The Fact that there are Atheists is Contradictory to the concept of God.

"My opponent appears to have taken on the position of a literalist, fundamental Christian, in order to support his position, and while interesting, it does not accurately reflect the views of a majority of Christians. To start I will point out his assumptions about God, that I find to be exaggeratedly or false, based on modern Christian understanding and doctrine. " -Not true. The points I have made reflect my Protestant upbringings. In America, Protestantism is the largest Christian denomination, being approximately 54% of the population. Roman Catholicism on the other hand, makes up about only 24% of America, but one billion in the rest of the world and thus is the largest denomination. In relevance to going to Hell, they believe in limbo and purgatory, but those are not relevant to the matter at hand of salvation in this case. . http://www.religionfacts.com... "This is actually not what most Christians believe. Most Christians believe only those who make an informed decision to reject God's will and Jesus sacrifice will be submitted to hell. So, humans born into alternative belief, will be given a chance to accepts God's will after death or upon Jesus' return. " -As I have shown that my argument aligns with the views of the majority of Christians, Protestants and Catholics, I will show how my opponent's argument is false. The Protestant version of hell is that if a soul does not receive salvation, they will go to hell; a place originally for fallen angels and Lucifer. The majority believe that if one were to be born a baby, a mentally disabled person, or somewhere where one will never have heard of Christianity, then they will be exempt from having salvation, but instead God will judge them by their hearts. But of course, in countries such as Europe or America, Christianity is the biggest and most known religion; most Atheists know of Christianity. "Most Christians believe only those who make an informed decision to reject God's will and Jesus sacrifice will be submitted to hell. " -If by this, my opponent means those who reject God's will EVEN though they believe he exists, then I will have to disagree. Most Atheists do not hate God or reject his grace, we simply do not believe he exists; it's illogical to hate an entity that we don't believe exists. However, if he meant Christians believe those who do not have faith in God and receive his salvation go to hell, then yes I agree. Essentially, the view of the majority is that faith is required to have salvation, and that is required to go to heaven. "Fallen Angels did know God, but were convinced by Lucifer to reject his will. We are not told if they were aware of the ultimate consequence of their actions, but can assume, based on the bible's description of God as Loving, that he provided forgiveness for them, yet they reject it. " Deriving from Matthew 25:41, hell was originally made by God for fallen angels and Satan. Interestingly enough, several of the most common reasons of the motivation of the fallen angel's rebellion is lust, pride, and free will. They chose to rebel against God and his glory through their own free will, because either they had pride or doubts in God's plan. This goes to show that even if God appeared before us, or made it blatantly obvious that he existed without faith being involved, then this would NOT negate free will as most would argue and thus he should do such, unless of course he wants more people to suffer eternal torment in hell. . http://en.wikipedia.org... "Most Christians, fully agree. They believe that God intends for humanity to obtain knowledge, but chooses to provide that knowledge through faith and through a diligent search for his will in prayer and exploring his word. The fact that some people require additional knowledge, doesn't mean they will automatically be submitted to hell, simply that their lives on earth, will not be reflective of a life supported with the peace that comes through a knowledge of God's will. " -Christians proudly acknowledge that it takes faith to believe in God. However, as I have argued already before, faith is not a way to find out which religion is true; all have the same component and it makes no single religion distinctive. Of course, the only alternative is knowledge. However, as is my main argument, the mere fact that we are debating about this; that we are atheists because we see a lack of evidence for religion (Christianity in this case), rules out knowledge also. If the doctrines of Christianity were to be true, then God is not doing a good job of showing himself to be real, since his evidence is lacking. "God's allowance of free will is in fact a kindness, that allows mankind to fully explore life and discover for himself, which path holds the most peace, love and value. " -As is evident, his "allowance of free will" has supposedly to non belief and many different religions. This means millions of people will suffer in hell. My opponents argument with the analogy of aliens is faulty. For he does not realize that my argument is that the fact that there is a debate about God's existence is contrary to the CONCEPT of the Christian God. Simply, because there is non belief in God, this contradicts his existence as I have shown with the propositions before. The point is that is given the propositions A-D i have stated before, God has not made it clear that E is true, that God exists. Faith is not distinctive, and there fact that there is non belief shows that there is not sufficient (if any) knowledge of his existence. If God wants us to know propositions A-D, and has to power to make us know A-D, he does not exist because we do not know if these propositions are true. "Christians would argue that he does provide ample evidence of his existence through his word and through mankind's search for knowledge about life, the universe and everything. It can be equated with teachers at school. Student's might not believe that the teacher has their best interest at heart, and that the subject matter they are teaching is pertinent, but that belief, doesn't indicate that the teacher is wrong, only that they students choose to rebel against the lesson. God is similar to that teacher, knowing the stubborn students are wrong, but choosing to try and teach them regardless of their attitude and belief about the subject matter. " -There is this recurring notion that those with non belief in the Christian god are rebelling, or purposely rejecting his will. Once again, this analogy of the teachers is faulty because atheists simply do not believe he exists. If God were to be real, then as 1 Timothy 2:4 states, he wishes for all of us to go heaven and be saved. However, we simply do not have enough evidence and thus this debate. Faith doesn't work and we don't have sufficient evidence, so what do we have? I have shown how faith is useless when searching for the truth. I have shown that God has not provided enough knowledge for man to know he exists, since we have this debate of non belief to begin with. I have shown that obtainment of knowledge does not negate free will. God desires for us to be saved and go to heaven, but has not shown to us that he exists. My arguments stand as they are relevant with mainstream views as my opponent objects. An important notion I want to note is my opponent's faulty analogy. True, the fact that there is a debate about aliens does not disprove that aliens exist. However, what differs is that God has prescribed notions to him already; being derived from the Bible. Thus, as I have shown, a debate about his existence is contradictory to his existence, and thus disproves that the Christian God exists.