(August 30, 2012 at 2:30 am)CBA222 Wrote: #1 The world doesn’t make sense without God.I think your fundamental flaw in thinking is here, in the bolded. You're after the quickest explanation. The problem with your answer is that the pillar of it all, Jesus Christ, can't be proven. Therefore your entire solution comes crashing down around you.
How did we come to exist? Why did everything that ever existed ever exist? Why are we here? Why wasn’t there nothing? Science points to a beginning of the universe. Science can’t explain why we’re here. But Christianity offers a very straight-forward solution, God created it. Pretty easy to understand right? Now assuming the universe did somehow exist, how did life appear? By chance? Practically impossible. All the complex code and cells and whatever, all point to an intelligent creator. Okay I do realize this type of evidence isn’t really hard and just suggests it should of happened like that but no real hard evidence of it. Still, it’s hard to imagine this all happened by chance.
As for all your questions, there's nothing new really. Man has always been asking the 'tough' questions and before you know it, science can explain it. Why should it be any different this century?
Quote:#2 Near Death ExperiencesSo in your opinion, this is undeniable proof of not Zeus, not Odin, not Raksasa, but the one-in-three God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit?
I know I’m gonna get bashed for this. Oh, it’s just something funny going on in your brain. Oh they’re lying etc etc. Trouble is there are millions of cases, and it’s really not plausible to suggest every single one of them was a lie. At least some of them honestly thought they saw something, you get me? That leaves two possibilities, they really did see part of the afterlife, or that something went wrong with their brain. Now I’m not a brain scientist but the fact that so many atheists and doctors have been convinced of the afterlife through their own NDE or hearing others pretty much convinces me. And sometimes they people who have the NDE report several details that they couldn’t haven’t possibly know. Explain that, how could they know what happened down there if they were unconscious and had no way of knowing? There are so many cases that’s it very hard to refute.
I don't see how short circuiting brains make you pick that god over the other 3 000 ever created.
Quote:#3 Bible Prophecies
I’m not gonna quote any verses(you can look it up yourself).
There are hundreds of prophecies in the Bible, many of them extremely detailed and hundreds of years later, they came true! How? The chances are astronomical, it’s impossible they guessed it right by chance. How did you explain that these prophecies, written down hundreds of years before they happened, came true? Obviously God knew and God told them. Disprove this.
If you say so... I'll do this in a way that will leave you baffled like you've left me; by giving you a hint of how Jesus 'fulfilled' these prophecies:
Jesus' last words on the cross.
Jesus' clothes get passed around at the crucifixion.
Jesus gets mocked on the cross.
It seems like Jesus' entire life is one big prophecy fulfilled. Strangely it looks exactly the same as someone grabbing OT verses and using them to construct a messiah's life. *hamster starts running on wheel inside head*.
Quote:Done with the evidence.
Is it worth it?
Some people don’t like the idea of following all these rules or praying all day long etc.
Because there's no need. There's a reason why it feels unnatural (strange isn't it... that the God of the natural world makes us do unnatural things?) and that's because the Bible is a bunch of baseless assertions that can't be proven, and I'm merely talking historically. Don't get me started on science.
I have yet to see evidence of any god. Once you have provided that, please go one extra and show me why it's undeniably the Christian god and not Shichi-Fuku-Jin, the 7 Japanese gods of luck.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
