Wednesday, August 17, 2011

ATHEIST!!!!!!!!! What deserves our blind faith more? An *inerrant* word of God or a "theory" of imperfect men?

What if you’re wrong? This is and has been a debate between Christians and nonbelievers for many years. Atheists often respond to this question by turning the table back to the Christians. For example, on October 23, 2006 in a Liberty college lecture by Richard Dawkins, the author of the god delusion (a book trying to prove religion wrong), a college student asked Dawkins this question. His response was “anybody could be wrong. We could all be wrong about the flying spaghetti monster, and the pink unicorn, and the flying teapot.” He later went on to explain that the evidence of God was equal to the evidence of these figures. Later in the interview Dawkins was asked a question about blind and reasonable faith. His response was that there is no difference between reasonable and blind faith. The student came back to explain to Dawkins that he was wrong. He explained that there is no such thing as proof. To explain this concept a metaphor of a ball was used. The student explained that when a ball is dropped it falls to the ground. This faith is reasonable because the first time the ball is dropped it falls to the ground, the second time it is dropped it falls, and it keeps falling to the ground. Although this continues to happen, there is no way to prove that the next time the ball is dropped it will fall to the ground. It is also impossible to prove that I am real. Each and every one of you believes I am real based on a reasonable faith that you can hear me, see me, and touch me, but what proof can you give that I am real. Our senses can deceive us, people on drugs and have hallucinations see, hear, and feel things, but that does not make them real. So why should we take a different attitude towards religion. When Dawkins compared Christianity to believing in a flying spaghetti monster he did not make an accurate comparison because he was comparing a blind faith to a reasonable faith. Everything that humans know has proven that there is no such thing as a flying spaghetti monster and there is nothing to back up the idea of the being of this monster. But God on the other hand has many things on his side. Most examples lie inside of the bible. The credibility of the bible can be questioned, but my beliefs in it are based on the facts that it had multiple authors who wrote about the same happenings and that things described in the bible have been geographically recovered, all dating back to the same time periods described in the bible. So anyways, now that the bible can be believed, it has many examples of things to promote reasonable faith in god. The biggest promoter that there must be a god was Jesus’ resurrection. After Jesus was killed on the cross he appeared to many people (the power in numbers brings credibility again). This one factor is enough for me to believe there is a god. A man cannot come back from the dead under any cirstance unless there is some outside force (which I believe is the God of the bible). Now whether you choose to believe that the bible is anything more than a fairy tale is your choice. But what if you are wrong in this choice? According to the bible, you will go to Hell and burn for eternity. So this is a terrible consequence for a choice you made in a very short term period considering the length of eternity. But what if the Christian is wrong? He has lived a life of good moral, character, and made prudent decisions and not lost anything. So if me and all the other billion Christians are wrong, so be it we have lived a healthy life and still lived life to the fullest.

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