Answer to an Atheist
We are mortals and cannot possible know the will of God. God does perform miracles in our lives, if we only stop to pay heed to them. If one takes a bunch of parts and random parts and pieces, gives them to a chimpanzee, and asks them to assemble a car from them, an Atheist would have one believe that eventually they would do it through random chance. There is another similar argument that if you placed 100 monkeys at 100 typewriters they would eventually come up with a Shakespeare play. Just as the Atheist argument claims that there is no proof that God exists because no on has ever seen him, there is also no proof that the monkeys will ever make a car or type Shakespeare. It has never been done and no one has ever proven that it will actually happen. At the current time, it is just a theory and there is not physical proof that it would happen.
For that matter there is no physical proof that the stars and moon exist either. Yet we believe them to be a part of our reality. We assume that the chair we are sitting in or the computer we are using is real as well, but if Atheist logic holds true, they too might be an illusion. If God does not exist how do we know that anything exists? God is all-powerful and does not need to bend to the demands of mortals to make him known. If he chooses to make himself known to any man, then he will do so. Demanding that God show himself and prove his existence is not necessary for an omnipotent being.
If God did try to make himself known to someone that did not believe in him then it does not mean that he was not there. A person will see what they want to see. People will block out any thought or image that does not agree with their ideas of reality. The person who fails to see God working in the world is ignoring anything that disagrees with their belief. This is not looking at the world objectively, but with a biased outlook. This type of bias discredits...
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