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To: VietVet
It appears to me that this young man has committed a common logical error. He assumed God’s nature was a certain way, and then, when confronted with evidence that He was not like that, concluded that God didn’t exist.

I've noticed that myself. I was listening to a recent episode of Catholic Answers entilted, "Why are you an atheist?" The callers are almost always hostile, cranky, belligerent and prideful, but Trent Horn, the apologist, is remarkably patient.

The first caller claimed that "scientists have studied the universe and math and haven't found any evidence of God. What do you say about that!"

Where do you begin?

The apologists first had to explain the nature of God, that God isn't "out there" in some part of the universe.

It's not uncommon for atheist callers to say that Christians believe God to be an old man sitting in the clouds.

74 posted on 03/23/2014 5:20:49 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Modern man believes it is up to God to convince us He is real. The Bible doesn’t describe a God who agrees. The universe we live in as ample proof of God, and it takes a lot of work to reject that evidence. But if someone wants to...God will let them.

Perhaps someone should have read the Prodigal Son to this fellow, and pointed out the father doesn’t chase after the son, begging him to come back.


89 posted on 03/23/2014 7:12:54 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (I sooooo miss America!)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
It's not uncommon for atheist callers to say that Christians believe God to be an old man sitting in the clouds.

This is true. And they are equally convinced that they are deeper thinkers than anyone on earth.

105 posted on 03/23/2014 8:17:44 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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