atheists we add to them the deists this
is this is what is more common than ACS
in your course of argument you may well
find this because many Christians
actually have become dear sturdiest is
one who recognizes that there is a God
but that religion is made up by human
beings God did not communicate his will
to his creatures he just created the
world and left it to run left it to run
on its own that is quite common amongst
Christians who recognize Christianity to
have so many faults so many
contradictions etc in it so they reject
Christianity and anything like it so our
religion is contrived I say you know we
don't believe in organized religion so
we say to them you prefer a disorganized
religion you don't like organization you
don't like rules you know they commonly
find people say too many rules in Islam
you know you Haram halal everything just
rules rules rules but in life there's
any system work without rules you know
whether it's a business whether it's a
school whether it's a government is
there any system that you can think of
that works without rules no you want
rules you need rules everywhere but when
it comes to religion you don't want
rules why because you want to do your
own thing
that's it you recognize that doing your
own thing and all these other systems
creates chaos and confusion but religion
you want to do your own thing this is
illogical
a religion which is even more important
more comprehensive it will more be in
need of rules even than the systems that
we devised ourselves that's reality
anyway for the deist
the simple way to approach their
argument that God created the world and
left it to run and so on we say that to
to raise that issue is to observe it to
God
characteristics which we don't even want
to attribute to ourselves what do I mean
imagine you as a businessman you set up
a business and you put an ad in the
paper for people to come and work in
your business the people come you hire
them but you don't tell them what
they're supposed to do in the business
do you think they're going to march into
your factory and just go into the places
they're supposed to be and just do what
they're supposed to do or will they just
go to the cafeteria sit down and drink
tea and coffee and chat and till
somebody comes and tells them what
they're supposed to do that's common
sense if you don't tell people if people
are not told what they need to do then
your system is not going to work your
business or whatever it's not going to
work you must inform people why do they
bother to produce manuals you know for
whatever product you buy why do they
bother why not just sell them the Radio
Salim the TV sell up do whatever and let
people figure it out for themselves why
not because they're likely to turn
something they shouldn't have turned
plug it in someplace they should not
plug it in the whole thing explodes
chaos so you have manuals to explain how
to use these things that's common sense
so to say that God created us and he did
not inform us of our purpose here it not
communicates his will to us is to
atribute to God illogic to attribute to
God disorganization stupidity things
like this because we would say such a
person stupid a person who shuts a
business up and doesn't highest people
doesn't tell him what to do he says guys
it's a fool he's an idiot and that's
what you end up at ribbiting to God to
say he created this world and he didn't
tell us what we need to do here because
what are people going to do they're
gonna do everything but what they're
supposed to do if they're not informed
this is common sense God is the most
wise then he is going to tell us what to
do here he is going to communicate this
world to us that is the natural
consequence of wisdom so
after you know showing them that it
doesn't that doesn't make sense then
it's just a matter of dealing with the
systems because of course the next
question is okay God communicated his
will but there are so many religions you
know which one which is the right one
because it's one of the arguments why
they're all wrong because everyone is
saying that they're the true religion
etc and there's so many of them how do
you know
well you identify the necessary
criterion for a true religion a true
religion what should it what should be
its characteristics and you look at the
religions and see which one fits into
those characteristics you use your
reason this is where God gave us reason
to determine what is correct and what is
incorrect so you compare and we're not
saying you must accept Islam and so
though we that's what we want you to do
we'd like you to do that we feel it's
best for you but you look at the systems
and compare compare Christianity compare
Islam compare Hinduism compare Sikhism
Buddhism whatever compare them look at
what they have to offer and make an
educated choice
and that is the that is our
responsibility to convey that message to
to put them get them to the position
where they say okay I will go and check
these things out very important and this
is why actually giving Dow or to many of
these peoples it's important to focus on
purpose of creation why are you here you
need to find out this is something vital
something very important you need to
know why you're here because if you
don't know then it means likely you are
wasting your life you're involved in so
many different things taking up all of
your time but it is not what you are
here for and at the end of this life you
will regret having not found out the
purpose of life so we try to direct them
over to finding that out look at what
the different religions say
you