Bertsura

So everything your God does is right, even mass murder? Why?

Diogenes the Cynic

I know more than you do.

Diogenes the Cynic

What evidence?

Julian

Be sure to let us know when this happens...

aChristian

I've gone through this several times on this forum, but I'll do it quickly once more.
You'll have to assume the world you sense exists. You can't prove it, but can infer it from your senses. Odds are it does exist and anyone who disagrees still doesn't walk out in front of cars. He seems to act like he believes it exists.
Having established that the world exists, you can see from the design and beauty in the world that it must have a designer. You can believe it all popped into existence formed by random chance, but science argues against it. We have never seen pick up sticks dropped and fall together into a perfect log cabin. You can believe things randomly assembled themselves, but there is no evidence for it. So the odds again say there is a designer, a god.

Now there are a lot of ideas about God, but one historically verifiable fact stands out in history. The resurrection of Jesus Christ. Jesus said he would prove his divinity by rising from the dead and he did. You can deny it, but it is like denying George Washington was the first president of the US. There is more historical eyewitness accounts to establish Washington's presidency because it is more recent with more witnesses, however there is enough reliable eyewitness testimony to the miracles, death, resurrection, and ascension to heaven of Jesus Christ that you cannot honestly deny it. There are a lot of other evidences for the truth of Christianity, but the resurrection is enough to establish it.

After that is established, Jesus has more credibility when talking about God than any other person. He said he was God, affirmed the OT and passed his teachings to his disciples who demonstrated miraculous powers in his name and wrote the NT with God's help.

Once it is established that Christianity is true, the OT and NT tell us that it is the only true religion (Jesus said he was the way the truth and the life and that no one could come to the Father except through him) and thus all other religions are false.

That is it in short. You can find many resources to establish each of these points if you want to.

aChristian

Maybe, because I don't know that much about it, but I still tend to doubt that you know more, judging by your comments.

aChristian

Because the evidence alluded to in the previous posts shows that he is the true God. It also shows he is good, loving, and righteous.

Bertsura

Off-topic here but... that's your evidence? The resurrection is not verifiable. Again, why do you think God gets a free pass when it comes to mass murder?

aChristian

As I describe above, the resurrection is verifiable and God doesn't need a free pass from us.

Bertsura

I don't know about you but committing mass murder doesn't make you good, loving, and righteous. But that's just me.