{"id":77,"date":"2012-05-18T08:38:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T15:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2020-05-25T22:13:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T05:13:38","slug":"does-god-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/does-god-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"A Serious and Honest Question&#8230; If God Exists, Would You Want to Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000; font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde';\">If God actually exists&#8230; would you want to know? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>If<\/strong> <\/em><\/span>God exists, would it matter? &nbsp;To your friends? Your family?&#8230;<strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em> Would they want to know?<\/em><\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>If<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/span>what you were taught and what your children <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>are being taught<\/em><\/span> about the origins of life, the fossil record &nbsp;that is constantly touted to &#8220;<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>prove the fact<\/em><\/span>&#8221; of evolution; if those &#8220;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>facts<\/em><\/span>&#8221; were <em><strong>wrong<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>provably wrong&#8230;<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;and not just according to Christians, but according to renowned Biologists, Paleontologists, Astronomers, Chemists, Physicists, etc&#8230; <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>would you want to know?<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<em><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">If<\/span> <\/strong><\/em>the things you were taught that \u201c<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>proved<\/em><\/span>\u201d that&nbsp;<strong><em>there is no God,&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>can <em><strong>be<\/strong> <\/em>no God, that God never existed and was never anything more than a fairy tale made up by an ill-informed ignorant society, were wrong&#8230;&nbsp;<em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">would you want to know?<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>If<\/em><\/strong> <\/span>all the \u201cfacts\u201d that convinced you and others that this incredible universe, our lives, our thoughts, our emotions, the love we feel for our family, friends and children; that everything about us can be reduced to a series of random chance events, a mere accident&#8230; if these facts <strong><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">were<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800000;\">wrong<\/span><\/em><\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u2026<\/span>&nbsp;W<em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">ould you want to know?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>Don&#8217;t we all want the truth? &nbsp;The Truth is&#8230;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><em><strong>Society has been sold a bill of goods.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> &nbsp;The evidence that will be presented below is causing many of our most brilliant scientists, biologists, chemists, astronomers, physicists, etc&#8230; to find religion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000; font-size: small;\"><em><strong>What follows is not religious dogma or an appeal to Christianity, Faith or the Bible. &nbsp;It is an appeal to reason, logic and science. &nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><\/span>&nbsp;I am a proud, intellectually fulfilled Christian; not, in spite of science, but rather <em>because<\/em> of it. &nbsp;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The fact is. whether purposefully or not, we have been lied to.<\/strong> <\/span>&nbsp;Much of what&nbsp;we were taught is simply wrong! &nbsp; When faced with the newest scientific discoveries,&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #800000;\">secularist&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\">biologists, chemists, geologists, astronomers, physicists, etc&#8230; are leaving atheism behind and coming to faith&#8230;<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Most people want truth, but truth is sometimes uncomfortable.&nbsp; For years, many have been so inculcated with the belief that God has been &#8220;<em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">disproved<\/span><\/em>&#8220;, that their mind is closed to emerging evidence. &nbsp;The fact is, much of what we were taught is wrong. &nbsp;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>Unequivocally&nbsp;wrong<\/em><\/strong><\/span>, and has been systematically hidden from us.<\/p>\n<p>Following is but a small piece of what is to come, but a quick and simple&nbsp;exercise&nbsp;in logic is enough to get an inkling that the secularist paradigm is in trouble. &nbsp;The following facts are generally ignored by secularists but the act of ignoring a fact doesn&#8217;t make it go away. &nbsp;Atheism i.e. a&nbsp;<strong><em>disbelief<\/em><\/strong> in God, requires that we believe amongst other things,&nbsp;that physical laws that science tells us are <em>unbreakable<\/em> .i.e. laws of thermodynamics&#8230; have been broken. &nbsp;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>It is universally agreed that these are immutable, unbreakable laws of the universe&#8230; <\/em><\/span>&nbsp;<em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">but they&nbsp;<strong>were <\/strong>broken!