Title: 10 Reasons for believing in God
Author: Stewart
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10 Reasons for believing in God.

1. The Consent of Nations.
"There is no nation so barbarous as not to believe there is a God". Tully.
'Man is by his constitution a religious animal". Edmund Burke.
The atheist argues that world religions disagree so they must all be wrong. But
that's faulty argument. All world religions mutually agree in their insistence on some form of God or  gods.

They disagree upon the nature of God or who god is – man is not a religious animal – he is a spiritual animal – becoming religious entails being brainwashed from birth about the idea of GOD – it would not occur naturally save in ignorance of nature – which is how the idea got started in the first place – ie Thor is thunder and RA is the sun. Since all religions believe mutually exclusive things (and fight about who is right) they are all wrong – their squabbles are like fighting over which way to open an egg in Gulliver’s Travels.

2. The Revelations of Science.
"If you think strongly enough you will be forced by science to believe in God"
Lord Kelvin (Physicist and past president of the Royal Society ).
"The probability of life originating by accident is comparable to the probability of a dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing works".  Biologist Edward Conklin.

This is a straw man argument from someone who does not understand how chance plays a role in how increasing complexity occurs and is indicative of how bad scientists are when they believe Christian rubbish – evolution sees to it that chance events become more complex – chance does not work alone – the very fact that this “scientist” does not understand how this works shows how bad a scientists he is –not how incredible life without God is.

"Since earliest times men have seen the earth and sky and all God made, and
have known of His existence and great eternal power". Modern rendering of
Romans 1.20.  A careful study of the visible, therefore, forces one to consider the
invisible. Francis Bacon, Kepler, Newton, Robert Boyle as well as Professors such
as Boyd, Coulson, Mackay and Wright of our own day, reveal the possibility of
men of science being God-believers.

They did so because of the remaining ignorance of nature and the universe – God is the god of the gaps – he plugs the holes science cannot fill – today there are no holes left and no place for God.

3. The Testimony of Conscience.
"Man the world over always has had a sense of right and wrong. ..called conscience. ..it may be perverted, grossly uninstructed, or even murdered, but it is always present. It is
by no means the same as self interest...or the interests of the tribe. ..It is God's warning beacon in the soul". Professor Rendle Short (Surgeon).
"Down in their heart (people) know right from wrong. God's laws are written within them: their own conscience accuses them, or sometimes excuses them". Modern rendering of Romans 2 v 15 

Man has not always had a conscience – since he evolved – his brain was simpler at an earlier time and so like as not did not have the moral sentry that is taken for granted today – the assertion “man has always had a conscience” is a statement made by the ignorant Christian mind that does not understand evolutionary biology.

4.  The Satisfying Hypothesis
The only thing new about scientific discoveries is the discovery itself - not what is discovered, nor why it is there to be discovered. The questions “What?” and “How?” relative to existence can be dealt with in large measure by scientific research.  The question “Why?” however, eludes a satisfying explanation which can be substantiated scientifically. Is there any satisfying explanation to this question of “Why?”

And does theism help? No – this is not the remit of science – “Why are we here…because we’re here roll the bones” – Neil Peart. 

5.  The Resurgence of Spiritism.
Socrates confessed at death that as he thought there was an evil spirit, so he thought there was a good spirit.  The resurgence of spiritism, the medium, the seance, clairvoyance, clairaudience or black magic has convinced many in our generation of the reality of the spirit realm. Many agnostics who scorn the “God-believer” have themselves become “Spirit-believers”.  Although spiritism endorses the Biblical contention, yet nevertheless it must be stated that the Bible strongly opposes the seeking of ‘proof’ in these dangerous paths. (Deut. 18 v 9 - 12 and Isaiah 9 v 19 - 20).

The fact is that there is more evidence for some of the ideas in spiritism than in theism – both of course do not pass the test of “proven beyond a reasonable doubt”.

6. The History of Atheism.
"Science does not deny God, she makes Him unnecessary'. Freethinkers at Liege.
But dispensing with the 'unnecessary' leads to complications nationally and
individually:- National repercussions of atheism and evolutionary thought can be seen in
Hitter's Germany, Mao's China, Communist Russia and present day trends in America and Britain. Individual repercussions of atheism caused William A. Pratney to comment
curtly:  "Yes I knew men who said there was no God; but I listened as they died and I knew that they had lied".  Voltaire died screaming "Let me die in  peace". Yes, atheism certainly has a history!

