Questions & Arguments Atheists use to try and disprove Christianity:
1. Why do bad things happen to
good people?
-You have to first
define the standard of good.
-According to the Bible, no one is good for
everyone falls short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23).
-Therefore the question
should be corrected this way: Why do good things happen to bad people?
Isaiah 24:5-6: the earth is defiled by its people; they have disobeyed the laws, violated the
statutes and broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt. Therefore earth's inhabitants are burned up, and very few are left.
Lamentations 3:22-24: Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never
fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, "The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for
him."
1 Peter
2:11-12: Dear
friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from
sinful desires, which war against your soul. Live such good lives among the
pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good
deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.
Isaiah
9:6-7: for to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on
his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and
peace there will be no end. He will reign on David's throne and over his
kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that
time on and forever. The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this.
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"Fallen
people in a fallen world have to deal with difficulty.” –John MacArthur
“Humans,
we are a corrupt race by nature who can create only destruction.” –Steven Hawking (Theoretical Physicist at
the University of Cambridge; Atheist)
2. Who made God?
- God never needed to be made
because He was always there.
-God exists in a different way from human beings.
-We exist in a derived, finite, and fragile way, but the Creator exists as
eternal, self–sustaining, and necessary, in the sense that there is no
possibility of Him ceasing to exist.
“If the universe were just a random cosmic accident, there
is no reason for it to follow certain laws.” –Sir Isaac Newton
John 1:1~In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
“The Bible matches reality concerning the beginning of the
universe. All this nonsense about sufficient cause for the universe’s beginning
points to a being who is outside of time itself.” –Richard Dawkins (Atheist)
“The suggestion of being created requires a beginning and a
beginning is a point in time. I believe in a God who exists outside of time
itself and thus never had to be created because he already existed before
time.” –Isaac Newton
Atheist Argument: There is no proof Jesus actually
existed.
FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS: Josephus was a Jewish historian who was born around AD 38. He served
Roman commander Vespasian in Jerusalem until the city's destruction in AD 70.
Josephus personally believed Vespasian to be Israel's promised Messiah. When
Vespasian later became emperor of Rome, Josephus served under him as court historian.
In AD 93, Josephus finished his work “Antiquities of the Jews” in which
at least three passages specifically confirm portions of Scripture:
"At this time
there was a wise man who was called Jesus. And his conduct was good, and [he]
was known to be virtuous. And many people from among the Jews and the other
nations became his disciples. Pilate condemned him to be crucified and to die.
And those who had become his disciples did not abandon his discipleship. They
reported that he had appeared to them three days after his crucifixion and that
he was alive."
CORNELIUS TACITUS: Tacitus was a senator under Emperor Vespasian and later became governor
of Asia. Around AD 116 in his work entitled Annals, he wrote of Emperor
Nero and a fire which had swept Rome in AD 64:
Consequently,
to get rid of the report, Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most
exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians
by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the
extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our
procurators, Pontius Pilate