Atheists Really DO Believe in (G)od...

An old post I wrote on my other blog is relevant to this one.

Atheists Really DO Believe in (G)od. 11/12/2009

That title may sound strange, but this morning I came to the realization that atheists really do believe in God, they just don't realize it or admit it. And they don't want to.

If you happen to get into a debate with an atheist, they will inevitably ask you who created God. This is, of course ridiculous and will lead into a recursive argument (OK, then, who created them? And who created them? etc...)

Turn the question back on them. Who created them? They'll eventually go back through the arguments of evolution until they get to the Big Bang. What caused the Big Bang? Per Wikipedia, "the term Big Bang generally refers to the idea that the Universe has expanded from a primordial hot and dense initial condition at some finite time in the past (currently estimated to have been approximately 13.7 billion years ago), and continues to expand to this day." In layman's terms, there was this big ball of energy that expanded and made everything.

OK. Fine. But where did that big ball of energy come from? What/who created it? And who created that? And who created that? And so on and so on. Back to the recursive argument.

The problem here is that atheists limit their argument to the existence of the created. They can not fathom an eternal God who always was, and is and evermore shall be. They choose to believe in a non-conscious, impersonal blob of energy as their god, rather than a conscious, personal, loving God.

I think the reason they do so is that there is no moral obligation when a blob of energy is your god. If they were to choose to believe in God, or any other diety for that matter, then they would be bound to a moral code. This of course, is the issue. They want to be accountable to no one and live their lives how they want to, regardless of the consequences. It's much more convenient (and requires a heck of a lot of faith) to believe in a blob of energy that won't hold you accountable for your actions. You don't have to be responsible. You can do what you want and not worry about the consequences, and when you die, you just return to being a blob of energy.

In essence, atheists are their own god.

Choosing to believe in God means that there are moral absolutes. You are responsible for what you do and you will be held accountable. The cool thing, however, is you are forgiven. You have a personal God that communicates with you and LOVES you. And you get to party forever.

To me it's really sad that these people have no hope. This life is all there is to them. There's a saying I heard once that I like:

I'd rather live my life as if there was a God and be wrong, than live my life as if there wasn't a God and die to find out that there is.

In The Beginning....

II Corinthians 5:7 - "For we walk by faith, not by sight." It's not about seeing to believe, it's about believing to see ~ @michaelhsweet

Reminds me of a couple of things in The Santa Clause movie with Tim Allen.

The little elf girl Judy is conversing with Scott Calvin (AKA Santa Clause, AKA Tim Allen), and she says something quite profound. Scott just can't wrap his head around the fact that he's at the North Pole. He says that he sees it but just can't believe it. She replies, "Seeing isn't believing. Believing is seeing."

Also, when Neil is trying to convince Charlie that Santa doesn't exist, Charlie asks him, "Have you ever seen a million dollars?" Neil has to answer "No." (That would be my answer too!) Charlie replies, "Just because you can't see something, doesn't mean is doesn't exist."

How can you possibly believe in something if you haven't seen it?

As D-Boy put it in his song Last Days,

"Man, I don't see Him, how could He be there?"
"You don't see the wind but you like to breathe air, right?"

Which is of course based on Billy Graham's famous, "Can you see God? You haven't seen him? I've never seen the wind. I see the effects of the wind, but I've never seen the wind. There's a mystery to it."

How do we know that wind exists? We can't see it, so we have to rely on evidence of the wind.

• You've seen the trees sway by an unseen force.
• You've seen the dust blowing across the street.
• You've had to chase a piece of paper that was blown out of your hand.
• You've felt that gentle breeze on your cheek that, for some reason, makes you smile.

You know the wind exists because of your experience with it. You can prove the wind exists only by the evidence it produces, like those described above.

God is much the same as the wind. We can't 'see' God with our eyes. But we can see God in many other ways. There is overwhelming evidence for God, and you can experience God.

Once you begin to believe, you will also begin to see.

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This blog is going to explore the evidence for God. I welcome discussion on this blog as long as it is kept civil and there is no unnecessary profanity. Let's experience God together.