Isaiah 55:8-9
God's Thoughts Are Not Man's Thoughts
8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 40:1-31
Comfort for God's People
1 Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood since the earth was founded?
22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
and its people are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
23 He brings princes to naught
and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.
24 No sooner are they planted,
no sooner are they sown,
no sooner do they take root in the ground,
than he blows on them and they wither,
and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.
25 “To whom will you compare me?
Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One.
26 Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:
Who created all these?
He who brings out the starry host one by one
and calls forth each of them by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,
not one of them is missing.
27 Why do you complain, Jacob?
Why do you say, Israel,
“My way is hidden from the Lord;
my cause is disregarded by my God”?
28 Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
29 He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
30 Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
31 but those who hope in the Lord
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
Atheists have put forth different arguments for not believing in God...One of the arguments is the lack of evidence argument...This argument states that there is no scientific evidence to support the existence of God...While there are many religious claims about God's existence, there is no scientific evidence to back them up...Believers read the epistle to the Romans and have this to think about...St. Paul wrote the Romans and told them: That God made Creation and it is plain to see...Ever since His Creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—such as His Eternal Power and Divine Nature in creating what we see and sense everyday—have been clearly seen, and this can be understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse not to believe in Him...As one reads the Bible with many different authors of the different books of the Bible...The Bible is evidence in itself for God...
Another argument is about evil...This argument states that the existence of evil and suffering in the world is incompatible with the existence of a God who is all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-good...If God is all-powerful, He could prevent evil from happening...If God is all-knowing, He knows about evil...And if God is all-good, He would want to prevent evil from happening...But evil does happen, so either God is not all-powerful, not all-knowing, or not all-good...Believers read the Book of Job to think about this argument and debate it...Job is a blameless and righteous man, and yet he is struck with calamity after calamity by the evil one -and God is the One who allowed the tragedies to happen to Job...
Another used by some atheists is the argument from inconsistent revelations...This argument states that the different religions of the world make contradictory claims about God...If God is real, then He would want all people to know about Him...But the different religions teach different things about God, so it is impossible for all of them to be correct...And from another point of view from the believer is that when Jesus died and was resurrected He instructed His followers to go out to the ends of the earth to teach everyone the consistent teachings of His, so the world would be in Harmony and LOVE...
Another different argument is from personal incredulity...This argument states that because something is difficult or impossible to believe, it must not be true...This is a logical fallacy, as the difficulty of believing something does not make it false...From the believer's side, we believe as Isaiah said, we are grasshoppers, when we compare ourselves to God...God's Thoughts and Ways are not like man's thoughts and Ways...If I, personally, could understand God, I would be close to a god...God is far to complex for me to understand His Ways and Means...I believe that the Prophet Isaiah again said it right...Do you not know?...Have you not heard?...Has it not been told you from the beginning?...Have you not understood since the earth was founded?...He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers...He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in...He brings princes to naught and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing...No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, that He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff...To whom can you compare Him?...Or who is His equal? says the Holy One...Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these?...He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name...Because of His Great Power and Mighty Strength, not one of them is missing...
Frank Turek is an American apologist, author, public speaker, and radio host...He co-authored the book, I Do Not Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist with Norman Geisler...He is best known as the founder and president of Christian apologetics ministry CrossExamined.org...Frank says these things about God and the Truth of His Word: “The author concedes that humanity had the fatal tendency to shape truth to our beliefs rather than beliefs to the Truth.”...“To say that a scientist can disprove the existence of God is like saying a mechanic can disprove the existence of Henry Ford...It doesn’t follow.”...“Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.”...“The author says those who often claim to be tolerant are tolerant of those who agree with them – which is no one's definition of tolerance.”...“In 1988, a group of prominent homosexuals got together in Warrentown, Virginia, to map out their plan to get homosexuality accepted by the general public...In the book that resulted from their meeting, they revealed a strategy that achieves its effect “without reference to facts, logic or proof . . . the person’s beliefs can be altered whether he is conscious of the attack or not.”...
Frank adds these comments on atheism: “Virgin Birth...Abiogenesis...Resurrection from the dead...Random mutations producing the raw material for new organs...Intelligent creation ex nihilo...Eternal matter...Eternal mind...Heaven...Multiverses...Speciation by unguided, natural selection...Hell...Natural DNA information generation...Adam...Panspermia...Angels...No immaterial soul...Miracles...Space aliens...God...No God.”...That’s how blogger Roddy Bullock began a post called, “Everyone Believes Something Unbelievable.”...“Atheists have had to resort to wild speculations to give chance more of a chance.”...“Atheists must make a positive case that only material things exist...That’s why instead of debating “Does God exist?”...I prefer to debate the question “What better explains reality: atheism or theism?”...“So instead of providing another intellectual answer that would be ignored, David cut right to the heart...He said, “You’re raising all of these objections because you’re sleeping with your girlfriend...Am I right?”...All the blood drained from the young man’s face...He was caught...He was rejecting God because he didn’t like God’s morality...And he was disguising it with feigned intellectual objections...This young man wasn’t the first atheist or agnostic to admit that his desire to follow his own agenda was keeping him out of the kingdom...In the first chapter of his letter to the Romans, the apostle Paul revealed this tendency we humans have to “suppress the truth” about God in order to follow our own desires...In other words, unbelief is more motivated by the heart than the head...Some prominent atheists have admitted this...Friedrich Nietzsche, who famously wrote, “God is dead and we have killed Him,” also wrote, “If one were to prove this God of the Christians to us, we should be even less able to believe in Him.”...Obviously Nietzsche’s rejection of God was not intellectual!...Professor Thomas Nagel of NYU more recently wrote, “I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers...It isn’t just that I don’t believe in God and, naturally, hope that I’m right in my belief...It’s that I hope there is no God!...I don’t want there to be a God; I don’t want the universe to be like that.”...“If there is no objective morality then love is no better than murder.”...“The God the new atheists reject is not the actual God of the Bible.”...
And Turek says this of God's Creation and His Moral Values: “God’s signature is not just in the cell, it’s in all of creation...God is as necessary to the universe as a band is to music...Once the band stops playing, the music is over.”...“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth...When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”...“I believe in the Big Bang. I just know who banged it.”....”...“So evil can’t exist unless good exists...But good can’t exist unless God exists...In other words, there can be no objective evil unless there is objective good, and there can be no objective good unless God exists...If evil is real—and we all know it is—then God exists.”...