The base argument and starting point for perhaps the majority of atheists is "Bad things happen - ergo God cannot exist."I have already examined this extremely flawed logic on this Blog but there is a secondary but equally debilitating flaw within.
The atheist speaks as an outsider and thus generally will not have taken the Christian explanation into account - that evil is a result of the Fall.
What the atheist has conveniently forgotten is that the same idea is a problem for Christians too. They search for - and find - a valid explanation within Christianity [See: "The Problem of Pain." CS Lewis] and its teachings.
But because the atheist has already rejected Christianity and is putting arguments for this in place after the event, he/she has not addressed the issue in their arrival at a state of unbelief.
The atheist then implies or states that the Christian is acting illogically when the Christian's approach has been perfectly consistent within his/her faith.
It is in fact the atheist who rejects first and in basing an argument on that rejection, has not given full consideration to what the Christian says because of the order of events and the argument. Based as it is on unproved and unprovable unbelief, no claim for a logical position can then legitimately be made.
Because God does exist, the Christian's logic is 100%.
Once again, the atheist has made the assumption that He does not.
All I can say is that without a personal experience of God, you find yourself relying on words and mere opinions.
The Eiffel Tower does exist [Blog: July 12th 2006]. Been there. Seen it. Climbed it. No point in an unbeliever using weak arguments trying to convince me that I am wrong and it is not really there!
