2. What Differnce Does It Make If God Exists

Question 0

What do we need to do before sharing evidence of Gods existence

Answer 0

So before we share with people evidence for Gods Existence, we may need to help them see why it matters in the first place, otherwise they just won’t care.

Question 1

What is the challenge of getting people to think about God

Answer 1

Part of the challenge of getting people to think about God is that they’ve become so used to God that they just take him for granted. they never think to ask what the implications would be if God did not exist, as a result they think that God is irrelevant. It doesn’t matter weather God exists or not.

Question 2

What name is given to show the argument especially appropriate to Atheism

Answer 2

Professor Gibs “Proof by the Opposite” also known as reduction ad absurdism (reduction to absurdity)

Question 3

What did many philosophers including Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus argued

Answer 3

Many Philosophers like Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus have argued that if God does not exist then life is absurd, their analysis of human existence shows us clearly the Grim implications of Athiesm

Question 4

What does this argument show when asking about Gods Existence

Answer 4

It shows that the Question of Gods existence is the most important question a person can ask

Question 5

What is the main claim of the argument

Answer 5

If God does not exist then life is absurd. that is to say, life has no ultimate meaning, value or purpose

Question 6

What does absurd mean

Answer 6

Illogical, meaningless

Question 7

What do we mean by meaning

Answer 7

Meaning has to do with significance, why something matters

Question 8

What do we mean by Value

Answer 8

Value has to do with Good and Evil, right and wrong

Question 9

What do we mean by Pupose

Answer 9

Purpose has to deal with a Goal, a reason from something

Question 10

What is the claim if there is no God

Answer 10

If there is no God, then meaning, value and purpose are ultimately human illusions, they are just in our heads

Question 11

What is life if Atheism is true

Answer 11

If Atheism is true then life is really objectively meaningless, valueless, and purposeless despite our beliefs to the contrary

Question 12

Explain the absurdity of Man in the Universe without the existence of God

Answer 12

If God does not exist, then both man and the Universe are inevitably doomed to death, man like all biological organisms must die. With no hope of immortality, mans life leads only to the grave, his life is but a spark in the infinite blackness, a spark that appears, flickers, and dies forever

Question 13

Explain what everyone must come face to face with if God dies not Exist

Answer 13

Everyone must come face to face with what the Theologian Paul Tillich has called “The threat of Non-being”, for though I know now that I exist, that I am alive, I also know that some day I will no longer exist, that I will no longer be, that I will die. This thought is staggering to think that the person I call myself will cease to exist, that I will be no more

Question 14

Explain the consequences of the Universe death

Answer 14

The universe faces death, scientists tell us that the Universe is expanding, and the Galaxies are growing further and further apart, as it does so the it grows colder and colder as its energy is used up, eventually all the Stars will burn out, there will be no heat, no light and no life, all there will be are the corpses of dead stars and planets - a universe in ruins

Question 15

Unless God intervenes what is our fate

Answer 15

Unless God intervenes, not only is the life of each individual doomed, the entire human race and accomplishments of human civilisation is doomed, there is no hope

Question 16

What is the consequence of a doomed universe and a doomed mankind

Answer 16

It means that life itself becomes absurd, it means that the life we do have is without ultimate significance, value or purpose

Question 17

Describe the situation if each individual passes out of existence at death

Answer 17

If each individual passes out of existence when he dies, then what ultimate meaning can be given to life? does it really matter in the end weather he ever existed at all?

Question 18

What are the consequences if everything is doomed to destruction

Answer 18

If everything is doomed to destruction, then what does it matter that you influenced anything? Ultimately it makes no difference

Question 19

If life has no meaning what is the significance of Mankind

Answer 19

Mankind is no more significant than a swarm of Mosquitos or barnyard of Pigs, for their end is all the same, the same blind cosmic process that coughed them up in the first place will eventually swallow them all again

Question 20

Paint a picture of the nothingness of mankind

Answer 20

The contributions of the Scientists to the advance of human knowledge, the researches of the doctor to alleviate pain and suffering, the efforts of the diplomat to secure peace in the world, the sacrifices of good people everywhere to better the lot of the human race - all these come to nothing. This is the horror of modern man: because he ends in nothing, he is nothing

Question 21

What is it important to see with regards to Immortality

Answer 21

It’s important to see that man needs more than just immortality for life to be meaningful. Mere duration of of existence doesn’t make that existence meaningful

Question 22

What is the situation if man lived forever

Answer 22

If man and the universe could exist forever but if there were no God, their existence would still have no ultimate significance

Question 23

Give the story of the Astronaut with regards to immortality and significance

Answer 23

An Astronaut was marooned on a Barron piece of Rock in outer space, he had with him two vials, one was poison the other was a potion to make him live forever, realising his predicament he gulped down the poison. But to his horror he had discovered he had swallowed the wrong vial, he had drunk the potion for Immortality, he was now cursed to live forever - a meaningless unending life.

Question 24

Explain life if it has no ultimate Value

Answer 24

If life ends at the grave then it makes no ultimate difference weather you live as a Stalin or as a Mother Theresa. Since your destiny is ultimately unrelated to your behaviour

Question 25

With regards to there being no ultimate Value, how did The Russian writer Dostoyevsky put it

Answer 25

If there is no Immortality, then all things are permitted

Question 26

How did the Historian Stewart Easton sum up a moral lifestyle that benefits society

Answer 26

There is no objective reason why man should be moral, unless morality pays off in his social life or makes him feel good. There is no objective reason why man should do anything save for the pleasure it affords him

Question 27

With regards to there being no ultimate Value, regardless of why we shouldn’t have values how doe the situation become worse

Answer 27

Regardless of immortality, if there is no God, then there is no objective standard of wrong or right

Question 28

Without ultimate Value how does Satre sum up the situation

Answer 28

All we are confronted with is the bare valueless fact of existence

Question 29

What are Values if God does not exist

Answer 29

Moral values are either just expressions of personal taste or the byproducts of biological evolution and social conditions

Question 30

What is the Athiestic view of human beings

Answer 30

There is nothing special about human beings, they are just accidental by-products of nature, that have evolved relatively recently on an infinitesimal spec of dust called earth, lost somewhere in a hostile and mindless universe, and which are doomed to perish individually and collectively in a relatively short time