CONVINCING AN ATHEIST THERE IS A GOD

This problem has gotten a lot easier since September 11.

I used to think the best way was to use the world around us and the obvious design behind
nature. I am now however convinced evil or the absence of all good is the quickest way to gain an ally in an atheist.

When pure evil is let loose there is no doubt in my mind that GOD and his love is all that is stopping mankind from destroying himself.

Most atheists would say mankind is basically good, and that because there is no God any good must come from mankind himself. How then would they explain pure evil; and the need for man to seemly destroy himself.

Even Christians are not immune from evil acts, it is only when the love of God is present that mans natural evil desires are blunted.

Who has not felt the thrill at some point in their life of doing an evil or wrong thing. It is when we give over to this type of thought and action we find acts like that that occur on September 11 take place.

I find myself in a quandary though. If we only use the above argument I think the atheist will not altogether come to an understanding of God's greatness. I think I would also have to resort to using arguments from nature to clinch the deal so to speak.

My favorite is the case of no change without outside influence. Take the case of two bars of copper suspended in space, one is cold the other is red hot, the laws of nature say that things only decline. The hot one will cool but the cold one will never get hot unless their is heat applied from an out side source.

I would use the above argument to show that nature needed a designer, God.

I know from my own experience when as a youth I myself did not believe in God; a minister asked me to study into why a peacocks tail feather changed colour. He also challenged me to study how the different types of eyes worked in various animals and insects.

I also looked into such things as fossils being made in just a few weeks by  chemical actions when various minerals were present. I discovered things like trees that were growing through rock strata that should have taken "millions of years to form. I started to doubt my own wisdom to say their is no God.

It was after I studied into the complexities of nature that I came to the conclusion in my own life, that their had to be a God.