One might wonder why it is necessary to present evidence for the existence of God. How can we sit here and pretend that logic in any way applies to religion? Everyone's talking about faith vs. intellect and one can't really expect them to cross much more than your own introspection. Christianity never claimed to have all the answers. Christians profess a God infinitely beyond our comprehension, since having neither parts nor limits he bears no relation to us. If Christians were to attempt to answer everything, they would not be keeping their word. The very lack of ans

There are some; for example, who suggest to us that pain is something that should not occur if there is a God. And yet, physical pain and other types of pain are absolutely necessary if we are to survive in a physical way. Pain is our warning signal, our alarm when something is wrong. If it weren't for physical pain we would all be dead by the time we were 10 years old from numerous possible accidents. This same type of thing is true in the emotional sense. What kind of man would it be who could not experience guilt and sympathy and compassion and who could not relate to the needs of fellow human beings? What if one were to marry such a person? Would he be able to relate to your needs? Would he relate to your feelings? Would he have compassion for what you need in life? And when you fail, would he be sympathetic and understanding? If God had created a society where there was no emotional pain, there would be no intimacy, no communication or meaningful relationships.

A Christian ought to be able to look at life much more positively because of death. As an atheist, a person has to look at life with all of its problems, with all of its suffering, with all of the pain, with all of the terrible things that one has to endure as the absolute best that he is ever going to experience. And yet a Christian can look at life with all of its joy, with all of its beauty, with all of the wonderful things that we all enjoy as the absolute worst that he is ever going to have to endure. Christianity unashamedly looks beyond this life for the final solution to the mystery of evil and suffering. Christians don't waste their time going out of their minds trying to account for it all.

wers shows they do not lack sense. What they can do, however, is try to clarify issues.

Christianity doesn't offer a knock-down solution at a philosophical level, but the Bible does give ground to stand on as one tries to live in a world where suffering is real.

Reject the existence of a loving God and you're stuck trying to explain kindness, goodness, love and humanity, unselfishness and gentleness. Where did they come from? Wipe out all evil... and where would we stand? Would not humanity be destroyed? We ourselves are the problem of evil. And if a simple wipe out of evil were the answer, we would have no hope.

God did not create evil and pain, as we read in the story of Adam and Eve in Genesis. It wasn't part of his plan. The world he made was utterly good until humanity turned against him, but God does not attempt to control our minds. If he did we could never truly love him or anyone else because it wouldn't have been our choice. There is a war between the forces of good and evil - we all suffer from that same war in our head on an everyday basis.

The New Testament: the text of the New Testament is so sure nobody makes hypothetical alterations for fear of being laughed out of court. We have so many manuscripts of the New Testament, written so near the events themselves that we can be sure of having the correct text. The interval between the date of the original composition and the earliest extent evidence becomes so small as to be negligible, and the last foundation for any doubt that the Scriptures have come down to us substantially as they were written has now been removed.

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