&#8230;<\/span><\/em> &nbsp;When? At the beginning of the universe and the origins of life. &nbsp;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>The impossible happened. &nbsp;Why? &nbsp;How?<\/strong><\/em><\/span> &nbsp;Following are just a <em>few<\/em> of the many logical problems and inconsistencies we&#8217;ll discuss in the articles that will follow.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000000; font-size: small;\"><strong>Unbreakable Law #1-<\/strong> <\/span>&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Matter is neither created, nor destroyed.<\/span> &nbsp;<strong>Something <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>never<\/em> <\/span>comes from nothing <\/strong>&nbsp;A simple understandable concept&#8230; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>H<\/em><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>o<\/em><\/span>wever, we <strong>know<\/strong> that <span style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>everything<\/strong> <\/span>came from nothing, i.e.. &#8220;the big bang&#8221;.<\/em><\/span><em><\/em> &nbsp;<em><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">This is impossible. &nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>But it happened; the universe exists. &nbsp;<em>HOW?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline; font-size: small;\"><strong>Unbreakable Law #2-<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\">&nbsp; <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Impossibility of bio-genesis.<\/span> &nbsp;We <\/span><strong style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>know<\/em> <\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">that life, does not arise from dead, inanimate matter. &nbsp;We <\/span><em style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>know<\/strong> <\/em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">this is impossible. &nbsp;However, we were taught that &#8220;life was created by an accidental random combination of &#8220;chemicals&#8221;, i.e. inanimate matter somehow randomly combined and became alive. &nbsp;This supposedly created the first living cell. &nbsp;As will be discussed later, even the simplest cell is <em>impossibly<\/em> complex. &nbsp;<strong><em>Every statistician or&nbsp;mathematician&nbsp;familiar with the biology of life<\/em><\/strong>, will tell you that the creation of life being the result of a random chance combination of chemicals is statistical <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>impossibility<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">. &nbsp;It is not just ridiculously unlikely, <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>it is impossible!<\/em><\/strong><\/span>&nbsp; I<\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>t is much more likely that you will win the lotto 1,000 consecutive times. <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Yet, here you are. &nbsp;WHY?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\"><strong>Unbreakable Law #3-<\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Law of Entropy.<\/span> &nbsp;<em>Unless<\/em> acted upon by an outside agent, <strong><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">all physical states progress from their current state to <span style=\"color: #800000;\">less order<\/span> i.e. chaos.<\/span><\/em><\/strong>&nbsp; However, what we see in the creation of our cosmos is the exact opposite of &nbsp;what the laws of physics dictate. &nbsp;Instead of entropy, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>we see a miraculous never-ending progression from utter Chaos, to amazing Order and Balance!.<\/em><\/span>&nbsp; &nbsp;The universe has not become more chaotic and disordered. &nbsp;It has gone from the <strong><em>ABSOLUTE chaos<\/em>&nbsp;of the big bang<\/strong>&nbsp;to the<strong><em> incredible order and balance of the universe.<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp; <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>HOW?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>WHO DID THE&nbsp;IMPOSSIBLE?<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThere is no question but that these &#8220;unbreakable laws&#8221; of the universe have been broken. &nbsp;The only <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>honestly<\/em> <\/span>debatable questions are&#8230;<br \/>\nHow, Why and Who?<\/p>\n<p>When faced with the obvious theological implications of these inarguable facts, scientist and Nobel prize winner, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Sir Frederick Hoyle<\/em><\/span>, was honest enough to admit that this <strong><em>could not<\/em> <\/strong>have happened without the influence of some &#8220;super intellect&#8221;. &nbsp;He even wrote a book on the subject &#8220;The Intelligent Universe&#8221;. &nbsp;However, due to his absolute core belief in the <em>non-existence<\/em> of God, his ultimate conclusion was that life on earth must have originated somewhere in space and was somehow seeded here. &nbsp;He side&nbsp;stepped the real issue&#8230; not <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>where<\/em> <\/span>was life created, but <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">how<\/span>?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #800000; font-size: small;\"><strong>Many Are Blind to Facts<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWhile participating in theological debate, an attempt was made to minimize the relevance of evidence by the admonishment &#8220;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>If someone is looking for God, they will find him everywhere<\/em><\/span>&#8220;.<br \/>\nI replied <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;If one refuses to believe even in the&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>possibility&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><\/span>of God, they will see him <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>nowhere<\/em><\/strong><\/span>!