Ask fifty different Christians and they will give you fifty different answers.

Because they are prideful and egotistical. Because the type of Christian who makes such a statement so forcefully is delusional enough to believe that they DO have absolute knowledge.

Because faith-based decisions have no pretext of rationale. If you feel you must answer a question that has no answer, you rely on faith. Otherwise, the question is unanswerable. Also this question is more than a little loaded. Why specify Christians at all? There really isn't any absolute knowledge, so any statement that does not word itself as an opinion falls under this category.

I'm a bit agnostic, but I think "God" exists. To me "God" is the term that represents the "Force" of creation. (We are here. Therefore there is "GOD.") "God" is also, to me, the concept of morality by which we live. I'll leave the scripture quotes for the experts.

Because if you have "faith" you are automatically claimed exempt from having to have any kind of logical or intellectual explination for any of your statements....

Actually, it is the opposite statement that is preposterous. Asserting that you think or believe something exists, based on evidence that satisfies you, is one thing. Asserting that something doesn't exist requires that you know every fact in the universe, because if there is one fact you don't know, that fact might be God's existence. Easier parallel: I think that there are other planets, because there is strong evidence that they exist. I might even believe there is life on them; many intelligent people do. But to assert that there is no life on other planets would require that I have inspected every planet in the observable universe and am sure I was looking in the right direction at the right time and would recognize it if I saw it--just a few years ago, "extremophils" wasn't even a word and now we know life can exist on our planet under incredible conditions. How can anyone assert that there is no life on other planets? How can anyone assert that there is no God? But that's what every atheist believes--that there is no God. Sorry, folks, but my faith isn't strong enough to make such an absolute statement.

the same way an atheist can (there isn't absolute knowledge that God doesn't exist either). It is faith, Christianity and atheism, along with any other belief system, require it.

Because we that are truly born-again Christians have experienced God and His miraclous work of salvation in our hearts and lives. Also, common sense should tell you that the universe has an origin and that there is a Creator. I hope that this is helpful. -In the Master's service. Thank you and God bless you!

They're absolutely brainwashed.

Just how much proof do you want? If you ignore the earth and every thing in it, and the planets and the stars and the rest of the universe, and yourself, I suppose there is no evidence of a creator. But given that these things do exist are you just going to ignore them and say "Well they just happened." How much stuff do you need before you say, "Hang on a minute. Someone or something must've made this stuff." If your ancestors met God and then wrote down what happened, would that help? If they even admitted their own mistakes, would that boost their credibility? What if the ancient book mentioned a couple of things that would've looked like nonsense when the book was written but actually has credibility in today's world? What if a few non-believers had conspiracy theories that were remarkably similar to stuff you'd already learnt by reading the ancient book? I'm starting to digress here but anyway: Why do we have all that trouble in the Middle East? I thought it would've been just an uninhabitable desert (Feel free to correct me - my geography is terrible) by now and no one would care about it but no, for some crazy reason there just happens to be a huge pool of oil right there and here we are in the 21st century with the whole world fighting and worrying about the same countries mentioned in some ancient book. How many coincidences do you want before you say, "Hey! I think the game is rigged!"?

If the creator came down and revealed himself to you would you believe it? Would you obey all his commands? What should he do if you don't obey him? Come on, if you were the supreme being, lord of the whole universe and some puny human won't do what you tell him what would you do? Kill him? Kick him up the bum? It's no big deal, he's gonna die in less than a century anyway which is no great amount of time when you've been around for an eternity. So would you just ignore the puny human and only deal with those who are ready to admit who's boss?

