Eternal Paradise

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Introduction

 

By Eternal Paradise

 

 

     If you have not done so already, please read the eternal debate.  It is an exchange of letters between myself and an atheist over God and the past, present, and future of mankind.  If you are a Christian and have read the entire debate, you may be overjoyed, because you know the return of the Lord Jesus Christ is very near.  If you are an atheist and have read the entire debate, you may still be skeptical, or you are starting to open your heart to the faith. 

 

     If you are still skeptical, please continue to visit this website and the ones listed in our links section (which is constantly being updated with FAQs and study tool links), stay tuned to world news, and become more acquainted with the holy bible.  I promise, if you do all of these things, your doubts in God will eventually fade away.  You must consider that if everything I am saying is true--that there is a God, and Jesus Christ is about to return--you must invite Him into your heart as soon as possible.  Neither I or your loved ones want you to be cast into Hell for all eternity.  If you want to know how you can be spiritually saved, it is very simple: 

 

     "If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved"  (Romans 10:9).

 

     Ask the Lord Jesus Christ to be your savior, and believe that He died on the cross and was resurrected, redeeming mankind of its sins so that we may enter Heaven and enjoy eternal life.  Also, keep this in mind: 

 

     "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God"  (John 3:3).

 

     You are "born again" by repenting--turning away--from your sinful lifestyle.  If you want to learn more about salvation, please click here.

 

     People that have read the debate have been greatly influenced.  A few days ago, I visited a number of atheist website communities and asked them to join the debate.  Typically, if a Christian presents his ideologies to an atheist, they argue with the Christian, mock them, and try to discredit them.  But I contacted several atheists, directing them to the debate, and none of them tried to argue, mock, or discredit me.  Neither did I receive any hate mail (though I might now, which would be great, because then I can respond with my love mail!) 

 

     One of the atheist webmasters did respond (not Jorge from the debate), but not to argue over the debate.  He assumed I was an atheist because I said I used to be a skeptic (which is true, though I was never an atheist).  I decided to take this golden opportunity and infiltrate the atheist's realm of understanding.  I asked him, "Atheists are supposed to accept the theory of evolution, right?"  After that, I showed him an article by Dr. Kent Hovind called "Questions For Evolutionists", which I found at www.livingwaters.com/witnessingtool/questionsforevolutionists.shtml:

 

Questions For Evolutionists

 

By Dr. Kent Hovind

 

     The test of any theory is whether or not it provides answers to basic questions. Some well-meaning but misguided people think evolution is a reasonable theory to explain man’s questions about the universe. Evolution is not a good theory—it is just a pagan religion masquerading as science.

 

1.  Where did the space for the universe come from?

 

2.  Where did matter come from?

 

3.  Where did the laws of the universe come from (gravity, inertia, etc.)?

 

4.  How did matter get so perfectly organized?

 

5.  Where did the energy come from to do all the organizing?

 

6.  When, where, why, and how did life come from dead matter?

 

7.  When, where, why, and how did life learn to reproduce itself?

 

8.  With what did the first cell capable of sexual reproduction reproduce?

 

9.  Why would any plant or animal want to reproduce more of its kind since this would only make more mouths to feed and decrease the chances of survival? (Does the individual have a drive to survive, or the species? How do you explain this?)

 

10.  How can mutations (recombining of the genetic code) create any new, improved varieties? (Recombining English letters will never produce Chinese books.)

 

11.  Is it possible that similarities in design between different animals prove a common Creator instead of a common ancestor?

 

12.  Natural selection only works with the genetic information available and tends only to keep a species stable. How would you explain the increasing complexity in the genetic code that must have occurred if evolution were true?

 

13.  When, where, why, and how did: a) Single-celled plants become multicelled? (Where are the two- and three-celled intermediates?) b) Single-celled animals evolve? c) Fish change to amphibians? d) Amphibians change to reptiles? e) Reptiles change to birds? (The lungs, bones, eyes, reproductive organs, heart, method of locomotion, body covering, etc., are all very different!) How did the intermediate forms live?