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Many people simply prefer to not believe; they bury their head in the sand and refuse to even acknowledge the possibility or honestly evaluate factual evidence. &nbsp; It&#8217;s like the old joke&#8230; &#8220;My mind is already made up, don&#8217;t confuse me with the facts!&#8221; &nbsp; I did not always believe, but for me, facts, evidence and science actually matters. &nbsp;When I went beyond the high school science texts to a comprehensive examination of biology, the cell, DNA, the fine tuning of the universe, etc&#8230; &nbsp;I could not help but find the evidence compelling. &nbsp;In spite of my long held belief system, I had no choice but to become a Christian. &nbsp;See&#8230; <a title=\"how science created a Christian\" href=\"https:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/science-is-used-to-kill-faith-for-me-it-created-a-christian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Science Created a Christian<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The science that &#8220;proved&#8221; the non-existence of God, has fallen by the wayside. &nbsp;The more we learn, the less feasible naturalistic explanations become. &nbsp;The body of knowledge that we are accumulating is expanding almost daily. &nbsp;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>The more we learn, the more likely it appears that an intelligent creator is behind it. &nbsp;<\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Obviously, this does not conform to an atheistic paradigm but what we prefer to believe, has nothing to do with what actually is.<\/span> &nbsp;<\/span>When it comes to something as important and fundamental as the very nature of reality , who we are&#8230; <em>what we are&#8230; shouldn&#8217;t facts trump preference? &nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp; We all have a right to our own beliefs, our own religion or lack, thereof. &nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;\"><strong>But shouldn&#8217;t we, as rational human beings, at least, make sure that our beliefs comport with reality?<\/strong><\/span>&nbsp; &nbsp;<em>Shouldn&#8217;t&nbsp;we pay attention? &nbsp;<\/em>It is not my goal to change anyone&#8217;s belief or religion. &nbsp;But is my goal to make available facts that have been hidden from most of us; facts that often dictate our beliefs. &nbsp;Whatever one chooses to believe, I hope the belief has at its foundation actual facts. &nbsp;What follows, for some, will support their current beliefs. &nbsp;For others, it may undermine them. &nbsp;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>But do we want to believe what is comfortable?&#8230; or believe what is <strong>true<\/strong>? &nbsp;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>The evidence that will be presented is causing many of our most brilliant scientists, biologists, chemists, astronomers, physicists, etc&#8230; to change their world views.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The newest biological and geological discoveries&nbsp;<\/span><\/em>puts into question and actually contradicts much of what we have been taught and what our most brilliant scientists had always believed.&nbsp; The more they look into the unbelievable complexity of life, the fine tuning of the universe, even to its <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>very creation,&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/span>the more they come to the conclusion&#8230; &#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">this just <em>doesn&#8217;t<\/em> make sense<\/span>&#8220;. &nbsp;Simply put, t<span style=\"color: #800000;\">he newest discoveries are turning many of the most strident atheists into Christians<\/span>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In the series of articles to follow, we will present the <em><strong>FACTS<\/strong> <\/em>that absolutely contradict the religion killing teachings that most of us were taught and that are still being crammed down the throats of our children. &nbsp;A small sample of what is to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The Miller experiment of the early \u201860s, which purported to show how life was created (the first living cell), could have been created under the conditions of the earth at that time.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\"><strong>ACTUAL FACT<\/strong><\/span>: It is now understood that the process formulated could not <em>possibly<\/em>&nbsp;have achieved the purported result.&nbsp; <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>But that doesn\u2019t matter\u2026 It is still being taught.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/span> The more we learn, the more we realize we can\u2019t even begin to understand the creation of the simplest first cell.&nbsp; It has been proven by scientists and statisticians, (even those that are atheists), that<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> <em>it simply could not have happened by accident.&nbsp;<\/em><\/span> Even the simplest cell is simply too complex&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em> yet, it continues to be taught in biology text books.&nbsp;<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Our children and even college students are shown \u201cactual\u201d research drawings of early embryonic development that supposedly prove the theory of evolutionary decent.