We can't even cure the common cold. Don't expect a proof for or against God anytime soon. Then again, how much proof do you want? And will you accept it when you see it or will you ignore it and take it for granted? When God is consistent, we call it 'science'. When God is inconsistent, we call it 'chance'. We've already assumed him out of existence! Just because parts of the universe look like they're on autopilot some people believe there never was anyone to program the original settings. Someone cuts down a tree with an axe. They saw the wood into pieces, shape it with a lathe, screw bits together, add a bit of varnish and call it a table. They needed an axe, a saw, a lathe, some varnish, sandpaper, a brush and probably a hardware store. We all think this person is pretty clever for making a table. Then the person pays other people to do all the work and they make themselves a table factory and a furniture store. Now we think they're really clever. But what about the tree? Who built the tree? It grew from a tiny little seed. It got water from the rain and minerals from the soil. Then it dropped some seeds to make more trees. Has anyone out there built a self reproducing table yet? It must be easy if trees can do it and they only happened by luck! Can you build something the size of a car that not only drives you from A to B but fills itself with petrol, repairs minor scratches and dents and goes onto produce even more self replicating cars? So who was smarter, Henry Ford or the inventor of the horse? I suppose you could argue that given an infinite amount of time and space anything could happen. But then again, if Henry Ford wasn't born but was replaced by ten idiots each with one tenth of his intelligence who lived ten times longer, do you think they could've built a car? What about a hundred idiots with one hundredth of his intelligence living a hundred times longer? So what about the earth, the universe and everything else in it? Did it 'just happen', with zero intelligence involved or is it easier to believe in a creator?

faith. And he has come to people before in the past. but mainly faith.

We cannot anymore than any other religion can say absolutely that God does not exist. We are all entitled to our beliefs and comforts that help us through life.

I find myself wondering the same thing. I want physical proof, I want God to manifest in front of me, in his true form

Delusion fits. Well, what else? Obviously, they do not have infinite knowledge.

Jesus is the proof. He came to earth, performed miracles, died as a sacrifice for the sins of the world, and rose from the dead.

Faith isn't about knowledge. It's about believing. And that's all they are asked to do. It's easy to believe in things I don't know. I believe the live action dragon ball movie will suck. I have no proof yet, but it's what I believe. And that's just to answer your question. I'm an atheist, and I think faith in a religion is a waste of peoples time, energy, and life, but it's all theirs to waste.

Because they are deluded and they assume everybody is like them

Because they are brain-washed from a tiny age.

Nobody has absolute knowledge of ANYTHING. How can you know absolutely that what I see as blue is what you see as blue? Our universe is full of assumptions.

FAITH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The way I see it: Something has to exist!! Life is to beautiful for something not to exist! Something had to of always existed for anything to exist! last time I ckecked something does not come from nothing. Humanity is to complex to just come from "Evolution"

They do it based on faith, which doesn't have anything to do with knowledge.

The same way atheists make an absolute statement (God does not exist) without absolute knowledge.

The same way you can look at a house and make the absolute statement that it was built by someone. (Evidence of design?) P.S. Could you define your concept of 'absolute knowledge'? Absolute means 'complete', 'perfect'. "How can Christians make an absolute statement (God exists) without,...knowing all things? being omniscient? According to that criteria, no one should be stating anything,... Not even Name, Rank and Serial Number.

They use faith...and faith requires not even an inch of knowledge.....just FAITH!!!!

I belive as proof of god existing is our being here. Science cannot create a soul. Science cannot explain why the big bang happened in the first place. And all the supernatural stuff around us like people having visions of there dead reletives and so forth. There will be No day when science can explain that. And thats why I and many other christians belive in god. And Hey even if god doesnt exist (doubtfull of that but even still there is a possibility) at least being a christian helps you to be a better person. And helps you attempt to establish a strong, healthy moral standpoint.

because they wish to have someone else to blame for their shortcomings and they dont want to believe that one day every living thing dies

Because they're afraid that if they don't make that statement, Jesus might come back when they are not expecting him to and they'll lose out on everything they worked for. It's all fear based stuff man.

Faith.

