(June 1, 2016 at 3:31 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote:(June 1, 2016 at 3:17 pm)Lek Wrote: I'll say it for the zillionth time. There is no need to justify God, apologize or make excuses for him. The punishment for sin is death and it's inherent in the human race. If you can't accept that then you can't accept the christian God. I'd rather die by the sword than by countless many ways that people die. I must live my life in an imperfect world and then die, and God could alleviate that, but he doesn't because I suffer the consequences of sin. When this life is over we'll have much better life thanks to Jesus. A christian must accept that God has the right to punish us and that he is just in doing so. Thankfully, no one is forced to accept that, but it is an essential doctrine of christianity.
No need to justify god, but you do have a need to provide some evidence that he is not a figment of your imagination. Why should I accept your god and not zeus or allah or neptune or any of the thousands of other gods men have invented?
Tired Atheist argument #3. Answer:
People are not stupid. example? the list of failed gods you just gave. Each 'god' was tied to a specific society. When the society failed so too did the god. Why? because it was the society that gave the gods power. when the society fell the gods of that society could not full fill it's promises. So then with in a generation that god failed.
Full filled promises is the measure in which the viability of a deity is measured. This has been true since the first advent of any deity that has ever been worshiped. So then what does it say about a deity who transcends the society in which it was created? The Occam's answer is that enough people in that religion are getting what the deity promises. In the case of Christianity that promise is proof via a direct audience with God himself. So if you truly want 'proof' take God up on his offer and collect it yourself as that is the only type of 'proof' offered.
