Do atheists really believe what they say they do?

Atheists are often viewed as cowards who don’t really believe what they say they believe; it’s merely a position that’s adopted for the sake of being allowed to live a life freed from any moral authority, it’s assumed.

What to say to a friend who is an atheist?

Say something, anything, to your atheist friends and family members. Tell them that God loves them and that you’re praying for them if that’s all the time and courage you have. Share the gospel with them.

Do we need a coherent concept of God?

In order to even consider the possibility that a god exists, we first need a coherent concept of god. The traditional notion of god in classical theism is that of a timeless, changeless, immaterial mind, who also must be infinitely good, infinitely wise, and can do anything logically possible.

Can God do the logically impossible?

That is, god cannot do the logically impossible or be the logically impossible. Once a theist agrees with this, they’ve cut themselves off from special pleading as an option. Some theists think god is atemporal before creating the universe, and temporal after creating the universe.

Why do the first cause cosmological arguments for God fail?

The failure of all the “first cause” cosmological arguments for god result from naively taking our everyday notions of how we see the way the universe works and extrapolating from that huge metaphysical first principles.

Why do New Atheists keep bringing up the creature?

New Atheists intended to make a point by bringing up this fictional creature – that you could assign the attributes of God to any random thing. But many Atheists who mention the creature now seem to do so in order to mock religious ideas rather than make a substantial point about them.

Do Christians have philosophical arguments for God’s existence?

Christians claim to have philosophical arguments for God’s existence. It seems like those arguments could provide at least a tiny bit of evidence for God, even if an Atheist doesn’t consider the evidence close to satisfactory. Atheists who use this phrase are overstating their case.