"God punishes us even though He knows we're going to make that mistake. Why would a mother punish her son for not cleaning his room after telling him to, knowing that he won't because that's how he's always been?"
God is like any good dad, he punishes his children if they make a mistake. Comparing God to a mother is very inaccurate. God clearly told Adam and Eve not to eat the forbidden fruit but they did anyway. We had a choice to obey God and we didn't take it. We are responsible for the sin in the world today, God has a right to punish us.
I have thought a lot about the mother with the unorganized son. If the son grows up to be a serial killer and goes to court for the tenth murder he has committed, the mother can't testify in his defense, "Don't blame him, he has always been this way." That defense will obviously be overruled. Therefore, the argument of the mother with the rebellious son is invalid.
Another argument against Christianity I have been presented with is this:
"God doesn't heal people, there are still millions of his 'children' suffering from blindness and other diseases. Atheism is doing the same as God is, not changing reality."
Wouldn't that be cool? Wouldn't it be cool if God just zapped everyone better? If God is so powerful why doesn't it work that way?
Well we could have chosen to have no diseases in the first place, then we got hungry for forbidden fruit. Since we messed up Eden God gave us an alternative, Heaven. God doesn't zap away diseases because He did something so much better. He paid for all of our sins so we can have a perfect relationship with Him like we started out with. No diseases, not the slightest imperfection can be found in Heaven. We can choose the endless benefits of Heaven that God offers, or the wish for God to end punishment on us and zap everyone better right away.
God provides us a way to restore our relationship with Him, a perfect eternally clean slate. What does atheism provide for us again?
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