Atheist And Christians......?

Question

Ok so if you look at most of my questions its trying to prove that god exist and i finally relized.... its not me that beleives i thought he was there for me but it was all in my head.... and thats why im really wanting loical proof, the non existence of god.... and common proof, that god exist and of you say there is no proof ur failing god...... and dude ont say anything like god is an *** and christians people dont say if u ont have god r going to hell because it says in the bible not to judge so DONT!!! i dont feel god never did i thought i needed him... i ont though i just need people around me today because if he was a loving one he wouldnt leave his people for 2000 years and not expect us beleive. but yea... i hope you understood the question.

im gonna make a decision by 12:01 tonight. or later. how ever long new answers are coming.

Answer 1

Well let's start with archeology , there have been countless findings in favor of the bible...I've studied them ..and I've studied all religions,faiths, practices,beliefs, science ect...
The bible if not really the word of God would not still be with us today , it has been banned,burned,outlawed ect....
And another point , the bible is prophetic in nature.....example: It said Israel would become it's own nation someday , and in 1948 it did...
Creation - simple everything made has a maker..common sense.....
Jesus there is countless proofs- He was here...There are documents written about Him by other kings and authorities I've studied those too..
I could go on , but it seems like you are struggling in your own heart, so many things to believe in this world so many voices..
I understand....
Your soul is your most precious possesion no wonder we all fight about eternity so much ..To those who have hope and to those who choose no hope...
You see if God isn't there , or heaven ...So I have lived a great life and in the end I've lost nothing...
But if I am right and God does exist and heaven then you have lost it all.....
I was an atheist an athiest who had been at death's door..no less.......
And I see now what a folly that was , to trust in man and not in God....So I decided to study all for myself...
I still refuse religion, but I readily accept relationship...
And I am happier each day , and I have peace..I have no doubt and I am not blown about like a leaf in the wind...
Good luck to you...The decision that lies before you is immense....
~Leah.....

Answer 2

You are only going to find your answers in the Bible.
You must read it to understand. Read the entire chapter of St. John first.

Facts about the Bible*:
The Bible consists of 66 books: 39 in the OT and 27 in the new. The Bible took about 1600 years to write. It was written in three languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek) by about 40 authors and is internally consistent throughout.
Reliability of the Bible
The Bible is 98 percent textually pure. Through all the copying of the Biblical manuscripts of the entire Bible, only 1% has any question about it. Nothing in all of the ancient writings of the entire world approaches the accuracy of the biblical documents.
The 1 percent that is in question does not affect doctrine. The areas of interest are called variants and they consist mainly in variations of wording and spelling.
The NT has over 5000 supporting Greek manuscripts existing today with another 20,000 manuscripts in other languages. Some of the manuscript evidence dates to within 100 years of the original writing. There is less than a 1% textual variation in the NT manuscripts.
Some of the supporting manuscripts of the NT are:
John Rylands MS written around 130 A.D., the oldest existing fragment of the gospel of John
Bodmer Papyrus II (150-200 A.D.)
Chester Beatty Papyri (200 A.D.), contains major portions of the NT
Codex Vaticanus (325-350 A.D.), contains nearly all the Bible.
Codex Sinaiticus (350 A.D.), contains almost all the NT and over half of the OT
When were the gospels written?
None of the gospels mention the destruction of the Jewish temple in 70 A.D. This is significant because Jesus had prophesied its destruction when He said, "As for these things which you are looking at, the days will come in which there will not be left one stone upon another which will not be torn down," (Luke 21:5, see also Matt. 24:1; Mark 13:1). If they were written after the 70AD destruction don't you think they would have included the event?

Answer 3

If you have a child or children or if you've ever held a baby and felt amazed by the huge love, that to me, is an aspect of God.

If you've ever been helped by the kindness of strangers, or have been a stranger who reached out and helped and then disappeared before you could be thanked, that is an aspect of God.

Every time you forgive or are forgiven, that is activity of God.

Trying to prove or find proof may be the very thing that keeps you from RELATIONSHIP. Trying to do it or not do it by other people's directions can interfere with your God relationship too.

