Atheist with a problem (among many)

Response to comment [from an agnostic]:  "...[S]eeking that which cannot be found?"

"God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him.  Those who wan to follow the clues will.

"The Bible says, 'Seek and you shall find [Mt 7:7].' It doesn't say everybody will find him; it doesn't say nobody will find him.  Some will find.  Who?  Those who seek.  Those whose hearts are set on finding him and who follow the clues." The Case for Faith, Lee Strobel.

Response to comment [from an atheist]: 

"A just God would not allow innocent babies to be born conjoined or with other major congenital dysfunction.
A just God would not allow some of them to go on suffering for a great many years.
A just God would not allow that to happen to even one.

A just God would not have arranged things so that people were unwittingly more likely to want to live on fault lines.
A just God would not allow earthquakes and tsunamis anyway.

...A reasoned conclusion is either that there just is no God or God is not just.  An unjust God or no God..."

     "The fact that he's using the standard of good to judge evil--the fact that he's saying quite rightly that this horrible suffering isn't what ought to be--means that he has a notion of what ought to be; that this notion corresponds to something real; and that there is, therefore, a reality called the Supreme Good.  well, that's another name for God.

     "You mean that unintentionally Templeton [an atheist] may be testifying to the reality of God because by recognizing evil he's assuming there's an objective standard on which it's based?"

     "Right.  If I give one student a ninety and another an eighty, that presupposed that one hundred is a real standard.  And my pont is this:  if there is not God, where did we get the standard of goodness by which we judge evil as evil?

     "What's more, as C.S. Lewis said, 'If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?'  In other words, the very presence of these ideas in our minds--that is, the idea of evil, thus of goodness and of God as the origin and standard of goodness--needs to be accounted for." The Case for Faith, Lee Strobel.

Everything was good (Ge 1:31).  Now it is not (Ge 3:6,11,12; Ro 5:12,15,19).

Atheist with a problem (among many)