, and ascend into the sky? Wouldn’t that suggest I have greater knowledge than men ordinarily have?  

Well, Jewish prophets made hundreds of specific predictions about their Messiah that only Jesus Christ could fulfill such as be God, virgin born, in Bethlehem, live without sin, fulfill prophecies, perform miracles, die for people’s sins and rise from the dead. Also, over three years before astonished disciples and hostile critics in open daylight wherever he went, Jesus performed miracles, probably hundreds. Moreover, Jesus’ life doesn’t need repeating for every generation since greater historical evidence exists for Jesus than for Aristotle or Tiberius Caesar. Check it out--The Historical Jesus by Gary R. Habermas.

What can we conclude with regard to world religions? Jesus gave us repeated, public, eyewitness, evidences confirming his claims to be God. Founders of non-Christian religions give only teachings, no objective visible evidence of God. Can’t we then conclude, based upon good evidence, that Jesus is God?

What can we conclude with regard to the naturalist’s claim that mindless molecules arranged themselves into men? No experiment has shown this. A Common Designer explains arguments of similarities better than a common ancestor does. Bones showing each transitional step would conclusively demonstrate evolution. But all we have are a few supposed missing links exposed as hoaxes. Can’t we also conclude that the repeated, eyewitness evidence Jesus gave to show he is God is far more scientific than all the missing links and hoaxes that fail to demonstrate evolution? Aren’t we wise to trust Jesus to save us sinners when our eternal well-being is at stake?

A naturalist assumption may send us to the eternal darkness, torment and weeping of Hell. It’s too late to repent and believe then. “It is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment.” Hebrews 9:27 God may be speaking to you now to trust in the Lord Jesus as your eternal Savior. Won't U say, Lord Jesus, I trust you now as my Savior, Lord, and Guide throughout life until I see You in death or You come for me? 

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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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