1. You cannot prove a universal negative, so you cannot say authoritatively there is no God, only that you cannot see any evidence. That is likely a problem with your eyes, though, and not God. It’s like a blind man choosing to believe Mt. Everest doesn’t exist because he can’t see it.

Since there is always a possibility of God existing, it probably makes more sense to be honest and become an agnostic.

2. There is plenty of evidence for God, such as the fact that you have a thinking mind. Minds create minds. You pride yourself on being rational. From whence comes reason?

Not only do you think, you think using inflexible laws of logic. Where did those laws come from?

You have excluded God from your paradigm through willful choice, not lack of evidence.

3. I’ve never read Mr. Adams, but I don’t need to. The question he should ask is not why he should believe fairies, but how he knows the garden is beautiful. What is beauty? How can we appreciate it? Why would evolution give us the appreciation for the beautiful? Animals function just fine without it. I suggest you read G.K. Chesterton’s “Orthodoxy” instead of Mr. Adams.

4. Think twice before you say you don’t pick your beliefs and you just look at the evidence. The vast majority of people and cultures throughout history have looked at the universe and themselves–the evidence–and concluded there must be a God behind it. Very few (yes, Atheists are a minority) choose to believe in no God at all. If we were all rational and neutral, as you claim to be, at birth, we wouldn’t have the God “problem.”

Back to Mr Adams; “Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

@Ladoli: Why would I want to “pick” agnosticism, a “safer” option, when there is no evidence to support the evidence of a god? I do not “pick” my beliefs, I do not blindly “believe”. As a rational human being, I believe the evidence a

“I refuse to prove that I exist” says God, “because proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.”

“But,” says Man, “the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn’t it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don’t. QED.”

“Oh dear,” says God, “I hadn’t thought of that,” and promptly disappears in a puff of logic.

You are a credulous moron and I claim my five pounds.

@the Marthin Luther claim:
Christianity has been divided into multiple denominations. We don’t necessarily agree with each other, unfortunately. The Word Of God has stresses on obtaining knowledge and wisdom such as this verse “For my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge”.

@Athiests
Okay, so reject the existance of God but, safe to say, no one can know everything about this universe at this very moment(for that would be God, which you don’t believe in), how then can you conclude that God doesn’t exist? Right… you can’t. I believe the safer position for you would be agnosticism for Athiesm itself is counter-rational/irrational for the person to be able to prove that God doesn’t exist… is simply God(Who else can be everywhere, know everything about the world in every time slot it has ever had).

Illogical.

There will be those who will never believe in this lifetime. I would rather move on. Even Jesus didn’t waste time showing the pharisees tricks for their amusement.

To the atheists:
As stated, your worldview requires an immense faith. My presupposition is, as I have said, that the Bible is the inspired word of the Christian God. You have a problem though; although you state with certainty that there is no god you must also be uncertain considering the fact that in order to claim that there is no god you must have infinite knowledge of all of the universe for all of time. You rely on your presupposition of independence from God; you cannot justify your claims that logic is rational because you must assume that you are able to reach true conclusions.

The only rational position is that of Christianity whereby the God who made all that is in existence will give you true knowledge that you can rely on because the source is infinitely trustworthy.

While I have not answered the claims of other world religions as they are innumerable I will simply say this: No man is capable of atoning for his sin. We have the Law of God written on our hearts and our conscience bears witness to our depravity. If you have ever done anything wrong then this is enough to damn you since any crime against an infinitely holy God is an infinite crime demanding an infinite payment. Your only hope is if someone can pay the penalty for you and as Paul explains in Romans 3:23-25 “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith.” thus we can be made righteous because of Christ’s vicarious sacrifice so now God is (Romans 3:26) “just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.”

Repent and Believe.
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