 

14.  When, where, why, how, and from what did: a) Whales evolve? b) Sea horses evolve? c) Bats evolve? d) Eyes evolve? e) Ears evolve? f) Hair, skin, feathers, scales, nails, claws, etc., evolve?

 

15.  Which evolved first (how, and how long, did it work without the others)? a) The digestive system, the food to be digested, the appetite, the ability to find and eat the food, the digestive juices, or the body’s resistance to its own digestive juice (stomach, intestines, etc.)? b) The drive to reproduce or the ability to reproduce? c) The lungs, the mucus lining to protect them, the throat, or the perfect mixture of gases to be breathed into the lungs? d) DNA or RNA to carry the DNA message to cell parts? e) The termite or the flagella in its intestines that actually digest the cellulose? f) The plants or the insects that live on and pollinate the plants? g) The bones, ligaments, tendons, blood supply, or muscles to move the bones? h) The nervous system, repair system, or hormone system? i) The immune system or the need for it?

 

     I asked the atheist if he could answer a few of the questions so I could "put my mind at ease" and understand why atheists believe what they do.  The atheist called Dr. Kent Hovind a "con artist" and the article "bull".  I asked him if he could just answer a few questions or at least tell me someone that could, but he said he did not have time for "triviality" or "bull".  I am sorry if you are the atheist reading this, but you did not attempt to answer at least 1 of the 15 questions for evolutionists.  Those questions are far from trivial if they help lead to the universe's origin.

     Many believers cling to their faith with little or no knowledge of God, just like many unbelievers cling to the theory of evolution with little or no scientific knowledge.  Our own ignorance (yes, all of us) keeps us from achieving our true potential in life and the afterlife.  A believer's ignorance often causes them to backslide--to doubt God somewhere down the road of righteousness--and an unbeliever's ignorance completely distances them from the knowledge of God that can place them on the road to righteousness.

     The Bible references ignorance.  Here is one instance: 

     "...they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart..."  (Ephesians 4:17-18)

     When I asked the atheist for answers to the evolution questions, I hoped I could end my own ignorance--hoped to understand why atheists accept such beliefs.  I told him "I am seeking more reasons to be an atheist", not that I want to be an atheist, but that I want to hear more reasons why people become atheists.  But the atheist did not give me any.  He may have thought I was an atheist slipping towards Christianity, but he did not say anything to persuay me into "rejoining the dark side".

      Part of EternalParadise.org's goal is to convince you of God's existence through scripture and science.  If you want to get a head start, please visit Dr. Kent Hovind's website.  He is offering $250,000 to anyone that can provide any scientific proof for evolution.  Read about it here.  

     After visiting one of the atheist website communities, I read a forum discussion where the atheists said they are outraged when Christians say science proves God's existence.  But it has been proven time and again that this claim is true.  I provided a small portion of this information in the Eternal Debate.  Here it is again:

      “If there was no Creator, then life must have started spontaneously by chance.  For life to have come about, somehow the right chemicals would have had to come together in the right quantities, under the right temperature and pressure and other controlling factors, and all would have had to be maintained for the correct length of time. Furthermore, for life to have begun and been sustained on Earth, these chance events would have had to be repeated thousands of times. But how likely is it for even one such event to take place?

     Evolutionists admit that the probability of the right atoms and molecules falling into place to form just one simple protein molecule is 1 in 10 113, or 1 followed by 113 zeros. That number is larger than the estimated total number of atoms in the universe! Mathematicians dismiss as never taking place anything that has a probability of occurring of less than 1 in 10 50. But far more than one simple protein molecule is needed for life. Some 2,000 different proteins are needed just for a cell to maintain its activity, and the chance that all of them will occur at random is 1 in 10 40,000!

     “If one is not prejudiced either by social beliefs or by a scientific training into the conviction that life originated [spontaneously] on the Earth, this simple calculation wipes the idea entirely out of court,” says astronomer Fred Hoyle.”

     The Bible tells us to "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good" (1 Thessalonians 5:21).  So whenever you are in doubt, please fully research the issue before you make a final conclusion.  I pray this website will help enlighten and inspire you to be a champion for Christ during these latter days.  May God bless you now and forever.