God exists

Id like to thank my contender for accepting this debate firstly and I am genuinely interested in how he will attempt to refute the strong arguments I laid out for why God exists. But now to move onto his argument against Gods existence. Here I think he already realizes that the logical argument is not probably the route he wants to take considering how he cant explicitly and with 100% confidence prove that god and evil are incompatible. So he goes to the probabilistic argument which I still believe can be shown to be false. Firstly, I think that my contender doesn't understand that we don't have a good position to attempt to assess the probability of whether God has the ultimate reason for why evil exists. We must remember that within our finite point of view we cant understand the whole framework which God has set out. Evil also is here in some instances according to the Christian doctrine I adhere to is that it can help us grow as people and come to know God through our sufferings and receive hope. This is described in the Bible in Romans 5:3-5 (NIV Version): "Not only so, but we[a] also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God"s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us." And concerning moral evil is an answer which is a profound and complete one. God gave us free will not only to do what is right but to do what is wrong. God gave us this free will knowing that thousands would chose wrong but he did it so that people would choose good because without darkness and evil you know no happiness. If you have read or seen "The Giver" it illustrates this well because it is a world without emotion, color or choice to lead a life you want to pursue and they control peoples lives completely but there is a man who holds the memories of the past world we live in currently. Jonas, the main character learns about the happiness of the world when receiving memories of the past world without l over their lives but also he learned of Cancer, Wars, Deaths and evil. But the beautiful thing about this is that it is what makes you happy and life worth living people is that we overcome trials and we experience what is evil and painful so that when we share love with one another then it truly is self-fulfilling joy for to me Theism provides me a basis for why there is evil in the world whereas atheism is actually the worldview that disturbs me for if atheism is true then ultimately at the end of all humanity a persons murderous actions would eternally and ultimately go unpunished and then you think about how atheism is a heartless world where I feel like has a problem of evil for it simply ends up being ruthless, unpunished actions. Whereas theism provides true fulfillment and true happiness for when I push through hard times in life I feel more united with God than ever. Please watch these video all the way through. If you haven't seen the movie then the people receive all the memories of what the past was like with evil and what came out of it. The boy on the sled releases all the memories. This symbolizes the importance of evil and the importance of love and hope. I hope you can see the logic behind why it is more probable that evil and God co-exist. The Giver-The release of memories Final scene-(Please watch all the way through) Sources: http://www.reasonablefaith.org... The Giver by Lois Lowry The Problem of Evil By C.S. Lewis