matt84 wrote:
Hello everybody.

I'm not sure how to start this post so I guess I'll just dive right in. There IS a God.

I was an Atheist for a long time and am well aware of all the arguments that Atheists use to disprove the existence of God. In this post I'm going to try and show why it is correct to believe in God and also I'm going to attempt to highlight some of the reasons people come to the conclusion that there is no God.

First of all let's talk about the reasons people decide there is no God.

No evidence is nearly always the usual answer given by Atheists and I'll reply to that accusation in the second part of this post. It is important however that we first understand what we believe and why so let's look at the general narrative that we in the "West" are told is the truth.

1 There is no God

2 The Universe came into existence 13.72 billion years ago, in an event known as the Big Bang

3 We arrived at our current position through a process of Evolution

4 In the infancy of our species we created mythologies and superstitions to explain the existence of the Universe and ourselves

5 This culminated with the three Abrahmic faiths Judaism, Christianity and Islam

6 We subsequently discovered the scientific method and therefore lost the need for our man made religions

7 We now live in a secular and ever increasingly Atheist society

The main stumbling block in the West to accepting that there is a God is Christianity. Christianity is a man made religion, this is fact.

Many people are under the illusion that Jesus started a new religious movement when infact it was Paul who was the founder of Christianity. Jesus was a Jew and came to this world only to try and correct the errors that had crept into the laws handed to the Jews by God. At no point did Jesus attempt to create a new religion and not once did Jesus claim to be God.

After the death of Jesus it was Paul and his followers who started a new religion based on the theology that Jesus was infact God incarnate who is actually composed of three parts and who came to this world to die so that we may be absolved of the original sin inherited from Adam and Eve.

For the first hundred years or so Christianity was nothing but a cult, up until the moment the Roman Emperor Constantine converted at which point it spread rapidly through the Empire that covered Europe.

In the year 610 a man from Arabia by the name Muhammed claimed to have received a final revelation from God and his movement pushed its way up out of Arabia across Eastern and Northern Africa into Andalusia only to be stopped by a crucial battle in 732 at Tours in France.

Because of this pivotal moment in history Europe was destined to remain under the shadow of Christianity for over a thousand more years.


What I am trying to show here is that the assumption that Atheism is a valid and natural position to hold and is the product of an evolution of ideas is not true.

The reason people in the West, led by our intellectuals and elites, have come to a position of Atheism is in short because of the madness of Christianity.


It is entirely acceptable to reject the notion that God is a Trinity, that He came to this world two thousand years ago in the form of a man to commit suicide on a cross so that we may be redeemed of our sins. That eating and drinking bread and wine consecrated by a priest constitutes consuming the body of Jesus. These ideas are profoundly idiotic and simply not true. Any sane person knows this.

What we in the West have in effect done though is throw the baby out with the bath water. Because we instictively know that Christianity is nonsense we make the mistake of assuming that all religions are nonsense.

This is not the case.


I'll post part two later

Peace
Matt

matt84 wrote:
Qur'an is proof of the existence of God.