{"id":64052,"date":"2023-11-14T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T22:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=64052"},"modified":"2023-11-14T16:01:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T22:01:43","slug":"gods-existence-doesnt-depend-on-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/gods-existence-doesnt-depend-on-me\/","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Existence Doesn&#8217;t Depend on Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p>by Perry Hall<\/p>\n<p>In Megan Rappinoe&#8217;s last game, she injured herself by tearing her Achilles tendon. She is the women&#8217;s soccer team captain and outspoken advocate for LGBTQT+. She immediately said afterward, &#8220;I&#8217;m not a religious person or anything and if there was a god, like, this is proof that there isn&#8217;t&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s examine her &#8220;logic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>If bad things happening is proof there is no God, then logic demands when good things happen that is proof there is a God.<\/p>\n<p>However, such is self-contradictory because then God&#8217;s existence would be dependent upon good and evil existing in our lives. If God becomes dependent on circumstances:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Then there would be a God when good happens to me, but there wouldn&#8217;t be a God when bad happens. God then wouldn&#8217;t be the &#8220;Great Uncaused Cause&#8221;, but would instead be the &#8220;Ungreat Caused Effect&#8221; of both good and evil. God&#8217;s existence would be back and forth based on my experiences.<\/li>\n<li>But good and evil exist simultaneously with different people. That fact presents this problem: there can&#8217;t be simultaneously a God and not a God because both good things and bad things happen simultaneously to different people. God can&#8217;t both exist and not exist at the same time.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>There is a lot I don&#8217;t know about good and evil and why it happens to whom. But I do know this: whether we like it or not, God is bigger than any one of us. His existence can&#8217;t be disproved because of your life or my life.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Perry Hall In Megan Rappinoe&#8217;s last game, she injured herself by tearing her Achilles tendon. She is the women&#8217;s soccer team captain and outspoken advocate for LGBTQT+. She immediately said afterward, &#8220;I&#8217;m not a religious person or anything and if there was a god, like, this is proof that there isn&#8217;t&#8221;. Let&#8217;s examine her&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[37,709,90],"class_list":["post-64052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-apologetics","tag-evidence","tag-god"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2568,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/how-do-you-prove-there-is-a-god\/","url_meta":{"origin":64052,"position":0},"title":"How do you prove there is a God?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"February 17, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: How do you prove that there is a God to a friend who insists that there isn't a God? 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