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For centuries the enigma of God's existence has plagued mankind, and society has seen many philosophers and wise individuals attempt to argue the case in both directions. I, myself have been raised as a Christian, and over this time I have been careful to always find just, and believable cause for statements fed to me before believing them. For many such statements I have succeeded in my search for a viable explanation, thus justifying them to myself and permitting myself to believe them. I like to think that I would not simply follow the Christian faith because the belief has been imposed upon me from childhood but that I would believe in God's existence because I have myself examined both sides of the argument and formed my own opinions on the matter. I choose to live by the quote of Hume himself who said that "A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence". While Hume argued that we were significantly lacking in evidence to support a belief, I would argue that in conjunction with this quote, how can we not believe?
Let me first begin with one of the most well known atheistic arguments, the argument of creation. Atheists would argue that
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While this probability is almost infinitely small, it is still possible. If this highly complex code is not a sham (which a wise man should accept as being real until proven otherwise according to Pascal's Wager) then it undoubtedly proves that the Bible is the word of someone who knows the future, and it is impossible for one to be knowledgeable of the future unless he himself created it. A principle of modern science emerged in the 1980s called "the anthropic principle. This incredible furnace is not a process confined to the sun. Throughout the cosmos there are 25 quintillion stars, each converting hydrogen into helium, thereby reducing the total amount of hydrogen in the cosmos. All of our laws of conservation of angular momentum would have to be wrong, invalidating all of physics. Every event in history has come about due to the influence of previous events, therefore, for one to predict an event that happened 10 years ago (the 1994 assasination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the initial discovery of the Bible Code) that same individual who wrote the Bible would also have had to predict thousands of other events that preceeded this assasination and formed part of the cause of it. David Hume most certainly did not have access to a computer, he most certainly did not understand the true importance of the Bible, not being fully able to understand its hidden meaning, a book within a book. Throughout the entire Bible the same message appears and The Bible Code takes into consideration every phrase in the Christian Bible. We have just happened, and man was made flesh by a long series of singularly beneficial accidents"
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