Towards a Better Atheism
Channel: Brain Outy
Date: 2013-08-05

Vid's audio gist: kudos to the better atheist (see links below), who demands an answer to God's Justice claim.  A dumber atheist argues 'evolution'.  Don't be a dumb atheist, be smart and stick to the JUSTICE issue, in debates over God's Existence and Identity.

And what is the answer to the Justice issue?  A hard answer, one I too am grappling with:  God decrees TRUTH BE FREE, Psalm 138:2c.  Very hard to want to believe in the God of the Bible, if that is the answer. :)

TheAtheistDebate's video response to Ran Campbell, asks the right atheist question, 'WHERE'S THE JUSTICE', at beginning and end:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70q4robjsOo

Godrollingtoastop's video, satirizing Ran Campbell's claim that atheists are schizophrenic:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcm8u5AAQOk .  I append this video as a response to his, because I think he should get more subscribers.

Rob Lester's video, responding also to Ran Campbell:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8I2gFkpROg

I'm not sure which of the Ran Campbell videos is being used, so I don't have a link to Ran Campbell, himself, sorry.  His channel is/was here: http://www.youtube.com/user/GodVeiwsutube?feature=watch .  Can't access it.

The argument claiming that evolution proves God does NOT exist, is premised on an ERRONEOUS claim that Bible says the universe is 6000 years old.  But the Bible DOES NOT say anything about how old the universe is.  Oooops.  Now you can't use any evolutionary argument.  Further, Bible CAN be read to say God decreed evolution, in Genesis 1:23-25.  Ooops.  Now you can't use any evolutionary argument to claim it proves God doesn't exist!

I go through what the Bible DOES say in the real Hebrew and Greek, in my Genesis Exegesis playlist, starting here:  http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAB5BE9F40D2918FB .  See the Bible text for yourself.  I explain the Hebrew and Greek and show the lexicons, so you can understand it FOR yourself.  That way, you'll save a lot of time and angst when arguing with Christians who DO NOT KNOW what the Bible says on the topic. 

By contrast, the argument about JUSTICE is primary and VALID: every Christian needs to work through it.  I'm still trying to work through it, in the context of the Angelic Trial, which is entirely disclosed in Bible, and is on this very topic of WHY IS GOD JUST to allow bad to exist.  First video in the series on the topic, starts here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ab5xrNWqDg&list=PLEB74C5CA7BBC879C&index=2 .  That first video itself isn't the material, but you can access the material via its video description.  The description also contains the link to the webseries on the same topic, which took me years to write up (and still needs a lot of editing).

In sum, the issue of GOD IS JUST, is the central focus of the Trial, hence the central focus of any decision to believe in God, and to KEEP believing in Him.  It's hard to do that.  That's why only BELIEVE CHRIST PAID FOR YOUR SINS is the Gospel.  Hardest thing you'll ever do, is BELIEVE.  Christianity keeps on faltering over that issue, and so of course should atheists.

So, God bless atheism.  We need it, to keep that question, going.  So if you are an atheist, what should you do?  I cover that, in the last four minutes of the video.  

Essentially:
a.  If God exists, He made you.
b.  If God made you, then His motive must be LOVE, as you are smaller than Him.
c. If God exists and made you due to LOVE, then He wants a relationship with you.
d. So if God wants a relationship with you, He'll disclose Himself.  So you need PROOF.
e.  So then you ASK for the PROOF.  It won't be transferable to another person, but must be conclusive for YOU, since God is INVISIBLE.

A person who has proof of God can detect when someone else also has proof, because the same God would WITNESS to the proof inside the other person, through that person's words.  But if you don't know God exists, you can't detect it, since you don't yet know God.  So, the CONCLUSIVITY of proof is only internal, personalized.  That's why we all have unending debates.

So if you want proof, ASK.  If not, don't.  That's the only way you'll know.  If it matters, this video now heads my Atheism playlist, here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB6304CE9805CB0D4  .  The purpose of the playlist is to beg these very JUSTICE questions.  The SatStrat playlist linked above, works through the questions from the Bible.  Maybe it will help you work through the answers, I don't know.  It's horrifically long, because the answer is long.  Life-long, in fact.  For every day one is a Christian, one is faced with the same issue, IS GOD JUST.. and why?  No short, snappy, syrupy answers to that question, exist.  Sorry.