Everywhere I go on the internet I see athiests trying to convince people that God doesn't exist? If you athiests don't believe in God then why do you spend your time trying to prove He don't exist?
Athiests take little snippets from the Bible and try to prove that the Bible is contradicting itself when it really isn't at all if you read the whole thing intelligently.
The Bible has 3 dimensions to it and must be read 3 diminsionally with your mind, body and spirit. It is designed by God to help us in every aspect of our life.
It helps us to renew our minds to think about loving and caring for people, feeding the poor, helping the helpless, healing the sick wether by praying for them or by taking them to the doctor or by miraculous intervention by God in extreme cases. I have seen many people get healed miraculously by God because people were praying for them and they believed God would heal them.
The Bible gives us instructions on how to treat our bodies to make us live longer and be healthier and happier. The Old Testament is an excellent resource on diet with a long list of foods to eat and not to eat that the Jews lived by and alot still do. It is amazing to read about the foods they were allowed to eat and not eat which are still practiced in the US and all over the world inadvertantly by people who never even read the Bible.
For instance, in the Bible, God told the Jews to not eat any animal unless it:
1. Chews it's cud
and
2. Has Cloven Hooves
Well cows chew their cud and have cloven hooves so they are ok. Whereas horses chew their cud but do not have cloven hooves. In the US we do not eat horses. It's not because horses taste bad (I hear they taste like bacon) and it's not because they are bad for us to eat if cooked well. It's because of the fact that it is socially unacceptable because our society has been impacted by the Bible. The Bible in the New Testament says all things have been made clean to eat as long as we pray and thank God for it before we eat or drink it because of what Jesus has done for us. Because of what Jesus did, all things have been made clean to eat.
God also told the Jews not to eat anything out of the sea unless it had scales on it. This was a very good thing for the Jews to live by back then because of the risk of diseases. If you think about it a while, most of the animals in the ocean that do not have scales are pretty nasty scavengers that eat dead stuff that they find floating around the ocean. Crabs, lobsters, shrimp etc... are all examples of scavengers that may cary some bad diseases from eating on dead things.
Dolfins and whales do not have scales and were not to be eaten which was God's way of protecting endangered species? I mean, we know how many whales became endangered when people started hunting and killing them.
Sharks do not have scales either and they are not bad to eat but they could cary diseases and parasites which God was trying to protect the Jews from in the Old Testament.
I could go on and on about how God was protecting the Jews from eating things that could possibly give them diseases like pork which we all know has parasites and needs to be cooked well to kill them before we eat it.
God simply loved the Jews and wanted them to be healthy and happy.
But back to athiests, Why do athiests build huge websites and spend lots of money trying to convince people that God is not real? Are they looking for purpose in life? Deep down inside do they really want to be proved wrong?
I do know from personal experience that without God in my life, I felt empty and was always looking for something to occupy my mind. I was always working to fill my life with big boy toys to impress my friends and family and that was great until the rush wore off and I found myself empty again and looking for that next thing that would fill that emptiness with popularity again.
God was never trying to hurt anyone, if you read the Bible, you will see that God only wanted to protect and help people and bring them close to Himself but they because of their selfishness (sin) could not see that God loved them.
I watched a video that was made by athiests that stated that god commanded the Isrealites to kill every man, woman and child in the villages that they came to. Which is true but God had reasons for that. For one, if they did not then those children would have probably grown up and been very bitter toward the Jews and became the equivalent to a suicide bomber today! The women would have hated the Jews and tried everything in their power to rebel if they were allowed to live. So God knew what he was doing when he told them to kill everyone.
Plus, I don't know if people realize it or not but God owns us. He created us and he can do whatever he wants to us. Also, even though those peoples physical bodies died, nobody ever really dies. Our spirits will live forever wether in Heaven because we recieved Jesus Christ as our Savior or in the Lake of Fire that burns forever because we rejected Christ who died for us because he Loved God and us so much.
Our Spirits will live on forever. Watch "Ghost Hunters" and you will realize that is true. If you do watch Ghost Hunters you may notice that the ghosts they do find were usually bad people when they were alive. Murders and Rapists and evil wicked people when they were alive. They were people who never believed in God and/or rejected Jesus as their Savior. Watch all their episodes and remember what I said here and try to prove me wrong. Ghosts are simply people who died without recieving Jesus Christ as their savior. Occasionally they will find a demon too which they have a person (exorcist) who will come and pray and bless the house driving the demon out. Demons are not human spirits. I have theories on what demons are but I'll get into that some other time.
I believe those people are stuck here on earth as spiritual energy waiting for God to Judge them on Judgement Day. The ones who do get saved by humbling their selves and accepting Christ as the sacrifice for their sin (selfishness) instantly go straight to heaven. The Bible says "Absent from the body, Present with the Lord". That is why you will never see the "Ghost Hunters" getting E.V.P.'s from people like Mother Teresa.
I would love to hear your questions and comments and I will try to answer them all.
Scott Mandarich