(April 27, 2016 at 2:40 pm)drfuzzy Wrote:"If you want us to believe..." - God made the Garden of Eden very good, not perfect. But made it even better by creating human beings a moral being with free will so it's up to each individual to believe or not in God's redemption offer, not His existence which is a given. Every human being has been created to give glory to God whether they accept or decline God's offer of redemption and will give glory whether they accept salvation or commit blasphemy (which is the unpardonable sin that is commit upon physical death) - to believe in God's existence is not the issue (everyone believes, some say they don't but they're just suppression the truth because they don't like the authority of God). God reveals Himself through His works (Creation), and His Word (Scripture). But Creation just by itself is enough to know God exist so not posting 'wanting' anyone to believe, they are already do.(April 26, 2016 at 10:05 pm)snowtracks Wrote: Actually, it's a large minority. To know those kinds of statistics, it handy to know eschatology - https://www.wordnik.com/words/eschatology
Creation is always linked to redemption. The reason that some don't take advantage of it is suppression of the truth. Why would anyone do that? To resist God's authority. Why would they want to do that? To maintain sinful beliefs and actions ... and they may not aware of it since 'the human heart is desperately wicked, who can know it' ?
"Christian eschatology is a major branch of study within Christian theology. Eschatology, from two Greek words meaning "last" (ἔσχατος) and "study" (-λογία), is the study of 'end things', whether the end of an individual life, the end of the age, the end of the world and the nature of the Kingdom of God."
In other words, the study of "end times" from a book of fables about a god that doesn't exist. If you want us to believe in your fables and your imaginary friend, you have to do more than preach and yammer on and quote verses from that hideous evil collection of silly old fables called the wholly babble. You have to do more than stick your nose in the air and tell people that you know the "truth" and that humans are desperately wicked. (yawn) Prove it. Facts, not fairy tales and threats.
Atheist Credo: An universe by chance that also just happened to admit the observer by chance.