God's Not Dead

God has blessed mankind by restraining our evil nature. Even with evil, there is also a force of good that keeps evil at bay. Evidently, God designed the laws of physics so that the more depraved people became, the worse consequences they suffer. In the case of the Aurora shooting, police arrived and kept the crazy person from killing everyone present. In reality, the existence of good is actually a bigger question to answer than the existence of evil. Evils existence is not evidence of God's absence in the universe, but from our very lives. My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing the universe with when I called it unjust? Because there are things that are wrong, regardless of the country or context, there is a real moral law that we did not invent and from which we cannot escape. We no more invented morality than we invented numbers or even reason itself. These are things that are written on our hearts by our Creator. -C.S. Lewis Sam Harris (devout atheist) said, "Morality comes down to this: judge your actions by whether they hurt everyone." Does this mean if I only hurt a few, I'm okay? That's like someone who committed murder standing before the judge and saying, "I know I killed that man, but think of all the people in this town I didn't kill." How could a blind process such as natural selection, which came into existence by chance, produce this universal sense of right and wrong? If life arose spontaneously from random chemical processes, (which is something that needs created), we would have absolutely no moral obligation. God created things which had free-will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong, but I can't. If a thing is free to be good, it is also free to be bad. And free-will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free-will? Because free-will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. A world of automata-of creatures that worked like machines-would hardly be worth creating. -C.S. Lewis God has defined evil in his Word, he warns you to abstain from it with the loving freedom to do so anyway, and sent his son who willingly gave his life to conquer evil in the end. To me, that sounds like someone completely against evil. He is temporarily tolerating it so that one day he can separate good and evil, and allow his people to spend an eternity with the one that they served and enjoyed serving, with their free-wills intact. How much more loving can that be? The Bible supported an expanding universe nearly 2,000 years before scientists confirmed it in the early 1900's. Isaiah 44:24 is one of 17 verses that support it: Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I [am] the LORD that maketh all [things]; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself... Can you name one of those 3,000 invented Gods that came down to Earth to save humanity from their sinful nature? What about the opportunity to have a loving, personal relationship with the Creator of the universe? Other religions are set up to where its followers ascend the ladder to their God(s). Virtually all atheist scholars agree with the story of Jesus and his disciples except for his performed miracles and resurrection from the tomb. His tomb was owned by Joseph of Arimathea (a Jewish leader). The rumor of his body being stolen gives further evidence that the tomb was empty. The multiple groups of eyewitnesses would have all had to be delusional if his body was still in there, or just flat-out liars for no reason or purpose. Multiple well-known atheists like Richard Dawkins have admitted to the universe appearing to be designed. But their second statement always is "Who created God?" Christians believe in a eternal God (one that lives in eternity past/present/future). In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God (John 1:1). An all-powerful God that lives in eternity does not need created. If you believe that our universe has been created from a previous universe in a never-ending chain of universes, then creationism should definitely be taught in public schools as well. A loving and all-knowing God can know the choices you will make in the future, but will not force them. The Bible explains that God did not wire our minds to understand everything, such as the deeper definition of the word "eternity". Any person that is evil can place a religious label on themselves, even the Christian label. If someone is committing acts similar to Hitler, then they do not understand the Word of God and they are missing the greatest commandments: love God with all your heart, and show it by the way you love each other. Do not let those people define the group as a whole. The terrorist attacks and tragedies that you speak of do not abide to the Word of God or were committed by people who were not claimed Christians. Please address how an explosion like the Big Bang could accidentally cause the orderly processes of the Earth's rotation, orbit, and moon's orbit, as well as its perfect distance from the sun and the moon's distance from Earth. Also explain where science explains the formation of a living soul (conscience) and emotions, (which are all explained in the Word of God). I will list all of the fulfilled biblical prophecies in the next round.