One Fact That Discounts Over 50% of The Anti-God Arguments

Consider the following questions:

• If God loves everyone, then why is there so much suffering in the world?
• Do people who never get the chance to hear the gospel go to hell?
• If God wants everyone to be saved, why does he fail to save most people?
• Where did sin come from? Did God create it? Why would a loving God allow sin to ruin so many people's lives?
• Why would a loving God create a place where people are tortured for eternity?
• Why would a loving God kill the first born of Egypt when they had done nothing wrong? It was their parents who were defying God, not them.
• Why did God perform genocide against the Amalakites? Why did God kill so many people in the Old Testament?

It is from questions like these that well over 50% of the anti-god arguments I know of arise. The atheist takes a peek at the world and what is recorded in the Old Testament, then listens to Christians say 'God is all love!' and (rightly) point out that there is a giant disconnect between the way Christians describe God and what the world is like (and the way the Bible describes God).


Here is a summary of the arguments against God's existence which are based upon 'God is love'

1. The problem of evil
2. The problem of suffering
3. Argument from nonbelief
4. The destiny of unbelievers
5. The destiny of the unevangelized
6. The origin of sin

For more in depth explanations of each, check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existence_of_God#Arguments_against_the_existence_of_God


All of the arguments and questions above are rooted in the assumption that God loves everyone. If the Bible claimed that God did love everyone, I would certainly discount the existence of the God of the Bible.


However, the Bible does not claim that God loves everyone in an ultimate sense (except for common grace- see http://www.bibleteacher.org/cg.htm for details).

It seems to me that according to the Bible God loves his children so much that his love for them cannot grow, he extends common grace to everyone while they are alive on earth, but ultimately is wrathful toward and hates most people.
If you haven't yet, go check out "God does not love everyone, here is why:"  (http://honestsearchfortruth.blogspot.com/2011/06/god-does-not-love-everyone-here-is-why.html)


Conclusion:
If it is assumed that 'God loves everyone' (in an ultimate sense), then most of the arguments against the existence of God are valid.

Because God does not love everyone, I disagree with most of the anti-god arguments. A valid answer to every question listed above stems from the statement 'God does not love everyone.' There is no inconsistency between the fallen world we live in full of people who are going to hell and the God of the Bible.