Atheists, Deists, and Christians. OH MY!

I really don't understand Atheists, or moreover, what they claim. I just don't grasp how someone can really honestly refuse the existence of God. For me, it seems almost impossible to simply say that there is no God. All you have to do is look around the universe to see God. The idea that things just happen by chance...THAT is absurd.

Then there's Deists, those who believe that God created the universe, but does not intervene with it; he just watches. I can honestly say that I can sometimes understand where they are coming from...

Today in church in youth group we talked about doubts. Everyone has them...even people who love Jesus. Just look in the Bible and you will find story after story of those who had doubts and yet God works around them and through them. It is normal and healthy to have doubts about God:...now for anyone that would freak out at that statement...just check the scriptures. "How long oh Lord will you forsake me?" (Psalm 13)...does not sound like a type of guy who had it all together.

Anywho, like I said, I can understand where deists are coming from because sometimes it DOES feel like God has gone silent...because he does sometimes..."In a surge of anger I hid my face from you for a moment, BUT with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you" (Isaiah 54)...great stuff.

So really, what does one do with their doubts?

Let them control their lives? =Deists.

Ignore them and refuse a higher purpose? = Atheists.

Give them to God? = Christians...new life...life to the fullest...

Oh yeah, Jesus saves...not religion. :)