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The various arguments are in NO way refuted. Just because some people don't fully understand them doesn't make them refuted. Also, a logically airtight deductive argument whose premises are more probable than their negation most certainly leans towards God. For someone to say all of the various cosmological arguments have been refuted only shows that person's ignorance, and on a forum like this you would assume people care about a search for truth, not putting up the blinders.
It takes more "faith" to be an atheist than it does to be a theist. Leibniz was correct when saying the most important question to ask is "why is there something rather than nothing?" As an atheist one must believe that something came from nothing, since physics, cosmology, and mathematics show that a universe that is past eternal is not possible. Belieiving that a God outside time created the universe takes much less faith that this.
I truly hope that all atheists actually look at the arguments for God and find Him, not look at them in a smug manner without really thinking them through. That is what I used to do when I was a nihilist. I hope than all atheists find the Truth.
The various arguments are in NO way refuted. Just because some people don't fully understand them doesn't make them refuted. Also, a logically airtight deductive argument whose premises are more probable than their negation most certainly leans towards God. For someone to say all of the various cosmological arguments have been refuted only shows that person's ignorance, and on a forum like this you would assume people care about a search for truth, not putting up the blinders.
It takes more "faith" to be an atheist than it does to be a theist. Leibniz was correct when saying the most important question to ask is "why is there something rather than nothing?" As an atheist one must believe that something came from nothing, since physics, cosmology, and mathematics show that a universe that is past eternal is not possible. Belieiving that a God outside time created the universe takes much less faith that this.
I truly hope that all atheists actually look at the arguments for God and find Him, not look at them in a smug manner without really thinking them through. That is what I used to do when I was a nihilist. I hope than all atheists find the Truth.
"God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8).
"Always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you" (1 Peter 3:15).
"Always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you" (1 Peter 3:15).
