Take away from this thread:
Pray for the lost. Only Jesus saves.
Remind them that atheism is as much a faith as any other worldview.
You will never see an immediate effect from debating the lost, but never underestimate the power of God’s grace.
Ask him what science believes was there before the Big Bang and of what started the Big Bang.
If they say there was nothing before the Big Bang, then they have admitted to faith beyond any reason or science and they've justified the God we've always known existed.
A reading from the book Degenerate
In the beginning, there was a huge ball of nothing, and one day that nothing for no reason blew up ending particle scattering throughout the universe. The for no reason at all, some of these nothing particles grouped together and formed planets, for no reason at all. Then for no reason at all, they just started orbiting around stars. For no reason at all one planet called earth started to create life in the water. The for no reason at all this life formed into fish. And one day for no reason at all decided to hope on to dry land, grow lungs and breath toxic oxygen. Then they decided to grow into 5 a 10 ton lizards...for no reason at all. Then some of them decid d that plants weren't as tasty as each other, grew shape teeth, and for no reason at all started eating each other, and rearranged how there internal organs processed the meat...for no reason at all.
Then one day it all got wiped out for no reason, creating an ice age and putting the planet under miles of ice, wiping all life out. Then for no reason at all, the ice melted, and for no reason at all, mammals just suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Then for no reason at all, primates appeared, and for no reason at all, some started to think logically and not like an animal, but still dumb as hell....and for no reason at all, liberals were created
>> Atheism, the rejection of the possibility that God exists
No it’s not. Atheism is the rejection of another man’s faith — something the atheist cannot know.
I found the easiest way to debate an atheist is to simply ask them if 1) they believe that life could exist elsewhere in the universe, and 2) if they believe other dimensions could exist apart from our own. I have yet to encounter an atheist who would deny those idea. If so, the next logical question is why is it so difficult to believe in angels, demons, or God etc. existing as life in another dimension alongside of us? Invariably that stops the conversation.