(October 7, 2021 at 5:00 pm)ayost Wrote: God intends for atheists to exist.
He provided the necessary evidence that He wanted to for us and He made that evidence clear.
He has a purpose for the death and destruction and evil does not happen randomly.
One reason I am convinced by Reformed theology is that it puts God in control and responsible for everything. Everything exists exactly the way God wants it and He is in control of everything, including all of the evil. In the Bible Satan has to ask God permission to act. It all has purpose and meaning and God intends everything to work out for good for those that love Him.
One of the great things about the Bible is the way it was transmitted. We have thousands of texts from multiple, diverse lines of transmission. The early, widespread copy and transmission of Biblical manuscript means no one group or governing body could have or ever did have control over the spread of the New Testament.
There is zero evidence that either a god exists, or that any god does anything in the world.
The bible does say that God is the creator of evil, but the bible does not say that God causes people's choices. I understand that Calvanists and fatalists might disagree. However, if God is in control, why does it appear as if the world runs on natural laws? If that is the way God works - via creating natural law, what is the difference between there being natural law without a god, and there being natural law with a god?
as for the bible - you need to do some serious research about how the bible came about, from biblical and historical scholars, not from your religion.