\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\"><strong>ACTUAL FACT<\/strong><\/span>: It has been known for over 50 years that these drawings were, in fact, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>fabricated<\/em> <\/span><\/strong>and selectively chosen to support the theory and do not represent reality. &nbsp;These drawings were so compelling that <em>based on this evidence alone<\/em>, many believers became atheists.&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em> Even though the entire research and data is known to be fraudulent, they are still taught as fact!<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It has been \u201c<strong><em>proven<\/em><\/strong>\u201d that we came from monkeys via compelling drawings based on fossils of the evolution of man.\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\"><strong>ACTUAL FACT<\/strong><\/span>: The Drawings that we have all seen, showing the gradual evolution of monkey to man, are nothing more than artists speculation based on the flimsiest of fossils (For example, Java man consisted of nothing but a scull cap, 3 teeth and on thigh bone.&nbsp; Throughout the entire fossil record, no true intermediary species i.e. missing link, has yet been found.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Archaeopteryx- is touted as an exceptional \u201cproof\u201d of Darwinism.\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\"><strong>ACTUAL FACT<\/strong><\/span>:&nbsp; It has been shown and is almost universally agreed that this \u201cmissing link\u201d between dinosaurs and birds is a product of wishful thinking, and is not an intermediary missing link to anything. &nbsp;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Like the duck billed platypus, it is just an interesting animal.&nbsp;<\/em> <\/span>However, it is still taught as proof of evolution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>We are taught that the fossil record supports Darwin\u2019s theory of evolution.\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\"><strong>ACTUAL FACT<\/strong><\/span>: The more complete the fossil record becomes, the less and less it supports the theory of evolution as taught.&nbsp; In actuality, the fossil record does not remotely show the predicted gradual intermediary forms that should, step by step lead to modern forms. &nbsp;And those are put forth as proof as evolutionary&nbsp;ancestors, are, at best, imaginative speculation. &nbsp; In fact, as the Cambrian explosion has shown, the more we find, the more it appears that most life forms came about relatively rapidly with no intermediary forms.&nbsp; Simply put, if looked at objectively, it much more clearly supports creation than evolution.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><em>This is a fact, but not one that is taught<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; <em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The facts and obvious implications of the Cambrian explosion are never fully taught anywhere within our school system, as it upsets the Darwinian apple cart.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The accidental development of life is a predictable certainty.\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\"><strong>ACTUAL FACT<\/strong><\/span>: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>The universe was created for life. &nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><\/span>If virtually, anything were changed, the existence of any life would be impossible. &nbsp; Everything from the infinitesimal strong and weak forces of the atom to the gargantuan forces of gravity, the placement of our solar system in the outer regions of the galaxy, the size and type of our star (the sun), even the fact of the earth&#8217;s rotational axis, the size of the moon, it&#8217;s rotational frequency and distance from the earth, etc&#8230; &nbsp;These are all finely tuned for life. &nbsp; Astronomers now actually call it &#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>The Goldilocks Zone<\/em><\/span>&#8221; because it&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>just right<\/em><\/span>. &nbsp;If our placement and these natural forces were even slightly greater or weaker,&nbsp;<strong>no life of&nbsp;<em>any<\/em>&nbsp;sort could have existed<\/strong>.&nbsp; Was this perfectly crafting of every aspect of the entire universe an accident? &nbsp;Even ardent atheistic astronomers and physicists are perplexed. &nbsp;The likelihood of the universe being created by simple random chance, with the &#8220;dials&#8221; set precisely for life are<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em> non-existent.<\/em><\/span><\/strong> &nbsp;This fact was actually the genesis of the theory of <strong><em>infinite universes<\/em><\/strong>. &nbsp;There are unavoidable, and for many, <strong><em>unacceptable<\/em> <\/strong>theological implications to the fact of this &#8220;fine tuning&#8221;. &nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>What&#8217;s this have to do with Infinite Universes?<\/strong> <\/span>&nbsp;The secular rationale&#8230;\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>1.<\/strong><\/span> A single universe that is so <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>perfectly tuned to our needs<\/em><\/span> could not have accidentally come into being.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">2.<\/span><\/strong> &#8220;We know there is no God, so it could not have been purposefully created for us&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">3.<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;Since a single universe randomly created conforming to our needs, is impossible, and we know there is no creator&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">4.<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;There must be<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em> more than one universe<\/em><\/span>.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">5.