On the Existence of the Judeo-Christian God

First off, I would like to apologize for the delay of this response. I've been having a 2-day debate tournament. I would like to begin by refuting my opponents points. When we (Christians) pray to God, we do not ask for any more than forgiveness for the past sins we have committed. After all, we believe that we were the ones that brought these sicknesses in the first place. God will answer you, maybe not on Earth, but in heaven. Second of all, the study that he brought up stated that amputees didn't spontaneously regrow limbs. This is crazy. Our God can do miraculous things, but he can choose to do it at his own pace. No evidence for Jesus. I would like to start off pointing out the fact that my opponent has not given us any reference to back up his argument. Secondly, how come the major date form, all over the world is AD, and BC, instead of anything else? The answer is that Jesus made that big of an impact. This is the same as the next point. Genesis did not give a date from which the Lord created the world. For the first few chapters, it could have extended from 1,000 years to 50000 years, who knows? One day for God might be several thousand years for humanity. . Disease may have been caused by germs, but the people who wrote the Scripture is clearly human, not God. They might have gotten the overall content from God, but one or two sentences that reflect their culture is not at all unusual. For his Literary Analysis of the Bible, he does not give us any source in which we can accept it. When he said that the modern day bible was not the same book as the one written by God 2000 years ago, that is a complete opinion. The rest of the Gospels were written by people that heard the story passed on orally. Mark did not write all four of the bible. Differences in beliefs. It has been what, 2000 years since the Bible was first written. The people who understood or wrote them are now long gne. After 2000 years, there has to be some sort of understanding. This understanding has to differ amongst peoples. But for each split, the basic principles, the basic ideas, they are all the same. There is a major flaw in his next argument, Inconsistency of Religious experiences. First of all, he said that "you never hear of a story where a Christian gts in a car crash, sees the ancestor spirits, and coverts to Shitoism." This idea itself is ridiculous. THe guy is dead already! He also mentioned that the "firsthand" accounts are unreliable. That is a completle opinion. As for his rebuttal of the flood myth, why are their seashells found on top of the highest mountains? In the deserts, millions of miles away from the sea? There is definite proof thatthere was a flood, but under the cultural hand, the story was greatly exaggerated. "Descriptions of a killer global flood that inundated the inhabited lands of the world turn up everywhere amongst the myths of antiquity. In many cases these myths clearly hint that the deluge swept away an advanced civilization that had somehow angered the gods, sparing 'none but the unlettered and the uncultured' and obliging the survivors to 'begin again like children in complete ignorance of what happened . . . in early times.' . . . The academic consensus today, and for a century, has been that that the myths are either pure fantasy or the fantastic elaboration of local and limited deluges -- caused for example by rivers overflowing, or tidal waves." http://www.theosophy-nw.org...