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Do you have the same FAITH?

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Just want to share this to all of you. A very good argument indeed! "it's better to live your life believing there is a God and find out there isn't... rather than believe there is none and find out there is" ... but i will bet my life that there is... and i know you will too :wink:



INTERESTING CONVERSATION

An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem
science has with God, the Almighty.

He asks one of his new Christian students to stand and...

Professor : You are a Christian, aren't you, son?

Student : Yes, sir.

Prof : So you believe in God?

Student : Absolutely, sir.

Prof : Is God good?

Student : Sure.

Prof : Is God all-powerful?

Student : Yes.

Prof : My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't. How is this God good then? Hmmm?

(Student is silent.)

Prof : You can't answer, can you? Let' s start again, young fella. Is God good?

Student :Yes.

Prof : Is Satan good?

Student : No.

Prof : Where does Satan come from?

Student : From...God...

Prof : That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?

Student : Yes.

Prof : Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything.
Correct?

Student : Yes.

Prof : So who created evil?

(Student does not answer.)

Prof : Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness?
All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they?

Student
:Yes, sir.

Prof : So, who created them?

(Student has no answer.)

Prof
: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the
world around you. Tell me, son...Have you ever seen God?

Student : No, sir.

Prof : Tell us if you have ever heard your God?

Student : No , sir.

Prof : Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God?
Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter?

Student : No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.

Prof : Yet you still believe in Him?

Student : Yes.

Prof
: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science
says
your GOD doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?

Student : Nothing. I only have my faith.

Prof : Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science has.

Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?

Prof : Yes.

Student : And is there such a thing as cold?

Prof : Yes.

Student
: No sir. There isn't.

(The lecture theater becomes very quiet with this turn of events.)

Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat,
mega heat,* *
white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything
called
cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't
go
any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a
word
we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold.
Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence
of
it.
**
(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)
**
Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as
darkness?

Prof : Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?

Student : You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something.
You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing
light....But
if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and it's called
darkness, isn't
it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it were you would be able to make
darkness
darker, wouldn't you?**

Prof : So what is the point you are making, young man?

Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.

Prof : Flawed? Can you explain how?

Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of duality.
You argue there is life and then there is death, a good God and a bad
God.
You are viewing the concept of God as something finite,
something we can measure.
Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and
magnetism,* *but has never seen, much less fully understood either one.
To view death as
the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot
exist
as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the
absence of
it. Now tell me, Professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved
from a
monkey? **

Prof : If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of
course, I do.

Student : Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?

(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where
the
argument is going.)

Student : Since no one has ever observed the proce! ss of evolution at
work
and* *cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavour, are
you not
teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?**
(The class is in uproar.)
**
Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's
brain?

(The class breaks out into laughter.)

Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain,
felt it,* *touched or smelt it?...No one appears to have done so.
So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable,
demonstrable
protocol, science says that you have no brain, sir.
With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust you r lectures, sir?**

(The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face
unfathomable.)
**
Prof : I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.

Student : That is it, sir...The link between man & God is FAITH.
That is all that keeps things moving & alive.

END:

I believe you have enjoyed the conversation...and if so...you'll
probably
want your friends/colleagues to enjoy the same...won't you?...share this to
them
also to increase their FAITH...
**/
Have a nice day.. (",)/*

God Bless To All.........
 
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An entertaining and interesting post. Question: Did that professor or any of the non-believing students in that class receive Christ or show signs of movement in that direction? I doubt it.

Intellectual arguments do win some people to Christ if their minds are open. For instance, Acts 17 tells us that Paul won converts that way in Athens and in Thessalonika.But, we need to avoid the temptation to place too high a priority on such things because, for the most part, intellectual victory does not win converts.

The most effective evangelism in the first century came through small church communities which unravelled the caste system that ruled in the Roman Empire by spreading the love of God in personal relationships. And that's the most effective way to evangelize today - spreading the Love of God.

"Little things done with great love will change the world." (Mother Teresa)

SLE
 
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