<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;The incredibly fine tuning of our universe is so staggeringly unlikely, that unless there were billions of universes, the likelihood of one of them randomly having our <em>settings<\/em>, is still staggeringly unlikely.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">6.<\/span><\/strong> &nbsp;Therefore, there must be &#8220;infinity universes&#8221;, in which case, <em>at least<\/em>, one would have to have been tuned as ours. &nbsp;<em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">We simply won the universe lottery.<\/span><\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>So, exactly how much real evidence is there of multiple universes? &nbsp;Something that could be considered other than 99% conjecture? &nbsp;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Absolutely NONE!<\/strong><\/em><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I am reminded of the previously mentioned debate in which I had commented&#8230;<strong> &nbsp;<\/strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;If one refuses to believe even in the&nbsp;<strong><em>possibility&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>of God, they will see him&nbsp;<strong><em>nowhere<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">There is an incredible tendency to hold to secular &nbsp;beliefs, in spite, of weight of the evidence. &nbsp;I am again reminded of the humorous saying,&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t confuse me with the facts&#8230; My mind is made up&#8221;.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Some actually assert that Christ never existed.\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\"><strong>ACTUAL FACT<\/strong><\/span>: Christ lived; there is a historical record of his life and death. &nbsp;Jesus is actually mentioned more often in non-bible writings more often than King Herod.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Some assert that even if Christ&nbsp;<strong><em>did<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;exist and was crucified, he either <em>did not die<\/em>, or was stolen from his burial place in order to perpetuate the \u201clegend\u201d of his divinity.\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\"><strong>ACTUAL FACT<\/strong><\/span>: Question- who would die for a known lie? &nbsp;Christ was crucified and objective evidence suggests he was resurrected.&nbsp; <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The actions of the apostles, at first <em>denying even knowing him<\/em><\/span>, then believing with such certainty that they were willing to pay with their own lives, in order to spread His word. &nbsp;The facts that support his&nbsp;Resurrection&nbsp;and therefore, divinity are compelling. &nbsp;<strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Would the disciples have knowingly died for a lie?<\/em><\/span><\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">In fact<\/span>,<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;(as detailed later), some of the best legal minds of past atheists, <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>set out to prove that the evidence of Christ was insufficient and unconvincing\u2026<\/em><\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;The result? &nbsp;&nbsp;As a direct consequence of their thorough comprehensive analysis of facts discovered in their attempt to <strong><em>disprove<\/em> <\/strong>Christ\u2019s divinity, <strong><em>they&nbsp;became Christians!<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Many claim that the Bible and it\u2019s history is just an interesting story of religious legend.\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\"><strong>ACTUAL FACT<\/strong><\/span>:100\u2019s of years and generations before God was made man, his miraculous birth, his life, his death, betrayal and resurrection were foretold.&nbsp; <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Also, the more archaeologists compare the bible to actual historical finds, the more the truth of the bible is confirmed.<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>But don&#8217;t take my word for any of this&#8230;<\/strong><\/span> <em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">see the opinions of the worlds foremost experts from all fields of study&#8230; biologists, anthropologists, biochemists, geologists&#8230;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>If truth matters<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span>, <strong><em><a title=\"A case for faith\" href=\"http:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.com\/cgi-bin\/d2.cgi\/1000\/godis.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read on&#8230;<\/a>&nbsp; <\/em><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>this link is to a LARGE page and may take a while to load.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allsolutionsnetwork.org\/blog\/forum\/the-science-of-religion-group2\/facts-that-destroyed-faith-forum6\/does-god-exist-thread9\">Join the Forum discussion on this post<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"rpuEmbedCode\">\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"at-page-break\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rpuArticle rpuRepostMain rpuRepost-e3ef5db5acc21712b451c676a2fb55b7-bottom\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- How to customize this embed: http:\/\/www.repost.us\/article-preview\/#!shash=e3ef5db5acc21712b451c676a2fb55b7 --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If God actually exists&#8230; would you want to know? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; If God exists, would it matter? &nbsp;To your friends? 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