atheists have a lot of arguments but they never really think of anything new that the church hasn't had answers to for the past 2,000 years so let's answer them religion causes Wars well actually only 7% of all human wars were caused by religion and if you remove Islamic Wars that number drops down to 3% a lot of evil has been done in the name of religion this is true but the most murderous people in human history have been atheists this doesn't mean religion is true it just means you can't use that as an argument against
it if you were born somewhere else you wouldn't be a Christian okay and if you were born somewhere else you wouldn't be an atheist everyone's beliefs are shaped by their context how do you know which religion is true well everyone religious or not has faith in a certain worldview it's just that some world viws are called religions and some are secular but everyone has to ask the question of which world view best explains the world there's no scientific proof that God exists well by definition science can only prove things inside the natural world and by
definition God is something outside the natural world so science can neither prove nor disprove God there's no evidence of anything Supernatural Well that's just not accurate there are medically documented cases of people with demonic possessions speaking in languages they don't know for example and people with near-death experiences getting information they never had access to the Bible has contradictions okay you think you found an apparent contradiction that the church hasn't known about for 2,000 years every apparent contradiction can be explained by understanding just a little bit of theology the gospels were Anonymous okay Anonymous doesn't mean
we have no idea who wrote them it just means the names of the authors aren't signed in the text itself but we literally have writings from church fathers who knew the apostles and can verify that they indeed wrote the books named after them the gospels misquote Jesus now it's true that a lot of secular Scholars think the gospels are a mix of real quotes from the historical Jesus and fake quotes added by the church but none of them can agree on which quotes are legit and which are not so we can discard their opinions Jesus
never claimed to be God yes he did he didn't say I am God worship me but he showed that he was God in many places in all four gospels by doing things that only God can do it's true that he didn't walk around before his resurrection claiming to be God because he wanted people to figure it out themselves that's why he kept saying who do you say that I am however after his resurrection people figured out that he was God and Jesus congratulated them the later one of the gospels was written the more Divine it
makes Jesus seem so we can extrapolate that Jesus was originally a human figure who got made more Divine over time all right maybe some gospels emphasize Jesus's Divinity more than others but what about Paul's letters that fully confess the Divinity of Jesus and were also written before any of the gospels so that breaks your pattern the Bible supports slavery no it doesn't just because there's slavery in the Bible doesn't mean the Bible supports it there are some Old Testament verses that could be interpreted as condoning slavery but Jesus himself said that the Old Testament made
accommodations to people's sinful State and also slave owners in the American South had slave Bibles for their slaves to read but it omitted a lot of the real Bible so if the Bible actually did support slavery this wouldn't have been necessary Christianity supported slavery well sure some Christians did but all human civilizations have had slavery Christian civilization was the first one to abolish it on moral grounds the fact that you're against slavery is due to Christian influence also most organizations fighting modern-day slavery are Christian God killed tons of people in the Bible well it's actually
way more than that God numbers everyone's days he's The Giver of Life so he can take it especially if people sin atheist countries are more prosperous yes it's true that northern European countries are very prosperous and very secular but correlation doesn't equal causation it's not like atheism causes prosperity it's that Prosperity causes atheism because when people have comfortable lives they don't feel a need to depend on God but why are these particular countries so prosperous in the first place they may be secular now but they're rooted in generations and generations of of protestant Christianity if
you want an example of a country that's atheist and not rooted in Christianity look at communist China there's 4,000 gods that people believe in and you're atheist to 3,999 of them I just go one God further okay this isn't the gotcha that you think it is because the question of whether some sort of God exists is fundamentally different from the question of which religion is right about God if God created everything then who created God well God is defined as the uncaused causer everyone knows there needs to be a first cause at the beginning of
the chain of all events in the universe and it makes a lot more sense for that first cause to be a personal god who caused things for a reason rather than some random impersonal Force science disproves god well actually the church invented modern science all the founders of the Scientific Revolution deeply believed in God and medieval theologians laid the groundwork for modern science by seeing the world was governed by an intelligent creator that means we can understand the world with our intelligence and studying God led to to studying the world because the world is God's
creation God is just used to fill in the gaps of things that science can't explain yet well actually God is the reason for everything even things that science can explain it's not one or the other it's not like everything's explained by either science or God and the more science can explain the less God Can Explain really science can explain almost everything but God is still behind it all because science explains the how and God explains the why if God is good why can't he destroy all evil well he eventually will why can't he do it
now because he'd have to destroy you why does God let any bad things happen because we deserve it well animals don't sin so why do they suffer well the Bible says all things will be restored so if God is good we can assume that they will be compensated how do you know that God isn't evil instead well because evil is not a thing the way good is just like cold is just a lack of heat and dark is just a lack of light evil is just a lack of good and for good to be objective
it needs to come from God so a God who is objectively evil is logically impossible can God make a rock he can't lift well you're just asking if God can contradict himself like can God lie or can God change or can God make another God and the answer to all those things is no God being all powerful means he can do anything to things outside himself it doesn't mean that he can do anything to himself or that he can contradict himself why did God let evil exist at all so he could be glorified in defeating
it triumph over evil is a greater good than evil having just never existed religion is just wishful thinking well if that were true then the Bible wouldn't be all about how much we all suck psychology explains why you believe in God so what if God is real we should expect there to be some psychological or social benefit to believing in him spiritual experiences can be explained by brain chemicals well romantic experiences can also be explained by brain chemicals but that doesn't mean your wife isn't real so spiritual experiences being explained by brain chemicals doesn't mean
that God isn't real well drug trips show that spiritual experiences are from the brain well people who have had both drug trips and near-death experiences say that they're completely different categories of feeling the story of Jesus was copied from the story of Horus or some other ancient character okay dude that's a Reddit atheist level myth even atheist Scholars know that that's silly faith is the opposite of logic and reason no it's not Faith just means trust anytime you eat food you're having faith that it's not poisoned even if you can't scientifically prove it if you're
married you have faith that your wife loves you even if you can't scientifically prove that and if you tried to scientifically prove it she'd probably get very mad at you because it would mean you didn't trust her Evolution proves God didn't create the world well not necessarily God often Works through natural processes in the Bible and for all of church history there have been prominent Christian theologians who have had a more metaphorical interpretation of Genesis even well over a thousand years before before Darwin existed Christianity only spread because of military conquest well eventually they did
do military conquest but for the first 300 years of Christianity it was illegal and it took over the Roman Empire despite that because of how popular it became Constantine invented what we now know of as Christianity again read a atheist level myth atheists can do better than that listen to an actual scholar if Christianity is true why are there so many denominations of it well yeah there are a lot of denominations but the things they agree on are a lot more significant than the things they disagree on there's no evidence for Jesus outside the Bible
well that's not true there's the ancient Jewish historian Josephus who wrote about Jesus and he's one of the reasons why even secular Scholars know Jesus historically existed you really think God made billions of galaxies with billions of stars in each of them just to have a personal relationship with you yes to SA