And even more importantly, it's ok if you don't FEEL IT. God is in every particle of your being. You are made in the image and likeness of God. God is there even if you don't feel or think so. Life is all around. Goodness is there amid all the rest. Love, the unconditional kind, is there tucked away in every heart waiting for a chance to burst forth. God is ever present and patient. And it's ok if you can't or don't or won't see that. You are - God is.

Breathe ------ and God moves.

I apologize for those who have misunderstood and treated you poorly if you didn't do it their way. Forgive them, they mean well beneath their unintentional hurt.

May you know the peace of God that passes understanding.
Blessings of hope to you. :)

Answer 4

God has not left us for 2000 years. When Jesus was going up to heaven the disciples were really distraught and He consoled them by saying that he would send his holy spirit to be with them. You see, in his physical form God could not be everywhere to everybody so he had to return to heaven so his spirit, not having the confines of a body could be everywhere and take residence in the believers heart.

Proving God exists is hard....just like proving the wind exists. you cannot see the wind but you know it is there by it's effects. I cannot see God but I know that he is there because I can see his effect on my life and on those around me. Now what Jesus said makes sense. so how can we test to see what Jesus said was true. and I'll quote from Nicky Gumbels questions of life "There are three logical possibilities. If the claims were untrue, either He knew they were untrue in which case He was an imposter, and an evil one at that. That is the first possibility. Or He did not know, in which case He was deluded ; indeed, He was mad. That is the second possibility. The third possibility is that the claims were true. C.S. Lewis put it like this: 'A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic, on a leveel with the man who says he is a poached egg, or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse....but let us not come up with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to'. The teaching of Jesus is widely acknowledged to be the greatest teaching that has ever fallen from anyone's lips. Some who are not Christians say, "I love the Sermon on the Mount; I live by it." (If they read it they would realize that this is easier to say than to do, but they acknowledge that the Sermon on the Mount is great teaching.) Bernard Ramm, an American professor of theology, said this about the teachings of Jesus: 'They are read more, quoted more, loved more, believed more, and translated more because they are the greatest words ever spoken....Their greatness lies in the pure lucid spirituality in dealing clearly, definitively, and authoritatively with the greatest problems that throb in the human breast....No other man's words have the appeal of Jesus' words because no other man can answer these fundamental human questions as Jesus answered them. They are the kind of words and the kind of answers we would expect God to Give." Jesus said that the miracles He perormed were in themselves evidence that "The father is in me, and I in the Father" (John 10:38) Jesus must have been the most extraordinary man to be around." end of quote


Would an evil or deluded mad man do the great and good things Jesus has....

if you really want to explore I would recommend attending an Alpha course its a safe place to explore the Christian faith and you get a free suppers to boot.

Answer 5

I was witnessing to someone the other night who is going through a really hard time.

I don't mean the namby pamby hard time that teenagers commit suicide over. I mean the kind of hard time that makes people seriously think about walking away, climbing on a bus and not looking back. Not because of abuse or anything but because for years life has been really hard and it does not look as if it is going to get better in the next few years.

This person has prophesied, spoken in tongues, prayed over non-Christians at a hospital and healed them. Amazing stuff so you can imagine how tough things have to be for them to consider walking away.

What we talked about was how free will can effect the plans God makes for us.

Something this person does understand and I understand is that God makes our path as straight as is possible for us with our own stupid choices and the stupid choices of the thousands of people we interact with every day.

God is making your path as straight as possible.

Sometimes it looks twisted because we can't see what would have happened otherwise. Some jerk could have run you over at a corner if a tree hadn't fallen on your car and gotten you fired from your job. Bad, but, not as bad as being a vegetable in a hospital.

The only way God had to keep something worse from happening to you is sometimes to let, or even cause, something we think of as bad to happen.

Is it bad, or is it the best possible alternative WITHOUT making slaves of people by forcing them to do something.

Sure, God could force you and everyone else to make the "right" choices but then why give us the ability to choose at all. Why not build us all out of wood like puppets?

Christ is here with you now. Christ never left us. If you choose to ignore Christ that is your choice.

