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Topic: Does God Exist
Submitted by: Internet E-mail Chain Letter(Edited)

Premise:

Some interesting points are made by atheists:

God has the power to help the sick and yet there are sick people and God does not help them. Therefore God can not be Good or God does not exist.
Christians with cancer pray for healing and yet die anyway. Therefore God does not answer prayer or he does not exist.
God made Satan and all things evil since he created everything. How is it that if God is good if He created all evil throughout all time?
Science says you have five senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. How can you believe in Jesus who you have never seen, heard, felt, tasted or smelt? In fact, you do you have any sensory perception of your God whatsoever?"
According to the rules of empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says God does not exist. So, faith in the existance of God is not logical.

But what about:

Heat exists but what about cold?
You can have lots of heat, even more heat, super-heat, mega-heat, white heat, a little heat, or no heat, but we don't have anything called 'cold'. We can hit 458 degrees below zero, which is no heat, but we can't go any further than that. There is no such thing as cold, otherwise we would be able to go colder than negative 458--you see cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat we can measure in thermal units because heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat it's just the absence of it."
Light exists but what about darkness?
Darkness is not something, it is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light, but if you have no light constantly, you have nothing, and it's called darkness. That's the meaning we use to define the word. In reality, darkness isn't. If it were, you would be able to make darkness darker and give it to me in a jar. But you can't give me a jar of darker darkness.

My point is, the philosophical premise of the atheist above is flawed to start with, and so the conclusion must be in error also.
You are working on the premise of duality, that, for example, there is life and then there's death; a good God and a bad God. You are viewing God as a concept, as something finite, something we can measure. Science cannot even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood them. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life, merely the absence of it.

Is there such a thing as immorality? Immorality is merely the absence of morality.
Is there such a thing as injustice? No, injustice is the absence of justice.
Is there such a thing as evil? Isn't evil the absence of good?
If there is evil in the world, and we all agree there is, then God, if He exists, must be accomplishing a work through the agency of evil. What is that work God is accomplishing?
The Bible tells us that it is to see if each one of us will, of our own free will, choose good (the result of the love of God) over evil (the result of independence or the absence of the love of God).
There is nothing greater than love. God is love and God is good. If He is good, then the ultimate act of his goodness would be to give man the opportunity to experience the greatest thing that exists -- love. But love cannot be forced on someone or else it is not love. There must be a choice involved. God loved us enough to allow us to make the choice. Evil is the result of the choice of independence from God.

Philosophical scientists don't vie this matter as having anything to do with choice; as realists, they absolutely do not recognize the concept of God or any other theological factor as being part of the world equation because God is not observable.
The absence of God's moral code in this world is probably one of the most observable phenomena going. Newspapers make billions of dollars reporting it every week!
What about the natural evolutionary process that science supports?
No one has ever observed evolution with your own eyes. Are they placing their 'faith' in the unobservable?
Scientists have never observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an ongoing endeavor. The theory of evolution is their opinion. They are teaching their opinion.
What is thought? And how does making a choice work? Even if we don't understand everything, we understand enough to make a choice. We understand enough to know that God exists.

Citation:

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (Genesis 1 :1)
"Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever You had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God" (Psalms 90:2)
"The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork" (Psalms 19:1)
Read Romans 2:14-16
"God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds" (Hebrews 1:1-2)

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