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Subject: ATHEISM VERSUS THEISM

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Rodger Tutt (http://www.tentmaker.org/)

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Date Posted: 16:18:38 04/24/10 Sat

It is infinitely more difficult for me to be atheistic when I am asked to believe that Creation, with all of its awesome intricacies supposedly just evolved out of substances that had no first cause, than it is to believe that an intelligent Creator (i.e. Jesus Christ) started it all. (1Corinthians 8:6 & Ephesians 3:9)

My problem has never been, �Is there a God?�
My problem has always been, �What is He like?�

I think one of the primary causes of atheism is Christianity�s doctrine of everlasting suffering for everyone who dies without becoming a Christian. I would rather live out my life as an agnostic, and try to treat everyone the same way that I would like to be treated by them, and hope for the best in the next life, than try to love a god who would let anyone suffer forever.

That is why I am glad there is evidence that God is not like that, e.g.
http://www.godfire.net/eby/circularity.html

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Re: ATHEISM VERSUS THEISM	QUITTNER	09:25:25 06/08/10 Tue