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Re: Timmy Talk
If God were real then would it make sense to say 'You made a promise, I don't see it being fulfilled, therefore you aren't real'?
Or would it make more sense to ask 'Why am I not seeing the promise fulfilled? do I misunderstand the promise, it's extent, it's conditions, etc?'
It should be obvious, that if God is real, then a perceived failure of one of His promises is more rationally explained by a failure somewhere on our end (our understanding, our fulfilling any conditions of the promise, etc) rather than an evidence of His nonexistence.
On the other hand, if God is not real, then there is no basis by which to judge His promises one way or the other. Because judging a biblical promise assumes there is an objective standard of truth and reality, which in turn assumes an underlying objectively true and real basis for reality itself. And that assumes cause and effect, which in turn requires a Cause for the underlying strata of reality.
In other words, to deny the existence of God is to deny the existence of true knowledge, which means an atheist has no rational basis for judging whether God exists or not.
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