I’m going to take the points of what people have made about christianity and use my personal view from the studies in theology I have been doing.
Question me if you must, i’m not meaning to sound petty or be condescending, this is just potential back ups or againsts to peoples points. So here goes.
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In terms in children who die at birth, it can be argued by some that God chose this for them, but, roman catholics say that people are born without sin or conscience, therefore, if you have no sin at your birth, then surely it can’t be God who decided you have sinned, therefore he must not have caused the person to unwillingly die.
People say that God is the causer of all that is evil and some believe he doesn’t exist, right?
God is omnipotent and omniscient, so he knows everything about the universe and the people living on it. It is argued by philosopher Anselm, that ‘God is that than which nothing greater can be conceived’, so we can only imagine something greater than him, thus he must be of existence if he is ‘that than … conceived’.
God was the creator of the universe in the eyes of Christianity, so, if you imagined a ‘perfect island’ like Gaunilo did, then it therefore can only be in your mind, so becuase it is there it is not true in reality.
All of these points connected about God’s creation and the person he is, is called the ontological argument.
The biggest thing that people go against God in, are the problems of evil which we suffer, such as death, illness, pain etc. Summarised in 5 ways, we can say that God exists and created the universe from nothing and is still interesed in the creation he made and that becuase he done that he must be omnipotent and wholly good becuase he has not sinned, but he wishes for no suffering to take place but there is still the problem of evil from his fallen angel, which is how evil came about.
I’m not going to go any further, becuase I think I have ranted too much here and not only that, I have lost the focus of what I was trying to point out. But, all of the above is linked to the existence of God, and from seeing that and from the belief I have always had in him, I can easy say that despite the rejection he has from people, I can honestly say, I believe in God.
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