1) I don't believe in voices in my head
2) My belief is not based on a mystical experience
3) A complex question requires a complex answer
One reason I believe in the Christian God is the same reason that an intelligent atheist is an atheist. The evidence I have found, when gathered and accumulated, points in that direction. Below is a very brief list to begin with.
Preface: The number of reasons any one person accepts a particular view is normally extraordinarily long and includes thoughts, experiences, etc. Obviously I cannot present all of those even in one book, let a lone a board post. Please keep this in mind as you evaluate what follows. These are not, by themselves, any sort of proof. Only tiny pieces in a much, much bigger puzzle.
1) While you may not agree with the Bible's description of the fall, man's sinfulness, etc. It sure does make perfect sense out of the screwed up world we live in. (Obviously this fact does not make it true, only sensible)
2) Regardless of how you believe man came about, no animals exhibit the moral or spiritual tendencies present in man. An ape does not worship the sun. In fact, an ape worships nothing at all. The idea of worship has never crossed its mind. Nor has the fact that slaughtering its fellow ape might be wrong.
2) My belief is not based on a mystical experience
3) A complex question requires a complex answer
One reason I believe in the Christian God is the same reason that an intelligent atheist is an atheist. The evidence I have found, when gathered and accumulated, points in that direction. Below is a very brief list to begin with.
Preface: The number of reasons any one person accepts a particular view is normally extraordinarily long and includes thoughts, experiences, etc. Obviously I cannot present all of those even in one book, let a lone a board post. Please keep this in mind as you evaluate what follows. These are not, by themselves, any sort of proof. Only tiny pieces in a much, much bigger puzzle.
1) While you may not agree with the Bible's description of the fall, man's sinfulness, etc. It sure does make perfect sense out of the screwed up world we live in. (Obviously this fact does not make it true, only sensible)
2) Regardless of how you believe man came about, no animals exhibit the moral or spiritual tendencies present in man. An ape does not worship the sun. In fact, an ape worships nothing at all. The idea of worship has never crossed its mind. Nor has the fact that slaughtering its fellow ape might be wrong.
