Miracles are impossible! As an atheist, I could not understand how anyone could believe in the miracles of the Bible. One of the most famous philosophers of the last few centuries, David Hume, expressed it perfectly for me in the following logical syllogism [1]: 1. Miracles are violations of natural laws. 2. Natural laws are …
As an atheist (and a big fan of Dawkins) I often mocked my Christian friends and family for needing to have faith to overcome the clear lack of EVIDENCE for the existence of Jesus. I used to agree wholeheartedly with the words of one of our more sceptical readers: “If you want to believe, then …
As an atheist I enjoyed testing the belief of my Christian friends and family by asking them if they knew where their Bible comes from (often they didn’t), and then asking them how they could possibly believe in such a “book”. For example, it’s a known fact that not one single original New Testament manuscript …
As an atheist, this was one of the easiest arguments to have with a Christian: How can God exist with so much evil and suffering in the world? Stated in a logical syllogism: The God of the Bible is all-Good The God of the Bible is all-Powerful The God of the Bible is all-Knowing Yet, …
As an atheist I enjoyed testing the Biblical knowledge of my Christian friends and family, because they usually failed dismally! Having proved my point, I liked to explain to them how we atheists were atheists precisely BECAUSE we had actually read the Bible. And it’s a fair observation that many professing Christians have a very …
