You ask a question that take years of study, volumes of books, and hours of

[Gabbylittleangel]

sermons to understand. Why...? do you expect instant understanding of profound things?

When the answers do not produce an encyclopedia worth of knowledge in 100 words or less, then why do you ridicule, mock and degrade the topic, the believer, or God?

The answers about are available. It can be understood. But you must have an understanding of the basics in order to receive the answer to the deeper and more profound things. Take step one, in order to understand step two, three and four.

You can not take step ten unless you have one through nine. You do not demand such knowledge from other areas of your life. You did not demand rocket science math from your second grade teacher. Did you reject addition and subtraction and refuse all that it had to offer until they explained algebra, trigonometry,and geometry to you?

When you started your job, you took an entry level position, not the CEO chair. Did you demand from the CEO that he or she give an account to you before you took the job, or did you take the job by faith?

When you sat down in front of your computer, did you insist that you have complete understanding of the electronic components inside, demand that you know all that there is to know about microsoft, computer programing, how the internet works, and the electricity that powered it before you turned it on? Did you trust the people that taught you how to use the computer, and believe that they knew enough about computers to teach you what you needed to know? Or did you learn about computers from people who don't use them, don't trust them, don't like them and think that they are evil....

So....
Why don't you believe it when Christians tell you that God is good, that Jesus loves you and died for YOUR sin, so that you can have everlasting life? <Step one.

Why do you believe the people who do not know God to tell you what God is like? The Bible is full of miracles, accounts of conditions and circumstances. Your atheist teacher wants to call them contradictions.

You atheist teacher wants to know about the talking donkey. Study, volumes of books, hours of sermons are available. You must go through that if you want to know about the talking donkey.
Scripture is full of accounts of God protecting His people, destroying wickedness, and having mercy on people who simply blow it, correcting His people, allowing His people to stew in their own juices, and paying the price for the sin of His people so that they can be forgiven..
Your fickle atheist teacher wants you to believe that you should believe that your fickle atheist teacher knows all, and that you should not trust in the God who created you.

It does not take years of study to know that God loves you. You can know that right now. Why don't you ask Him?

 

[Arthur Again]

Some people can see right through the miles of text quite easily.
Others see a complex maze of profound hoo-ha even if it really isn't all that profound.
Hours of semons? Sounds like hours of propaganda meetings, to me.

See? Short answers can do the job.

 

[misslabeled]

Just because you go out of your way to twist it into question form, doesn't make your rant a question. It's clearly rhetorical. You aren't going to accept anything anyone says contrary to your belief, so go preach on some other street corner, hypocrite. The atheists you're addressing have said they aren't interested and so now you're violating not only the word of the god you're preaching about, but more importantly, the guidelines of Y!A.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Your problem is that ALL of what you describe comes from a single book that cannot be corroborated by other works originating from the same time frame. ONE BOOK is all you've got. And you can't even test the things it says. Heck, due to so many translations abounding, you can't even be sure of what it says.

We don't believe it when folks pull the "God is good" and "Jesus died for your sins" statements because they are demonstrated in ONE BOOK and no other sources from the time. In fact, the Gospels weren't even written at the time. They came later.

The books of the Bible tell stories that cannot be proven, corroborated, demonstrated, etc. We are skeptics. You can say your "happy God" statements. But you can't prove that your source is accurate. And let met assure you that centuries of study have gone into trying to find that proof. But all we have is ONE BOOK. The Roman histories of the time mention many claiming to be the Messiah, but Jesus wasn't in the Roman histories. Pontius Pilate's annals are well recorded, but the trial of Jesus isn't in the Roman histories. So... where's the proof?

You talk about "volumes of books" - but MOST of those books, if not all, were written as analyses of that ONE BOOK. I.e. someone else read the Bible and wrote what he thought about it. THIS IS NOT CORROBORATION. It is merely a derivative work which is totally false if the Bible is false. So reading those volumes of books gets you no closer to the truth.

Atheism is very simple to understand. We are skeptical regarding a specific belief - the existence of any form of god or gods. And believe or not, in my case that DID take a lot of study to reach this point.