Answer 6

Let me tell you a story.
It comes from Mark Chapter 9. There was a man who asked Jesus to heal his epileptic son. He said, "I do believe, help my unbelief" even as he was walking towards Jesus. Jesus healed his son, even though the man insulted Jesus by questioning him and admitting that his brain couldn't quite come to grips with the idea that Jesus was God. The faith was not "head knowledge", but rather it was crying out for Jesus to help. The act of asking for Jesus was the faith.

Also," neither height, nor depth, nor angels, nor demons, nor any other created thing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus." Do you really think your brain and the doubt in your brain is enough to separate you from God's love? Nope it is not.

I suggest that you go to your local Amazon online store and check out Josh McDowell's books. He has a good one called Evidence that demands a Verdict. Josh started out trying to prove that God did NOT exist. He ended up convincing himself that God was real, and became a Christian by the time he finished his research.

Christianity is a logic based faith. It is based on historical events. It is the only faith with predictive prophecy that has been documented to be true. Also, I must say, although this may not have happened to you....I have personally experienced miraculous occurances. And I am by nature a skeptic.

Are you chosen? Then you can't run away from God.

Answer 7

There's a lot of scientific and logical proof out there. There are a lot of times when christians will face trials. That doesn't mean god isn't there. Look at what jesus went through... No matter how much trouble we're having, adleast we don't have to go through what christ went through. I would strongly urge you to look up the information you seek. Also more importantly, talk with god. Repent of your sins...Put all your faith in christ. God will instantly fill you with the holy spirit, He will show you that he's with you.
I hope everything works out for you... God Bless.

Answer 8

If we take the conventional Christian belief that G-d is incorporeal, eternal, incomprehensible and incomparable, we are faced with the problem of what evidence do we have to prove the existence of G-d. This assumes that the burden of proof is on those who believe in G-d, as opposed to those that don't. I don't accept this assumption. I would argue, however, that--ignoring revelation as the basis of G-d's self-disclosure--there is good circumstantial evidence for the existence of G-d, beginning with the fact that we can imagine something which we call by the name of G-d. (At the very least, G-d would be a set, although an empty set, simply by the act of imagination, and sets are abstract particulars, which means they possess a certain ontological status.)

That aside, if you want to be an atheist, that is your choice, of course, but I really think you need to answer the question as an atheist: why is there something instead of nothing? (N.B.: The answer is not the "Big Bang," because you then have to explain why the Big Bang occurred and why it occurred when it did.)

Grace be unto you and peace.

Answer 9

Faith and feelings are two separate things, faith is a choice to believe, to say to yourself, "I may not understand all the details, I may still have questions, but I am choosing to believe that God is there, whether I feel Him or not."

However, I get the feeling that this is not what you need right now... you need to know that someone cares about what happens to you. I do, and I am praying for you.

When Jesus left around 2000 years ago, He promised to return, and while it is hard to understand why He is taking so long, He gives the reason in His word:

"But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." (2 Peter 3:8-9)


His delay is out of love, that those that are still unsaved can have the chance to come to repentance.

Can I prove to you that God exists? NO, but God can. Won't you cry out to Him in this time of distress? Tell Him that you want to know Him?

Friend, if I can be of any help, spiritually or otherwise, I want to.

Here is a number, its not a religious organization, but you may find it helps you make the right decision tonight.
1-800-273-TALK (8255).

Feel Free to email me if you wish.

Praying for you, may Christ's love touch your heart.

Answer 10

Hello my friend. I was right where you are! I wanted to understand life, but things seem so far; So I challenged GOD, With pure anger I yelled, " OH GOD!, if you exist, how come I can't tell!" IT was one early morning, when my heart cried out; I wanted to know what was life all about! HE sent me HIS servant, with love he did say, I see your ready to except JESUS today? I said YES I AM!, PLEASE, show me the way; I fell on my knees and started to pray. LORD JESUS!!!, come into this life that I live! I feel like I'm empty with nothing to give!, but then something happened no words can explain, my heart seemed to burst with a glorious flame! I feel so fantastic! I know I have changed! The darkness I felt has been all rearranged! I don't feel the way that I used to you see, When things seem to bind me, and I wasn't free. I know GOD is with me, and this I will say, HE'LL be there with you too, if only you'll pray!