tactful wrote:
then this must be good theory and/ or speculation. hope y'all can parse them out. same thing,different formats,1 split,the other not.
Let the professor ask a Christian versed in God's word and such a weak example would not be posted.
I'm not going to give the 10 page answer to these questions when your not seeking the t***h but seeking an ah-ha with hearts motive to disprove rather than seeking ways to believe.
The short answer you don't want to hear or accept because of things in your life that conflict with God.
The short answer : God is good. Man separated himself from God through disobedience (Sin). Once sin entered the world so did enter sickness, illness, man's body was no longer eternal and perfect. Mankind now is prone to heart failure, cancers and the like.
"Every man has an appointed time"
God does heal some and even by miracles (I know first hand) but God does not heal all. We as Christians don't always understand why, but we do understand "All things for the glory of God".
Paul an Apostle had some medical issues and asked God to heal him. God's reply was "my grace is sufficient" meaning he wanted Paul to come to him daily and God's grace would get him through each day. God knew he needed Paul to come to the well everyday for relief so he could keep Paul on a path for his Glory "bringing men to the knowledge of Jesus and eternal life".
Others God heals and from their experience dev**e their lives to the kingdom of God (bringing souls to the knowledge of Jesus and eternal life).
But it is natural we would ask "why heal this one and not that one"? Because we have finite understanding in our tiny man's brains trying to understand an all knowing God that is purest of love, mercy, and fairness.
Our courts make it clear that no matter how good a person we are, no matter how much we donate our time and money to the homeless, are a model parent, help little old ladies, kind to neighbors, don't cuss, don't drink, don't smoke, don't judge others..... Rob a bank and you will be condemned by the law. No argument will get you a get out of jail free card. But I've been a good person all my life doesn't replace the penalty.
Same with God. God says that if you break even one of his laws you are judged by the law and the penalty is death, forever separation from God, eternal hell.
But Jesus paid for your penalty on the cross. He bought and paid for you to have eternal life. He paid having his flesh beaten from his body, staked on a cross, pierced by a spear dies, was buried, defeated death and on the third day rose again. Jesus (God in the flesh) defeated death and rose to eternal life that we to can defeat death and have eternal life for simply asking him to forgive us our sin, confessing our sins to him and asking him for forgiveness. Believing he died and rose again, that he is The Son of God (God in the flesh) and repenting our sins (Changing the way we think about sin/turning from liking sin to hating sin). We believe in our heart, confess Jesus with our tongue, we are saved. But then something miraculous happens... God's spirit then enters into the new believer and dwells within him all his life. Christians know that God lives in them by evidence God gives them.
Doubt Jesus rose again? I wouldn't blame you if you did. Many scholars with multiple PHD's that didn't believe in the bible, God or Jesus have sought to dispute and disprove that Jesus rose because everything in Christianity hinges on Jesus defeating death and rising again because if he didn't, then our faith is in vain, meaningless.
Dr. James Dobson was a man hell bent to disprove "Evidence demands a verdict ' is his book using the same requirements courts use to measure evidence and from his globe trotting around the world and Middle East to disprove became a believer. Same with C. W. Lewis, Lee Stroble, As a successful cold case detective, J. Warner Wallace and riggid Atheist seeking to destroy Christianity once and for all... Opps now a Christian and hundreds of other highly educated, intelligent men and scholars as well as scientists.
There are better books than Evidence demands a verdict but what I like about it, one would benefit in understanding what the author demonstrates if they have higher education, higher math, vocabulary. It isn't for the lessor learned.
"The case for Christ" by Lee Stroble is not to the higher level of Evidence Demands a Verdict but a great book with the same intent.
My point? If your hard core to not believe and disprove God, would it not be wise to follow some of our most brilliant present day men and see the journey they took? Know for certain why Christians do believe? And know the book they follow (the Bible) and intimately know what's in its pages?
After all I have nothing to lose but if your wrong, it's your eternal life. Would it not reason to at least know what and why Christians believe?
No offense, just a point. The atheists /Christian question and answer you posted reveals how much you don't know.
Get a copy of Evidence Demands a Verdict or better yet the updated version 'The New Evidence that Demands a verdict ".
You come accross as a very decent and good spirited guy with intelligence . I'm glad to know you and only wish you well.