The Existence of God

I strongly disagree with you 100%. God is real. Without God, you wouldnt be living right now. You wouldnt be here WHAT SO EVER if God didn't exist. I wouldn't even be arguing with you right now, if God didn't create you. If God wasn't real. How do you think we live our lives. You atheist. The first recorded question in all the Bible was asked by the Adversary in Genesis 3:1 where he asked simply, "Yea, hath God said...?" His purpose was to cast doubt upon God"s words. Today the same adversary continues to cast doubt upon God"s Word, but through more sophisticated means and through human agents. In modern times he has raised up "scholars" and theologians who "interpret" God's Word in pedantic nomenclature. Every trade or profession invents a vocabulary to set it apart from other trades and professions. Doctors, lawyers, scientists and, yes, modern-day Pharisees invent words that shut out "outsiders," who must then come to them and pay exorbitant fees and years of time to learn their trade to be accepted into that field. After all, it is reasoned, if a Biblical "scholar" uses terminology like hypostasis, the hypostatic union of Christ, or the hypostatic theory of the nature of God, he must be "exceedingly godly and knowledgeable" and one is immediately placed at a psychological disadvantage and is often hard pressed to cope. The natural reaction is to just throw up one"s hands in confusion and reason that such scholarship is too far above him and to close one"s mind down and blindly accept whatever such "scholars" spoon feed them. Hence the phrase, "Just smile and check your brain in at the door." And yet 2 Cor. 11:3 cautions us, "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ." Do we believe what God says about Himself" or do we have to go the egg-spurts? There is a large body of the Church of God that has recently completely altered its view of the nature of God. In the May 3, 1994, Worldwide News, page 4, in the article entitled "Clearing the Picture About Humans Being Made in God"s Image," (emphasis mine throughout.) it is asked, "What does it mean to be made in God"s image? The question is not easy to answer because the Bible does not define the nature of God"s image." Well, my Bible does! They go on to say that "This view does not suggest that God has human form, but only that we individually are a bodily representation of a bodiless God." Read that again! Are we to believe that such gibberish is "scholarly"? Under the subheading of Appearances, Anthromorphisms (a typical jawbreaker catchword to impress others of their supposed superior intelligence) they ask, "Now what about the appearances of God in the Bible? And what about the many references to God"s face, eyes, eyelids, nostrils, mouth, voice, arms, hair, hands, palm, fingers, feet heart, bosom and bowels? Are they proof that God has bodily form?" To which they blasphemously answer their own question, "NO!" and affirm that such manifestations of God should not be taken literally, but metaphorically, allegorically, or symbolically. Anything but literally! Any literal descriptions of God are spiritualized away. They go on to say in column four that what Moses saw in Exodus33:19-23 was not God, but a physical manifestation of God. Who are we to believe? What does the Bible say?