Belief in untruths has caused man more pain and misery – faith is wanton ignorance – it is a get out clause – a dishonest cheat out of having to reason. What we find is that many who have faith have a poor level of scientific literacy and cannot begin to reason with any capability – because they have been sold the idea that one does not have to reason and can hold steadfast to one’s opinion via faith regardless of what the facts say- that alone does more damage to mankind than any number of wars,for it sets up the means by which one man will argue to the death against another never changing his opinion via new information – the atheist on the other hand – open to reason – can be convinced of anything if one reasons hard enough and supplies enough evidence –such a tactic will never work on the stoic,dogmatic and intransigent mind of the theist who will believe for evermore the Earth is flat even as he meets the same point he left having rounded the globe. Such willful ignorance is the scourge of mankind.

7. The Prediction of the Future.
"Predictive prophecy is the foremost proof to which the Word of God (the
Bible) appeals in its own behalf'. Dr A. T. Pierson. Short range general prediction can be
explained by the sensible deductions of men aware of the facts. Long range detailed prophecies however cannot be explained by such guesswork. It is this second type of prediction which is frequently contained in the Bible. "State your proofs (says God) ...
show what is yet to be that we may watch how it turns out: yes, let us hear what is coming that we may be sure you are gods". Modern rendering of Isaiah 41.21-23.
It was a University graduate who said: "I do not believe in God and therefore come to the Bible -I come to the Bible and am forced to conclude there is a God".

Okay – lets get this straight – how many Christians understand time to the extent that they can even say whether events CAN be predicted – it cannot be ASSUMED that prophecy CAN exist- it must be proven it CAN happen before assuming that what passes for it is what it is. That is – is it possible to predict the future? If the answer is NO then any assertion that it has happened is void.  I do no care how many university graduates are “convinc-ed of the tru-eth” (after Hobbes) all that shows is that there education has lacked or has been biased in some way.
The above arguments lack sophistication – they take so much for granted and have not been subject to critical analysis. I would have it pointed out to me where we have an incontrovertible example of prophecy in the bible  -as many indeed would be of the type “ a plane will crash some time in the future” – such predictions are inevitable ESPECIALLY in the long range. It is not evident that the Christian shows any comprehension of time as it is understood by physics or of chance as it is in maths – without which one cannot make a critical analysis of prophecy.

8. The Uniqueness of Christ.
This will be considered more fully on another Web page.   His birth, life and death were foretold and until a person supercedes Christ in these (and other)  qualifications has he authority to dispute the clear influence of Christ’s life and the clear teaching of His words, namely that “God is” ?

Whether Christ was foretold is debateable for the above reasons – we need to know whether something CAN be foretold – I can foretell of future aircrashes –it does not mean I have propehecy. Likelyhood has a bearing on foretelling  -that is – I can predict the sun will rise tomorrow with almost 100% accuracy. As for Christ being God – we can contest all the assumptions – virgin birth – we know this happens in nature. Rebirth – could be the action of a conjuror as can feeding the 5000 and making a stick a serpent and turning water to wine – modern magicians can do most of these and more – Jesus was a trickster.
He is no more unique than so many David Blaine/Chriss Angels.

9.  The Power of the Bible.
Newgate prison for women was transformed by the daily Bible readings conducted by Elizabeth Fry and her friends.  Charles Darwin became a regular subscriber to a Bible missionary society who in a few short years effected an outstanding change amongst the natives of Tierra del Fuega.  Previously he had thought that these natives were so far behind modern man on the ‘evolutionary scale’ that nothing but centuries could change them.  “I am absolutely sure and that familiarity with the Bible adds a permanent power to a man’s life. It is the one and only Book holding out any hope for the realisation of a permanent world peace.”  Grenfell of Labrador. 

The bible has been the source of so much animosity and contention in the world through it’s “interpretation” that it cannot be the word of an omnipotent being – what it is – is so many parables and lessons for how to behave –if it acts positively on the human condition then no more so than any philosophy or work of social anthropology or etiquette.
That it and the Koran have been the cause of wars is a dead certainty – we cannot say much the same of Origin of Species – even in its controversy – we can say that Darwin has caused one man to be jailed at Hillsboro and then only because of the ignorance of bible bashers.

10. The Experience of Conversion.
Independent of the culture, colour and century in which they live, people the world over who have approached God as offered in Jesus Christ, have testified to a similar experience. The people were different - but their experiences were similar. Such similarity ends to emphasise unity not variety. Why the paradox? Is the solution to be found not in the fact that were was a great number of people involved, but rather in the fat that it was the same God each time?

What it shows is the world over people work by credulity and gullibility and are not that smart,and this is true regardless from whence they come – it is not testimony to the bible’s power but to the inadequacy of education systems that fail to indicate the scientific facts in the world contradict the bible’s fairy stories.