urge to pray - advice/help

[Undeceived]

As for the intent behind the punch: Finding intent is not that difficult, often little interpretation is needed. You can go straight to the facts in this case. You could wipe the blood off your face, and with your rapidly swelling tongue, ask me if I was angry with you. A tooth might fall out in this process but you could still do it. As you stand there bleeding, with your teeth all screwed up, I could tell you I was angry and you could hear it with your own ears and see me say it with your unswollen eye. Furthermore those watching the events could witness, perhaps even electronically record the events.

Exactly. You have to go to the person themselves to find out if they were angry, just as we would have to go to God to find out if he made the earth. We can't go to him, but that doesn't mean he didn't make it. Say the person is invisible and has no voice. Would you then be unable to conclude their emotion? Not at all. But so that we would know, God sent Jesus to earth as a physical human being. And there were witnesses, just as you say there should be. And they recorded his life in the Bible. What if four of my friends wrote in four separate diaries about this instance when I was punched in the nose-- would someone reading them in 2000 years suppose it was all made up, that I was never actually punched? Then they look at each account and notice Billy writes about the blood dripping off my chin, while Tom does not. Tom added a line of what the assailant said. "They contradict!" the people 2000 years in the future cry. "And they don't make sense! A right hook would not hit that part of the nose at all, but the cheek!" Who's right, you and I who got in the fistfight, or them?

But bleeding and broken teeth are not evidence of the puncher's intent, just that the victim was hurt. In the same way, we look at the earth and see that it came to exist. Isn't it logical to go a step further and discover the intent of its existence?