I know your not atheists, but it's seems that you are on the same sort of persuasion, being people who are non-believers. I know what agnosticism is, you guys say stuff like "I do not disbelieve", I knew a handful of them when I was an atheist. I've been to many atheist forums, some before but the most, after I came to know Christ. I felt responsible to go and witness to my own people first, after all, I would never in million years listen to some guy who's been in a church since he was a baby, who has no clue what it's like (examine the paradigm of the fish) to think differently.
All of the atheist and agnostics I have met in person, have maybe skimmed the bible with an agenda to looking to find errors, but they have never studied the bible with and open mind. I assure you, I've been to quite a few of these sites and I'm convinced, they are all hypocrites. Why?
1. Atheists and Agnostics (more atheists than agnostics) start their argument with the presupposition that there is no God. which is contrary to the actual reason why atheist and agnostics have so many beefs with theists, because they will only presuppose that God does exist. It's downright hypocritical, I cared about my own self, that's why I did my research (with an open-mind) and conducted my interviews (objectively) and concluded that it is impossible for God not to exist, and yes I did it all under the presupposition that God did exist (for example: Since God exists, then why....?), which at the time I started seemed very foolish.
2. I try to keep up to date on all the debates and I've never heard anybody get owned as much as dawkins, he's chief of all hypocrites...McAlister just destroys him and makes it evident the true hypocrite he is behind his beliefs.
3. Atheists and Agnostics (again, more atheists than agnostics) are hostile people when it comes to christians, The shear fact that you hate Jesus so much is proof enough against man's goodness, because as much as I could not understand or fathom Jesus actually being resurrected when I was an atheist, I could never point out a single instance of Him doing something immoral. So I could say "see, he is just as bad as me!", never. He never did anything wrong to you, even if His promises were infact lies or myths, it still would not justify your hatred (do they also hate their parent's who told them about the tooth fairy), in that, He still meant you well. It's all hypocrisy and deception.
If there is even one among you, who would dare to call this amazing God out, to see if He is real, I challenge you hypocrite, to unplug yourself from the yay or nay sayers around you and search out the One who has claimed to have created you! See how much opposition you will get, if it is a lie and all men know it, why then won't they allow you to come to your own conclusion that it is a lie? They will not, they will mock you, they will try their best to talk you out of it, they will distract you and they will ridicule you, and this also proves that it is the truth, because why will man who doesn't care about you, go to such extreme lengths just to shield you from?! Either it's something he's terrified of or something that is extremely valuable and he's hiding it, the word of God is both! You owe it to yourself, if it's not true, then so what...the only thing you still have to lose is your uncertainty!
I am sure that my stay here will be 'hospitable', and I am always up for a challenge as long as it is still given in mutual respect.
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