Stealing From God: CRIMES

Question 1

The most important question a person needs to answer

Answer 1

Does God exist? It is the most important question because more implications flow from theanswer than from any other question

Question 2

3. What does II Corinthians 10:5 teach us to do?

Answer 2

“5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” - 2 Corinthians 10:5

To content for the faith, by destroying arguments against God.

Isaiah God says “Come let us reason together”

The bible tells us to love God with all our soul, heart, and strength

Question 3

CRIMES

Answer 3

Causality, Reason, Information/Intentionality, Morality, Evil, Science

Aspects of reality that Atheism fails to explain, that they have to “steal from God” in order to make their case

All of these aspects have an immaterial foundation grounded in God.

Atheism holds to a materialistic world view, which denies the immaterial. Therefore, when atheists cite any of them to support atheism, they are stealing from God in order to argue against Him.

The atheist is like a person that says “I don’t believe in guns”. But then goes and steals your gun and tries to shoot you with it.

The atheist says God is evil, but in order to make that claim, they have to use an immaterial standard of morality. (Stealing from God)

The atheist says “that is irrational”, but they are using an immaterial law of logic to come to that conclusion. (Stealing from God)

Atheism is therefore self-contradicting and self-defeating.

Question 4

How do Atheist try to exempt themselves from their own theories?

Answer 4

By applying it to others but not themselves

When an atheist says consciousness is an illusion, they mean that everybody else’s consciousness is, but not their own

Question 5

What is a common straw man used by atheists to try and disprove the Christian God?

Answer 5

Mischaracterizing the Christian God as either the same as any other pagan deity or as some sort of anthropomorphized being (sky daddy)

Question 6

What are the attributes of the Christian God?

Answer 6

1. Self-existing: not caused by another; the foundation of all being
2. Infinite: unlimited; the completely maximized or actualized Being (has no potential)
3. Simple: undivided in being; is not made up of parts
4. Immaterial: spirit; not made of matter
5. Spaceless: transcends space
6. Timeless: transcends time;
7. eternal; had no beginning and will have no end
8. Omnipotent: all-powerful; can do whatever is logically possible
9. Omnipresent: everywhere present.
10. Omniscient: all-knowing; knows all actual and possible states of affairs
11. Immutable: changeless; the anchor and standard by which everything else is measured
12. Holy: set apart; morally perfect; is perfectly just and loving
13. Personal: has mind, emotion, and will; makes choices

Question 7

How is atheism and pantheism the same?

Answer 7

When nothing is God then everything is God. There is no way to distinguish the difference.

Question 8

Atheist Richard Dawkins claims that Christians are atheists when it comes to “gods” such as Zeus, Thor, Ra and the like. He just goes “one god further” than you when he says he doesn’t believe in the God of the Bible either. Explain why this is not a strong argument.

Answer 8

The “one god further” argument is a Strawman:

Richard is mischaracterizing the Christian God, by trying to equate the God of the bible to mere pagan deities

The theistic God is nothing like Zeus or other gods that are more like superheroes, who are created beings and limited in power.

The Christian God is uncreated and not limited in power. The Christian God is the ground of everything that exists

Also, Atheism is not simply a “lack of belief” in God, but a positive affirmation of a materialistic worldview.

Question 9

Atheism is mere a “lack of believe” in God.

Answer 9

False

Atheists try to redefine atheism as a lack of belief, in an attempt to avoid the burden of proof.

Atheism don’t lack a belief in materialism, they believe that it is true

If atheism is merely a lack of belief, then rocks, tables, chairs would also be atheists

also, a lack of belief in God, is not the same as saying that God doesn’t exist, it merely says that you are not psychologically convinced that God exists. Just because someone is not psychologically convincing does not make something false

Question 10

13. Name 11 aspects of our world that cannot be explained by materials/materialism

Answer 10

1. The beginning of the universe, as it was the creation of materials and therefore there was no materials to create with
2. Fine-tuning. The constants of the universe is not made out of molecules
3. Laws of nature
4. Laws of logic
5. Laws of mathematics
6. Information (genome)
7. Life
8. Mind and Consciousness
9. Free will
10. Objective moral values
11. Evil (Did Hitler just have bad molecules)

Question 11

questions that demonstrate the absurdity of materialism?

Answer 11

How much does love, or courage weigh?

Can you put courage in a wheelbarrow?

What is the chemicaly composition of virtue?

Question 12

Can predestination and free will co-exist?

Answer 12

Yes

God exists outside of space and time and knows the end from the beginning, but knowing what is going to happen is not the same as causing it.

We have free will, but God already knows what choices we are going to make.

Just because God knows what choices we are going to make doesn’t mean that he is causing us to make them.