*Atheism is unprovable scientifically and philosophically. Still, Atheists try to tell people that the "no God" belief is "the default position of rational intelligence," merely because God cannot be seen with physical eyes.
No Atheist can prove that God does not exist, yet often they act as if they have already proven their position--without even arguing it.
(Of course, no one can prove to someone who does not believe in God that God exists, either.)
But everyone who believes in Jesus is able to experience God through prayer, obedience and His Spirit.
The three main evidences for God are His Creation (Intelligent Design), His Word (Messianic prophecy and the portraits and recorded words of Christ), and the experienceable presence of His Spirit (in the human conscience).
Obviously, faith in God does not hinder scientific excellence or rationality: most of the modern founders of science believed in God.
*Evolutionary theory employs scientific data, but both believers and unbelievers in evolution have the same scientific data to consider. Evolutionists look at fossils and say, "Millions of years of evolution."
Biblical creationists look at fossils and say, "Evidence of a worldwide flood." The scientific data itself cannot prove either interpretation true or false.
Even if things developed as Evolutionists say they did, a purposeful Intelligence would still be needed. The complexity of biological cells convinced the leading Atheist of the 20th century that God exists.
Ironically, an Evolutionist can look at an automobile and see all of the design and intelligence and energy that was necessary to create it, yet the same Evolutionist looks at the human body and brain and denies evidence of intelligent design.
*Relativism is the position that mutually exclusive views of reality could both be true. For instance, you have three people sitting in a room.
The first person believes that there is no God and that humans evolved from star chemicals as a result of a cosmic explosion. He is a naturalist materialist and so he does not believe in God or and afterlife.
The second person is a Buddhist (or a Hindu), and he believes that everything material is an illusion, and that there is no external objective truth. He believes that there is an afterlife but that there is ultimately no continued personal existence of the soul.
The third person is biblical Christian who believes that God created people fully developed as humans, and that there is a Heaven or a Hell to face in the afterlife.
Clearly, no matter what you believe, and no matter which is true, these three views of life are mutually exclusive, each against the other two.
Therefore relativism must be false.
All three people cannot be right because they hold views mutually exclusive to the other two.
As you read books and magazines, watch TV and movies, and listen to songs on the radio, you will see each of these three faiths being promoted.
But remember that logically only one, if any, can be correct.
Interesting read. I personally have a great faith in God. However, through my relationship with God and my faith in his plan, I feel everyone has free agency to choose to beleive or not and in whatever they wish. Those of us that know God to be true, also know that he is the only judge. Thank you for the article.
#2 by Curtis Smale, Sep 17, 2008
Hi Jo,
While it is true that everyone can believe in whatever they want, there may be no guarantee that what they are believing is ~true~.
The only way to guarantee that we are believing is the truth is to rely on God's Word.
God is certainly ~not~ the only judge, though He is the Highest Judge. Every one of us is a judge who makes judgments every day.
Teachers and employers judge our performance every day--whether we show up for school or work or not.
A police man will judge you if you go 20 miles per hour over the speed limit.
Your spouse will judge you if you bring another person home to sleep with tonight.
You judge whther or not to leave your child with a particular person.
Companies and credit sources will judge you if you don't pay your bills.
We judge whether food is rotten or not before we put it in our mouths.
Every day, you judge whether people are telling you the truth or not.
People make a judgment about whether there is a God.
People make a judgment whether evolution is true or not.
You made a judgment on whether what I wrote above is true or not.
The important thing is not "not judging," but making wise judgments.
Jesus' often misquoted teaching, "Do not judge," in context, means to not judge ~hypocritically.~
We would not live for very long if we did not judge.
In the Bible, we are commanded to judge ~wisely~.
#3 by CURTIS SMALE, Sep 17, 2008
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