God Is Not Real

I am honestly quite confused since the argument my opponent has posted has nothing to do with disproving the existence of God. The argument is merely just questions about the existence of God. That said, I will present some arguments and then respond to what was written. Part One- The Cosmological argument: a. Everything that begins to exist has a cause of its existence. Defense: It is impossible for something to come from nothing. Therefore it is logical to say that everything that begins to exist has a cause. This premise is common sense. b. The universe began to exist. Defense: The second law of thermodynamics lets us know that the universe is running out of usable energy (hence heading towards a heat death). In an eternal universe, it would have run out of energy by now. So since this hasn't happened, we know that the Universe had a beginning (since it is not eternal). Also, there is the discovery of red-shift in 1929. Basically, this discovery showed us that the universe is expanding which means if you were to go back in time, the universe would shrink and shrink. William Lane Craig says it better, he states that "as one traces the expansion back in time, the universe becomes denser and denser until one reaches a point of infinite density from which the universe began to expand." So basically, modern science supports that the Universe began to exist. c. Therefore, the universe has a cause of its existence. Defense: Since everything that begins to exist has a cause, and because the universe began to exist, the universe must have had a cause. d. Since the cause of the Universe has to be.... Eternal-the cause of the universe led to the existence of time. Omnipresent-the cause of the universe led to the existence of space. Omnipotent-the cause of the universe led to the existence of everything. Moral-the cause of the universe led to the existence of morality Personal-William Lane Craig states that "the cause of the universe must be an ultramundane being which transcends space and time and is therefore either an unembodied mind or an abstract object; it cannot be the latter; hence, it must be the former, which is to say that this being is personal" (http://www.reasonablefaith.org......). Therefore, the cause of the Universe must be God since he is all of those things. Nothing else is all of those things that the cause is. So God is the best explanation for why the Universe exists. The Existence of Jesus: Almost all scholars in our age believe that Jesus was a real person (http://www.is-there-a-god.info...). There are many ancient historians (https://www.google.com...) that have written about him and we even have writings from the people that knew Jesus (The New Testament). You should have no doubt that Jesus was a real person. The famous historian Josephus for example stated that "Jesus was a wise teacher who was crucified by Pontius Pilate" In other words, we also have proof that Jesus was crucified. The Bible affirms all of this and even explains why Jesus' body went missing from the empty tomb. More on that later... Jesus claimed to be God and his friends and his brothers claimed that he was God. Josephus tells us that Jesus was a good teacher. But it is a mistake to believe that Jesus was only a good teacher. C.S. Lewis stated that "is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg; or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the son of God: or else a madman or something worse." People of the time period indicate that Jesus was a good person and a good teacher...but you can't be these things if you are insane. Lets go back to the empty tomb. The historian Luke states (chapter 24) that the tomb was found empty by women. How did this happen? The best explanation(http://www.reasonablefaith.org.........) is that Jesus was who he said he was and did in fact rise from the dead. People might claim that Jesus never died but this is silly considering that we know he was crucified and that he was buried. No one could survive that process. Others claim that the body never went missing which is ridiculous considering the Romans and the Jews could have merely shown Christians the body and then their faith would be destroyed. And on top of that, there are people such as the New Testament writers that claim they along with 500 other people saw Jesus after his death. Even the brothers of Jesus (who previously disbelieved in the deity of their brother) came to believe that Jesus was God. Think about that for a moment...what would it take for you to believe that your brother (if you have one) was God? Would it take a resurrection? Nevertheless they became Christians. Since we have good evidence that Jesus was resurrected, and since only a God can do this, and since Jesus claimed to be God (John 10:30), it is true that the Christian God is the one that exists. Part Two- My opponent starts off his argument by saying "God's logic is exceptionally flawed. If God 'intelligently designs' each human, in his own image, why does he decide to make people gay?" My response is that my opponent has made a bare assertion and they need to support what they say. In other words, prove that people are born gay before you make claims like that. Then my opponent states that praying is pointless because God decides when we die according to Psalm 139:16. This argument makes no sense at all. Prayer is the act of talking to God and the Bible verse only says that God knows when we are going to die. That said, why would our eventual death prevent us from talking to God? So my opponent has to explain this before any progress in the conversation can be made. Then my opponent states that "Design, in nature, is unintelligent." No one would claim that that design is intelligent. That said, I would say that the designer was intelligent. As for the question about the larynx, I guess God was using his creativity when creating giraffes. Or maybe this helps the giraffe in some way (with eating). I really don't know. But honestly, I am surprised that my opponent brought this up since the supposed evolution of the giraffe is a huge problem for evolutionists. Apparently, no evidence has been found to support the evolution of giraffes. The most common explanation for the giraffes long neck is that natural selection helped the giraffe eat food on talk trees. But the problem is that "we now know acquired characteristics are not inherited" (https://creation.com...). So...evolutionists have a lot of explaining to do. My opponent then asserts (without evidence) that evolution is not incompatible with intelligent design. Many people like Michael Behe would disagree with him on that. That said, I happen to agree with my opponent so I will not press the issue. Then my opponent makes another bare assertion that "evolution is a proven theory unlike the existence of God". I don't even know where to start on this point. First of all, if it were proven, then it wouldn't be a theory. Second of all, if by evolution my opponent means that organisms adapt and descend from other organisms, then that is a fact. But if my opponent is referring to common ancestry or that humans came from apes, then that is not even close to being considered a fact. Lastly, my opponent leaves us with three more bare assertions which are as follows: "there is no scientific evidence of God. God has never left any proof of his existence, nor did Jesus leave any proof of his miracles." I have just shown that cosmology is evidence for the existence of God. I could go into mathematics and into fine tuning but I like to limit the amount of arguments I use for God's existence. As for the miracles of Jesus, we just so happen to have eye witness accounts of the miracles he preformed. Read the gospels for more details. Speaking of eye witness accounts, they claim that Jesus is eternal (John 1:1-5), Omnipresent (Matthew 18:20), Omnipotent (John 11:38-44), Moral (kind of obvious...but Matthew 5), and Personal (spent his life ministering to people). So Jesus according to the people that knew him does in fact satisfy the requirements in order to the the cause of the universe. In conclusion, my opponent has not provided a single argument against the existence of God but has merely asked questions. I on the other hand have provided two strong arguments for the existence of the Christians God and have responded to everything my opponent has written. I now await for my opponent's next response.