There is the saying that what can be quantifiably known about God is observable in the natural world. It is also written that to see God, one must see Jesus. So you have 2 issues here. One must choose whether the intricacy of the known world is Intelligently Designed or Random Event. It helps to have some figures handy - some MIT types have postulated the odds of life forming in the ways we can observe, on the type of planet we are on, in the exact right conditions, etc, etc. It's HUGE. Beyond the googleplex. This does not address the odds of "spontaneous" life creation in "primordial soup" kitchen. It's even higher. It assumes Evolution is correct, as the beginning premise. Which position then takes greater faith? There is "Pascal's Wager" which helps some to reach a decision on belief in God. It reduces the argument to a simple wager, with only one bet (yours). We HAVE absolute, demonstrable knowledge. The argument is on the cause of such absolutes. God or chance. If one looks at the archaeological evidence for Bible history, there is some proof. If you test other facts from the Bible, such as the particulars of Jesus' life and death, there is more hard proof. Crunch the numbers to see the odds of one person fulfilling all the prophecies of his life that he did. (513?) The odds are outside the possibility of random occurrence. That is "how". Deciding to know the person we call YHWH, Adonai, God, or the Father of Jesus is a separate issue. I do not have to get to know you to decide you are real. At some point, one must take a leap of faith in one of two directions: for or against a living God. There is no concrete evidence God is fiction. Opinions, not proof. There IS proof of many Bible events attributed to God, sometimes clouded by hype. In the end, Atheism is as much of a decision to have faith, as is mine to accept the Hebrew God, and his son, Yah'shua. It might help to consider some documentaries with a neutral position. Emotional hype turns me off to Christianity too, but I wouldn't disown God because some people are flakes. The PBS series: Yeshua (3 tapes), Search for the Mountain of God (book w/pics), Exodus (70s documentary with rare footage of Arabian Jebel El Laws mtn and egyptian chariot wheels in the gulf of Aquaba), Walking the Bible (PBS). Enjoy your quest. Shalom.

It's actually pretty easy to do. Haven't you ever told a lie?

Okay I RESPECT your views. I think that you mis understood my previous Statement. I never said that NOTHING comes from NOTHING. I said that SOMETHING can NOT come from NOTHING. In the end I am the one who decides if my answer is un informed. I am NOT avoiding a God creator argument I am simply putting my views out there just as you are. MY GOD does not come from NOTHING or SOMETHING because HE has always been. Infinity,Eternity, ALWAYS! I think that I need to be more specific when I say EVOLUTION. I mean the big bang theory. My question to you is where did it come from? I don't need to know everything about MY GOD or EVOLUTION to believe that in order for something to exist something has always had to exist. Which came first the chicken or the egg? Better yet who created either one to begin with? Who created Earth? Who created space? Who created all of the things involved in the big bang theory for there to even be one? Who created LOVE and Beauty? Who created HATE? Or in some views WHAT created all of these things? Someone could come to me and tell me WHAT created life and my question to them would be: "Where did it come from?"

We have absolute knowledge. By working from one given (everything that exists has a cause) we can prove that there is a God, God is Concious, and God is Personally involved in our lives, and from there go on to logically prove that Christianity is the only religion that doesn't work itself into a corner.

God exists, if God did not exist then he would not exist, but he does exist. Ergo, God exists.

The same way they can demand absolute proof of his non-existence before they will even consider the possiblity.

The same way an Athiest can make an absolute statement without absolute knowledge like "God does not exist", we use faith and reason. Human reason is the spark of the divine within us. It is our capacity to know the truth of things. One thing that make us human is our ability to think our way through to convictions (or strong beliefs). So reason and faith cannot be in conflict. True faith • Is reasonable faith • Makes sense • Can be proposed as reasonable to others Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth — in a word, to know himself — so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves (cf. Ex 33:18; Ps 27:8-9; 63:2-3; Jn 14:8; 1 Jn 3:2). -- Fides et Ratio (Faith and Reason) by Pope John Paul II, 1998 http://www.vatican.va/edocs/ENG0216/_INDEX.HTM With love in Christ.

The fool says in his heart: there is a god

Yo 'reverendJeremiah' Your jealous of Christians having some stability and reason to turn to in unfortunate situations. You talk about at atheists' voices becoming LOUDER in the future.............if you relly believed in you 'faith' you would'nt shout from the roof tops the reasons you believe in what you believe in. Don't try to criticise Christians just because they believe in something you don't..........YOU CAN'T CHANGE OPINIONS...!

faith is not about evidence