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Atheists Are Right About No Evidence

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There is a difference between being convinced God exists and the Bible being true and having faith in God.
Faith in God is trusting Him.
For example, you may know a person, you know that person exists, but that doesn't mean you trust that person.
Your understanding would be incorrect.

So when I, as an atheist, test God and get no response I am correct to not have faith?
 
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So when I, as an atheist, test God and get no response I am correct to not have faith?

Not getting it your way is not the same as not getting an answer. Jesus Christ is not Burger King.
 
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Not getting it your way is not the same as not getting an answer. Jesus Christ is not Burger King.

But isn't that the point, you are supposed to enter into a relationship with Jesus.
One half of a relationship not responding is the same as their being no relationship, or no god ?
 
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But isn't that the point, you are supposed to enter into a relationship with Jesus.
One half of a relationship not responding is the same as their being no relationship, or no god ?

Not getting the response you demand isn't the same as not getting a response.
 
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Not getting the response you demand isn't the same as not getting a response.

But not getting any response at all is exactly not getting a response, regardless of the demand or question.
 
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But not getting any response at all is exactly not getting a response, regardless of the demand or question.

The fact that God has led you to spend time on a Christian web site is a pretty good response. :amen:
 
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The fact that God has led you to spend time on a Christian web site is a pretty good response. :amen:

Is that a fact, why do you say so?,
and in what sense is it a response ?
 
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The fact that God has led you to spend time on a Christian web site is a pretty good response. :amen:
Yeeeeeaaah ... I was a Christian for my first 6 years here.

And if you are going to pull the "not a true Christian" trope, don't bother responding.
 
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Yeeeeeaaah ... I was a Christian for my first 6 years here.

And if you are going to pull the "not a true Christian" trope, don't bother responding.

I would never presume to.pass judgment on the sincerity of a person's faith, present or past. The Lord gave us free will to love and walk with Him or walk away. We each make our choices.
 
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I would never presume to.pass judgment on the sincerity of a person's faith, present or past. The Lord gave us free will to love and walk with Him or walk away. We each make our choices.
Thank you. Not all Christians would agree with you.
 
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I haven't watched it yet, but I am going to. I think I am becoming more interested.

Don't bother. Any production that commences with a blatant lie isn't going to get any better...

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The editing of the interview with Dawkins leads the viewer to believe that Richard Dawkins is saying that some intelligent designer (God) may be discovered when the evidence of cellular and molecular biology is examined. Dawkins is midway through a hypothetical statement, making the greater point that a designer would have to be designed (and this is highly unlikely), when Stein's voice-over interrupts, asking, "Wait a second, Richard Dawkins thought intelligent design might be a legitimate pursuit?" Dawkins concludes, "But that higher intelligence would itself have had to have come about by some explicable, or ultimately explicable, process. It couldn't have just jumped into existence spontaneously. That's the point."[65]

Stein states afterwards in a voice-over, "So Professor Dawkins was not against intelligence design, just certain types of designers, such as God."
 
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Not getting it your way is not the same as not getting an answer. Jesus Christ is not Burger King.

That does not answer my question. If I test God and receive no response am I correct to not have faith since faith is, by your statement, a matter of trust based on experience.
 
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That does not answer my question. If I test God and receive no response am I correct to not have faith since faith is, by your statement, a matter of trust based on experience.

I'm sorry, but I actually did answer your question multiple times.
 
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