“Why I Believe”I have been reading substantial amounts of material from various atheists and so-called freethinkers on the internet. It seems to me that they are getting moreaggressive in asserting that anyone who believes in God is gullible, foolishand/or has a diseased mind. They equate the subject of our faith, Jesus, withmythological figures or with creations from their own imaginations. They claimthat anyone who believes is not rational and, therefore, cannot be trusted to holdpublic office or educate our children. Indeed, they assert that the majority oftheir fellow citizens have been brainwashed and simply refuse to think logically.Since I consider myself reasonable, rational and logical and since I claim thatJesus is the Christ, God's Son and his only provision for a lost humanity, I havesome explaining to do. Either I am guilty of delusion for buying into a grandfraud or I have found the truth that all men have to one degree or another sought.In all clearness of mind I reject the proposition that I am mistaken. I will tryto explain why.Let me make clear at the outset that I have no new demonstrable evidence for theexistence of God. In fact, my statement does not rely on courtroom style evidenceor esoteric philosophical arguments. Rather my thinking is straightforward in itsapproach. Either there is a God or there isn't. If one assumes that there is,the questions of where we came from and what was the origin of all that is aroundus are quite answerable: from God. If one assumes that there is not a God, thequestions are an invitation to guess.The guesses may take many forms but the adherents of the "no god" clique have moreor less settled on a preexisting solar system and an evolutionary approach toeverything else. This is trumpeted as scientific theory and rules out anyreliance on anything else. But true science depends on observation andrepeatability. They can only model the origins question with a heavy reliance onpresupposition. It requires faith in the model and all the guesswork involved inits creation.Now, one must ask which makes more sense: that we have evolved to our presentstate in spite of the overwhelming odds against it or a supreme intelligencecreated us and our world. I maintain that the former requires more faith than thelatter. If it is the mark of a madman to have an irrational faith in theunobservable and the unrepeatable, then our atheist friends are certainly no sanerthan us. In fact, the Bible says that men are without excuse when it comes torecognizing God's existence based on what we are able to experience through oursenses. To think otherwise we must close our minds to what our senses declare.Such is the plight of the self-appointed freethinker. He has freed himself fromhis senses in an effort to discover the truth. Such a tactic is self-defeating.One cannot hope to understand the great questions of life by refusing to use themeans of apprehension of the facts. The real freethinker employs all his sensesto inform his thinking. He does not make the mistake of supposed freethinkerswhich is to place their theories in the hands of a pseudo-god: time. Given enoughtime (even billions of years) we are told all those things which make no sense inthe immediate become natural. This is definitely counter-intuitive but it isrequired to make sense of life for one who denies the existence of God. How muchmore honest it is to acknowledge him as reality.The reality is named Jesus. He alone is our bridge to God. The Bible is oursource of information about him. This explains the stridency on the part of someatheists. If they acknowledge the existence of God, then they are in theundeniable position of having to live with the consequences of disobedience.Since no one wants to admit to failure to come to terms with his Creator denyingthe existence of such a person is the most expeditious route to understanding