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These answers are for summit.
Q: How would you logically prove that your god exists using rational evidential reasoning and justification - without using arguments that someone from another religion would use to prove their god exists, and without reference to the Bible?
A: I believe that if someone needs logical proof to believe in a supernatural being like God, then that person will never trully be planted in any faith. The only way to explain that God exists other than the Bible or things like miracles, is by faith. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen" (Hebrews 11:1) Now I didn't use the Bible to prove that God does exist and that the only way to heaven is through Christ, I used an excerpt to show that FAITH truly is the only way to prove that God exists. Without faith, no one can ever truly be saved because then the person has no hope of trusting the Lord Jesus.
Q: Christians say that: "The Father(F) is God, the Son(S) is God, and the Holy Ghost(H) is God, but the Father is not the Son, the Son is not the Holy Ghost, and the Holy Ghost is not the Father". In simple arithmetic and terms therefore, if F = G, S = G, and H = G, then it follows that F = S = H, while the second part of the statement suggests that F ? S ? H (meaning, "not equal" ). Isn?t that a contradiction to the Christian dogma of Trinity in itself ?
A: Whoah! Slow down. I'm only fifteen and even I know that you don't need arithmetic to understand the trinity. The trinity is simply this: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. 3 in 1. NO arithmetic involved. Again, this is a thing of faith, not of science. You don't ask God to explain himself, you ask him to help you fathom his wonders.
Q:If "God" knows the future and the past with perfect certainty. Why did He create me knowing that my fate is to burn forever in Hell? If you had a disease which caused all your children to live in relative comfort for 1 hour, then die slowly and in horrible, debilitating pain over the course of 10 years, would you choose to have children? Do you think your choice is moral?
A: The belief in fate as most would put your many words of an Islamic belief. God created us with free will and then sent his Son, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, to Earth to die for our sins. Whether we would accept him as what he was, our Messiah, our Savior, was up to us (hence the freewill). You are only destined for HELL (which is a very scary thought) when you don't accept the truth that God has put plainly in front of us.
Q:Why Pray? If it changes God's mind then he is not sovereign. If it does not change Gold's mind then it is superfluous
A: Prayer is one of the most important and strongest tools we have as Christians. Prayer is our way of communicating with God, giving him praise and thanks, and asking for things. The way I see it, God knows 99.99% of the future. He knows the different kinds of paths we can take, and then depending on what path we choose, he knows what could happen. The fact that God can't change his mind for fear of not being sovereign is propostorous. I believe that if God wanted to he could just end us right now. We don't have the right to tell God what he can or can't do, he cannot sin and therefore whether I'm wrong about this or not, God could never become less sovereign or superfluous. Just try reading the Bible. I'm sure that with patience and the right kind of person to guide you, you'll will find answers to your questions and much much more. And remember, no matter what path you take, Jesus will always love you more than anyone could possibly guess, just as he loves everyone.
"If God is with me, who can be against me?"
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