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Okay I need some ideas and points cuz ppl at my school are just..(grr) They find theories to anything and everything, and they never belive in God because the most common reason is :well you can't see Him, you can't touch Him!! so i need some help.
Debate 1- God doesn't exist because you can't touch Him, can't see Him, He's not a real thing. You can't prove that He's real right now, can you??
Debate 2- Those Christian missionaries are not doing anything for those third-world contries. They want the people who goes to church to give money, and then they took the money and put them into their own pockets. The third-world countries are still poor these days without getting any great helps. (I had a huge debate with my whole class once during English, i got soo frustrated, they kept saying that the church people took the money themselves)
Debate 3- God didn't create the universe, He didn't create humans, animals, trees. They are all formed 'naturally', they just appear through the environment. And earth was formed from the particles in space (or something like that)
Debate 4- Christianity has changed, people now worship a man-made religion, no longer the 'original' christianity. (One of the student in my class says: "He belives in God, but he doesn't know who's The God, but he believes in Him. he doen't believe in Christianity because he thinks Christians now don't worship 'The God'.....i thought- well then doesn't that mean he believes in something he doen't even know? Something that he's not even sure of??)
Debate 5- God is just a imagination, how do you know that He's not??
So these are some of the debates i had with my firends and classmates, and i hope you guys and help me out with this. Just give me some facts, or something that you would say if you're in my situation. Thanks a lot!
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1 - there's really nothing you can say to this, because they're right. you can't prove God exists. on the other hand, they can't prove he doesn't.. and that's really the only argument you've got.
2 - need a bit more context to respond to this one. what was this debate about, exactly?
3 - here, you could say that even if theories like the Big Bang and evolution are true, it doesn't necessarily exclude God. there is plenty of room for both science and religion in explanations of how the world came to be as it is.
4 - Christianity has changed. big time. i'm not really sure what the rest of what you said was all about, but that i know for certain.
5 - well, you don't know. no matter how sure you might be that God exists, no one can ever be absolutely certain until they're dead and find out one way or another.
this probably really didn't help you, but i thought i'd put my two cents in nonetheless.
If they believe that missionaries are doing nothing but taking money, well there isn't much you can do to convince them otherwise.
1) They're right. You CAN'T prove he's real. You have to get that knowledge that he exists from the Bible and believe through Baptism and the Holy Spirit.
2) I'm not sure I understand this one. I don't pay as much attention to missionaries as I should. =) But our Pastor's daughters have been missionaries, so I know a little bit. Giving money in church is a command of God, yes, but there's really nothing they can do about the countries being poor. If the people who are poor choose to give money to church, then they are putting their faith above all else, and that shows real faith in God.
3) That's the Big Bang theory. Once again, they have to read the Bible and believe this themselves. Just keep telling them what you believe, and maybe they'll eventually listen.
4) God never changes his Word. And how does that student know what's in people's hearts? Only God can look into your heart; we can only guess.
5) It's like #1. They have to come to Christianity by themselves. You can help, but their hearts have to do the work, along with the Holy Spirit.
Please, PLEASE hang in there! Just believe in what you know is right. Even if no one listens to you, just pray to God because he understands what you're going through (he was rejected in Nazarath, his home town!!). Your reward will be great in heaven if you don't give up on this. =)