What Are The Odds?!

This is the third atheist quote I am to disprove:

"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense."

There are many flaws in this quote.  First of all, this quote is assuming that all gods  are the same as our God, which I disproved in my last post.  Secondly, there is a lot of proof that God exists that science can actually back up.  I am going to give you a taste of what modern science has discovered and how it can actually strengthen the argument that there is an ultimate creator of the universe.
 
Modern science strongly backs up the big bang theory.  It has been found that our universe is growing.  I imagine the big bang as the ripple effect when you throw a stone in a pond.  Scientists say when the big bang was in motion the universe exploded from a point smaller than a single molecule.  Imagine the ripples growing from that point in every direction like a sphere.  The ripples from the explosion have slowed down but they haven't lost momentum. 

But what happened before that?  Modern science has no clue.  There are a lot of ideas but none of them can be remotely proven.  Some scientists will go as far as saying that nothing came before the big bang, that it just happened.  If my house burned down and I asked a fireman how the fire started, he wouldn't say "It just happened". 

Well it's lucky for logical people like us that there are other ideas that are much more plausible.  A new scientific idea is that the universe is the way it is because there is a God.  The way the big bang happened is very delicate.  If any element of the big bang was changed in the slightest  then our universe wouldn't be capable of supporting human life.  It is on the edge of impossible that we are alive.  A new scientific idea says the odds are too high for this to be a coincidence, that the universe was designed.  We call that designer God.

There is an alternative idea that is held high by scientists who resist any hint of an ultimate creator.  This theory states that there are millions of dimensions in which the big bang happened in millions of different ways, thus there are millions of universes.  They say that we just happen to live in the universe that supports life.  This is a major assumption in which there is no evidence whatsoever.  Doesn't it take just as much faith (or less) to believe that God created the universe?  So it turns out that "whiff of science or a dose of common sense" actually proves the existence of God.

Our One Of A Kind God

This is the second atheist quote I am to disprove:

"I contend that we are both atheists.  I just believe in one fewer god than you do.  When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."

This is also a very stupid quote stating that our God is no different from other mythical deities.  I have a lot to say about this.

One of the several reasons that our God is different from mythical deities is that He is a loving God.  With Islam and Judaism the people go to god.  With Christianity Jesus comes to us so we can have that personal relationship with him.  Christianity is the only religion you can say that about.  Other religions are dead because there is no personal relationship, there are just rules to follow that make people miserable. 

I was reading last night and I came across this verse:

This is how God showed his love among us; He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.  (1 John 4:9, NIV)

God loved humanity so much that He sent His only Son down to earth as the ultimate sacrifice.  He made the ultimate act of love to a sinful race that sometimes refuses to even acknowledge the He exists. We didn't deserve that love, we don't deserve Him. That is some serious mercy right there.  I'd like to see Zeus pull that off!

Jesus had twelve disciples and ten of them were crucified.  They wouldn't have died for a lie.  If it were a lie they could have just gone "sike!  Jesus isn't the Son of God."  But they didn't.  What would they have gained if they had died for a lie?  Nothing.  Not much is worth dying for,  Jesus is.  The personal relationship that Jesus has to give is worth dying for.  The love that God shows everyday is worth dying for.  I would definitely give my life any day for my Lord.

So just tell me that God is no different from all the other so called "deities" that are worshiped other places in the world.  Try me.

You Can't Fit God In A Test Tube!

I am going to start a series of posts disproving atheist quotes.  Here is the first one:

"God has always been used to explain what we do not understand. As science explains more and more of how and why something happens the less there is attributed to God."

What a stupid statement.  This is the problem people run into when they think science is more important than our creator.  Looking for an explanation to everything God created will eventually lead you to God.  When people find that they can't explain the awesomeness of God they just start trying to replace Him by making their own theories on how the world began and how it's going to end. 

God isn't some myth that somebody dreamed up.  He makes a difference in the lives of millions everyday, you can't just shrug something something like that off.  God created everything we know, therefore He brought science into being.   Our knowledge is not superior to God. Paul tells us:

For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.  (1 Corinthians 1:25, NIV)

Science hasn't disproved God.  Just because we can't create God in a test tube doesn't mean He doesn't exist!  The big bang theory doesn't replace Adam and Eve. It hasn't been proven no matter what any scientist says.  If there was a big bang, God created it.  Science has never disproved God and it never will.

The Blind Spot

I while back i was reading about how some Christians could care less about poverty.  In the book Radical, David Platt explains poverty as a blind spot to Christians just like slavery was hundreds of years ago.  People read the Bible everyday and still treated their slaves bad.  Not long after I read that, my friend was inspired to open a homeless shelter in our community.  Just the other day I read Breanna Sipples new post "I See".  I saw that God had brought the same thing to her attention. 

Many of us see a person begging on the street and we want to do something for them but we don't know what to do.  We are afraid that if we give them money they will spend it on booze or drugs, and if they do spend it on something like food it won't make a big difference to their overall life.

I was reading in the book of Hebrews last night and God made His presence known through these three verses:

Keep on loving each other as brothers.  Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing so some people have entertained angels without knowing it.  Remember those in prison as if you were their fellow prisoners, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.  (Hebrews13:1-3, NIV)

Something that I ask myself everyday is "What really matters in the Kingdom of God?".  Giving money is good to do but if you are doing is out of guilt that money is worth nothing.  Just start with treating those in poverty with love.  Put yourself in their shoes "as if you yourself were suffering".  If that love leads to giving them money then give them money, that is what matters in the Kingdom of God.