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To: OddLane
Why, after ten years of talking with atheists, I'm still a Christian

There is a valid reason.

Faith, not reason, brought you to Christianity; therefore no atheist can reason you out of Christianity.

You accepted Jesus on faith, not reason. Atheists also have their position on faith. This must be correct because neither the believer nor non-believer can prove or disprove a creator; both positions are a result of faith.

24 posted on 08/23/2019 8:12:34 AM PDT by MosesKnows
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You accepted Jesus on faith, not reason

Wrong. No one in Scripture believed in a creator and continued apart from a degree of evidential warrant, from pagans to Moses to Peter.

This must be correct because neither the believer nor non-believer can prove or disprove a creator; both positions are a result of faith.

"Prove" is one thing, and evidential warrant to take a step of faith is another. You (presuming you are a normal male) do not marry a women based upon blind faith,nor because you know for sure that she will be the Right One, but take a qualified step of faith in marrying her based upon a degree of evidence which warrants this faith.

The atheist typically seems to not want to believe in an ultimate moral judge, even as a hypotheses, and thus explains all evidence away, sometimes while allowing for suchexplanations as the space-seed hypotheses.

Hemant Mehta ("the Friendly Atheist" stated in response to to the query, “What would it take for you to believe in God?,”

“I guess, simply put, I would need to see a miracle. I need evidence for God, and maybe that would come in the form of a miracle that has no possible explanation in the natural world.” - https://www.str.org/blog/why-evidence-will-not-convince-some-atheists

Yet as has been shown, it seems there is nothing that they will attribute to naturalistic causes, from the source of energy to all testimonies of miracles, thus implicitly ascribing powers of deity to matter. -

25 posted on 08/23/2019 9:14:34 AM PDT by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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