Churchwork
06-28-2009, 02:04 AM
You know God exists because there are trillions of things you observe in nature that have a cause and effect, but there is nothing you can prove that just happens all by itself in the universe. Therefore, the universe can't cause itself. It must be caused by that which is uncaused, because no other option exists in science. The uncreated Creator intelligently designed. Nor can the universe always have been existing because we would experience far greater heat death than we do now, and man would not still be sinning to the extent it still does because of the exponential progression of conscience as explained in the 4 Step Perfect Proof for God of the Bible, http://www3.telus.net/trbrooks/perfectproof.htm (http://www3.telus.net/trbrooks/perfectproof.htm)
Why do you call Jesus a liar? Jesus said the number one sign of Him being God would be His resurrection (the sign of Jonah...tearing down this temple, raising it 3 days later). So how does Scripture present the proof of His resurrection?
Paul said in 1 Cor. 15, Gal. 1 & 2 that he met the Apostles John, Peter and James not long after Jesus died on the cross and they told him they saw Jesus alive from the dead physically. Paul had his own experience also. Were they liars? All the original Apostles spent 3 years with Jesus traveling and learning of His ways are greater than our ways. They were all killed (except for John who was imprisoned at Patmos) went to their deaths for this claim. Do people die for something they know is a lie? There are no such accounts in human history. People when they die for a cause believe it. They didn't die like Muslims die for a belief that they can't verify, but they died for their eyewitness testimony and multiple attestation in various group settings.
Did they hallucinate? There is no such thing as group hallucinations in modern psychology. Therefore, if they didn't lie and they didn't hallucinate, and you can't find a naturalistic explanation that fits the data then what are you still holding on? It’s called self which has corrupted your entire thought processes and way of being.
God loves you. He did all He could do to convince you in Him. If He were to do more, He would be operating unrighteously.
The resurrection proves Jesus is God, salvation is through Him and none other, and unless you receive His atonement on the cross, you will surely go to Hell. Obviously, a loving God can't let a criminal-for-life out of jail, nor can God let a person who wants to be eternally separated from Him be with His sons and daughters in a place of sinlessness and selflessness in the New City and New Earth.
Do you see how you send yourself to Hell? God is just giving you what you want.
Why do you call Jesus a liar? Jesus said the number one sign of Him being God would be His resurrection (the sign of Jonah...tearing down this temple, raising it 3 days later). So how does Scripture present the proof of His resurrection?
Paul said in 1 Cor. 15, Gal. 1 & 2 that he met the Apostles John, Peter and James not long after Jesus died on the cross and they told him they saw Jesus alive from the dead physically. Paul had his own experience also. Were they liars? All the original Apostles spent 3 years with Jesus traveling and learning of His ways are greater than our ways. They were all killed (except for John who was imprisoned at Patmos) went to their deaths for this claim. Do people die for something they know is a lie? There are no such accounts in human history. People when they die for a cause believe it. They didn't die like Muslims die for a belief that they can't verify, but they died for their eyewitness testimony and multiple attestation in various group settings.
Did they hallucinate? There is no such thing as group hallucinations in modern psychology. Therefore, if they didn't lie and they didn't hallucinate, and you can't find a naturalistic explanation that fits the data then what are you still holding on? It’s called self which has corrupted your entire thought processes and way of being.
God loves you. He did all He could do to convince you in Him. If He were to do more, He would be operating unrighteously.
The resurrection proves Jesus is God, salvation is through Him and none other, and unless you receive His atonement on the cross, you will surely go to Hell. Obviously, a loving God can't let a criminal-for-life out of jail, nor can God let a person who wants to be eternally separated from Him be with His sons and daughters in a place of sinlessness and selflessness in the New City and New Earth.
Do you see how you send yourself to Hell? God is just giving you what you want.